Current Issue / Issue 75 Spring 2021
This milestone issue features some of our favorite prizewinning essays. These curious, beautiful, nuanced stories about everything from surviving lightning strikes to the relief of solving medical mysteries consider the many perils, as well as the tremendous power, of living in a body.
Plus, brief excerpts from some of the phenomenal interviews we’ve published over the years, with advice and reflections on craft from writers including Dave Eggers, Leslie Jamison, Patricia Hampl, and many others.
Including essays by
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Profile: Susan Feldman
Susan Feldman faces a chronic, life-threatening illness every day of her life. And that, for better or for worse, is what inspired her to become a writer.Almost Behind Us
“I think he knocked out my tooth,” I tell my husband, carefully feeling around my mouth with my tongue. My three-year-old had been in my arms, but he’d wanted to dance. As I was putting him down on the floor, he jumped too soon, colliding with my chin.What’s the Story #75
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About the Genre
What is Creative Nonfiction?
Dive in with CNF Founder and Editor, Lee Gutkind
Creative Nonfiction magazine defines the genre simply, succinctly, and accurately as “true stories well told.” And that, in essence, is what creative nonfiction is all about.
In some ways, creative nonfiction is like jazz—it’s a rich mix of flavors, ideas, and techniques, some newly invented and others as old as writing itself.
Juliet, Juliet
A mom of two struggles against the pull of persistent romantic daydreams in which her younger self globe-trots with a half-dressed Jeremy Renner
What Will We Do for Fun Now?
Her parents survived World War II and the Blitz just fine … didn’t they?
In Case You Missed It
#011 Trauma & healing.
True Story
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