“Creative nonfiction writers be like: I first ate a hot dog when I was six years old. I remember the taste, the scent, the summer. SECTION BREAK. Hot dogs were invented in 1693 by Steven Hotdog.
This collection of essays on being Italian-American (or in some cases, an Italian in America or an American in Italy) is filled with imagery and topics of not only food and wine but Catholicism, ...
Elizabeth Rush Mueller, a photographer and writer of creative nonfiction, reads from her work at Bates College at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.
CULLOWHEE—For the second year in a row, NCWN members swept first, second, and third place in the Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Competition. Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin of Cullowhee won first place for ...
Have you ever written a report or scholarly paper and struggled with how to share your findings outside of your academic field? Or have you had to translate other people's research for the general ...
L ee Gutkind, a writer and administrator of a creative-writing program whom Vanity Fair once dubbed the “godfather behind creative nonfiction,” has reached his golden years in triumph. That’s the bad ...
In the first paragraph of “The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting,” Lee Gutkind, the “Godfather” of the creative-nonfiction genre (a title used once to describe him in Vanity Fair in 1997 and since ...
The University of Iowa holds a privileged place in the imagination of the writing program community. Its Writers' Workshop is the oldest and most esteemed graduate writing program in the country.
In the past 30 or so years, the catch-all term “creative nonfiction” has come to designate nearly all literary work that is not poetry or fiction or drama. While it is a problem to define art by what ...
The transition from school life at the University of Iowa to home life in Olathe, Kansas, has been a big adjustment but also a familiar one for junior and transfer student Amanda Pendley. Before ...
The topic of loneliness is something not many discuss; however, one University of Iowa graduate has written her second novel in hopes to bring the issue to light through her essays. Kristen Radtke, a ...
Authors know the importance of titles. They help to orient the reader or sometimes, with intent, to disorient. They can add dimension and weight; they can exemplify or elucidate. It is, therefore, ...