Lee Gutkind, founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction, wrote an article in the New York Times back in 2013 about the importance and function of scene in writing nonfiction. The article is aptly named “The Yellow Test,” which is the technique Gutkind proposes writers use in order to check that their work is scene-heavy. The test simply involves highlighting...
Dawn Whitmore‘s photographs of unique people groups and locations provide the viewer with a feeling of familiarity with unfamiliar cultures and settings. For example, Whitmore’s series “Go Fast and Get Dirty,” which includes photographs of motorsports events in the U.S., so casually reveals the intimate details of this American subculture that the world contained in the series seems to look the viewer...
Michael Hearst‘s “Unusual Creatures” project for PBS Digital Studios has received a Telly Award for excellence in online feature production! In November, we wrote about the project, which involves pairing sound, text, and video with various abnormal animals. Most of Hearst’s work involves marrying visual art and music. Hearst is the founding member of the...
“Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.” -E.B. White Short and sweet nonfiction has become a popular form, especially with the success of Brevity Magazine, a journal that publishes works of nonfiction that are 750 words or less. But what does it mean to keep your writing brief, besides just having a low word...
Melinda Moustakis, whose piece “Dear Alaska, A Letter to a Way of Life,” is in issue “Hunt, Gather,” was recently awarded both a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Fiction and named as one of the 2014-2016 Kenyon Review Fellows. Melinda was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, and her first book Bear Down Bear North: Alaska Stories was...
