Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction is the voice of the genre. Every issue includes long-form essays blending style with substance; writing that pushes the genre’s boundaries; commentary and notes on craft; conversations with writers; and more. Simply put, Creative Nonfiction demonstrates the depth and versatility of the genre it helped define.

VOICE

Creative Nonfiction

Battling the Book

The Sounds of Your Self

BETH KEPHART on Margo Jefferson • Pulitzer Prize–winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson has questions: What is the story of her life, and how is she to write it?

I AM AL’S LYMPHOMA

LET’S SAY

SEAN PRENTISS on Steve Coughlin • Prose poet Steve Coughlin illuminates the everyday.

Striving for Harmony

Dismantling the Patriarchy by Reclaiming Her Voice • Elissa Bassist reflects on how women’s voices get silenced & reborn, the eleven years it took to write her memoir, and how she wrote like a mother#^@%*&.

JILL CHRISTMAN on Jaquira Díaz • Award-winning memoirist Jaquira Díaz uses the first-person plural to show us what it means to belong to a place.

SO THIS DUDE

mama asks, haven’t you been lucky to know gracious men

SILVER SPACESHIPS

YI SHUN LAI on R. Eric Thomas • Screenwriter R. Eric Thomas disarms readers with smart cultural touchstones.

Finding Your Public Voice

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

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