A year ago today my first book, Message From a Blue Jay, was launched into the world by a small press called Buddhapuss Ink out of Edison, N.J. The press is owned by MaryChris Bradley, a 30-year veteran of the…
My new personal essay, “Winter,” has been published
“Winter,” a new essay about one of the last visits I had with my father before he passed away in April, has just been published by Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. I am especially honored by this publication for a…
Wrapping Up: Alternative Creative Nonfiction
So far in our Creative Nonfiction Writing workshop we’ve attempted to define creative nonfiction, we’ve explored the difference between the “situation” and the “story” in CNF writing, we’ve read a guest post by Michael Steinberg on The Role(s) of Memory…
This Week in Our Creative Nonfiction Writing Course: Personal Cultural Criticism
So far in our semester-long undergraduate Creative Writing class, we’ve learned some basic (if argued over) definitions of Creative Nonfiction; we’ve examined the difference between the “situation” and the “story” in personal essays (a differentiation that helps us structure our…
Next Up in our Creative Nonfiction Writing Class: Personal Reportage
Two weeks ago, in our continued semester-long examination of Creative Nonfiction, we talked on this blog (and in my undergraduate college class) about “The Brave New World of Video Essays.” The week before that we enjoyed a guest blog post…
My new essay, “Still Life with Writing” has been published by BOXY Magazine
I’m taking a break from the semester’s writing course with some writing news of my own — my new short essay, “Still Life with Writing,” is now up at BOXY Magazine. BOXY is a wonderful new artsy, edgy publication out…
The Brave New World of Video Essays
If you’re following this online chronicle of a semester’s Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop, you know that last week guest blogger Michael Steinberg wrote about “The Role(s) of Memory and Imagination in Literary Memoir.” “And now,” to quote the old favorite,…
Guest Blogger Michael Steinberg: The Role(s) of Memory and Imagination in Literary Memoir
Note from Faye: In the actual Creative Nonfiction Course I’m teaching this semester, we have a guest reader/writer visiting the class this week. After all, it’s no fun if students (or blog readers) get only my perspective, right? So in…
The “Situation” and the “Story” in Creative Nonfiction
We’re already on week three in our semester! Below I continue with a basic discussion of topics covered in our undergraduate Creative Nonfiction Writing seminar: Vivian Gornick’s craft book, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative, was…
What IS Creative Nonfiction?
Last week, in the first installment of this semester’s weekly posts and in the first class of our creative writing workshop, we asked, “What does it mean to ‘read like a writer?’” In this second week, we’re going to take…