Educational Programs
The Creative Nonfiction Foundation offers a number of educational programs for teachers, students, and emerging writers.
Writing Institutes: Creative Nonfiction holds institutes throughout the year in a variety of locations and offers programs for writers at all levels of experience. Instructors include Lee Gutkind and other well-known writers, teachers, and editors. The institutes often cover a range of themes, from the basics of the creative nonfiction genre to writing memoir to travel narrative. Courses also attempt to emphasize the ethics and guidelines of the genre. CNF hosted the Mid-South Writers Conference in Oxford, Mississippi, in February 2008, and 412: The Pittsburgh Creative Nonfiction Literary Festival in October 2008.
Mentoring Programs: Creative Nonfiction’s mentoring program pairs new writers with seasoned professionals such as Rebecca Skloot and Dinty W. Moore. The goal of the mentoring program is to help new writers 1) develop their technique and approach to creative nonfiction composition; 2) revise, edit and shape their manuscript; and 3) place their finished manuscript with a publisher.
Online Courses: Creative Nonfiction provides online courses on basic techniques for research, interviewing, immersion and reporting as well as instruction on writing personal essays.
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