Sentences with phrase «of nonfiction pieces»

Why do you think the author chose to write a novel based on her family's experiences instead of a nonfiction piece?

Not exact matches

Like its predecessor, «Under the Gun» potently combines statistics, expert commentary and personal stories into a well - researched and easy - to - consume piece of nonfiction filmmaking.

Sort of a Russian companion piece to Erik Gandini's nonfiction Videocracy, which looked at modern Italian life and the high - glitz, low - information media culture promulgated by prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, documentary Putin's Kiss throws a light on dissident voices and oppositional political groups in the former Soviet Union, where once - and - present president Vladimir Putin has in ways both subtle and not - so - subtle encouraged the stifling of political foes and those seeking greater governmental transparency through a youth group known as Nashi.

The New York premiere of In the Last Days of the City coincides with the 2018 edition of Art of the Real, a showcase of «nonfiction and hybrid filmmaking,» and several titles in the series make good companion pieces.

It's a nonfiction ensemble piece that aims for slice - of - life, which may be part of why it feels like a mess, both in terms of structure and pacing.

In this nonfiction piece, the author shares what he learned about the way of life of grizzly bears after spending a full year in Alaska...

In the course of doing research for a book like Astoria, which my agent has called «historical adventure,» I find myself reading bits and pieces of all sorts of works of nonfiction, as well as explorers» journals and memoirs, history, anthropology and many other eclectic subjects.

Careful explanations and spectacular art make this a joyous piece of nonfiction that informs and delights in equal parts.

But even if you're writing a memoir or a piece of creative nonfiction, you still have to craft it into a story with an arc.

And my third piece will be to advice about a good image: the saying «never judge a book by its cover» was created by a lazy author who didn't give much thought of what really works in the marketing of both fiction and nonfiction.

I recently finished pulling together a collection of my shorter prose pieces, some fiction, mostly nonfiction, and that will be coming out in the spring of 2008.

I was a magazine journalist who had written a few nonfiction articles about Maine game wardens, and one Saturday morning, I started noodling around with a short piece of fiction — not even a story, just an anecdote — about a rookie warden and a marauding black bear.

Write to Sharon Dolin directly: [email protected] and attach 3 poems or short pieces of creative nonfiction that best represent your work plus the name and email of 1 reference who can speak to your ability to live and work well in a small - group setting.

And nothing destroys a piece of creative nonfiction like a disorganized narrative.

You've edited two anthologies of short creative nonfiction essays, which are often short memoir pieces.

Participants will come away with a list of places to read and submit brief nonfiction, as well as some prompts to create short pieces on their own.

One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become Tomcat in Love.

So for my last book, Underground Airlines, the nonfiction included several histories of slavery (especially Edward Baptist's 2014 The Half Has Never Been Told, various histories of the Civil Rights movement, Ta - Nahesi Coates's brilliant Atlantic essay «The Case for Reparations» and Ted Conover's devastating Harper's piece about slaughterhouses, «The Way of All Flesh.»

Through a series of what I can only assume are clerical errors and cases of mistaken identity, I've managed to publish two novels, four short stories, and several nonfiction pieces.

Readers will learn about a range of extraordinary people, and many of the poems are accompanied by a brief nonfiction piece that highlights the subjects» accomplishments.

It's a fantastic piece of narrative nonfiction journalism and asks profoundly important questions about race, policing and media bias.

A joyous piece of nonfiction that informs and delights in equal parts.»

Every piece of reading material that crosses a reader's path that isn't fiction is nonfiction.

Each month they release a piece of longform nonfiction, which is sent to subscribers and available to buy on the Matter website (thanks to Medium, which recently bought Matter, soon they will be switching to publishing pieces weekly).

Writing a nonfiction piece every week can be tedious, especially when you're in the middle of writing a novel.

Their responses are expansive, touching on the difference between adapted fragments and «a real flash piece;» transitioning from nonfiction and poetry; erotic gapes; Carver, Sarraute, Oulipo, and Joseph Cornell; fast - food literature; guerilla literacy; readers as co-creators, and the future of flash's evolving aesthetics.

I'm thrilled to have received permission to post Heidi Julavits» short piece of creative nonfiction, «The Writers in the Silos.»

The thesis is a substantial piece of creative writing: a novel, a collection of short stories or creative nonfiction, or a collection of poems.

I am constantly trying to find the right audience for some of my unpublished creative nonfiction pieces.

Smokler recently moved on to the nonfiction e-publisher Byliner.com, which made a splash with its first piece, «Three Cups of Deceit,» in which Jon Krakauer looked closely and skeptically at the work of bestselling author Greg Mortenson.

An archive of short non-fiction pieces, one for every school day, on a wide variety of topics, written by outstanding iNK nonfiction authors for children, waiting to be used by you and your students

If we look at the nonfiction side of the New York Times bestseller list, we can see that those authors all do other things besides write and publish books - they are television personalities, professional journalists who are expanding on magazine pieces, scientists, sports figures, politicians, doctors, or consultants.

Interviewed by Poynter.org yesterday, Lozada talked about his plans, which are focused on «building a digital audience,» by using «author interviews; short posts that highlight key nuggets from new books; deep dives on trends in nonfiction,» such as his piece, «The End of Everything» and adds, «while I know that lots of people use reviews to help them decide which books to buy and read, lots of them also see reviews as a substitute for reading the book.

The reaction to Broken Pieces has been nothing short of amazing (it just made the final round for Best NonFiction for the eFestival of Books.

Critically acclaimed nonfiction author Deborah Hopkinson pieces together the story of the TITANIC and that fateful April night, drawing on the voices of survivors and archival photographs.

Dec. 5 2017 The Writers» Union of Canada (TWUC) is pleased to launch its 25th Annual Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers, which invites Canadian writers to submit a piece of fiction or nonfiction of up... More