Creative Nonfiction

Why was literature only

categorized in three
forms:
fiction, poetry and drama?
How far can you veer
away from the truth (use
invented and/or
imaginary characters,
situations and quotes) in
CNF?
Creative Nonfiction (CNF)
By Richard Nordquist
Updated July 16, 2018

Similar to literary journalism, creative

nonfiction is a branch of writing that
employs the literary techniques usually
associated with fiction or poetry to report
on actual persons, places, or events.
Creative Nonfiction (CNF)
 Has been dubbed as the fourth literary
genre
 The genre of creative nonfiction (also
known as literary nonfiction) is broad
Familiar and
enough to include: Memoir
Personal essay

nature writing
travel writing
interview
Sports writing

Autobiography
Science writing Biography
FIRST
we need to identify the
forms and types of
nonfiction, aside from
CNF.
 A work of nonfiction has
to be informative and
According to Oxford factual. Although usually
English Dictionary, in essay form, it may
nonfiction is “prose have tables, diagrams
writing that is and/or photos.
informative or factual
rather than fictional.”
Examples of Nonfiction
Walt Whitman on Writing About Real Things
"Whatever may be the case in years gone by, the
true use of the imaginative faculty of modern
times is to give ultimate vivification to facts, to
science, and to common lives, endowing them with
the glows and glories and final illustriousness
which belong to every real thing, and to real things
only."
https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-creative-nonfiction-1689941