This month (October 2017) I celebrate the birth of twins: two new novels, long in the making... Red Rock Road, Light Blue Sea —breaks new ground in the territory of the nonfiction novel, creative nonfiction, and metafiction; daring to explore the query, “What is a novel?”—a story of itself in…
Tag: creative nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction: A Fluid Medium
“Every single rule can and should be broken when necessary.” – conference presenter Helen Moffett, after George Orwell Earlier this year I attended the national conference of the Creative Nonfiction Collective, held in Victoria. Inspiring presentations, reading and discussions left me both humble, amid such talent, and motivated to improve…
A Literary Odyssey to the Exotic Lands of Postmodern Fiction, Metafiction and Creative Nonfiction
Yesterday was a literary odyssey of sorts, as I cruised Russell Books in the writing and editing section and came away with M. H. Abrams’ almost comprehensive A Glossary of Literary Terms. Oddly enough, Abrams includes no entry at all for “Creative Nonfiction,” nor even for “Nonfiction” at all. The…