CREATIVE NONFICTION

Creative Nonfiction is a complex, interesting genre that is gaining popularity while schools begin to add it to their Language Arts curriculum. This lesson plan, geared for upper level high school students, is a great way to introduce creative nonfiction in your classroom.

Creative writing, as taught by universities, is becoming less focused on poetry and fiction and more on "creative nonfiction." The problem is that nobody (professors and publishers alike) can define just what the term creative nonfiction means.

Picking apart and discussing aspects of Lynn Z. Bloom's "Living to Tell the Tale: The Complicated Ethics of Creative Nonfiction."

Picking apart and discussing aspects of D.W. Moore's "Building Blocks of Creative Nonfiction: Detail and Description"

Picking apart and discussing aspects of Christopher Buckley's "Creative Nonfiction."

Picking apart and discussing aspects of Bronwyn T. Williams's "Never Let the Truth Stand in the Way of a Good Story: A Work for Three Voices"

Picking apart and discussing aspects of Mimi Schwartz's "Memoir? Fiction? Where's the Line?"

Long-time journalist and author will show you how to show a fiction or nonfiction story as a scene instead of telling it in a narrative pattern. It makes all the difference in the world.

The term literary nonfiction was coined to characterize prose, frequently narrative and often autobiographical, that aspires to something more than providing information or analysis.

See your creative writing in print by submitting to literary journals and magazines

Picking apart and discussing aspects of Simone Poirier-Bures's "That Shining Place" and "Afterword: Writing 'The Greece Piece'"

Everyone has at one point in their life dreamed of creating the great American novel.There are great schools in New York that have some of the best lessons in creative writing.

This article discusses the benefits the top MFA, Master of Fine Arts Programs in the United States, and things one should consider before enrolling in the program

This lesson plan offers students a differentiated way of approaching understanding of the memoir form, a subgenre of the creative nonfiction genre.

If you're a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or gay author, Fabulist Flash Publishing wants to include your original works of poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction in its new book: The Queer Collection: Poetry and Prose 2007.

The 59th Creative Arts Primetime Emmy Winners

A number of creative techniques to overcome writer's block.

A short interview with Carole Bellacera (romance novelist and author of over 200 short stories and articles) gave me insight and inspiration on how to move from nonfiction to fiction.

A piece I wrote for a Creative nonfiction class. I had to choose a word that resonates with me and write about it. Sections one, three, and five were creative sections and two and four were supposed to be more scholarly.

As writers it can sometimes be hard to get going, especially when there is no one there to tell you what to do or when to start. As a writer you have to get your creative juices flowing on your own. Here are some exercises to help you do just that.

A brief introduction to market research and submitting creative writing for publication.

Poverty, long distance, and a shower scene.