Acknowledgements
General Editors Preface
General Introduction

Key Concepts
Absurd Literature
Action
Adaptation
Adjectives and Adverbs
Agent
Alienation Effect
Alliteration
Angry Young Men
Antagonist
Aporia
Aristotles Poetics
Ballad
Beat
Beat Writers
Blurb
Bookseller
Caesura
Change
Character
Chick lit
Childrens Books
Cliche
Commissioning Editor
Concrete Poetry
Conflict
Contract
Copyright
Crisis
Defamiliarisation
Description
Detective Fiction
Dialogue
Draft
Dramatic Agenda
Dramatic Monologue
Dramatic Stakes
Dramatisation
Editor
Emotion
Empathy
End-stopping
Enjambment
Experimental Writing
Exposition
Feedback
Flash Fiction
Folktales
Foreshadowing
Fourth Wall Drama
Free Verse
Free Writing
Genre
Ghostwriter
Gothic Writing
Identification
Imagery
In-Yer-Face Theatre
Inciting Incident
Irony
Juxtaposition
Layout
Libel
Life Writing
Literary Agent
Literary Magazines
Magic （Magical） Realism
Metaphor
Method
Metre
Modernism
Moral of the Story
Myths and Legends
New Media
New Playwriting
Notebooks
Novellas
Novels
Option
Pace
Performance Poetry
Pitch
Poetic Form
Poetry Archive
Poetry Library
Poetry Society
Point of View
Postmodernism
Premise
Print-on-Demand
Prizes and Competitions
Proposal
Protagonist
Psychogeography
Radio Play
Realist Writing
Reflective Commentaries
Research
Rhyme
Rhythm
Rising Action
Romantic Poetry
Royalties
Scene
Science Fiction
Script Reports
Self-publishing
Setting
Short Stories
Showing and Telling
Sight-specific Writing
Society of Authors
Status
Story and Plot
Storyworld
Stream of Consciousness
Structure
Subtext
Suspense
Suspension of Disbelief
Sympathy
Synopsis
Television Writing
Theme
Time
Titles
Tragedy
Travel Writing
Treatment
Turning Point
Unity
Unsolicited Manuscript
Vanity Publishing
Verbatim Theatre
Verse and Stanza
Visual Poetry
Voice
Writers Guild of Great Britain
Bibliography
Index