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Brevity Blog: All About Creative Nonfiction

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Url:http://brevity.wordpress.com/
Author(s):Dinty W Moore
Language:English
Tags:literature, nonfiction, magazines
Description:Items in the world of Creative Nonfiction
Ratings (11 Ratings)
Popularity:67 Followers

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The Novel is Dead! I’m Writing an Essay!
If you haven’t run across the literate literary cartooning of Tom Gauld, it may be because you don’t get your London newspapers as often as you should.  Here in the Brevity corporate pe...more
2009-12-01
Gary Presley’s Modern Love
We’ve been fan of Gary Presley’s writing for quite some time here at Brevity, including his essay from Brevity 25 and his insightful guest
2009-11-29
The Clear Glass Windowpane: Zadie Smith on the Rise of the Essay
Novelist Zadie Smith ponders why so many fiction writers have embraced the essay in an extended Guardian article.  Smith spends much of her time discussing and digesting David Shields’ forthc...more
2009-11-23
Memoir as Soviet Social Realism
In truth, we think Maud Newton (the esteemed blogger and book critic) is painting memoir with too wide a brush and setting up a bit of  strawman (straw book?) argument here, but her thoughts on why...more
2009-11-21
A Very Normal Prize in Fiction and Nonfiction
Fiction Prize: $1,000 & PublicationNonfiction Prize: $1,000 & PublicationDeadline Feb 12, 2010Final JudgesMargot Livesey: FictionDavid Shields: NonfictionGUIDELINES All submissions must ...more
2009-11-20
Creative Nonfiction Defined: Yes You Can
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 B...more
2009-11-06
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Brenda Miller: On Form and Distance
You can imagine our excitement last week when Brenda Miller, author of so many beautiful Brevity essays and craft pieces (see here and here and here and
2009-11-04
The Online Versus Print Debate Continues
Kenyon Review editor David Lynn has a thoughtful post on the KROnline Blog about the debate between online and print.  What we like about David’s discussion is that he is honest about what wo...more
2009-11-03
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Dinty W Moore

Nonrequired Notable Nonrequired Notable Nonrequired Notable
Well that’s a mouthful, but so is the title of Dave Egger’s annual anthology of Best American Nonrequired Reading.  We’re only attempting to say nonrequired notable three times re...more
2009-11-01
Three for One: A Contest and Two Articles
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 Sh...more
2009-10-25

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