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Creative Nonfiction Craft Classics

The Secret to Prose? Rhythm
In this CNF Craft Classic, we dig into what makes the prose of writers like Virginia Woolf, Norman Maclean, Ernest Hemingway and other greats dance on…
 • Eben Pindyck
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…
 • 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…
 • 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…
 • Matthew Mercier
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