Creative Nonfiction, founded in 1993 by Lee Gutkind, was the first literary journal to publish, exclusively, narrative-driven, true stories. Each issue features essays by both well-known and emerging writers, often focusing upon a particular theme. Many issues include essays on craft and the history and evolution of the genre. View a list of All Issues.
Issue 79 (2024) The Final Issue
Front Matter
Table of Contents
From the Editor
Introduction
Lee Gutkind
Articles
The Necessity of Poetry
Charles Simic
How Does a Poet Put Bread on the Table
Adrienne Rich
Taking Care
Jane Bernstein
The Conching Rooms
John McPhee
The Stone Collector
Louis Simpson
The Story of My Father
Phillip Lopate
Sea Changes: Traveling the Staten Island Ferry
A.D. Coleman
Two on Two
Brian Doyle
Memories Like Splintered Glass
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
Notes on My Dying
Ruthann Robson
The Brown Study
Richard Rodriguez
Looking at Emmett Till
John Edgar Wideman
Attention Please, This Island Earth
Diane Ackerman
Beginning Dialogues
Toi Derricotte
Without a Map
Meredith Hall
The World Without Us: A Meditation
Carolyn Forche
My Night with Ellen Hutchinson
Bud Shaw
The Hippest Bar on Christmas
Chris Offutt
Any Given Day
Judith Kitchen
I Survived the Blizzard of ’79
Beth Ann Fennelly
Prometheus Unbound
Elizabeth Fortescue
How to Hang a Mezuzah
Rachel Beanland
Behold Invisibility
Anne McGrath
Everything Gets Worse: An Antarctica Story
John O'Connor
Interview
Self-Interview
Gordon Lish
Back Matter
