BC3 Library: Creative Writing: Recommended Resources

Suggested Databases for Creative Writing

Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
Collection of literary criticism articles and book chapters, part of the Gale Literary Criticism series. Includes Contemporary Literary Criticism and Short Story Criticism.

Literary Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window
EBSCOhost's Literary Reference™ Center (LRC Plus) is a full-text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center Plus contains everything in Literary Reference™ Center, plus the following: over 1,200 additional full-text literary reference books/works, over 200 additional full-text literary journals and magazines, 35 volumes of new contemporary literature titles from Salem Press, 40 full-text literary study guides and 72 literary videos.

Salem Press This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text online access to a range of reference works published by Salem Press in the areas of health, history, literature, and science

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This EBSCOhost multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

MasterFILE Premier This link opens in a new window
EBSCOhost's MasterFILE Premier database is designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Credo Reference provides Topic Pages, which offer background information on a particular topic that can give you an easy starting point and pathways for further research; Access to hundreds of in-depth subject encyclopedias and handbooks covering every major subject from Accounting to Art History and Shakespeare to Einstein; and Mind Maps that visually show relationships between topics and keywords.

Company and Industry Information Resources

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ReferenceUSA
Business and consumer research platform helps you create marketing plans, conduct competitive analysis, raise funds, and locate people. Modules include: US Businesses, US White Pages, US Healthcare, Canadian Businesses, Canadian White Pages, US New Businesses, US New Movers/New Homeowners, US Consumers/Lifestyles, and US Jobs/Internships.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
EBSCOhost's Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Open Educational Resources

For more OER Resources, see the Open Educational Resources LibGuide.

Video Resources from Annenberg Learner

Voices & Visions: This video instructional series on American poetry for college and high school classrooms and adult learners explores the lives and works of 13 of America's most famous modern poets through 13 one-hour videos.

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Print and Electronic Books in our Library

Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
ISBN: 9780060777043
Publication Date: 2006-08-22
Writing Fiction by Janet Burroway
ISBN: 0321026896
Publication Date: 1999-07-21
Writer's Idea Book by Jack Heffron
ISBN: 0898798736
Publication Date: 2000-05-15
Creating Writers by James Carter
ISBN: 0203252039
Publication Date: 2000-10-01
How to Write What You Want and Sell What You Write by Skip Press
ISBN: 9781435132566
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card; Writer's Digest Books Editors; Terry Brooks (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781582976099
Publication Date: 2010-03-26

Writing Well by Mark Tredinnick
ISBN: 9780511457463
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
The Dramatic Writer's Companion by Will Dunne
ISBN: 9780226172552
Publication Date: 2009-08-01
The Gregg Reference Manual by William A. Sabin
ISBN: 0028040473
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
MLA Handbook by The Modern Language Association of America
Call Number: R 808.02 G35m8
ISBN: 9781603292627
Publication Date: 2016-04-01
The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman
ISBN: 068485743X
Publication Date: 2000-01-20

Studying Poetry by Stephen Matterson; Darryl Jones
ISBN: 0340759410
Publication Date: 2000-04-20
Encyclopedia of American Poetry by Eric L. Haralson (Editor)
ISBN: 9781849722322
Publication Date: 2007-11-08
Emily Dickinson by J. Brooks Bouson (Editor); Salem Press Editors
ISBN: 9781587656958
Publication Date: 2010-10-08
Ten Windows by Jane Hirshfield
ISBN: 9780385351058
Publication Date: 2015-03-17
Writing Poems by Robert Wallace; Michelle Boisseau
ISBN: 0321026888
Publication Date: 1999-07-23
Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem by Wendy Bishop
ISBN: 0321011309
Publication Date: 1999-12-20

Locating Books

The BC3 Library has both print and electronic books for many topics related to literature and creative writing. They are all listed in the BC3 Library Catalog where you will find Dewey call numbers to locate books on the shelves (lower level of the library) and links to connect you to e-books. E-books can also be searched separately in our two e-book collections: e-Book Central by Proquest and e-Book Collection by EBSCO.

Browsing the Stacks

800s - Works of literature and works about literature in English and in other languages are found here, including poetry, drama, letters, fiction, essays, collections, classics, and folk stories.

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