How to Write Stunning Sentences: Second Edition

In this new edition of HOW TO WRITE STUNNING SENTENCES, you’ll find more stylish sentences that mesmerize and rearrange a reader’s world. Think of this book as a private lesson with Nina Schuyler―award-winning author and long-time instructor on style in prose―featuring guest appearances by the masters, including James Baldwin, Lauren Groff, Grace Paley, John Updike, Toni Morrison and newly added Virginia Woolf, Anne Carson, Justin Torres, Don DeLillo, Doris Lessing, Rachel Cusk and Kevin Barry. It’s a masterclass with some of the best writers of the 20th century. Whether a novelist, essayist, short story or nonfiction writer, How to Write Stunning Sentences will elevate your writing from good to stunning.

About Nina Schuyler

Nina Schuyler’s short story collection, In This Ravishing World, won the W.S. Porter Prize and the Prism Prize for Climate Literature and was published in July 2024. Her novel, Afterword, won the 2024 PenCraft Book of the Year in Fiction, the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Science Fiction and Literary, and the PenCraft Spring Seasonal Book Award for Literary and Science Fiction. Her novel, The Translator, was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for General Fiction. Her novel, The Painting, was shortlisted for the Northern California Book Award. Her short stories have been published by Zyzzyva, Chicago Quarterly Review, Fugue, Nashville Review, and elsewhere, and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

The first edition of How to Write Stunning Sentences was a Small Press Distribution bestseller. She teaches creative writing for Stanford Continuing Studies, the independent bookstore, Book Passage, and she runs the popular Stunning Sentences Substack.