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PUBLICATIONS THAT FEATURE CREATIVE NONFICTION
Please find below the following lists:
Creative Nonfiction Publishing Opportunities & Resources
Print Magazines and Newspapers
Literary Magazines
On-Line Magazines and Blogs
On-Line Magazines and Blogs Oriented Toward Boomers
CREATIVE NONFICTION PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES & RESOURCES
aerogrammestudio.com
http://www.aerogrammestudio.com/
duotrope
Every Writer’s Resource: Top Literary Journals
www.everywritersresource.com/topliterarymagazines.html
International Women’s Writing Guild
Journal of the Month (Subscription service)
https://www.journalofthemonth.com/
newpages.com
New York Public Library: Best of the Web (magazines)
http://www.nypl.org/weblinks/1249
Poets and Writers Magazine
Query Shark: How to write query letters
http://queryshark.blogspot.com/
List of University Presses:
http://www.aaupnet.org/aaup-members/membership-list
The Writer’s Chronicle
https://www.awpwriter.org/magazine_media/writers_chronicle_overview
PRINT MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS
(Most have on-line sites as well)
Bethesda Magazine
http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Best-of-Bethesda-2015-Full-Results/
Capitol File
http://capitolfile-magazine.com/
Christian Science Monitor: The Home Forum
http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-Home-Forum
Finally!: The Senior Citizens Magazine
http://www.theseniorcitizensmagazine.com/
Good Housekeeping
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/
London Review of Books
More Magazine
New York Times: Sunday magazine
http://www.nytimes.com/section/magazine
New York Times “Modern Love” Column
http://www.nytimes.com/column/modern-love
New York Times Opinionator Columns: The Stone, Couch, Private Lives, Disunion, Anxiety, Menagerie
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/?_r=0
O magazine
http://www.oprah.com/app/o-magazine.html
Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/
Psychotherapy Networker
https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/currentissue
Times Literary Supplement
Washington Mom magazine
http://www.washingtonian.com/mom/
Washington Post Sunday Magazine
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/
Washington Post Op-Ed and Opinion, including “Post Everything”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/
Washington Post, “Mine” column,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/2013/06/12/6f66cdb4-d377-11e2-8cbe-1bcbee06f8f8_linkset.html
Washington Post Magazine, Our Town:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/magazine/our-town/101809/
Washingtonian
http://www.washingtonian.com/writers-guidelines/
LITERARY MAGAZINES
50 (Plus) Literary Magazines that Publish Creative Nonfiction:
http://www.unm.edu/~gmartin/handouts/litmagsCNF.htm
List of Literary Magazines:
http://www.newpages.com/magazines/big-list-of-lit-mags
Journals of Creative Nonfiction:
Creative Nonfiction
https://www.creativenonfiction.org/
Tin House
Fourth Genre
http://msupress.org/journals/fg/
Other Literary Journals that include Creative Nonfiction:
Agni
Alaska Quarterly Review
https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/aqr/
Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture
http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/
American Scholar
https://theamericanscholar.org/
Antioch Review
http://review.antiochcollege.org
The Baltimore Review
http://www.baltimorereview.org/
Bellevue Literary Review
Bellingham Review
Bio Stories
Blue Earth Review
http://english.mnsu.edu/blueearth/
Calyx (women’s writing and art)
Clackamas Literary Review
https://clackamasliteraryreview.wordpress.com/
The Chattahoochee Review
http://thechattahoocheereview.gpc.edu/
Clock House
Colorado Review
http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/colorado-review/
The Cossack Review
http://www.thecossackreview.com/
Crazy Horse
The Delmarva Review
http://www.delmarvareview.com/
District Lines
http://www.politics-prose.com/districtlines
Fifth Wednesday Journal
http://www.fifthwednesdayjournal.com/
Five Points
Front Porch
Georgia Review
The Gettysburg Review
http://www.gettysburgreview.com/
Glimmertrain (only fiction)
Granta
Hayden’s Ferry Review
http://haydensferryreview.com/
The Healing Muse
http://www.upstate.edu/bioethics/thehealingmuse/
Hippocampus Magazine
http://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/submissions/
Hudson Review
Image: Art Faith Mystery
Iowa Review
Kenyon Review
Lapham’s Quarterly
http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/
Little Patuxent Review
http://littlepatuxentreview.org/
Los Angeles Review
Massachusetts Review
Missouri Review
http://www.missourireview.com/
New England Review
New Letters
Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry
http://utulsa.edu/nimrod/index.html
1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction
The Ocean State Review
Paris Review
http://www.theparisreview.org/current-issue
Ploughshares
Potomac Review
http://blogs.montgomerycollege.edu/potomacreview/
Prairie Schooner
http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/
Psychoanalytic Perspectives
http://www.psychperspectives.com/
The Puritan: Frontiers of New English
Red Rock Review
http://sites.csn.edu/english/redrockreview/
Reed Magazine
River Teeth
http://www.riverteethjournal.com/
River Styx
Seattle Review
http://www.theseattlereview.org/
Slightly Foxed
Southern Review
Southwest Review
http://www.smu.edu/southwestreview
The Sun
Thirteen Ways Magazine
http://thirteenwaysmagazine.com/
Threepenny Review
https://www.threepennyreview.com/
Tin House
Tiny Lights Journal of Personal Narrative
Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy
VQR
Yale Review
ON LINE MAGAZINES AND BLOGS:
1966 Journal
Amsterdam Quarterly Review
http://www.amsterdamquarterly.org/
Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers
Brain Pickings
https://www.brainpickings.org/
Brevity
Brevity Blog
https://brevity.wordpress.com/
bioStories
Changes in Life: The Story Circle Network
Daily Beast: Women in the World
http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/witw.html
Huff Post: The Blog
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-blog/
The Junket
Literary Hub
Literal Latte
Literary Mama: Writing about the many faces of motherhood
Little Patuxent Review
http://littlepatuxentreview.org/
Lumen
Narrative magazine
http://www.narrativemagazine.com/
Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine
Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine
The Rumpus
Saga Magazine: UK magazine for Brits over 50
http://www.saga.co.uk/magazine
Salon
She Writes
Skirt! Magazine
Slate
Thin Air
Traveler’s Tales
Voices Journal-American Academy of Psychotherapists
https://www.aapweb.com/voices.html
Voyages in Psychotherapy
http://voyagesinpsychotherapy.com/
Writer’s Tribe Review
Women Writers, Women’s Books
ON-LINE MAGAZINES AND BLOGS ORIENTED TOWARD BOOMERS
AARP Guest Blogger
http://blog.aarp.org/author/guestblogger/
Better After 50 (BA50)
Boomer Magazine
Grand: A Magazine for grandparents and their families
http://www.grandmagazine.com/news/
Gransnet (British e-magazine)
Hippocampus Online literary magazine
http://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/
Huff Post: Post 50
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/50/
Midlife Blvd
New York Times The New Old Age
http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/?_r=0
Next Avenue Where Grown Ups Keep Growing
Next Avenue.org
Persimmon Tree: An Online Magazine of the Arts by Women over Sixty: http://www.persimmontree.org/v2/
RECOMMENDED BOOKS ON WRITING
EXCELLENT BASIC TEXTS
Carolyn Forché & Philip Gerard, WRITING CREATIVE NONFICTION: Instruction and Insights from the teachers of the Associated Writing Programs
Julie Checkoway, CREATING FICTION: Instruction and Insights from teachers of the Associated Writing Programs
David Jauss, WORDS OVERFLOWN BY STARS: Creative Writing Instruction and Insight from the Vermont College of Fine Arts M.F.A. Program
Brenda Miller & Suzanne Paola, TELL IT SLANT: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction
Robert L. Root & Michael Steinberg, THE FOURTH GENRE: Contemporary
Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction
Sondra Perl & Mimi Schwartz, WRITING TRUE: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction
OTHER GENERAL BOOKS ON CREATIVE WRITING
Robert Pack & Jay Parini (Eds.), WRITERS ON WRITING
Brenda Ueland, IF YOU WANT TO WRITE: A Book About Art, Independence, and Spirit
William Zinsser, ON WRITING WELL
William Stafford, WRITING THE AUSTRALIAN CRAWL: Views on the Writer’s Vocation
Will Blythe, WHY I WRITE: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction
Christopher Vogler, THE WRITER’S JOURNEY: Mythic Structure for Writers
Anne Lamott, BIRD BY BIRD
BOOKS ON MEMOIR WRITING
Sue William Silverman, FEARLESS CONFESSIONS: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir
Tristine Rainer, YOUR LIFE AS STORY
Judith Barrington, WRITING THE MEMOIR: From Truth to Art
Patricia Hampl, I COULD TELL YOU STORIES: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
Lisa Dale Norton, SHIMMERING IMAGES: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir
William Zinsser, INVENTING THE TRUTH: The Art and Craft of Memoir
Vivian Gornick, THE SITUATION AND THE STORY: The Art of Personal Narrative
BOOKS ON ESSAY WRITING
Phillip Lopate, THE ART OF THE PERSONAL ESSAY
Joyce Carol Oates, THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS OF THE CENTURY
John D’Agata, THE NEXT AMERICAN ESSAY
Dinty Moore, CRAFTING THE PERSONAL ESSAY: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Nonfiction
BOOKS ON LITERARY JOURNALISM
Jon Franklin, WRITING FOR STORY: Crafting Scenes of Dramatic Nonfiction
Norman Sims & Mark Kramer (Eds.), LITERARY JOURNALISM
Norman Sims, THE LITERARY JOURNALISTS
Kevin Kerrane & Ben Yagoda, THE ART OF FACT: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
BOOKS ON FICTION WRITING
Wallace Stegner, ON TEACHING AND WRITING FICTION
Raymond Obstfeld, NOVELIST’S ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO CRAFTING SCENES
Jesse Lee Kercheval, BUILDING FICTION: How to Develop Plot and Structure
Ansen Dibell, PLOT
James Moffet & Kenneth R. McElheny, POINTS OF VIEW
John Gardner, THE ART OF FICTION
Thaisa Frank & Dorothy Wall, FINDING YOUR WRITER’S VOICE
Ursula LeGuin, STEERING THE CRAFT: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
BOOKS ON PUBLISHING
Betsy Lerner, THE FOREST FOR THE TREES: An Editor’s Advice to Writers
Susan Rabiner & Alfred Fortunato, THINKING LIKE YOUR EDITOR: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction—and Get it Published
Susan Page, THE SHORTEST DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND A PUBLISHED BOOK: 20 Steps to Success.
Annik LaFarge, THE AUTHOR ONLINE: A Short Guide to Building Your Website, Whether You Do It Yourself (and you can!) or You Work With Pros