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What is Creative Nonfiction?

Lee Gutkind

Picturing the Personal Essay: A Visual Guide

Tim Bascom

How to Write Like a Mother#^@%*&

Elissa Bassist & Cheryl Strayed

Wading through the Whitestream

Jenn Scheck-Kahn

On Letting Go of Perfection

Samantha Smith

Politics in Prose

Jennifer Niesslein

Pod City

Anjali Sachdeva

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John D. Bess

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