Issue #72, Games
Fall 2019
Play is serious business! In Creative Nonfiction #72: "Games," writers connect with friends, family, and strangers to play Hanabi and hide-and-seek, mah-jongg and make-believe. Online or in-person, they explore other worlds, try on new ways of being, and find unexpected meaning.
Plus: what writers can learn from video game audience research; the importance of rhythm in prose; Procrastination Bingo; and much more.
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"What's the Story" by Lee Gutkind
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"The Serious Business of Play" by Sasha Barab and Alan Gershenfeld
Finding Connection, Meaning, and Sometimes Joy -
"Inside Out and Outside In" by Gabe Montesanti
Exploring the possibilities—and the pitfalls—of immersion projects -
AfterWORDS: Procrastination Bingo
How many of these writing-adjacent activities have you done today?
Table of Contents
What's the Story #72 Lee Gutkind
The Serious Business of Play Sasha Barab and Alan Gershenfeld
Surviving Linda Stallman Gibson
Whispers from the Field Sheryl St. Germain
Keeping Score Renee Aukeman Prymus
Never a Sure Bet Amber Wong
Beautiful Slop Veronica Kavass
Almost Home Sarah Einstein
Special Time Nicole Graev Lipson
How to Earn the Ending Sarah Rosenthal
Inside Out and Outside In Gabe Montesanti
All in the Cards Yvette Benavides
They've Got Rhythm, How 'Bout You? Eben Pindyck
The Fake MFA Syllabus Geoff Martin
Procrastination Bingo CNF Staff
Contributors
Sasha Barab and Alan Gershenfeld
Sasha Barab is an internationally recognized learning scientist who researches, designs, and publishes on the power of immersive games and... read more
Yvette Benavides
Yvette Benavides teaches creative writing at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. She is editor of the anthology series... read more
Sarah Einstein
Sarah Einstein teaches creative writing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She is the author of Mot: A Memoir (University of... read more
Linda Stallman Gibson
Linda Stallman Gibson’s career as an early childhood teacher and professor of education at Queens College, CUNY, ended just as... read more
Lee Gutkind
Lee Gutkind, recognized by Vanity Fair as “the Godfather behind creative nonfiction,” is the founder and editor of Creative... read more
Veronica Kavass
Veronica Kavass is a writer and investigator based in New Orleans. She received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota... read more
Nicole Graev Lipson
Nicole Graev Lipson’s writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe Magazine, the Hudson Review, Poet Lore, and... read more
Geoff Martin
Geoff Martin grew up in southwestern Ontario, taught English at the City Colleges of Chicago, and recently moved to San Francisco from... read more
Gabe Montesanti
Gabe Montesanti has an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and teaches creative writing at the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center... read more
Eben Pindyck
Eben Pindyck teaches writing at Portland State University. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and on newyorker.com. read more
Renee Aukeman Prymus
Renee Aukeman Prymus is a lecturer in composition at the University of Pittsburgh, a contributing writer to the Daily Worker Placement, and... read more
Sarah Rosenthal
Sarah Rosenthal is an MFA candidate in nonfiction at Columbia University, where she also serves as a teaching fellow. Her work has appeared... read more
Sheryl St. Germain
Sheryl St. Germain has published six poetry books and two collections of essays, and coedited two anthologies. The Small Door of Your Death... read more
Amber Wong
Amber Wong is an environmental engineer in Seattle, who writes about identity, the depth of family secrets, and the breadth of... read more
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