The Millions

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Thoughtful and tender, Vuong's autobiographical novel is framed as a letter from a son, Little Dog, to his illiterate single mother, Rose. The post Memory Can Be a Second Chance: Ocean Vuong’s ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ appeared first on The M

Writer's Digest

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“When I talk to students, especially younger students,” says Creative Nonfiction founder and editor Lee Gutkind, “they have no idea that creative nonfiction hasn’t been around forever. But it hasn’t. It had existed before, but never as a genre. It wa

NPR

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Rivers Solomon's lyrical, wrenching new novella is based on a track from the experimental rap group clipping., about a peaceful undersea race descended from slaves thrown overboard in the Atlantic.

Creative Nonfiction

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On november 30, 2017, about thirty writers assembled in Boston at the headquarters of GrubStreet, one of the largest writing centers in the country, for an event organized by the Boston Writers of Color group. The night’s event, called a Local Editor

The Millions

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It’s a golden age for nonfiction, but what writers have gained in imaginative freedom they sometimes pay for in the long and demanding road to the finish. The new Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant awards $40,000 to writers at any career stage for the

Writing Magazine

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December magazine is a biannual US literary journal founded in Iowa City in 1958 by a group of poets, writers, and artists who declared, ‘We are humanists… far more concerned with people than dogmatic critical or aesthetic attitudes.’ To date it has

Poets & Writers

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BY MELISSA FALIVENO I N HER 1995 book on writing, Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott writes, “Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.” In the pas

NPR

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Under Carmen Maria Machado's narrative of a psychologically abusive relationship lies an academic view of female queerness, a play, a choose your own adventure book, a look at the mechanisms of abuse.

Writer's Digest

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The time has come. Your manuscript has been languishing in a subfolder on your computer or gathering dust in the bottom drawer in your desk. Now, at last, life has afforded you the opportunity to get back to it and you’re ready to finally dive back i

Poets & Writers

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I N HER 1995 book on writing, Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott writes, “Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.” In the past few years, literar

Literary Hub

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In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, novelist and journalist Nathaniel Rich and poet and activist Juliana Spahr discuss writing about climate change and ecological destruction with hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell. In part

The Writer

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When author and editor Stephen Parrish moved to Germany from the U.S., he found it challenging to participate in the greater literary community. He decided to join in digitally, co-founding the online literary magazine The Lascaux Review. “The Lascau

Poets & Writers

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Areas of interest: Literary fiction with a hint of genre (speculative, historical, thriller, mystery), upmarket fiction, narrative nonfiction (science, pop culture, history, technology), prescriptive nonfiction (lifestyle, health, fitness), humor, il

The Paris Review

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Amparo Dávila. Last Friday, when temperatures dropped into the bone-chilling teens, a crowd of about thirty people dipped out of the cold into Aeon Bookstore on East Broadway and Essex, where they sipped tequila with lime and listened to Audrey Harri

The Writer

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When we write creative nonfiction about our lives, we immediately take center stage in the narrative. We must feel confident and comfortable in that role. After all, it’s our experiences, our memories, our confessions that propel the story forward; s

India Today

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In his essay The Great Derangement, Amitav Ghosh argues that the modern novel celebrates 'bourgeois regularity' to the point of derangement. This is how literature and politics are complicit: both literary and political choices have focused on securi

Writing Magazine

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The Fiddlehead is a well-established Canadian literary journal. For 75 years, it has published poetry, short fiction and reviews, aiming ‘to discover and promote new writing talent; to represent the Atlantic region’s lively cultural and literary dive

Writing Magazine

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Voyage is a zine for YA – teenage readers – published by a team who believe that ‘YA is an ever expanding category of literature that constantly pushes boundaries’. The editorial team are happy to see that half their readers are adults and proud that

Design Anthology

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Telling stories through design is nothing new, and there are plenty of creatives who continue to do it well. Companies like Droog and Studio Job have built a reputation around imbuing everyday objects with narrative, allowing their designers to bette

Literary Hub

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I’m agate-hunting with my nine-year-old niece on the shores of Lake Superior, north of Duluth. It’s morning, the beach faces east, and there’s enough wave action to get the rocks wet, but not us. Agates are best spotted when they’re wet, my niece’s r

Literary Hub

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I always think that there are two essential ways to approach cookery. The first is to start with an idea of what the dish you are making should be, what precise arrangement of ingredient and technique you wish to create and to work backwards from the

Creative Nonfiction

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I KNOW THAT EXPLORING the harmonies between science and religion is not the kind of subject your average literary magazine might focus on for an entire issue— and maybe that is why I am particularly excited about this issue of Creative Nonfiction. Lo

Literary Hub

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Some years ago I was invited to judge a literature prize. The prize was awarded on the basis of a writer’s body of work, but the prize organizers had limited the scope to works of fiction. Works of non-fiction by the same writer were not included. Th

New Mexico Magazine

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Tell us a bit about Future Ancestral Technologies. What can people expect visually? Future Ancestral Technologies is indigenous science fiction. I combine unique objects, futuristic narratives, and symbiotic landscapes to articulate a future in which

Writing Magazine

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The Hypertext Magazine publishes ‘fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual art, and interviews’ by up-and-coming writers alongside established names, and celebrate diverse voices. Read what they publish before submitting: there’s plenty online an

Writing Magazine

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Hippocampus is a multi-strand publisher focusing entirely on creative non-fiction. Not, note, poetry or fiction. • Hippocampus Magazine has a mission ‘to entertain, educate and engage writers and readers of creative nonfiction’. ‘Each issue features

Visi

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Painter and performance artist Cassi Namoda was born in Mozambique, and now splits her time between Los Angeles and New York. She was raised in Benin, Uganda, Haiti, her native Mozambique and the US, so it’s not surprising that her work explores the

Writing Magazine

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Crab Creek Review is a well established US literary journal with an all-female editorial team. They publish poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction from emerging and established writers. Opening to submissions at the beginning of September the edit

Literary Hub

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Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern was recently named the winner of the 2019 National Magazine Award for Fiction. McSweeney’s was recognized for three pieces from Issue 53—“Skinned” by Lesley Nneka Arimah, “Vinegar on the Lips of Girls” by Julia D

AZURE

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_Workspace Every company has its own unique story to tell, ethos to espouse and goals to reach. Interior designer Primo Orpilla, co-founding principal at Studio O+A in San Francisco, has been communicating those narratives through his workplace desig