Story and Structure: A Complete GuidePaperback, 1 March 2023

Winner of the IPNE Book of the Year Award 2022 and IPNE Informational Nonfiction Book Award 2022

Story and Structure tells the untold story of how story works. Using just six primary symbols, author Leon Conrad outlines eighteen story structures and shows how they all optimally solve the problems which give rise to them. The book also demonstrates the much wider application of story, presenting new insights into story as a dynamic force of life, allowing the reader to access more harmony and flow in their life. Writers, storytellers, creative writing teachers, folklorists, narrative therapists, anthropologists, poets, and readers interested in how story works will all find this book useful and informative. Rethink your idea of story.

IPNE Book of the Year Award 2022 winner ("incredibly ambitious... surprisingly accessible")
IPNE Informational Nonfiction Book Award winner
Storytelling World Award winner
Firebird Award winner
NAA Gold Award winner
Readers' Choice Book Awards Bronze Award winner
IAN Book of the Year Award finalist
Honourable Mention in the South Carolina Book Festival Awards
Shortlisted for The People's Book Prize