Creative Nonfiction (Course Guide / Lisa Heise)

Lee Gutkind is an apostle of "creative nonfiction." Though he started out, like many writers, thinking he'd become a novelist, he found his metier writing nonfiction oil topics ranging from motorcycling to health care. Inspired by the new journalism, he developed his own version of "immersion reportage," which uses storytelling techniques more familiar in fiction, although it adheres to the rule that they be true stories. In 1993, he founded the magazine Creative Nonfiction. Its success has given credibility to the genre, providing a forum for new as well as established writers. | From: symploke(Vol. 18, Issue 1-2): University of Nebraska Press | Gale Literature Resource Center

I am often asked: “What is creative nonfiction?” Or, in some cases, “what the hell is creative nonfiction?” The answer—or answers—can be complicated because creative nonfiction may mean different things to different people, a characteristic that makes this form so elusive and alluring. On its very baseline creative nonfiction is a literary genre. Some people call it the fourth genre, along with poetry, fiction and drama. And it’s an umbrella term for the many different ways one can write what is called creative nonfiction. | Creative Nonfiction Magazine website

"Now that you have established this journal called Creative Nonfiction," people ask, "what does it mean?" | Writer (Kalmbach Publishing Co.). Aug96, Vol. 109 Issue 8, p27. 2p.| Literary Reference Center Plus (EBSCO) (Library Database)

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of writing a memoir and finding it as the most daunting of all writing challenges. | Publishers Weekly. 8/31/2020, Vol. 267 Issue 35, p96-96. 1p. | Literary Reference Center Plus (EBSCO) (Library Database)