L ee Gutkind, a writer and administrator of a creative-writing program whom Vanity Fair once dubbed the “godfather behind creative nonfiction,” has reached his golden years in triumph. That’s the bad ...

In the first paragraph of “The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting,” Lee Gutkind, the “Godfather” of the creative-nonfiction genre (a title used once to describe him in Vanity Fair in 1997 and since ...

Are you an avid reader who wants to branch out into something new? Consider something within the fairly new genre of creative nonfiction. It can be rather elusive. Creative nonfiction employs the ...

CULLOWHEE—For the second year in a row, NCWN members swept first, second, and third place in the Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Competition. Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin of Cullowhee won first place for ...

Sometime “around late 1989 or early 1990,” according to Lee Gutkind, “there seemed to be the beginning of a creative nonfiction buzz.” He was determined to see creative nonfiction recognized as a ...

Our workshops introduce you to the craft of writing fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Over the course of a semester, you will learn ways of shaping stories and poems through various exercises ...

Authors know the importance of titles. They help to orient the reader or sometimes, with intent, to disorient. They can add dimension and weight; they can exemplify or elucidate. It is, therefore, ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Mid-Atlantic Creative Non-Fiction Conf. has hosted 7 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1996 Forum. The year with the highest average number of views ...

In his follow-up to last year's volume, the first in a re-launched, annual version of his journal Creative Nonfiction, Gutkind gathers another fresh collection of exemplary essays from a wide range of ...