Creative Nonfiction Craft Classics

Finding Your Voice(s) Is the Key to Claiming Your Story

Experimenting with different voices in her work allowed prolific essayist Sonya Huber to get to the hard stuff and find more joy and agency in her…

Nov 14 • Sonya Huber

How to Use Fragments to Tell Your Story

There are so many different ways to write memoir. In this CNF Craft Classic, we see how nine writers approach form in untraditional ways—and how this…

Aug 25 • Beth Kephart

Wanna Be a Writer? The Secret Is to Just Write!

In this Craft Classic from Creative Nonfiction, one author and teacher shares the power of free writing and sharing your work with others—but most…

Jul 31 • Matthew Mercier

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