Increase. by Purpura, Lia

“…Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction Ser.…”
Full text (Emerson users only)

Study in perfect : essays / by Sarah Gorham. by Gorham, Sarah, 1954-

“…Association of writers and writing programs award for creative nonfiction…”
Full text (Emerson users only)

Fearless confessions : a writer's guide to memoir / Sue William Silverman. by Silverman, Sue William

Table of Contents: “…Reading list of contemporary creative nonfiction.…”
Full text (Emerson users only)

Region, nation, frontiers : proceedings from the 11th International Region and Nation Literature Association Conference / edited by Donna L. Potts, and Amy D. Unsworth.

Table of Contents: “…The American frontier -- pt. II. Creative nonfiction of place -- pt. III. Linguistic boundaries -- pt. …”
Full text (Emerson users only)

The soul of creative writing / Richard Goodman. by Goodman, Richard, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The music of prose -- In search of the exact word -- The secret strength of words -- Some things English can't do--and shouldn't -- The nerve of poetry -- Using the techniques of fiction to make your creative nonfiction even more creative -- Finding a great title -- The eminent domain of punctuation -- It's about nothing: finding subjects for creative writing in everyday life -- Maxims about writing.…”

Writing life stories : how to make memories into memoirs, ideas into essays, and life into literature / Bill Roorbach with Kristen Keckler. by Roorbach, Bill

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- 1: Getting started -- 2: Memory -- 3: Scenemaking -- 4: Big ideas -- 5: Characters and character -- 6: Stage presence -- 7: Finding the facts -- 8: Metaphor and meaning -- 9: Saying it right -- 10: Building a building -- 11: Getting published -- Appendix A: Into woods / Bill Roorbach -- Appendix B: Olive jar / Kristen Keckler -- Appendix C: On apprenticeship / Bill Roorbach -- Appendix D: Suggested readings in creative nonfiction -- Index.…”
Full text (Emerson users only)

The muses among us : eloquent listening and other pleasures of the writer's craft / Kim Stafford. by Stafford, Kim Robert

Table of Contents: “…Nu -- Happy Problems -- Personal Memory and Fictional Character -- Reading the Cutbank Grief -- Open Discovery in the Art of Creative Nonfiction -- The Random Autobiography -- Sentence as River and as Drum -- Writing in the Open -- Pepper -- Why Write? …”
Full text (Emerson users only)

Keywords in creative writing / Wendy Bishop, David Starkey. by Bishop, Wendy, 1953-2003, Starkey, David, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Adjunct and temporary faculty -- Agents -- Anthropology -- Associated writings programs -- Author -- Block and procrastination -- Chapbooks -- Collaboration -- Composition -- Conferences, colonies and residencies -- Contents -- Contributor's copy -- Copyright and intellectual property -- Creative dissertation -- Creative nonfiction -- Creativity -- Editors and publishers -- Electronic literature -- Fiction -- Genre -- Grants -- Identity politics -- Images and metaphor -- MFA (Master of Fine Arts) -- Pedagogy -- Poetry -- Postmodernism -- Reading -- Rejection -- Royalties and permission fees -- Schmoozing -- Scriptwriting -- Style and voice -- Submissions -- Teaching jobs -- Theory -- Therapy (and therapeutic) -- Translation -- Two-year colleges -- Vanity press -- Workshop -- Writers' resources -- Writing groups.…”
Full text (Open Access)

Compelling Confessions : the Politics of Personal Disclosure. by Diamond, Suzanne, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Compelling Confessions; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword: Confession as an Uncontrolled Substance: An Introduction; Scripted Subjectivity: The Politics of Personal Disclosure; Personal Disclosure and Public Disclosure in Creative Nonfiction; Escaping the Panopticon: Vision and Visibility in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Wurtzel; Confessional Poetry and National Identity: John Berryman's Self as Nation; Oprah on the Couch: Franzen, Frey, Foucault, and the Book Club Confessions; Understanding the False-Confession Phenomenon.…”
Full text (Emerson users only)

Composition studies as a creative art : teaching, writing, scholarship, administration / Lynn Z. Bloom. by Bloom, Lynn Z., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Finding family, finding a voice : a writing teacher teaches writing teachers -- Teaching my class -- Freshman composition as a middle class enterprise -- Textual terror, textual power : teaching literature through writing literature -- American autobiography and the politics of genre -- Teaching college English as a woman -- Creative nonfiction, is there any other kind? -- Reading, writing, teaching essays as jazz -- Why don't we write what we teach? …”
Full text (Emerson users only)

Composition studies as a creative art : teaching, writing, scholarship, administration / Lynn Z. Bloom. by Bloom, Lynn Z., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Finding family, finding a voice : a writing teacher teaches writing teachers -- Teaching my class -- Freshman composition as a middle class enterprise -- Textual terror, textual power : teaching literature through writing literature -- American autobiography and the politics of genre -- Teaching college English as a woman -- Creative nonfiction, is there any other kind? -- Reading, writing, teaching essays as jazz -- Why don't we write what we teach? …”
Full text (Open Access)

Writing for different genres / Tin Cat Media.

Table of Contents: “…Little Books (2:56) -- Smith's Five Elements for Mystery Genre (6:52) -- Crime Novels: Complex Plots and Plot Ideas (6:06) -- Plots, Characters, Fact, and Fiction (2:53) -- Setting and Crime Novel Genre (2:56) -- Multiple Points of View in Crime Novels (2:37) -- Examples of Concept Lines (2:48) -- Adair Lara: Memoirs and Desire Lines (4:36) -- Adair Lara: Traits of Memoir (4:16) -- Adair Lara: The Arc (8:22) -- Memoirs: Creative Nonfiction (3:32) -- Adair Lara: Reflective Voice, Fact, and Truth (3:07) -- Adair Lara: Psychological Insight (3:46) -- Adair Lara: Situation and Story in a Memoir (2:50) -- Adair Lara: Structure in Writing a Memoir (6:43) -- Questions About Memoirs: Part 1 (2:54) -- Questions About Memoirs: Part 2 (4:52)…”
Streaming video (Emerson users only)

Creating nonfiction : a guide and anthology / Becky Bradway, Doug Hesse.

Constructing nature : readings from the American experience / edited by Richard Jenseth, Edward E. Lotto.

Table of Contents: “…Constructing nature in words : recent poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction / Jack Kerouac ; N. Scott Momaday ; Edward Abbey ; Norman Maclean ; Annie Dillard ; Leslie Marmom Silko ; Gretel Erhrlich ; Sandra Alcosser ; Dana Gioia ; William Matthews ; Mary Oliver -- Responses to the current environmental crisis / Ernst Callenbach ; Al Gore ; Paula DiPerna ; Barry Lopez ; John McPhee ; Carolyn Merchant ; P.J. …”

Lake Garda : Gateway to D.H. Lawrence's Voyage to the Sun. by Ceramella, Nick

Table of Contents: “…Table of contents; list of photographs and paintings; foreword; acknowledgements; reference abbreviations; introduction; part i; lawrence, twilight in italyand the limits of the foreign; d. h. lawrence's "black sun"; lawrence's travel writingas creative nonfiction; part ii; hostile suns and healing moons; the voyage in d. h. lawrence'scosmological symbolismin psychological terms; "children of the sun"; part iii; lawrence and the healingitalian "sun"; lady chatterley; "in england you have wealth ... here, we have the sun"; d. h. lawrence's travelsand the italian dream.homage to a friend; part iv.…”
Full text (Emerson users only)

Traveling texts and the work of Afro-Japanese cultural production : two haiku and a microphone / edited by William H. Bridges IV and Nina Cornyetz.

Table of Contents: “…Playing the dozens on zen: Amiri Baraka's journey from a "pre-black" Bohemian outsider to a "post-American low coup" poet / Michio Arimitsu -- Richard Wright's haiku and modernist poetics / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- In the beginning: blackness and the 1960s creative nonfiction of Oe Kenzaburô / William H. Bridges IV -- Future-oriented blackness in shawa robot culture, 1924 to 1963 / Anne McKnight -- Sound, song, music. …”
Full text (Emerson users only)

Creative writing in the digital age : theory, practice, and pedagogy / edited by Michael Dean Clark, Trent Hergenrader, and Joseph Rein.

Table of Contents: “…Section One: Digital influences on creative writing studies -- Creative writing the age of synapses / Graeme Harper -- Screening subjects: workshop pedagogy, media ecologies, and (new) student subjectivities / Adam Koehler -- Concentration, form, and ways of (digitally) seeing / Anna Leahy and Douglas Dechow -- Game spaces: videogames as story-generating systems for creative writers / Trent Hergenrader -- The marketable creative: using technology and broader notions of skill in the fiction course / Michael Dean Clark -- Two creative writers look askance at digital composition (crayon on paper) / Joe Amato and Kass Fleisher -- Section Two: Using digital tools as creative practice -- Lost in digital translation: navigating the online creative writing classroom / Joseph Rein -- Giving an account of oneself: teaching identity construction and authorship in creative nonfiction and social media / Janelle Adsit -- Reconsidering the online writing workshop with #25wordstory / Abigail G. …”

Creative writing in the digital age : theory, practice, and pedagogy / edited by Michael Dean Clark, Trent Hergenrader, and Joseph Rein.

Table of Contents: “…Lost in digital translation : navigating the online creative writing classroom / Joseph Rein -- Giving an account of oneself : teaching identity construction and authorship in creative nonfiction and social media / Janelle Adsit -- Reconsidering the online writing workshop with #25wordstory / Abigail G. …”
Full text (Emerson users only)

Telling stories : the craft of narrative and the writing life / Lee Martin. by Martin, Lee, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…I've Seen Trouble; Making a Scene; The Inevitable Surprise; Framing the Story; Character and Incident; I Didn't Expect That; One Way to Structure a Memoir; Organizing the Memoir; The Layers of Memoir; I Was Wearing Them the Day; Yogi Berra and the Art of Flash Nonfiction; Mad Libs for Creative Nonfiction.…”
Full text (Emerson users only)

Generosity : an enhancement / Richard Powers. by Powers, Richard, 1957-