What is Creative Nonfiction?

Dramatic, true stories using scenes, dialogue, close, detailed descriptions and other techniques usually employed by poets and fiction writers about important subjects - from politics, to economics, to sports, to the arts and sciences, to racial relations, and family relations.

Creative Nonfiction heightens the whole concept and idea of essay writing. It allows a writer to employ the the diligence of a reporter, the shifting voices and viewpoints of a novelist, the refined wordplay of a poet and the analytical modes of the essayist.

Visit the Creative Nonfiction Foundation on the web for excerpts of essays and interviews with nonfiction authors.



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Writers crossing genres and taking liberties

            Writers crossing genres and taking liberties