The phrase
"nonfiction narrative" refers to a type of story or account that is based on real events and facts. It is a true story that is creatively and engagingly written to capture the interest of readers. Unlike fiction,
nonfiction narratives are about real people, places, and events, providing information and knowledge while still telling a compelling story.
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Even when you can't interview your characters or directly observe them in action, you can still write
great nonfiction narratives from the rich materials of history.
River Teeth is a biannual journal combining the best of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays and memoir, with critical essays that examine the emerging genre and that explore the impact
of nonfiction narrative on the lives of its writers, subjects, and readers.
River Teeth invites submissions of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays, and memoirs, as well as critical essays that examine the emerging genre and that explore the impact of
nonfiction narrative on the lives of its writers, subjects, and readers.
And I just started BEING MORTAL, a riveting
nonfiction narrative about mortality, written by Atul Gawande and read by Robert Petkoff.
How Irène Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World Winifred Conkling's
nonfiction narrative profiles two female physicists whose discoveries paved the way for nuclear energy — and the atomic bomb.
Focusing this intense,
insightful nonfiction narrative on her experiences with patients who died, Pauline Chen presents a compelling account of her career as a surgeon.
Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her
first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
Creative nonfiction employs literary devices, techniques, and elements of style more commonly associated with fiction to create a factually
accurate nonfiction narrative that reads in a vivid and compelling way.
Creative Nonfiction magazine is fuel for nonfiction writers and storytellers, providing a lively blend of exceptional long - and short -
form nonfiction narratives and interviews, as well as columns that examine the craft, style, trends, and ethics of writing true stories.
By nonfiction narrative we usually mean stories that are either some sort of adventure or mystery — some set of characters unraveling a set of events, and they're real characters and the stories are fact - checked.
Again, it's tempting to give a nod to David Foster Wallace, who popularized the use of endnotes or footnotes as a way to crinkle and deepen an otherwise
linear nonfiction narrative.
That Dragon, Cancer is without a doubt 2016's
best nonfiction narrative game... and perhaps, one of the best indie narrative games of all time.
A journal combining the best of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays & memoir, with critical essays that examine the emerging genre & that explore the impact
of nonfiction narrative on the lives of its writers, subjects, & readers.
Founded in 1999, River Teeth combines the best of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays, and memoirs, as well as critical essays that examine the genre and that explore the impact of
nonfiction narrative on the lives of its writers, subjects, and readers.
This nonfiction narrative is about the Grand Canyon, its many landforms, and the animals that live there.
This nonfiction narrative is an account of two battles of the Revolutionary War, Trenton and Princeton.
Annie Dillard has written several books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood; the Northwest pioneer epic The Living; and
the nonfiction narrative Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
Preston's account of this amazing world, by turns terrifying, moving, and fascinating, is an adventure story told in novelistic detail by a master of
nonfiction narrative.
Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood; the Northwest pioneer epic The Living; and
the nonfiction narrative Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
Two other recent start - up digital publishers include Byliner and The Atavist, both focused on investigative reporting and other works of
nonfiction narrative.
Attendees were mesmerized by Mara Purl's program that wove fiction and
nonfiction narratives; by Bill Van Orsdel deep dive into...
This collection of 20 gripping, beautifully - written
nonfiction narratives is the best of the best from CNF.
Writing, editing: psychology, psychiatry, public health, social science, medicine, particularly gastroenterology, internal medicine, and cardiology, memoir, autobiography and
nonfiction narratives; research.
True Story is a new home for longform
nonfiction narratives, published monthly by the editors of Creative Nonfiction magazine.
This is Ms. Macy's first book, but it's in a class with other runaway debuts like Laura Hillenbrand's «Seabiscuit» and Katherine Boo's «Behind the Beautiful Forevers»:
These nonfiction narratives are more stirring and dramatic than most novels.
True Story, a new home for longform
nonfiction narratives, publishes pocket - size issues showcasing one exceptional essay by one exceptional writer.
Publisher's description: True Story is a new home for longform
nonfiction narratives.
Tracy Kidder, the «master of
the nonfiction narrative» (The Baltimore Sun) and author of the bestselling classic The Soul of a New Machine, now tells the story of Paul English, a kinetic and unconventional inventor and entrepreneur, who as a boy rebelled against authority.