The Journal

Creative Nonfiction was the first and is still the largest literary magazine to publish, exclusively and on a regular basis, high quality nonfiction prose. The journal has consistently featured prominent authors from the United States and around the world and has helped launch the careers of some of the genre's most exciting emerging writers, as well as helping establish the creative nonfiction genre as a worthy academic pursuit.

Creative Nonfiction has a circulation of 4,500 and serves the whole spectrum of readers, from nonfiction and journalism enthusiasts to poetry and fiction writers, editors and agents.

Creative Nonfiction has always generated energy, intellectual substance and debate within the genre, in part by publishing timely, often controversial theme issues. Recent partnerships with book publishers, notably W. W. Norton and Southern Methodist University Press, have led to special journal issues published simultaneously as books--an arrangement that not only offers great value to subscribers but also helps work stay in print for longer and have wider distribution.

Creative Nonfiction is printed by Navigator Printing and distributed in the U.S. by Ingram Periodicals Inc., Media Solutions, and Source Interlink Distribution. For a list of bookstores that carry the journal, please click here

The CNF Editorial Board

Diane Ackerman - Annie Dillard - Laurie Graham
Tracy Kidder - Dinty W. Moore - Patricia Park - Richard Rodriguez
Lea Simonds - Rebecca Skloot - Gay Talese