Textbooks:
Julia Casterton, Creative Writing, A Practical Guide, 3rd ed., Palgrave McMillan, 2005
Jon Ford and Marjorie Ford, ed. A Web of Stories: An Introduction to Short Fiction, London: Prentice Hall, 1997
John Singleton, Mary Luckhurst, The Creative Writing Handbook 3rd edition, Palgrave McMillan, 2001
Useful Short Stories:
Carmel Bird, ed. The Penguin Century of Australian Stories, Melbourne: Penguin, 2000
Raymond Carver, ‘So Much Water, So Close to Home’ What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, New York: Knopf, 1981
Henry Lawson, ‘The Drover’s Wife’, While the Billy Boils, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1896
David Malouf, ‘Jacko’s Reach’, Dream Stuff, Sydney: Chatto and Windus, 2000
Katherine Mansfield, ‘The Garden Party’, The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield, Melbourne: Penguin Classics, 2007
Susan Midalia, Feet to the Stars, Crawley, WA: University of Western Australia Publishing, 2015
Joyce Carol Oates, The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992
Jayne Anne Phillips, ‘Cheers’, Black Tickets, New York: Delacorte Press/St. Lawrence, 1979
Edgar Allen Poe, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’, The Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe, London: Wordsworth Editions, 2009
Ania Walwicz, ‘Hospital’ Writing, Clifton Hill: Rigmarole Books, 1982
Tim Winton, ‘Big World’, The Turning, Sydney: Picador, 2005
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