He hit a deer on the road late at night. What happened next will amaze you

A toddler and his father find treasure on a make-believe battlefield

Snapshots from the author's ongoing search for a quiet place to think

Found texts

Writers shouldn't worry so much about building a presence on social media

The satisfactions (and inevitable disappointments) of sharing work with readers

Think you can be a copyeditor? It's more complicated than it looks

Two women, pregnant at the same time by the same man

I began copy editing for Creative Nonfiction in 2005, with issue 26. At that time, the journal followed the AP Stylebook, which kicked my heiney at first, especially with its twisted rules regarding italics, which drove me to the edge of insanity.

Fracking is a big business, but there are some things money can’t buy. A farmer’s son calculates the rate of inflation for ecological sorrow