Creative Non-Fiction
Fourth Genre's Forum on Non-Fiction
Creative Non-Fiction Magazine
An academic piece on the "Return of the Essay"
Some quotes to consider on "What is an essay?"
A taxonomy defining creative non-fiction
Brevity (Journal of Concise Lit Non-Fiction)
"Truth and Consequences of Creative Non-Fiction" by Lee Gutkind
Sheryl St. Germain's Guidelines for  Creative Non-Fiction (and her writing exercises)


A Few Contemporary Models

Anne Lamott
About Anne Lamott
Lamott's essay about Traveling Mercies
Lamott on First Drafts
An archive of Lamott's Word by Word Column
CT article on Lamott
Lammot's "Advent Adventure"

Kathleen Norris
An Interview with Norris
"The Company of Sinners"
Norris on "The Farmer's Wife"
Hear Norris read aloud from Dakota
Norris on Mary
A sermon Norris read on TV
Norris interviewed again

Susan Neville
Neville's Home Page
Interview with Neville
An excerpt from Fabrications

Scott Russell Sanders
A Profile of Sanders
"Bitten by the Wild"
"Stillness" (Orion Magazine)
"Limberlost and Found" (Audobon)
Interview with Sanders (Kenyon Review)
Excerpts from Hunting for Hope
"The Writer in the University" (ADE Bulletin)

Wendell Berry
Brother Tom's Incredible Berry Resources
"The Pleasures of Eating"
"Christianity and the Survival of Creation"
"Why I'm Not Going to Buy a Computer"
"An Interview with Berry"

Jeff Gundy
Gundy's home page
Excerpt from Community of Memory (scroll down)
Interview with Gundy
"Breakfast at the County Seat Cafe"

David Sedaris
Info and Links on Sedaris
"Go Carolina"
Hear Sedaris read "A Plague of Tics"
Hear Sedaris on New York City

Betty Smart Carter
Betty Smart Carter is interviewed
Smartt Carter on Christian Publishing/Marketing

Lauren Winner
Interview with Lauren Winner
Reading Group Guide for Winner's Girl Meets God
Winner's Controversial "Sex and the Single Evangelical"

A Few More Random Essays
Patti See, "Suburbs, Summer 1972"
Becky Bradway, "Munitions on the Prairie"
Becky Bradway, "The Chemical Plant Next Door"
Virginia Stem Owens, "Our Aunts' Table"
Brent Staples "Black Men in Public Space"
David Glynn, "Virginity"
Dan Wakefield, "In Spanish Harlem"
Lars Eighner, "You Can't Go Homeless Again"
Barry Lopez, "The Language of Animals"
Patricia Hampl, "A Week in the World"
Hwee Hwee Tan, "In Search of the Lotus Land"
Sheryl St. Germain, "Sweet and Shiny Things"