A stunning guide for gardeners keen to transform small and awkward outdoor spaces into beautiful and practical escapes. From courtyards to rooftops, Kate Gould draws on her experience as an award-winning garden designer to provide tailored solutions and inspirational ideas. Covering topics such as how to design and measure the perfect garden, choose and use the best materials and maintain a lush garden all year round, Urban Garden Design includes detailed advice for gardeners undeterred by limited space. This carefully illustrated guide ensures gardeners of all abilities achieve the best results outdoors. Creating a personal and unique space is also at the heart of each project and Kate makes sure to discuss how to tie each design back to the interior of the home.

Based on Kate Gould's experience as an editor, teacher, and critic, The Perfect Word is designed for writers of all levels and experience - from beginners and burgeoning talent to experienced and published writers. Combining technical instruction; insights into the methods of working writers; forty exercises to stretch your imagination and practice your skills; and advice on where to find inspiration from the mundane to the monumental, it is both an enjoyable and challenging read. Dip into it if you're in need of a jolt out of a writing rut or follow the structured lessons through each component of good writing. From your first venture out with a notebook, through the dangers of cliches, ellipses, and overwriting, to a lesson on how best to present your finished manuscript to a publisher or agent, this book provides a complete writing course.

This is a collection of short stories entered into the Fine Line Short Story Prize.

Ideas for stories are everywhere. They're in archaeological digs, scientific hoaxes, fairy tales, peculiar laws, the lonely hearts, identity theft, and football matches. They're hidden in snapshots of other lives, and in images glimpsed only for a moment. They're in your own emotions: lust, envy, rage, love, a desire for life everlasting. Grand contemplations, monumental events, and the moments that go almost unnoticed all offer up sparks to your creativity. This collection brings together the absurd, the illustrious, and the ordinary. It challenges you to invent and to look at language for the remarkable tool that it is. Relearn it as something that provides you with the ability to create anything in this or any other world, and take concepts with which you thought you were familiar and make of them something new - something fresh, unexpected, unique, and your own. What The Writers Say: Inside you will find a year's worth of writing prompts for a lifetime of stories. The short are as thought provoking as the long. Within each exercise, there are lessons to be learned and tales to be told. All are different, all inspiring, all a testament to Kate Gould's expertise-and all good reasons why you need to get this book Kate St. Vincent Vogl, two-time finalist of Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition and author of Lost & Found: A Memoir of Mothers As a stand-in for the errant muse, calisthenics for the creative mind, or curriculum aid to a writers' workshop, the prompts herein will benefit the aspiring writer; most especially those aspiring to make a profession of this thing we do. Marc Phillips, author of The Legend of Sander Grant Kate Gould's book of prompts is a godsend If you're blocked, she'll unlock your mind; if you're madly working, she'll offer a nuanced angle you might have overlooked. Bookmark this site - it's invaluable for any writer needing a bit of fuel injection. Elisabeth Hyde, author of In The Heart Of The Canyon and The Abortionist's Daughter