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Tell it Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction
Textbook Edition, 2003 (includes an anthology)
Demonstrating the range of creative nonfiction from memoir to travel writing to the lyric essay, Tell It Slant combines practical guidance with an illustrative anthology of 34 essays from Margaret Atwood, David Sedaris, E.B. White, Virginia Woolf, and others. The result is a stimulating collection of writing and activities that makes it easy and enjoyable for students to begin to write and to try new modes of writing.
"Tell it Slant is THE how-to book for beginning and intermediate nonfiction writing classes. In reading this book, I got ideas for some essays I want to write myself. I suspect this text will become indispensable."
—Connie Voisine, New Mexico State University
"Lucid and often poetic, Tell it Slant not only provides a comprehensive guide to the essentials of writing creative nonfiction, but it also presents numerous practical suggestions to jump-start the imagination of writers at all skill levels."
—Alan Boye, Lyndon State College
Tell it Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction
Trade Edition, 2004 (does not include an anthology)
When the poet Emily Dickinson wrote, "Tell all the Truth but tell it Slant," she provided today's writers of creative nonfiction some sound advice: tell the truth but don't become mere transcribers of day-to-day life. Artistic truth offers a depth and vibrancy that goes beyond the everyday. But how do we, as writers, move beyond cold fact to create elegant nonfiction that makes the most of our individual "slant" on the world we live in? Designed for aspiring nonfiction writers, this much-needed reference provides practical guidance, writing exercises, and a detailed discussion of the range of subcategories that make up the genre, including memoir, travel writing, investigative reporting, and more.
"Five stars for Tell It Slant ... An enlightening, comprehensive, and very satisfying text on writing and shaping creative nonfiction."
—Sheila Bender, editor and publisher
of writingitreal.com and author of
Writing and Publishing Personal Essays