Creative Nonfiction Defined: Yes You Can

Nov 06, 2009

BREVITY's Creative Nonfiction Blog: Oftentimes, at the end of a long day of manuscript sorting high up in the Brevity corporate towers, we will put up our feet, throw some Miles Davis up on the big speakers, pour small offerings of Blanton’s Single Barrel Bourbon, and wonder at people who have trouble defining creative nonfiction. “Really,” we might say to on (Read More)

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Three for One: A Contest and Two Articles

Oct 25, 2009

BREVITY's Creative Nonfiction Blog: Three new items for a Sunday morning.  Click the highlighted headings for more information on each one:A ContestAnnouncing the 2009 New Delta Review Creative Nonfiction Contest, judged by Peggy Shinner. NDR seeks pieces that activate the compelling bits of “real” life. We welcome hybrid essays, ones that expose the insides (Read More)

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Social Justice and Equity Nonfiction Book Award

Oct 07, 2009

BREVITY's Creative Nonfiction Blog: Benu Press is accepting completed manuscripts for the Social Justice and Equity Award in Creative Nonfiction.“Benu Press is a small, independent press committed to publishing creative non-fiction, poetry and fiction. We believe in the transformative power of literature. To that end, we seek to publish inspiring and thought- (Read More)

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Another Outlet for Brief Nonfiction

Sep 30, 2009

BREVITY's Creative Nonfiction Blog: Hot Metal Bridge, University of Pittsburghwww.hotmetalbridge.orgFor this issue (and this issue only) all creative nonfiction submissions must be brief: 1,000 words or less. If you think of creative nonfiction as organic material saturated with potential energy—ready fuel for reflection, insight, and action—then brevity is a (Read More)

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Nonfiction and Place: Call for Submissions

Sep 25, 2009

BREVITY's Creative Nonfiction Blog: Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts invites submissions for a symposium on the importance of place in creative nonfiction, to appear in its next issue (spring 2010).Center editors ask writers to “consider place from a variety of perspectives. What is its role in the essay? in memoir? in literary journalism? How do concer (Read More)

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Any Nonfiction Scholars Out There?

Sep 22, 2009

BREVITY's Creative Nonfiction Blog: The College English Association invites papers and creative works-in-progress on the theme of voices in Creative Nonfiction Writing for the Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas , March 25-27, 2010.We quote from the CFP:“Remember the Alamo!” cried Texans who’d joined arms with General Sam Houston after the Alamo fell. They (Read More)

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Ah, sweet ignorance!

Sep 19, 2009

BREVITY's Creative Nonfiction Blog: Rebecca Frost discusses the genesis of her brief essay “In Case of Emergency,” in the new Brevity issue:I’m studying rhetoric and technical communication, so a creative non-fiction class was something out of the ordinary.  It was offered in Fall 2008, taught by Matt Seigel, and I thought it would be a fun (and relatively ea (Read More)

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The Nonfiction Ark

Sep 03, 2009

BREVITY's Creative Nonfiction Blog: The fine folks over at Creative Nonfiction magazine are seeking new essays about the bonds–emotional, ethical, biological, physical, or otherwise–between humans and animals. They’re looking for stories that illustrate ways animals (wild and/or domestic) affect, enrich, or otherwise have an impact on our daily lives.Essays m (Read More)

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Of Nonfiction Blogging: Calling All 21st Century Montaignes

Aug 23, 2009

BREVITY's Creative Nonfiction Blog: Creative Nonfiction magazine has been republishing blog postings in the annual W. W. Norton Best Creative Nonfiction anthologies, and will soon do the same in the magazine itself.  Nominations (even self-nominations) cheerfully accepted.Here’s some official language:  “Please note, blog nominations will be accepted only thr (Read More)

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Three EssayCNF Contests Upcoming Soon

Aug 08, 2009

BREVITY's Creative Nonfiction Blog: 1.  Literal Latté is accepting entries for its Ames Essay Award until September 152. The Creative Nonfiction Prize from Hunger Mountain is open until September 10.  A one-thousand-dollar prize and publication of the winning work.3. Real Simple magazine’s Life Lessons Essay Contest will award three thousand dollars and publi (Read More)

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Call for Submissions: End of Life Stories

Jul 04, 2009

BREVITY's Creative Nonfiction Blog: Creative Nonfiction is seeking new essays that explore death, dying, and end of life care, for a collection to be published by Southern Methodist University Press. We’re looking for stories that transcend the “I” and find universal meaning in personal experiences. We hope to include stories representing a wide variety of pe (Read More)

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Tweet Tweet Nonfiction

Jun 15, 2009

BREVITY's Creative Nonfiction Blog: Many people are confused by Brevity’s relationship with Creative Nonfiction the print magazine.  Well, let us put it this way: we read submissions separately, have offices in different states, have separate production teams, and we are better looking.  CNF allows us to piggyback for free on their server space (thanks), and (Read More)

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