Issue #47, Winter 2013
Female Form
We didn’t set out to publish an all-women essay section, but as we were reading for this issue, we were drawn to a number of essays about, in some way, “the senses”—hearing, sight, etc. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say they’re about “perception.” And, it just so happened that these seriously beautiful essays about serious topics—entomology, ophthalmology, archaeology, molecular biology—were all written by women.
Plus: Elissa Bassist and Cheryl Strayed talk about how to write like a mother#^@%*&; exploring the possibilities of electronic literature; a roundtable discussion about the intersection of journalism and creative nonfiction; words to avoid in your prose; and more.
From the issue:
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What's the Story by Lee Gutkind
From the Editor -
How to Write Like a Mother#^@%*&
An interview with Elissa Bassist & Cheryl Strayed -
Binary Truths: Creative nonfiction in our electronic age by Eric LeMay
Required Reading; A list with links to examples of electronic nonfiction -
Getting the Story by Matt Tullis
A roundtable discussion. -
The Tao of Find-Replace by Annie Chuang
“I wondered, what are creative nonfiction writers finding and replacing—with their minds, if not with the software tools? So began a series of conversations with a range of writers...” -
Elk Country by Marissa Landrigan
After seven years as a vegetarian, she wants to see what it means to hunt -
Resurrecting Our Printed Past
An interview with the issue's illustrator, Stephen Knezovich
Table of Contents
From the Editor Lee Gutkind ... read more
Cheryl Strayed on fame, success, and writing like a mother#^@%*& Elissa Bassist ... read more
The perils of "writing what you know" Kase Johnstun
The Memory Train Sara Dailey
Elk Country Marissa Landrigan ... read more
The Collection Mary Quade
Looking Back Danielle Spencer
The Pit and the Page Elizabeth Mosier
Regeneration Brenda Miller
Far, Far Away Pria Anand
Creative nonfiction in our electronic age Eric LeMay ... read more
Are journalism and creative nonfiction mutually exclusive? A Roundtable Discussion. Matt Tullis ... read more
The "little did I know..." memoir Elizabeth Stone
Twitter Micro-essays
Origin Stories Joe Bonomo
The tao of find-replace Angie Chuang ... read more
ARTWORK Stephen Knezovich ... read more
Contributors
Pria Anand
Pria Anand is a third-year medical student. She grew up in Maryland and lives in California. read more
Elissa Bassist
Elissa Bassist edits the “Funny Women” column on The Rumpus. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, NYMag.com, The... read more
Joe Bonomo
Joe Bonomo’s This Must Be Where My Obsession With Infinity Began (essays) will be published by Orphan Press in March. His books... read more
Angie Chuang
Angie Chuang is the author of The Four Words for Home. She is an assistant professor of journalism at the American University School... read more
Sara Dailey
Sara Dailey has a BS in writing from Mankato State, an MA in English from the University of St. Thomas, and an MFA from Hamline University... read more
Kase Johnstun
Kase Johnstun teaches Written Communications at Kansas State University and is working on a creative nonfiction book about craniosynostosis... read more
Chris Jones
CHRIS JONES is a writer at large for Esquire and the back-page columnist for ESPN: The Magazine. He has won two National Magazine Awards... read more
Thomas Lake
THOMAS LAKE is the youngest senior writer for Sports Illustrated, where he has won the Henry Luce Award for story of the year among all... read more
Marissa Landrigan
Marissa Landrigan’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, Creative Nonfiction, Orion, Guernica, The Inquisitive Eater... read more
Eric LeMay
Eric LeMay lives in Athens, Ohio, and teaches at Ohio University. Some of his electronic literature is available at www.ericlemay.org. read more
Brenda Miller
Brenda Miller is the author of five essay collections, most recently An Earlier Life. She also co-authored Tell It Slant:... read more
Ben Montgomery
Ben Montgomery is an enterprise reporter for the Tampa Bay Times and founder of the narrative journalism website Gangrey.com. In 2010, he... read more
Elizabeth Mosier
Elizabeth Mosier is the author of The Playgroup, part of the Gemma Open Door series to promote adult literacy, and My Life as a Girl (... read more
Mary Quade
Mary Quade’s essays have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Grist, Flyway: Journal of Writing and... read more
Danielle Spencer
Danielle R. Spencer is currently a teaching fellow in narrative medicine at Columbia University. She has worked as an art director for... read more
Elizabeth Stone
Elizabeth Stone teaches creative writing at Fordham University and is the author of four books, including a memoir, A Boy I Once Knew: What... read more
Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wild, the New York Times bestseller Tiny Beautiful Things, the novel Torch... read more
Matt Tullis
Matt Tullis is a journalism professor at Ashland University and regular contributor to Cleveland Magazine. Before joining academia, he... read more
Reviews
Inspiration in Creative Nonfiction
WOW! Women On Writing
Feb. 25, 2013
I found 80 pages of magic recently when reading issue 47 of Creative Nonfiction, an issue that focuses on the writing of women. After... read moreHow Do We Solve Publishing's Gender Gap?
Bitch Magazine
Mar. 7, 2013
The point of “Female Form” is not for CNF to prove they publish women, which they have already; it’s to drive the... read morePowerful Collection of Work by Women Writers
New Pages
March 18, 2013
As it has since its founding in 1993 by Lee Gutkind, Creative Nonfiction continues to lead the parade of writers who “write like a... read more