Preorder from Belt Publishing, between now and November 4, 2024, and receive a 30% discount, plus free shipping, on your order. Discount Code: CNF2024 https://beltpublishing.com/products/creative-nonfiction-the-final-issue (fb)

In 1994, a new lit mag went out to just 173 subscribers. It focused on a relatively new genre—not fiction, not poetry, not journalism. Something in between. At first, many thought it was a flash in the pan, and the genre an undefined form of navel gazing. Fast forward 30 years, and we live in an era of creative nonfiction bestsellers, MFA programs, and more. "Despite the resistance and criticism, the idea of writing nonfiction that was personal, intimate, and cinematic, with writers opening up and exploring all possibilities, employing the tools of storytelling—first gradually and then rapidly—caught on," Lee Gutkind, founder of Creative Nonfiction, writes in the introduction. This November, Belt is publishing Creative Nonfiction: The Final Issue. It gathers some of the best, most reflective examples of creative essays published in the lit mag throughout its existence. Find Charles Simic, the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, examining his boyhood memory fragments of the bombing of Belgrade. Adrienne Rich writes about the life of a poet. Further contributions from Brian Broome, Diane Ackerman, Phillip Lopate, John McPhee, and many other talented and evocative writers are included as well. For all lovers of original, inquisitive prose. (fb)