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Issue 33 - Silence Kills

Creative Nonfiction

5501 Walnut St., Suite 202

Pittsburgh, PA 15232

Phone: (412) 688-0304 Fax: (412) 688-0262

E-mail: information@creativenonfiction.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: 3. Distributors: Ingram, Media Solutions Average pages: 150 Sample copy (postpaid): $12.50 Cover Price: $10; $15 special issue Subscription (Individuals): 4 issues/$29.95 Subscription (Libraries): 4 issues/$40

Publisher’s Description: Creative Nonfiction was the first and is still the largest journal to publish exclusively within the genre of literary nonfiction. For more than a decade, Creative Nonfiction has published dramatic, true stories using scenes, dialogue, detailed descriptions and other techniques usually employed by poets and fiction writers. We believe that good essays embrace a larger audience; they strike a universal chord. We want the memoir, literary journalism and personal essay we publish in Creative Nonfiction to have purpose and meaning beyond the experiences related by the writers.

Creative Nonfiction is the singular strongest voice of the genre, defining the ethics and parameters of the field while broadening its impact through ancillary services and activities such as a mentoring program, conferences, education programs and the development of new writers.

Featured writers include John McPhee, Gay Talese, Annie Dillard, Richard Rodriguez, Diane Ackerman, Andre Codrescu, Lauren Slater, John Edgar Wideman, Charles Simic, Terry Tempest Williams and Floyd Skloot. Editor Lee Gutkind was proclaimed “Godfather behind creative nonfiction” by Vanity Fair.

"Simply great essays by talented writers." - Library Journal

Recent issues:

Issue 33: Silence Kills
These essays by doctors, patients and their family members demonstrate the need to break dangerous silences in the health care community. Danielle Ofri writes, "[This collection] reminds us of the power of human communication." This issue also introduces "Keeping It Real," a section about the art, craft and business of writing.

Issue 31: Imagining the Future
A special feature section imagines the world of publishing and writing in 2025, with contributions by Heidi Julavits, Phillip Lopate, Robin Hemley, Ira Berkow and others, plus six elegant and thought-provoking illustrations. This issue also includes new work by Denise Shekerjian, Dennis Covington, David Applefield and Judith Barrington.