To donate to the PWR, please make sure to enter or select the "Program for Writing and Rhetoric Fund" on the CU Boulder donation page. Creative nonfiction is an important and integral part of the ...

Annie Dillard is rightly celebrated as a pioneer in creative nonfiction after her death on Sep. 15, 2026, at age 81. But the dazzling, disorienting feel of Dillard’s work might be best understood as ...

L ee Gutkind, a writer and administrator of a creative-writing program whom Vanity Fair once dubbed the “godfather behind creative nonfiction,” has reached his golden years in triumph. That’s the bad ...

September-October 2022. Slides available here. In this faculty seminar, we will explore the multi-faceted genre of creative nonfiction, with a focus on developing writing projects for WR 120 and WR ...

Our workshops introduce you to the craft of writing fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Over the course of a semester, you will learn ways of shaping stories and poems through various exercises ...

“Creative nonfiction writers be like: I first ate a hot dog when I was six years old. I remember the taste, the scent, the summer. SECTION BREAK. Hot dogs were invented in 1693 by Steven Hotdog.

The Centre for the Creative and the Critical, Ashoka University, and Balliol College, Oxford have announced The Ved Mehta International Prize in Creative Nonfiction, an international book award in ...

What is “creative nonfiction,” exactly? Isn’t the term an oxymoron? Creative writers—playwrights, poets, novelists—are people who make stuff up. Which means that the basic definition of “nonfiction ...

The MFA in Creative Writing challenges students to write in a variety of genres and to study literature from the point of view of a working writer. Recent graduates have become not only published ...

Sheryl Grey is a freelance writer who specializes in creating content related to education, aging and senior living, and real estate. She is also a copywriter who helps businesses grow through expert ...

An intermediate-level introduction to the craft of nonfiction writing in a variety of genres, with a particular focus on the application of techniques usually associated with fiction and poetry to ...