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Creative Nonfiction

5501 Walnut St., Suite 202

Pittsburgh, PA 15232

Phone: (412) 688-0304

E-mail: information[at]creativenonfiction[dot]org

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round Response time: 5 months Payment: yes (see website) Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 1070-0714 Founded: 1993 Issues per year: 4 Distributors: Ingram, Media Solutions, Source Interlink, SpeedImpex Australia, Ubiquity Average pages: 80 Sample copy (postpaid): $12.50 Cover Price: $10 Subscription (Individuals): $32 Subscription (Libraries): $40

Publisher’s Description: Creative Nonfiction is the voice of the genre. Every issue is packed with new, long-form essays that blend style with substance; writing that pushes the traditional boundaries of the genre; notes on craft; conversations with writers and editors; insights and commentary from CNF editor Lee Gutkind; and more. Occasional themed issues demonstrate the editors' belief that true stories, well told, can make any topic compelling and relevant. Simply put, CNF strives to demonstrate the depth and versatility of the genre it helped define.

Recent issues have included interviews with or essays by Lauren Slater, Phillip Lopate, Susan Cheever, Dave Eggers, Richard Rodriguez, Ruth Reichl, John T. Edge and David Shields.

"Simply great essays by talented writers" —Library Journal

Recent issues:

If revenge is a dish best served cold, the Anger & Revenge (43, Fall/Winter 2011) issue is a wintery feast. The meanest batch of essays Creative Nonfiction has ever published includes a post-divorce bonfire; post-traumatic stress; an assassination attempt; a kidnapping plot; Dick Cheney, and more. Satisfaction guaranteed. Plus, Buzz Bissinger talks about waking up angry, how he chooses his subjects, and why he feels comfortable not being objective sometimes; Ned Stuckey-French makes a case for expanding the essay canon; Anthony Aycock stretches out on the page; and Phillip Lopate enumerates the joys of research.

Creative Nonfiction's summer 2011 issue is packed with prize-winning work: winning essays from CNF and Salt's "The Night" contest, CNF's MFA Program-Off and the Norman Mailer College Writing contest. Plus, Phillip Lopate and Lee Gutkind grapple with the implications of facts; Pulitzer Prize-winner Ira Berkow finds inspiration in the art world; Paul West enters the mind of Nazi turncoat Hermann Fegelein in a new Pushing the Boundaries selection; The Rumpus’s “Sugar” finds anonymous intimacy; Susan Orlean talks about teaching young writers; and more.

CNF's spring 2011 issue is a literary feast, full of new stories about food and our relationship to what we eat—from pork to lasagna, and from pomegranates to toasted grasshoppers. Plus, an Encounter with Ruth Reichl, a manifesto from John T. Edge, Robert Atwan on an element of E.B. White's style, and much more. Plus, Ruth Reichl talks about differences between men and women (in the kitchen and on the page) and how she's turning her Twitter feed into a book; Phillip Lopate shares an uncomfortable secret about teaching creative writing; CNF Editor Lee Gutkind breaks out of the English Department; Robert Atwan examines an element of E. B. White's style; and more.