We dig what Erik Harper Klass is saying about #creativenonfiction in this blog post @Submitit_Now — “the quality of your prose will determine the success” of your story. As EiC Mike Magnuson says: ya gotta have good ear balls!
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“I was happily hypomanic and didn’t know it. Hypomania is a seductive state of being; you are productive (think sixteen-hour days), the life of the party (think lampshades and table tops), and…”
Read Patricia Wentzel’s #truestory now! #bipolar#mania
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Every week I get off our editorial meeting chanting to myself, “dream team dream team!” @sneakerwavemag has been so much more fun and so much more work than I imagined, and I’m so thrilled to be part of creating a compelling online home for nonfiction storytelling. #amediting
“If a clown tripped and fell in a hospital room and a boy couldn’t see it, would it still be funny?” Hospital clown Victoria Millard is asking the real questions in this week’s #nonfiction#personalessay!
#cnf#memoir#truestory#amreading
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“I would have handed him white Cat’s Whiskers and felt for a moment as if I were the star of a Cure video, standing on a cliff, overlooking water crashing on rocks, wearing a long flowy night robe, noticing the edge and the unpredictability of the wind.”
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“It wasn’t that I didn’t know [what to think] but rather I couldn’t believe that some people and some political parties fostered division as a means to get elected. I couldn’t conceive of a world where that kind of politics would be rewarded with wins.”
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Thrilled to publish @WatsonFore‘s killer Halloween story, “the girl who dressed as a turd”! A hilarious grief memoir about middle school, girlhood, and finding your place.
#cnf#nonfiction#truestory#adolescence#memoir
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“All the officers had Combat Boners. They wanted to get shot at…How in the hell else, other than by participating in “real violence,” would they earn those little pins and badges and medals to prove they were soldiers of true merit?”
- Sean Davis
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“The hair stood up on my arms and I had this weird taste in my mouth like I had popped a transistor-radio-flavored jellybean.” Snipe hunts, aliens, and lightning strikes all in this week’s essay, by Gina Calderone.
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