A Fiction Writer’s Guide to Peace

Crafting Nonviolent Heroism

Dr Gabriel Ertsgaard (Adjunct Lecturer, Kean University, USA)

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Bloomsbury Academic
26 June 2025

Creative writing & creative writing guides; Writing & editing guides; Peace studies & conflict resolution

Superhero violence and graphic action sequences are prevalent on the screen and on the page, but this book takes an alternative route with practical guidance, frameworks, and tools for incorporating the principles of peacebuilding and nonviolence into compelling fiction. By mapping a path less travelled but just as vital in divisive times, Gabriel Ertsgaard shows writers how they can enact nonviolent heroism in their characters, model civil resistance in their stories, and create worlds around a mythos that champions redemptive nonviolence. With concepts applicable to writing for fiction, drama, the screen, and narrative poetry, A Fiction Writer's Guide to Peace deconstructs the necessity for violence in popular works, explores key concepts in peace studies, and helps writers establish their own peace poetics. Focused around the narrative craft techniques of character arcs, campaigns, duels, and worldbuilding, the book features numerous creative writing prompts and examples from key works. These include films such as Trading Places, Selma, Lage Raho Munna Bai, and Frozen and literature ranging from Shakespeare's plays to Dickens' A Christmas Carol to Julia Quinn's Bridgerton novels.

A timely and important expansion to any writer's toolkit, A Fiction Writer's Guide to Peace allows storytellers to understand the complex dynamics of, and the damage caused by, violent perspectives and actions, giving them a way into considering nonviolence as powerful and preferable.

By: Dr Gabriel Ertsgaard (Adjunct Lecturer Kean University USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 218mm, Width: 142mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781350473942
ISBN 10: 1350473944
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 26 June 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gabriel Ertsgaard is Interviews Editor for the Peace Chronicle and Copy Editor for the poetry journal Drifting Sands Haibun. He also serves on the board of directors for the Quaker magazine Western Friend. He has taught university English courses for the past decade, and is the author of numerous poems, short stories, and nonfiction articles. He holds a Doctor of Letters with a concentration in Global Studies from Drew University, USA.

Reviews for A Fiction Writer’s Guide to Peace: Crafting Nonviolent Heroism

A very interesting premise to explore for fiction writing and one deftly handled by Gabriel. He takes the reader/writer logically through the process of nonviolent heroism in fiction and how to make it an active part of a narrative. * Todd Sanders, Publisher, Air and Nothingness Press *