Contemporary Creative Nonfiction by Debra Monroe

Contemporary Creative Nonfiction by Debra Monroe

Existing creative nonfiction anthologies don't reflect the current cultural landscape. This anthology, featuring essays in forms both traditional and innovative, showcases the genre today – not how it was fifteen years ago when creative nonfiction seemed to include only memoir. Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: An Anthology reveals how quickly the genre evolved into exciting subgenres. With essays by established and emerging writers, it mirrors the rich panoply of the current American experience. Edited by creative writing professor and acclaimed author Debra Monroe, Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: An Anthology: Is demographically inclusive! It features writers from diverse racial, geographic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Is aesthetically varied! It includes the traditional essay but also the lyric essay, the experimental essay, the essay as cultural analysis, and the researched essay. Teaches history, theory, and craft! The introductory chapter is widely researched yet concise, comprising history, theory, and craft principles – a careful synthesis of many teaching resources in a single chapter. Is interactive! Each selection includes introductory headnotes providing biographical information about the writer and pointing at one or two unique formal or thematic features, followed by writing prompts designed to move writers past fear of the blank page. Is easy to adopt! Instructors receive a one-of-a-kind manual that's thorough and insightful – reflecting the editor's years of teaching experience – to help them design dynamic syllabuses.

Debra Monroe is the author of four books of fiction, and one memoir. Her first book, The Source of Trouble, published in 1990, won the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Fiction, and was acclaimed as a fierce debut that presents ever-hopeful lost souls with engaging humor and sympathy (Kirkus Reviews). Her second book of stories, A Wild, Cold State, published in 1995, was described by The Boston Globe as fine and funky, marbled with warmth and romantic confusion, but not a hint of sentimentality. When her first novel, Newfangled, was published in 1998, the Washington Post called it rangy, thoughtful, ambitious, and widely, wildly knowledgeable, teasing out the tension between pop culture and private life. Her second novel, Shambles, originally published in 2004 by SMU Press, was praised by the Texas Observer for the depth as well as the heartbreaking particularity of the hellholes real and imagined that make Shambles a novel of graceful ease and substance. On the Outskirts of Normal: Forging a Family Against the Grain, was originally published by SMU Press in June 2010, to national acclaim.

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ISBN 13	9781524980092
ISBN 10	1524980099
Title	Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
Author	Debra Monroe
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
Year published	2019-12-04
Number of pages	277
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