Several terms have been used to identify this genre: nonfiction, contemporary nonfiction, or creative nonfiction – a term that some reject.
Interview: Sean Prentiss and Joe Wilkins, editors of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre
Category: Interviews
Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
Interview: Elizabeth Scarboro, author of My Foreign Cities: A Memoir
My husband died at the end of January. There. I said it. … Still off-balance and only weeks after his passing, I discovered an essay, online, written Elizabeth Scarboro.
Interview: Poe Ballantine, author of Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir
Author Poe Ballantine discovered the basis for his latest book … right next door when his Nebraska neighbor disappeared and his mutilated body found months later.
Interview: Filmmaker Dave Jannetta, director/producer/editor of the documentary Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere.
I knew right away I wanted try and make it into a film…
Interview: Elynne Chaplik-Aleskow, memoir writer
In my younger years, I did not write stories. Rather, I wrote feelings.
Interview: Becky Aikman, author of Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
It’s said that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes, but I’d like to add one more: good friends who are there when you need them.
Interview: Natalie Goldberg, author of The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language
I have a shelf-full of books about the technical aspects of writing; books on creating characters, how to plot a novel, how to market your book. But it has always been author Natalie Goldberg who has brought us down to earth and made writing real in her renowned Writing Down The Bones: Freeing The Writer…
Interview: Beth Kephart, author of Handling the Truth, on the writing of memoir
When I talk about vulnerability I’m really talking about letting down your guard. To let the past seep into you.
Interview: M.E. Thomas, author of Confessions of a Sociopath
As a society, we’ve come a long way in our views of mental illness — yet there is still somewhat of a shame, a misunderstanding, a fear towards those who circumvent “normalcy.”
Interview: Mary Evelyn Greene, author of When Rain Hurts
Mary Evelyn Greene’s book, “When Rain Hurts” is the story of her quest to find healing for her son damaged by fetal alcohol syndrome.
