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Before We’re Writers, We’re Readers

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Fifteen contemporary writers of creative nonfiction discuss the nonfiction books they remember best from childhood and which influenced them as writers.

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A Story We Tell Ourselves and Others

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Finding inspiration in marriage memoirs

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A Real-World Education

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Revisiting Studs Terkel's WORKING.

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Current Issue

Issue 63, How We Teach
Spring 2017

Shaping lives in the classroom and beyond more

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

Sharp Scissors

Samantha Edwards

Good Writing and Good Storytelling Is by Nature Surprising

The Work Itself Is a Home

Kaylee Ritchie

Came Down a Person

Ella Wilson

In a Disorder on Purpose

Lisa Schamess

Facing Facts

Donna Seaman