The Little Red Writing Book - Paperback

by Mark Tredinnick (Author)

A book on technique, style, craft and manners for everyone who writes and wants to do it better. It is a manual of good diction, composition, sentence craft, paragraph design, structure and planning. Enriched by examples of fine prose from great writers including Tim Winton; flush with exercises informed by the author's expertise in both creative writing and functional prose; and written with flair, The Little Red Writing Book is a lively and readable guide to lively and readable writing.

Author Biography

Mark Tredinnick - the author of Almost Everything I Know, Bluewren Cantos, Fire Diary, The Blue Plateau, and many other books - is a celebrated poet, essayist, and writing teacher. His bestselling books on the writing craft are used in schools and university writing programs and have inspired a generation of writers. His honours include the Montreal and Cardiff Poetry Prizes, The Blake and Newcastle Poetry Prizes, two Premiers' Literature Awards, the Calibre Essay Prize, and his landscape memoir The Blue Plateau, which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Prize.