Creative Nonfiction at Stonecoast

Creative nonfiction is at once one of the most dynamic movements in contemporary letters, and a literary genre with its roots deep in the literature of the past. It is also one of the most exciting and growing areas of the Stonecoast MFA program.

Creative nonfiction at Stonecoast comprises a broad range of nonfiction genres, spanning the lyrical, personal, and meditative essay, as well as literary journalism and memoir.

Stonecoast writers of creative nonfiction are a passionate and dedicated group of students; at the recent NonfictioNow! conference at the University of Iowa, Stonecoast was the best-represented MFA program with 12 students in attendance, and soon after, three Stonecoast nonfiction students presented a remarkable panel at the "Writing by Degrees” conference in Binghamton, New York.

Creative nonfiction faculty, students, and alumni regularly publish their work in the country’s leading literary journals. Most recently, “Relief,” an essay by alumna Kim Dana Kupperman, now managing editor at The Gettysburg Review, was chosen for Best American Essays.

Students in creative nonfiction are a close community who participate in special elective seminars on"The Ethics of Memoir," "Narrative Strategies of the First Person," "Interviewing Techniques," " The Sentence as a Rhetorical Structure," "James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket," and a great range of other topics.

Please explore the related links in the righthand column to learn more about Creative Nonfiction at Stonecoast.

Related Links:

About The Creative Nonfiction Curriculum

Creative Nonfiction Faculty

Visiting Creative Nonfiction Writers

Sample Creative Nonfiction Residency Presentations

Alumni Profile