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  2. Creative nonfiction - Wikipedia

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    For a text to be considered creative nonfiction, it must be factually accurate, and written with attention to literary style and technique. Lee Gutkind, founder of the magazine Creative Nonfiction, writes, "Ultimately, the primary goal of the creative nonfiction writer is to communicate information, just like a reporter, but to shape it in a way that reads like fiction."

  3. Lyric essay - Wikipedia

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    Lyric Essay is a literary hybrid that combines elements of poetry, essay, and memoir. [1] The lyric essay is a relatively new form of creative nonfiction. John D’Agata and Deborah Tall published a definition of the lyric essay in the Seneca Review in 1997: "The lyric essay takes from the prose poem in its density and shapeliness, its distillation of ideas and musicality of language."

  4. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Creative nonfiction: factual narrative presented in the form of a story so as to entertain the reader. Personal narrative : a prose relating personal experience and opinion to a factual narrative. Essay : a short literary composition, often reflecting the author's outlook or point of view.

  5. In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction - Wikipedia

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    In Fact offers the best twenty-five stories that were published in Creative Nonfiction ' s first ten years of existence. Culled from the 300 pieces published in the journal themselves chosen from over 10,000 manuscripts, the stories reprinted in In Fact showcase the possibilities of the emergent genre of creative nonfiction in pieces by already famous authors and those likely to become famous.

  6. Narrative journalism - Wikipedia

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    Narrative journalism, also referred to as literary journalism, is defined as creative nonfiction that contains accurate, well-researched information. It is related to immersion journalism, where a writer follows a subject or theme for a long period of time (weeks or months) and details an individual's experiences from a deeply personal perspective.

  7. Creative writing - Wikipedia

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    Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics.

  8. Shakespeare tale scoops nonfiction 'winner of winners' prize

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    The nonfiction award — launched in 1999 and known until 2015 as the Samuel Johnson Prize — celebrates English-language books from any country in the fields of current affairs, history ...

  9. List of non-fiction works made into feature films - Wikipedia

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    Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History (2003), George Crile III: Charlie Wilson's War (2007) A Civil Action (1996), Jonathan Harr: A Civil Action (1998) Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law (2002), Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler