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Spark Your Creativity: 16 Titles to Get Your Creative Juices Flowing

Whether you're an experienced creative or just getting started, these books can help you unlock your creativity and inspire you to new magic. Borrow one today!

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  • Big Magic

    Creative Living Beyond Fear

    Gilbert, Elizabeth
    Gilbert shares her wisdom and thoughts on creativity, offering insight into inspiration and discussing the attitudes, approaches, and habits needed to live a creative life.
    eBook, 2015Penguin Publishing Group, 2015
  • Around the Writer's Block

    Using Brain Science to Solve Writer's Resistance

    Bane, Rosanne
    Bane shares insights into the neurological processes that lead to writer's block, outlining a three-part plan for developing new and regular habits to overcome stress and render writing a source of creativity and growth.
    eBook, 2012Penguin Publishing Group, 2012
  • How We Do It

    Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill

    Brown, JerichoTaylor, Darlene
    More than 30 acclaimed writers reflect on their experience and expertise in this unique book on the craft of writing that focuses on the Black creative spirit.
    eBook, 2023HarperCollins, 2023
  • Bird by Bird

    Some Instructions on Writing and Life

    Lamott, Anne
    A step-by-step guide to writing and managing the writer's life covers each portion of a written project, addresses such concerns as writer's block and getting published, and offers awareness and survival tips.
    eBook, 2007Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007
  • Body Work

    The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

    Febos, Melissa
    Drawing on her own experiences, Febos, author of her own memoir, discusses how to confront the emotional, psychological and physical work of writing about our most intimate lives.
    eBook, 2022Catapult, 2022
  • Connect your observations and your emotions and transform your creative practice with this essential toolbox packed full of exercises, tips, stunning images and personal experiences from dynamic artist Philippa Stanton.
    eBook, 2022Leaping Hare Press, 2022
  • Artist is a Verb

    A Daily Reader to Support You in Building a Creative Practice and Inspired Life

    McAllise Sjoberg, Tish
    Sjoberg shares a daily splash of inspiration to help you get started and keep going, show up for yourself, work through challenges, befriend your inner critic, embrace the blank page of creating, and celebrate your own unique creative path.
    eBook, 2023Art Helps Art Heals Press, 2023
  • A powerful journey from star athlete to sudden paralysis to creative awakening, award-winning science fiction writer Nnedi Okorafor shows that what we think are our limitations have the potential to become our greatest strengths.
    eBook, 2019Simon & Schuster/ TED, 2019
  • Professional oboist and creativity coach Dr. Estevez guides artists in all levels and disciplines to build a creative life that resonates deeply with their core values.
    eBook, 2024Fortress Press, 2024
  • Ueland firmly believed that anyone can write, that everyone is talented, original, and has something important to say. Here, she explains how find that spark that will make you a great writer.
    eBook, 2013Start Publishing LLC, 2013
  • The Artist's Way

    a Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

    Cameron, Julia
    Cameron presents a twelve-week program intended to increase creativity by capturing the creative energy of the universe.
    eBook, 2002New York : J.P. Tarcher/Putnam, ©2002. — BF408 .C175 2002x
  • The Creative Cure

    How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

    Nordby, Jacob
    Nordby calls for a revolution, fostering change from within. This internal change will allow you to express your own creative gifts, cultivate happiness, and experience the unique feeling of fulfillment that only a creative practice can offer.
    eBook, 2021Hierophant Publishing, 2021
  • Make Your Art No Matter What

    Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles

    Pickens, Beth
    Pickens offers her expert advice to artists on overcoming stumbling blocks that could trip you up on your artistic path.
    eBook, 2021Chronicle Books LLC, 2021
  • Steal Like an Artist

    10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

    Kleon, Austin
    Kleon offers advice and encouragement to help readers foster creativity and be artistically productive in a wide variety of endeavors.
    eBook, 2012Workman Publishing Company, 2012
  • The Meaning in the Making

    The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create

    Tucker, Sean
    Tucker offers a creative philosophy which will help you find your voice, discover your message, deal with the responses to your work, maintain inspiration, and stay mentally healthy and motivated creators.
    eBook, 2021Rocky Nook, 2021
  • 1000 Words

    A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round

    Attenberg, Jami
    Attenberg, who started the movement to write 1,000 words a day, helps readers and writers discover how to uncover their creative desires and stay motivated. She also includes advice from over 50 well-known writers.
    eBook, 2024S&S/Simon Element, 2024

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