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Creative nonfiction is a genre of writing that heavily makes use of figurative techniques to create narratives that are otherwise factually accurate. Creative nonfiction has also been known by other names, including but not limited to "belles lettres", "literature of fact", "literature of reality" and "verfabula". While both the flagship publication in the genre and the first MFA program in the genre used the name creative nonfiction, the origin of the name is unknown. Creative nonfiction contrasts with other non-fiction, such as academic, technical or journalistic writing, which are also rooted in accurate fact but not written to entertain based on prose style. Many writers view creative n…

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Gothic fiction, often referred to as Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name of the genre is derived from the Renaissance-era use of the word "gothic", as a pejorative term meaning medieval and barbaric, which itself originated from Gothic architecture and in turn the Goths. The first work to be labelled as Gothic was Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, later subtitled A Gothic Story. Subsequent 18th-century contributors included Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Beckford, and Matthew Gregory Lewis. The Gothic influence continued into the early 19th century, with Romantic works by poets such as Samuel Taylor Cole…

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Bending Genre : Essays on Creative Nonfiction

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The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF or Alaska) is a public land-, sea-, and space-grant research university in College, Alaska, United States, a suburb of Fairbanks. It is the flagship campus of the University of Alaska System. UAF was established in 1917 and opened for classes in 1922. Originally named the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, it became the University of Alaska in 1935. Fairbanks-based programs became the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1975. UAF is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". In addition to the Fairbanks Troth Yeddha' campus, UAF encompasses six rural and urban campuses: Bristol Bay Campus in Dillingham; Chukchi…

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Creative Nonfiction and the Lyric Essay. This chapter is devoted to writing which falls under a recent, nearly paradoxical coinage: ‘creative nonfiction’, a phrase which raises the fundamental theoretical questions asked by Lukács and Adorno about whether the essay is better seen as art or knowledge. Stuckey-French examines both the rise of this category in creative writing programmes in universities in the United States, and the arguments of the influential theorist and anthologist of the essay John d’Agata, who rejects ‘creative nonfiction’ in favour of the ‘lyric essay’. Stuckey-French then shows how the contemporary essayists Jo Ann Beard, Eula Biss, and Claudia Rankine are both preoccu…

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Chapter 22: The First Creative Nonfiction Conference—and George Plimpton’s Revenge

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THE FIRST CREATIVE NONFICTION CONFERENCE—AND GEORGE PLIMPTON’S REVENGE

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Lucy Ives (born 1980) is an American novelist, poet, and critic. Born in New York City, Ives graduated from Harvard University with a BA and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA. Ives earned her PhD in comparative literature from New York University. Ives's long poem Anamnesis (2009) won the Slope Editions Book Prize. In 2013 Ives published a novella, Nineties, her second novella, The Worldkillers, was published in 2014. Orange Roses, a collection of essays and poetry, was published in 2013. Ives's novel Impossible Views of the World (2017) was chosen as a New York Times Editors' Choice and published by Penguin. Her second novel, Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the W…

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Creative Nonfiction is a literary magazine based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The journal was founded by Lee Gutkind in 1993, making it the first literary magazine to publish, exclusively and on a regular basis, high quality nonfiction prose. In Spring 2010, Creative Nonfiction evolved from journal to magazine format with the addition of new sections such as writer profiles and essays on the craft of writing, as well as updates on developments in the literary nonfiction scene. As of 2023, the magazine has ceased publication, with no information provided about when or if they will resume publication. However, in a 2024 interview, Gutkind said, "Creative nonfiction is now one o…

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The Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing is a graduate program in creative writing based at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine, United States. Stonecoast is one of the oldest low-residency creative writing programs in the United States and is notable for being one of only two such programs in the country to offer a degree in popular fiction. The Stonecoast MFA program is a low-residency program. Ten-day residencies for students, faculty, and visiting writers are held each January and June. The rest of a student's academic work during the two-year program is pursued on a one-on-one basis under the leadership of a faculty mentor. Stonecoast MFA enrolls approximately 100…

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Creative writing is any writing that goes beyond the boundaries of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on craft and technique, such as narrative structure, character development, literary tropes, genre, and poetics. Both fictional and non-fictional works fall into this category, including such forms as novels, biographies, short stories, poems, and even some forms of journalism. Writing for the screen and stage—screenwriting and playwriting—are often taught separately, but fit under the creative writing category as well.