Sentences with phrase «first nonfiction»

My first nonfiction book, Write Your Story: How to Turn Your Life into Fiction in 10 Easy Steps will be out 29 December 2017.

This first nonfiction work by a National Book Award fiction author highlights his burnished style as he describes emigrating from Sarajevo to Chicago.

I'm proud that «A Homesick Wanderlust» and «Why I Write» will be my first nonfiction publications.

I'm just getting a toe in the water with figuring out how to attract more attention to my first nonfiction book.

His first nonfiction book, How to Be a Successful Author While Working Full - Time: The Secret to Work / Life Balance is also now available.

I have Indie published my first nonfiction title and I am working on my first fiction novel.

Be there as we discuss her goals and writing habits, as well as her advice for marketing professionals considering writing their first nonfiction book.

Write Your Book on the Side will show you how to write your first nonfiction Kindle book while you're working a full - time job, even if you've never written a book before.

b. make my first nonfiction submissions and earn my first acceptances for publication in nonfiction

The Blue Jay's Dance, a memoir of motherhood, was her first nonfiction work, and her children's book, Grandmother's Pigeon, has been published by Hyperion Press.

Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty - two - year - old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.

Recently I have released my first nonfiction title.

It's the first book project for the race car driver and the first nonfiction book for Hotakainen — a combination that is proving to be a success.

Peter Engler is also a very accomplished career coach, and he recently released his first nonfiction book, Your Crystal Clear Career Path.

Surprisingly, this is the first nonfiction film to tackle the subject and Miller manages to find the parallels to contemporary times without being too pedantic or heavy - handed.

She said it was one of the first nonfiction books about dating she'd read when she was trying to figure out how to get in a relationship.

Not exact matches

Having read Anthem, Philosophy: Who Needs It, and a good deal of her nonfiction essays first, I came into The Fountainhead expecting a great read but nothing truly new to me.

Mary McCarthy's caustic wit and command of language elevated her nonfiction to the first rank.

With several exceptions, her wit and command of language elevate her nonfiction to the first rank, where it awaits another generation of readers.

In his book The Art of the Deal (Random House)-- Trump's autobiography which has been described by his ghostwriter as a «nonfiction work of fiction» — he claims his first wife, Ivana, was an alternate for the Czech ski team, yet the Czech Olympic committee says they have no record of this.

Let us pull a nonfiction classic from the shelf: Throneberry lashed a triple off Chicago Cub starter Glen Hobbie in the first inning of a game at the Polo Grounds on June 17.

Hillary Clinton's new book debuted to higher sales than any nonfiction hardcover since 2012, selling over 300,000 copies (including digital sales) in its first week, though that's not quite as high as her first book.

Don't plan to write a bad first draft of your nonfiction book during National Nonfiction Writing Month.

Pegged by some as this generation's «Hoop Dreams,» this nonfiction film documents the senior year of a girls» high - school step dance team set against the background of inner - city Baltimore, as each member tries to become the first in their families to attend college.

And because Emmy rules allow it, they're now all competing for Emmys in the nonfiction categories: If at first you don't succeed, get another academy to nominate you and try again.

Cielo Description: The first feature from Alison McAlpine, director of the beautiful 2008 «nonfiction ghost story» short Second Sight, is a dialogue with the heavens — in this case, the heavens above Read More →

Earlier this month, NYFF announced Ava DuVernay's documentary The 13th as the Opening Night selection, the first - ever nonfiction work to open the festival.

13TH will premiere at the New York Film Festival on Friday, September 30, which is the first time a nonfiction work will open the festival.

Cinema Eye presented its first Nonfiction Short Film award (it went to The Poodle Trainer by Vance Malone) and the first Heterodox Award, recognizing fiction films which imaginatively incorporate nonfiction strategies, content and / or modes of production.

The 13th is the first - ever nonfiction work to open the festival, and will debut on Netflix and open in a limited theatrical run on October 7.

The book was first released in 2010 and is still number 12 on the New York Times paperback nonfiction bestseller list for the week of Nov. 24.

As proof positive of the trending interest in nonfiction film, the first - ever Critics Choice Documentary Awards (CCDA) were presented on November 3, 2016, at a gala event attended by leading documentary filmmakers, distributors and film critics.

FIRST PLACE / NARRATIVE The Peculiar Abilities of Mr. Mahler, Paul Philipp, director FIRST PLACE / ANIMATION Negative Space, Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata, co-directors FIRST PLACE / NONFICTION Breaking the Cycle, Josephine Jackson & Vincent Augusto, co-directors FIRST PLACE / EXPERIMENTAL Gray Umbrella, Mohammad Poustindouz, director STUDENT AWARD It's Just a Gun, Brian Robau, director TEXAS AWARD Bodies of Water, David Lykes Keenan, director Jury Prize — Guan Xi, Dora Wu, director Jury Prize — The Driver is Red, Randall Christopher, director Jury Prize — The Modern Lives, Bill Plympton, director Performance Award — Michael Laskin, A Real Adventure Cinematography Award — Wasteland, Jakub Michnikowski, director Honorable Mention, Narrative — Counterfeit Kunkoo, Reema Sengupta, director Honorable Mention, Narrative — Mrs McCutcheon, John Sheedy, director Honorable Mention, Narrative — Hope Dies Last, Ben Price, director Honorable Mention, Narrative — Passion Gap, Matt Portman & Jason Donald, co-directors Honorable Mention, Narrative — Seven, James Morgan, director Honorable Mention, Nonfiction — Hunger for Truth: The Rhea Clyman Story, Andrew Tkach, director Honorable Mention, Nonfiction — Uncle Jessie White - Portrait of a Delta Blues Man in Detroit, Stashu Kybartas, director Honorable Mention, Experimental — Strangers, Eve Duhamel, director Honorable Mention, Student Film — The Chocolate Soldier, Jackson Smith, director Honorable Mention, Texas — Underneath, Christopher Grissom, director Honorable Mention, Texas — Aberration, Andy Pollack, director

In the Heart of the Sea is based on Nathaniel Philbrick's nonfiction book, which explored two narratives of the sinking of the whaling boat Essex in 1820 — one from a hardy first mate, Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth), and another from a cabin boy, Thomas Nickerson (played by Tom Holland as a youngster, and Brendan Gleeson in his advanced years).

It now transpires that McKay, a Saturday Night Live graduate who is no stranger to political satire, viewed The Other Guys as a slapstick allegory for the recent financial crisis and was working on the movie when he first read Michael Lewis's nonfiction book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, an account of the people who predicted (and profited from) the crash of 2007 - 8.

With his first film, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer — a US film - maker who has spent many years in Indonesia — broke open the documentary genre, fusing it with something much richer and more disturbing than the word «nonfiction» can summon, by stepping inside the psyches of the mass murderers who assisted President Suharto's dictatorship from 1968 to 1998.

«Brandy Burre is Actress,» the surprisingly ostentatious (for nonfiction) title card announces, and so it goes: Burre stars as herself, a Master's - holding former supporting player from «The Wire» who took a break from acting after the birth of her first child, and who now seeks to get back in the game at a moment when her long - term relationship appears to be breaking apart like the dishware.

Hidden Figures Recently adapted to film — with Oscar nominations for best picture and best adapted screenplay — Margot Lee Shetterly's nonfiction book depicts the lives of four black women who, as mathematicians and engineers, helped send the first American astronaut into space.

This «Core of the Core» comprises the first half of the book and instructs educators on how to teach students to: read harder texts, «closely read» texts rigorously and intentionally, read nonfiction more effectively, and write more effectively in direct response to texts.

Rather than idle away precious hours on trivial stories or randomly chosen nonfiction, reading, writing, and listening instruction would be built into the study of ancient civilizations in first grade, for example, Greek mythology in second, or the human body in third.

First and foremost, under the leadership of curriculum and instruction specialist Aaron Grossman, implementation has focused on the right things — including building a coherent body of knowledge across and within grades (one of the broad «instructional shifts,» along with reading for evidence and a greater focus on complex and nonfiction text)-- that are easy to rally around and hard to dismiss as unimportant.

But it does spell out skills that children should learn by different grade levels (such as understanding place value in first grade) and general education principles (such as incorporating nonfiction readings in English and multi-part word problems in math).

Students first read a book (fiction or nonfiction), magazine, textbook, etc..

Early first grade through fifth grade students are very independent using these strategies to improve their fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing skills while enjoying and learning using nonfiction stories.

How to Avoid 101 Book Publishing Blunders, Bloopers and Boo - Boos garnered the first «Dan Poynter NonFiction Legacy Award» and when it was initially launched, it earned # 1 bestseller on Amazon in Writing and Publishing.

When I first decided to become an independent author and self - publish after having gone the trad route with nonfiction and made a few attempts to go the trad route for fiction, I knew next - to - nothing about the social media circus I was about to join.

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Most people who choose a career in writing first imagine ourselves as novelists or memoirists, not nonfiction writers.

You won't want to miss New Yorker staff writer Elif Batuman's first novel, which follows her acclaimed nonfiction study of Russian literature, The Possessed.