Shirley H. Showalter, 59, won honorable mention in the memoir/creative nonfiction category. She is vice president for programs at the Fetzer Institute. She resides in Kalamazoo with her husband Stuart ...

“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.

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 ...

When it comes to untethering the imagination and letting it soar into the unknown, comic books and graphic novels are hard to beat. The arrangement of square panels on a white page can unlock potent ...

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 radio call from the engineering department makes me expect to see something amusing when I walk out onto the loading dock. Once, during a particularly bitter winter day, a few of us in Security ...

Creative writing is a unique art form that goes far beyond simply telling stories. Through poems, stories, memoirs, and scripts, writers have the opportunity to transport readers to new worlds and ...