Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology, Paperback

Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writers' Guide and Anthology offers expert instruction on writing creative nonfiction in any form-including memoir, lyric essay, travel writing, and more-while taking an expansive approach to fit a rapidly evolving literary art form. From a history of creative nonfiction, related ethical concerns, and new approaches to revision and publishing, this book offers innovative strategies and ideas beyond what's traditionally covered.

Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writers' Guide and Anthology also includes:

- An anthology of contemporary creative nonfiction by some of today's most inventive and celebrated writers
- Advanced explorations into the craft of creative nonfiction across forms
- In-depth discussion of truth, ethics, and memory
- Practical advice on revision, editing, research, and publishing
- Writing prompts and exercises throughout the textbook

A companion website is also available for the book at http: //www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/advanced-creative-nonfiction

About author(s):

Sean Prentiss is Associate Professor of English at Norwich University, USA. He is author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave (2015), which won the National Outdoor Book Award for Biography/History. He is also author of Crosscut: Poems (2020), and co-editor of The Science of Story: The Brain Behind Creative Nonfiction (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Jessica Hendry Nelson is the author of the memoir If Only You People Could Follow Directions (2014) which was selected as a best debut book by the Indies Introduce New Voices program, the Indies Next List by the American Booksellers' Association, and named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA and teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA.