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Narrative Non-Fiction

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Narrative non-fiction combines factual reporting with creative writing techniques to tell true stories. Learners will understand how to use character development, setting, and plot structure while maintaining strict journalistic integrity and factual accuracy.

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🎓Courses(1)

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Creative Nonfiction Writing

Coursera course: Creative Nonfiction: Write Truth with Style

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🌐Websites(5)

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The Open Notebook

Interviews and guides for narrative journalists

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Nieman Storyboard

Harvard Nieman Foundation's site for narrative nonfiction examples and advice

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creativenonfiction.org

creativenonfiction.org is the official hub for the craft of Creative Nonfiction, featuring craft essays, author interviews, and guidance for writers. The site also provides submission guidelines, contests, and publishing opportunities in CNF.

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writersdigest.com

WritersDigest.com is a comprehensive resource for writers, featuring craft articles, writing prompts, market guides, contests, and publishing tips to help aspiring and established authors improve their craft and get published.

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reedsy.com

Reedsy is an author-focused marketplace and learning hub that connects writers with professional editors, designers, and marketers, and offers resources like free writing courses, guides, and self-publishing tools.

intermediate🇬🇧

🎙️Podcasts(1)

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Longform Podcast

Destination is a weekly, improvised and darkly comic podcast illuminating a 15-minute slice of one person’s journey. Other characters breeze in as fleeting points of contact through telephone calls, thoughts and hallucinations. So much can change in 15 minutes. Recorded in real time with a varying cast including Katy Schutte, Tony Harris, Jinni Lyons, Jonathan Monkhouse, Rhiannon Vivian, Chris Mead, Dave Waller, Maria Peters and Lloydie James Lloyd. Destination is an improvised podcast created and produced in London by Katy Schutte and Tony Harris. Submit your own SatNav Destination for a future episode @destinationpod You have reached your Destination.

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