The purpose of this publication is to provide you with a starting point to finding resources in the Library for various genres in creative writing
Reference sources
Reference sources are a good starting point for any topic, as they can help to clarify concepts and keywords, as well as provide an overview of a subject area. They include dictionaries, encyclopaedias, directories, handbooks, manuals, etc.
| Title | Holding | Location |
|---|---|---|
| A dictionary of literary terms | 803 6 /3R | KG |
| Encyclopedia of folklore and literature | 803 43 | KG Reference |
| Guide to modern world literature | 809.034 7 | KG, GP Reference |
| Brewer's dictionary of 20th-century phrase and fable | 803 39 /3 | KG Reference |
| The Bedford glossary of critical and literary terms | 803 45 /2 | KG |
| Critical keywords in literary and cultural theory | 803 46 | KG |
| Characters in young adult literature | R 809.300835 1 | KG Reference |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica Online 100,000 articles, over 200,000 links to selected Internet sites, over 23,000 illustrations, maps & graphics and over 24,000 biographies. |
Online | |
| Oxford Reference Online Provides 100 online reference tools, covering a wide range of subject specialties including 9 devoted to literature. |
Online |
Books
Here are just some of the print resources in the Library which might be useful. To find more books and print resources, see also the subject headings, or try a keyword search in the Library catalogue.
KG: Kelvin Grove, GP: Gardens Point, and CA: Carseldine.
| Historical horror and gothic | ||
|---|---|---|
| The horror genre : from Beezlebub to Blair Witch | 791.436164 4 | KG |
| Frightening fiction | 813.0873809 1 | KG |
| The gothic tradition | 823.0872909 6 | KG |
| A handful of ghosts : thirteen eerie tales by Australian authors | A823.0872 1 | KG |
| The rise of supernatural fiction, 1762-1800 | 823.087380906 1 | KG |
| St. James guide to horror, ghost & gothic writers | 809.3873809| 1 | KG |
| Classic horror omnibus : volume 1 : five classic novels of terror | 808.83872 5 | KG |
| Gothic | 823.0872909 5 | KG |
| The Gothick novel : a casebook | 823.0872 25 | KG |
| Love, mystery, and misery : feeling in Gothic fiction | 823.60916 1 | KG, GP |
| Modern gothic : a reader | 823.0873809 2 | KG |
| Perils of the night : a feminist study of nineteenth-century Gothic | 823.0872 24 | KG |
| Women's gothic and romantic fiction : a reference guide | 813.08509 1 | KG |
| Romance and historical romance | ||
| An introduction to romance writing | 808.385 3 /3 | KG |
| Novel and romance : the Odyssey to Tom Jones | 809.3 44 | KG |
| From Australia with love : a history of modern Australian popular romance novels | A823.3099287 3 | KG |
| Love brought to book : a bio-bibliography of 20th-century Australian romance novels | 808.8385 3 | KG |
| Head over heels : creative writing through romantic fiction | 808.385 1 | KG |
| The art of romance writing : how to create, write and sell your contemporary romance novel | 808.385 2 | KG |
| Desire : love stories in Western culture | 809.93354 10 | KG |
| Love's Sweet return : the Harlequin story | 823.0099287 11 | KG |
| Becoming a woman through romance | 028.535 10 | KG, CA |
| Reading the romance : women, patriarchy and popular literature | 302.232 4 | CA, KG |
| Difficult love : twenty-six intimate stories by contemporary Queensland writers | A823.085 2 | KG |
| Australian love stories | A823.08508 2 | KG |
| Women love sex | A823.04083538 1 | KG |
| Reading the romantic heroine : text, history, ideology | 809.385 2 | KG |
| Fatal attractions : re-scripting romance in contemporary literature and film | 700.4543 1 | CA |
| Young adult literature | ||
| Lost masterworks of young adult literature | 810.99283 2 | KG |
| The adolescent novel : Australian perspectives | A823.00809283 1 | KG |
| Something to crow about : new perspectives in literature for young people | 809.89282 111 | KG |
| Displaced fictions : contemporary Australian books for teenagers and young adults | A823.3099283 3 | KG |
| Reflections of reality? : female roles in Australian adolescent fiction since World War II | A823.3099283 1 | KG |
| Conflict and connection : the psychology of young adult literature | 809.89283 5 | KG |
| The world of adolescence : literature, society, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy | 155.5 138 | CA |
| The business of writing for young people | 808.068 49 | KG |
| The eye of the soul : interviews with seventeen of the younger generation of Australians writing for children and young adults / Stephen Matthews. | 808.068 46 | KG |
| Literature for today's young adults | 809.89283 1 /3 | KG |
| Utopian and dystopian writing for children and young adults | 809.93372 2 | KG |
| Book bait : detailed notes on adult books popular with young people | 028.1625055 3 | GP |
| Teen genreflecting | 016.8130099883 1 | KG |
| Presenting young adult fantasy fiction | 813.08766099283 1 | KG |
| Science fiction | ||
| Writing the future | 801 17 | KG, CA |
| Fiction 2000 : cyberpunk and the future of narrative | 809.38762 6 | KG |
| Odd genre : a study in imagination and evolution | 809.38762 5 | KG |
| Political science fiction | 809.3876209358 1 | KG |
| The Profession of science fiction : writers on their craft and ideas | 808.38762 2 | KG, CA |
| PsiFi : psychological theories and science fictions | 150.1 24 | CA, GP |
| Science fiction | 809.38762 9 | KG |
| Science fiction culture | 809.38762 10 | KG |
| The Science in science fiction | 809.3876 14 /A | KG |
| Science, myth, and the fictional creation of alien worlds | 809.3876 19 | KG |
| Voices for the future : essays on major science fiction writers | 809.3876 3 V1 | KG |
| Mindscapes, the geographies of imagined worlds | 809.3876 38 | KG |
| Terminal identity : the virtual subject in postmodern science fiction | 813.0876209 3 | KG |
| Australian science fiction | A823.0876 1 | KG, CA |
| Aliens and alien societies | 808.38762 4 | KG |
| Writing fantasy & science fiction : and getting published | 808.38762 3 | KG |
| Science fiction culture | 809.38762 10 | KG |
| Reading by starlight : postmodern science fiction | 813.08762 1 | KG |
| Crime, detective and mystery | ||
| Twentieth-century suspense : the thriller comes of age | 823.087209 6 | KG |
| The perfect murder : a study in detection | 813.087209 6 | KG |
| Murder by the book? : feminism and the crime novel | 823.0872099287 1 | KG |
| American crime fiction : studies in the genre | 813.087209 1 | KG |
| Writing crime novels | 808.3872 8 | KG |
| How to write crime | 808.3872 5 | KG |
| Amateur detectives : a writer's guide to how private citizens solve criminal cases | 808.3872 6 | KG |
| The crime novel : a deviant genre | 809.3872 9 | KG |
| Detective fiction and literature : the figure on the carpet | 809.3872 11 | KG |
| Recipes for crime | 809.3872 13 | KG, GP |
| Killing women : rewriting detective fiction | A823.0872099287 1 | KG |
| Continent of mystery : a thematic history of Australian crime fiction | A823.087209 1 | KG |
| Neon noir : contemporary American crime fiction | 813.087209054 1 | KG |
| Contemporary fiction and literature | ||
| Structuring the void : the struggle for subject in contemporary American fiction | 813.5409 9 | KG |
| The art of fiction : a guide for writers and readers | 808.3 88 | KG |
| Novel ideas : contemporary authors share the creative process | 808.3 94 | KG |
| Writing fiction : a guide to narrative craft | 808.3 102 /6 | KG |
| Narrative | 700.423 1 | KG Course Reserve, CA |
| The fortunes of the novel : a study in the transposition of a genre | 823.009353 4 | KG |
| Narrative and genre : key concepts in media studies | 401.41 127 | KG |
| Popular culture genres : theories and texts | 302.23 340 | KG, GP, CA |
| The contemporary British novel | 823.91409 29 | KG |
| Literature in the modern world : critical essays and documents | 801.950904 9 /2R | KG |
| Hatchet jobs : writings on contemporary fiction | 810.9005 9 | KG |
| Skins : contemporary indigenous writing | 823.01088 1 | KG |
| Blank fictions : consumerism, culture, and the contemporary American novel | 813.5409355 1 | KG |
| Children of silence : on contemporary fiction | 809.304 10 | GP |
| Writing woman, writing place : contemporary Australian and South African fiction | 823.914099287 8 | KG |
| Interactive fictions : scenes of storytelling in the novel | 809.3 71 | KG |
Subject headings
Subject headings can help you find other resources in a subject area, particularly when you are not sure of what keywords to use. Subject headings are hyperlinked in the Library catalogue, so you can jump from one good resource to find others.
Journals
The library subscribes to print and electronic journals that will be useful for finding information on novel and genre. Here are just some that may be useful. Browsing relevant journals is a good way of keeping up to date in your area.
Some journals suggested here comprise articles about current developments and research in literature, while others also publish original creative writing.
| Title | Holding | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Dotlit [electronic resource] : the online journal of creative writing | Electronic | free to Web |
| The Cambridge quarterly. | P 800 115 and electronic | KG and Online |
| Criticism. | P 800 120 and electronic | KG and Online |
| Meridian : the La Trobe University English review. | P 809 139 | KG |
| Mosaic : a journal for the comparative study of literature. | P 809 150 and electronic | KG and Online |
| Antipodes : a North American journal of Australian literature : the publication of the American Association of Australian Literary Studies. | P 820.9994 2 and electronic | KG and Online |
| Island. | P A820 18 and electronic | KG, GP and Online |
| Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature : JASAL. | P A820 14 | KG |
| LiNQ / by students and staff of the Dept. of English, James Cook University of North Queensland. | P A820.3 7 and electronic | KG and Online |
| Meanjin | P A820 3 and electronic | KG, CA, GP and Online |
| Notes and furphies. | P A820 14 | KG |
| Southerly : the magazine of the Australian English Association, Sydney | P A820.9 2 | KG |
| Westerly : a quarterly review. | P A820 4 | KG |
Journal databases
Here are some of the databases which will help you find articles in journals about novel and genre and literature in general.
Click on the link to see the full list of good databases for Creative Writing and Cultural Studies.
| Database | Description |
|---|---|
| Project Muse: Arts and Humanities Collection | Indexes nearly 250 journals, with over 170 in fulltext, in history, literature, philosophy, religion, theatre, music and film, and more. |
| Academic Research Library via ProQuest Now includes ProQuest Arts |
Indexes almost 2,000 periodicals, with over 1000 in fulltext. Note: this service now covers content previously provided under the ProQuest Arts collection. |
| Proquest Humanities | Indexes over 300 titles, with over 200 in fulltext, covering communication, history, journalism, literature, philosophy, religion and more. |
| Austlit | Australia's major database for Australian literary studies which covers creative literature: poems, plays, novels and short stories. |
| Fiction Connection http://www.fictionconnection.com/ |
A database of ficiton titles able to be keyword searched or browsed by topic, genre, setting, character, location or timeframe. |
For general help with databases try our Databases Help and FAQs page.