Creative Nonfiction

Body without Organs

by Martha Stoddard Holmes

draft of creative nonfiction accepted for _Post Road_

Comparative 'research': a modest proposal concerning the object of ethics regulation

by Rena Lederman

That baby will cost you: An intended ambivalent pregnancy

by Sandra Faulkner

This personal narrative highlights an intended ambivalent pregnancy, speaking to Sotirin’s (2010) call for radical... more This personal narrative highlights an intended ambivalent pregnancy, speaking to Sotirin’s (2010) call for radical specificity in mother-writing. I began writing in a creative nonfiction workshop from memory fragments, diary entries, interviews and scholarly research (Chang, 2008) recognizing the story contained secrets (Poulos, 2009), omissions, places where I can’t remember, and places that are still in shadow that ethically need to stay closed (Rappert, 2010). The use of creative nonfiction frames the story as a series of marginalized discourses from a relational dialectics perspective, in particular ambivalence (versus certainty), bodily knowledge (versus medicalization, versus middle class pregnancy), and flux (versus cost-benefit ratios). The problem is that these marginalized discourses are not well represented in the totalizing picture of the pregnant lady. My story works as a performance text to transform totalizing oppressive discourse into a restructured aesthetic moment (Denzin, 2003).

Mouth of the Volga

by Trent Hergenrader

Originally appeared in Post Road #21

El fracaso: sinsabores sobre escritura y ciencia

by Joel Feliu

Co-authored with Adriana Gil-Juárez

Este cuento académico explica la historia de un profesor de psicología social que un buen día decide hacerse escritor,... more Este cuento académico explica la historia de un profesor de psicología social que un buen día decide hacerse escritor, pero como no tiene formación adecuada para ello, ni voluntad suficiente, ni nada en su personalidad ayuda a tal menester, decide hacer escribir a sus estudiantes narrativas autoetnográficas, esperando que al menos eso le obligue a predicar con el ejemplo. Por el camino recluta a otra profesora, lo cual le hace sentirse acompañado un tiempo, sin embargo la profesora sí es alguien serio y ella sí escribe un relato autoetnográfico, y a modo de un final parcialmente feliz, consigue también que una de sus doctorandas escriba una tesis autoetnográfica. Mientras tanto el profesor no es capaz de escribir nada, lo que le obliga a justificar a qué ha dedicado tanto tiempo desarrollando una serie de argumentos sobre escritura y ciencia que luego refleja en un artículo que, con mucha ayuda, escribe para la Revista Umbral.

Labor, Play, and Taste: a Collection of Personal Essays.

by Corey E. Andrews

M.A. Thesis, Creative Non-fiction. Ohio University, 1995.

"As One Might Expect"

by William Bradley

Originally published in ARS MEDICA

"Dislocated"

by William Bradley

from the very first issue of THE NORMAL SCHOOL

"The Bald and the Beautiful"

by William Bradley

Originally published in THE BELLEVUE LITERARY REVIEW.

#NewNebraskaSlogan and a New Rhetoric for the Midwest

by Matthew Josiah Miller

The Ariran's Last Life

by Maria Hamilton Abegunde

Published in:
Kenyon Review, Winter 2008
Best African American Fiction 2010

Novel excerpt Novel excerpt

Tell Them Arroyo Sent You

by Maria Hamilton Abegunde

TELL THEM ARROYO SENT YOU is an excerpt from my travel journal, December 1998-February 1999, which details my... more TELL THEM ARROYO SENT YOU is an excerpt from my travel journal, December 1998-February 1999, which details my experiences on The Middle Passage Voyage with Captain Bill Pinkney. During that time, I was the lead team teacher from Puerto Rico to Brazil.

Fictocriticism, Affect, Mimesis: Engendering Differences

by Anna Gibbs

The Opera House of the West

by Cameron Muir

Australian Humanities Review no. 47 (2009): 55-65.

Estructuras narrativas en" nonfiction"

by Sergio Cobo-Durán

Published in "Frame" (ISSN: 1988-3536), nº 6, febrero 2010. pp. 219-242

El propósito del texto es doble: 1)Por una parte una relectura y definición de la nonfiction, además de  una ... more El propósito del texto es doble: 1)Por una parte una relectura y definición de la nonfiction, además de  una  revisión  del concepto  entendido  por estructura  narrativa,  analizando  la  obra de autores como  Nichols,  Barnouw  o  Plantinga,  entre  otros.  2). Por  otra  parte  se  considera  al  documento  de nonfiction,  un documento  construido,  por  ello  está formado por estructuras narrativas. Así que es posible  no solo  su  localización  sino  incluso  establecer una  genealogía  que  clasifique  al  género en función de las estructuras narrativas existentes en su esquema narrativo.   

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Abstract
This  paper  has  a double  purpose:  1)  On one  hand,  to  reread  and provide a definition of nonfiction, as well as to review the concept as understood by the concept of narrative structure, reviewing the works  by  Nichols,  Barnouw  or  Plantinga,  among  others.    2)  On  the  other  hand,  the  document  of nonfiction  is  considered  to  be  a  constructed  document  and  it  is  therefore  formed  by  narrative structures. This makes not only its location possible, but also setting a genealogy that classifies this genre in function of the narrative structures existing in its narrative scheme. 

A Passion for the Possible: On Jakob Dylan, Cormac McCarthy, Japan, and Prevenient Hope

by Matthew Josiah Miller

Published in Curator Magazine, 15 July 2011
Short piece in a well-established online culture magazine

Open space: walking the boundaries of Tallaght

by Karl Whitney

An essay written for the online literature journal Some Blind Alleys.

"Tallaght was an attempt at an instant city: take a landscape, build some houses, add people, and stir. In this,... more "Tallaght was an attempt at an instant city: take a landscape, build some houses, add people, and stir. In this, it predated many of the larger schemes of the Celtic Tiger era. Tallaght no longer seems an isolated, freakish, and unplanned outgrowth of Dublin; rather it appears as the precursor of a way of building and living that subsequently became the norm in Ireland – an accelerated process in which a new population moves into massive housing developments that have seemingly been dropped at random into mostly untouched terrain. Tallaght was a grand, messy experiment, where the urban implications of modern Ireland were lived out but never fully resolved."

City and Narrative

by Karl Whitney

Given at the Dublintellectual event held in Shebeen Chic, Dublin on Wednesday 22nd June 2011.

Talk based on my article: 'Open spaces: walking the boundaries of Tallaght'. Talk based on my article: 'Open spaces: walking the boundaries of Tallaght'.

Anthropology and the North

by Kathryn Lichti-Harriman

Harriman, K. (2006) ‘Anthropology and the North’, Anthropology News, October 2006, p55

April 17

by Dolores DeLuise

Creative Nonfiction