All Articles tagged Creative nonfiction

• Special Issues: scholarly article
  February 05, 2025 AEST
  “Some harm, some foul”: The editor’s duty of care in minimising the potential harm of creative nonfiction that contains problematic or distressing material
  Christina NorthKate CantrellCamilla Cripps

  The paper assesses the value of harm-preventative measures available to practising Australian editors who work with problematic content in creative nonfiction texts.

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• Special Issues: scholarly article
  December 01, 2024 AEST
  Braiding the exegetical voice through creative nonfiction research
  Karen Le RossignolHayley Elliott-Ryan

  This paper explores ways of traversing the perceived gap between creative and critical writing to help develop a creative/critical voice appropriate to the creative writing doctoral exegesis.

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• Scholarly articles
  October 31, 2024 AEST
  An unmethodical method: Contextualising the critical essay
  Rebecca Harkins-Cross

  This paper charts a genealogy for the critical essay, which I define as a literary essay that includes analysis of an artwork amongst its objects of inquiry.

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• Scholarly articles
  April 30, 2024 AEST
  Digital poesis impulse: A methodology of creative coding with GPT as co-pilot
  Jenny Hedley

  Through practice-based research, this article tracks the methodology of digital poems from ideation to execution and publication, offering exegetical insights and a detailed accounting of the tools and processes used.

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• Scholarly articles
  December 22, 2022 AEST
  “A story with many rooms”: Twine as a tool to expand life writing practice about place and space
  Mia-Francesca Jones

  This article explores creative nonfiction life writing using Twine, a digital storytelling platform for creating interactive, nonlinear choose-your-own-adventure type narratives.

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• Special issues: creative works
  October 30, 2019 AEST
  Narrative inquiry, creative nonfiction and two braided stories of the rehabilitation and release of orang-utans in Sebuyau, Sarawak
  Christina Yin

  This writing is part of the researcher–writer’s postgraduate work using creative nonfiction to tell the stories of those working to conserve the orang-utan in Sarawak.

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• Special Issues: scholarly article
  October 31, 2017 AEST
  A place to put these butterflies: finding form in zuihitsu
  Ingrid Woodrow

  This paper offers a creative, scholarly examination of formal aspects of the 1,000-year-old Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon in relation to my own creative nonfiction work.

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• Scholarly articles
  April 29, 2016 AEST
  Beyond IS…Creative writing with English Prime
  Brentley Frazer

  A brief history of a prescriptive English language discipline known as English Prime (E-Prime), a method of writing without use of the copula (the verb to be)...

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• Scholarly articles
  April 29, 2015 AEST
  Writer-as-narrator: Engaging the debate around the (un)reliable narrator in memoir and the personal essay
  Robin FreemanKaren Le Rossignol

  How is a writer able to convey ‘true’ stories that are inherently reliant on memory, within a constructed narrative persona?

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• Special issues: editorial
  October 31, 2014 AEST
  Introduction: Creative writing as research, III
  Nigel Krauth, Donna Lee Brien, Ross Watkins and Anthony Lawrence

  The third in the series, Special Issue 27 responds to challenges faced by writers in the academy to identify with precision how their creative work genuinely contributes to knowledge.

• Special Issues: scholarly article
  October 31, 2013 AEST
  On nonfiction and consequence
  Barrie Jean Borich

  This essay examines contemporary creative nonfiction literature’s relationship to actuality, arguing that the actual is as much character as subject in nonfiction literature...

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• Special Issues: scholarly article
  October 31, 2013 AEST
  Nonfiction now: a (non)introduction
  David CarlinFrancesca Rendle-Short

  This essay explores the tensions in the paradoxical location of ‘non-fiction’ — or the de-hyphenated ‘nonfiction’, as we prefer — as a literary/artistic category built upon a negation.

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• Scholarly articles
  October 30, 2011 AEST
  Clarifying creative nonfiction through the personal essay
  Robin FreemanKaren Le Rossignol

  This article examines issues related to moving NetGen student writers into the demanding and rapidly expanding creative nonfiction market.

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• Special Issues: scholarly article
  October 31, 2010 AEST
  ‘The drink has called it into being’: a year in a wine column
  Moya Costello

  For a year, between 2009 and 2010, I wrote a wine-review column in a free regional newspaper as a passionate amateur...

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• Scholarly articles
  October 30, 2010 AEST
  Not muddying, clarifying: towards understanding the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction
  Matthew Ricketson

  Debates about the relationship between fiction and nonfiction are complex but remain critical to the field of book-length journalism...

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• Scholarly articles
  October 30, 2010 AEST
  Letter to my daughter: ethical dilemmas in the writing of a memoir
  Willa McDonald

  Writing memoir, in particular, raises a host of ethical questions regarding the ownership of the material and the ways in which it can be used...

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• Scholarly articles
  October 30, 2009 AEST
  Living in stories: creative nonfiction as an effective genre for writing about death and bereavement
  Sandra Arnold

  This paper discusses the human affinity with story telling and the reasons the bereaved write their stories.

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• Interviews
  April 29, 2001 AEST
  Creative Nonfiction 2: A virtual conversation with Michael Steinberg
  Michael Sternberg, Donna Lee Brien

  This virtual interview is extracted from email conversations and Michael Sternberg's publications as detailed in the references at the end of this article.

• Creative works
  April 30, 2000 AEST
  Will Shakspere Speaks…
  Patrick Buckridge

  I am not only witty in myself, the Old Man once had me say, but the cause of wit in other men - or something like that...

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• Creative works
  April 30, 2000 AEST
  A Ticket to Albany
  Nigel Krauth

  To get to Albany, the capital of the State of New York, I took an Amtrak train from the Penn Station in New York City...

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• Creative works
  April 30, 2000 AEST
  War and Pacifism
  Michael Wilding

  Back in England back in time, a memory theatre of growing up there, all the struggles and resistances after the new world sense of freedom, back to accent, class, place...

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• Creative works
  April 30, 2000 AEST
  World of Elsewheres
  Marele Day

  'If you don't behave yourself, you'll be sent to boarding school.' Oh, what promise I saw in that threat!...

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• Scholarly articles
  April 30, 2000 AEST
  Ideas behind the writing of the creative nonfiction novel Strange Objects
  Gary Crew

  I consciously wrote the novel Strange Objects as a composite or 'collage' of genres, as written history itself is a collage of genres...

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• Creative works
  April 30, 2000 AEST
  Plague Letters
  Donna Lee Brien

  History takes the past and wraps it in gauze. This translucent layer of interpretation compresses the myriad moments of by-gone lives and events, forcing them into a seductively compact shape...

• Creative works
  April 30, 2000 AEST
  No. 50: The Problem of the City
  Antoni Jach

  In the end, I think we just give up the city to the cars. We let them take over. We just give up the city -gracefully...

• Editorial
  April 30, 2000 AEST
  Introduction - The place where the real and the imagined coincides: An introduction to Australian Creative Nonfiction
  Donna Lee Brien

  The aim of this collection is to begin to reveal some of the variety and qualities of creative nonfiction as it is practiced in Australia.

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• Interviews
  April 29, 2000 AEST
  Creative Nonfiction: A virtual conversation with Lee Gutkind
  Donna Lee BrienLee Gutkind

  To introduce Professor Gutkind as a Keynote Speaker at the Writing 2000 Conference, I constructed this (creative nonfiction) virtual interview from our email conversation and from the author's published works.

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