Name: Advanced Creative Nonfiction By Dr Sean Prentiss (Assistant Professor of English, Norwich University, USA, Norwich University, USA)
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Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology by Dr Sean Prentiss (Assistant Professor of English, Norwich University, USA, Norwich University, USA)

Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writers' Guide and Anthology offers expert instruction on writing creative nonfiction in any form-including memoir, lyric essay, travel writing, and more-while taking an expansive approach to fit a rapidly evolving literary art form. From a history of creative nonfiction, related ethical concerns, and new approaches to revision and publishing, this book offers innovative strategies and ideas beyond what's traditionally covered. Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writers' Guide and Anthology also includes: * An anthology of contemporary creative nonfiction by some of today's most inventive and celebrated writers * Advanced explorations into the craft of creative nonfiction across forms * In-depth discussion of truth, ethics, and memory * Practical advice on revision, editing, research, and publishing * Writing prompts and exercises throughout the textbook A companion website is also available for the book at http://www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/advanced-creative-nonfiction

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Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology sets a new standard for teaching creative nonfiction by covering a wide range of craft topics, explicating old and emergent forms, and including a unique anthology ... Each chapter reads as an engaging lecture, a lesson on how to process, and more importantly, how to be a human who writes. * Technical Communication *
I've searched long and hard for a creative nonfiction text that not only reflects the traditions of nonfiction but likewise its myriad and protean forms. At last, I have it in this smart and clear-headed look at a genre that prizes uncertainty and seeking. Prentiss and Nelson undo traditional and unhelpful definitions of the forms and argue for a more malleable approach, eschewing the narrow rut of truth versus fiction. The vignettes that introduce each chapter are themselves lovely reflections that marry form and experience by these two talented writers. The choices for the anthology reflect the breadth, diversity, and brilliance of many of the most inventive and exciting writers of creative nonfiction today. And as guides, Nelson and Prentiss prove themselves to be the most trustworthy of pathfinders through a heretofore confusing landscape in a practice that is still trying to define itself. I expect this will be my teaching text of choice for years to come. * Robin Hemley, Author of Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood, Founder of NonfictioNOW and Co-editor and founder, Speculative Nonfiction *

About Dr Sean Prentiss (Assistant Professor of English, Norwich University, USA, Norwich University, USA)

Sean Prentiss is Associate Professor of English at Norwich University, USA. He is author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave (2015), which won the National Outdoor Book Award for Biography/History. He is also author of Crosscut: Poems (2020), and co-editor of The Science of Story: The Brain Behind Creative Nonfiction (Bloomsbury, 2020). Jessica Hendry Nelson is the author of the memoir If Only You People Could Follow Directions (2014) which was selected as a best debut book by the Indies Introduce New Voices program, the Indies Next List by the American Booksellers' Association, and named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA and teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA.

Introduction Part 1: Foundations 1. The History of Creative Nonfiction 2. Veracity and Genre 3. Forms and Modes of Creative Nonfiction 4. Interplay of Genres, Forms, and Modes 5. Elements of Creative Nonfiction Part 2: Evolutions 6. The Central Question 7. Image and Metaphor 8. Exploding Scene 9. Chronology 10. Dialectical Movement 11. Setting As Character 12. Writer, Narrator, Character 13. Lenses 14. Reflection, Introspection, and Speculation 15. Beginnings and Endings 16. Music of Prose Part 3: Integrities 17. Truth, Fact, and Memory 18. Authority and Credibility Part 4: Renovations 19. Workshops, Peer Reviews, and Writing Groups 20. Revision 21. Publishing Part 5: Anthology 1. Austin Bunn, Basement Story 2. Amy Butcher, Women These Days 3. Seo-Young Chu, A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major 4. Melissa Febos, Leave Marks 5. Kathy Fish, Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild 6. Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, Open Season 7. Ross Gay, Loitering 8. Och Gonzalez, What I Do on My Terrace is None of Your Business 9. Peter Grandbois, Loyalty 10. Major Jackson, Mighty Pawns 11. Sarah Minor, A Log Cabin Square 12. Jessica Hendry Nelson, When You Were a Boy in Maine 13. Sean Prentiss, Buying a House 14. Jonathan Rovner, The Funambulists 15. Vijay Seshadri, Memoir 16. Vivek Shraya, Trisha 17. Margot Singer, Call it Rape 18. Ira Sukrungruang, Invisible Partners 19. Jill Talbot, The Professor of Longing 20. Abigail Thomas, Nostalgia 21. Ryan Van Meter, First 22. Elissa Washuta, Incompressible Flow 23. Christian Wiman, The Limit 24. Brooke Juliet Wonders, Self Erasure 25. Xu Xi, Godspeed 26. Kristen Millares Young, A Few Thoughts While Shaving Index

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Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology by Dr Sean Prentiss (Assistant Professor of English, Norwich University, USA, Norwich University, USA)

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Dr Sean Prentiss (Assistant Professor of English, Norwich University, USA, Norwich University, USA)

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Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies

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2021-08-26

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352

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Advanced Creative Nonfiction Dr Sean Prentiss (Assistant Professor of English, Norwich University, USA, Norwich University, USA)

Advanced Creative Nonfiction by Dr Sean Prentiss (Assistant Professor of English, Norwich University, USA, Norwich University, USA)

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Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology by Dr Sean Prentiss (Assistant Professor of English, Norwich University, USA, Norwich University, USA)

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About Dr Sean Prentiss (Assistant Professor of English, Norwich University, USA, Norwich University, USA)

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