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Book Cover for: The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre, Matthew Clark Davison

The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre

Matthew Clark Davison

Writers don't need formulas; they need encouragement to take risks. The Lab offers a bold, hands-on approach, urging writers to embrace uncertainty, experiment with form, and investigate what haunts them.

The Lab features ten chapters and ninety exercises challenging writers to play with fiction, memoir, and poetry--or push toward hybrid or entirely new forms.

This is a book for those ready to dig deep and write fearlessly.

Book Details

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: Jul 22nd, 2025
  • Pages: 480
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
  • EAN: 9780393866681
  • Categories: Writing - AuthorshipWriting - Composition

About the Author

Laplante, Alice: - Alice LaPlante is the author of the craft book The Making of a Story and the New York Times best-selling novel Turn of Mind. She has taught creative writing at Stanford and San Francisco State University and lives in Mallorca, Spain, with her family.
Davison, Matthew Clark: - Matthew Clark Davison is the author of Doubting Thomas and founder of The Lab, a generative writing workshop. He is emeritus faculty in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, and lives in Oakland, California with his husband.

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