Out September 15, 2026

Creative Writing Tips and Tidbits by Emmanuelle Pireyre and Fabienne Radi comes out in bookstores on September 1, 2026.

How do you start writing creatively? How do you teach creative writing and practice it? This Manifesto recommends jumping straight into the deep end and simply doing it yourself.

Over the past few decades, the worlds of art and literature have been drawn closer together by mutual attraction. More and more artists have been exploring the written word as an artistic medium alongside painting, video and performance, while more and more writers and poets have been producing forms of literature for exhibition or performance. As a result, the approaches employed on either side have been mutually enriched, expanding the playing field in both realms of creative expression.

Based on their own experience as writers and creative writing workshop leaders at art schools, the two authors of this Manifesto draw on a rich array of innovative and often art-related literary experiments to suggest a whole bunch of recipes for creative writing—replete with corresponding exercises that anyone can do, even if they’ve never tried their hand at creative writing before.

The collection
HEAD – Publishing publie la collection Manifestes qui met en valeur des partis pris, réflexions et actions développés par des acteur·ricexs de l’art et du design pour faire face aux enjeux contemporains. HEAD – Publishing valorise une large diffusion des connaissances en proposant ses publications en formats numériques en libre accès sur son site Web : head-publishing.ch, et à travers des publications au format poche vendues à prix abordable en librairies.

The first nine titles in the Manifestes series have been published: 
Manifesto of Interiors: Thinking in the Expanded Media by Javier Fernández Contreras, Investigation/Design by Nicolas Nova, Ways to Leave Earth by Christophe Kihm, Jill Gasparina and Anne-Lyse Renon, MRIOIR MIOIRR by Carla Demierre, Artificial Design: Creation Versus Machine Learning by Anthony Masure, The Anthropocene Style by Philippe Rahm, Why History Matters to Graphic Design by Clémence Imbert, Changing Art from the Outside by Charlotte Laubard, and Wear the Game by Alexia Mathieu.

These books are available in French and English. They are distributed in the French-speaking world by Serendip and in a network of international bookstores by Public Knowledge Books.