The twenty-four contributors to Creating Fiction--members of the Associated Writing Programs--have won awards such as the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Magazine Award. Now their experience and wisdom can be found in one landmark book. * Learn how to revise and edit from Jane Smiley * Find ways to evoke time and place from Richard Russo * Hear a passionate discussion of the writer's apprenticeship from Charles Johnson * Explore tone and emphasis with Charles Baxter Their sage advice, combined with more than 100 writing exercises, assure that Creating Fiction will engage and delight readers at any level of experience. Julie Checkoway is the head of the creative writing program at the University of Georgia and was the 1998-1999 president of the Associated Writing Programs. Since 1967, the Associated Writing Programs, or AWP, has supported writers and writing programs around the world. AWP currently supports over 20,000 writers at over 320 member colleges and universities and 60 writers' conferences and centers.