Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction

This craft essay collection offers thoughtful insights from some of the highest-rated speakers from HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers, who also happen to be some of the brightest minds in CNF we know. The craft anthology is rounded out by the wise writers behind a couple of Hippocampus Magazine’s most-read craft columns. Whether you’re new to writing creative nonfiction or want to improve your craft, there’s something within these pages that will ignite your creativity.

Getting to the Truth, like our conference, is about more than the craft of creative nonfiction writing. It also covers the writing life, paths to publication, and engaging with your audience. So, this book is divided into three sections:

• Getting It Down

• Getting Through It

• Getting It Right

Oh, and of course a bonus section at the end with lots of resources!

Its 20+ essays include deep dives into topics like:

• Impostor syndrome

• Generating story ideas

• Beginnings and endings in creative nonfiction

• Visual essays, lyric essays, and other blending of genres

• Writing about family members

• Memory (and what we don’t remember)

• The quiet memoir

… and so. much. more.

Getting to the Truth features the wisdom and insight of writers such as:

• Eli Aharon

• Steph Auteri

• Sue Baldwin-Way

• Nicole Breit

• Melanie Brooks

• Kelly Caldwell

• Angie Chatman

• Sam Chiarelli

• Athena Dixon

• Wendy Fontaine

• Joanne M. Lozar Glenn

• Penny Guisinger

• Laurie Jean

• Elane Johnson

• Beth Kephart

• Lara Lillibridge

• Kate Meadows

• Jenna McGuiggan

• Randon Billings Noble

• Alexis Paige

• Dave Pidgeon

• Matt Skillen

Other credits: Rae Pagliarulo (primary editor), Donna Talarico (publisher, editor), Mark Melnick (cover designer) and Jocelyn Park (book designer).

Details:

ISBN: 9780999429990

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