Guides: MFA Program Guide : Library Resources

Finding Books

OneSearch

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eBooks

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Downloading ProQuest Ebook Central eBooks
Instructions on how to download books to your iPhone, iPad, Android device or tablet (including how to save chapters).

Library of Congress

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MFA eBook Library

Buzzing Hemisphere / Rumor Hemisférico

Print copy in the library as well:
PS3614.O39 B89 2015

Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man

This Connection of Everyone with Lungs

Public Figures

The Living Infinite

Sorry to Disrupt the Peace

The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre

Crafting the Personal Essay

Writing Nonfiction

Blurring the Boundaries

Find Your Story, Write Your Memoir

A Self Made of Words

The Memoir and the Memoirist

How to Do Biography

Writing Your Self

Fearless Confessions

Literary Art in Digital Performance

A Guide to Poetics Journal

Nobody's Business

Poetry off the Page

American Poetry in Performance

Performing Poetry

Live Poetry

Stranger at the Door

Vivid and Continuous

The Creative Writer's Survival Guide

A Companion to Creative Writing

The Future for Creative Writing

Minding the Gap

On Writing

Lit from Within

The Stuff of Fiction

Getting Published

Writer's Market 2018

Writer's Market Guide to Getting Published

Creative Writing Journals

The library's journals related to the Creative Writing field are listed below.

Journal of Writing in Creative Practice
Publishes articles on writing, ethics and practice, as well as writing as, for, and in art, craft and designing.
Review Americana: A Literary Journal
American-written poems, short fiction, drama, essays about creative writing, and essays about the teaching of creative writing.
Writer's Digest
Professional magazine for writers. Provides practical technique articles, and tips and exercises on fiction, nonfiction, poetry and the business-side of writing and publishing.

Movies and Language Databases

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
A streaming video platform with thousands of documentaries, educational films and news reels. Content from Films on Demand can be shown in the classroom setting and linked in your Canvas course.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
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Kanopy includes documentaries and feature films. All videos provided through the Kanopy streaming video platform have public performance rights.
Feature Films for Education This link opens in a new window
Full-length streaming feature films. Includes public performance rights.
Mango Languages This link opens in a new window
Mango includes a variety of resources to help users learn practical conversation skills for languages spoken all around the world.
Mango uses real-life situations and actual conversations to more effectively teach a new language. By listening to and repeating after material designed from native conversations, you'll not only learn the individual words and phrases, you'll know how they're used in practical situations and conversations. You'll learn more than grammar, vocabulary and conjugation, you'll learn how to communicate. Before you begin you must create a free account with Mango using your Stetson e-mail. Once you have created your account you will log-in on each visit.

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