Media contact: Micki Leventhal, 312.344.7383
For Immediate Release
October 11, 2004
Chicago, IL - Writers and editors will discuss the craft and business of creative non-fiction at Columbia College Chicago's Creative Nonfiction Week, November 15 -18. Co -sponsored by the college's English, Journalism and Fiction Writing Departments, the program will feature readings, lectures and panel discussions. (Detailed schedule below.)
All events for "Border Crossing: Writing Across Genres" are free and open to the public. For more information call 312-344-8125. To preview a list of events visit Columbia's online Calendar of Events at www.colum.edu.
"Creative nonfiction is currently exploding in popularity," explains Sam Weller, Columbia instructor and coordinator of the event. "Forms including memoir, biography, nonfiction adventures, personal essays and more regularly occupy the bestseller racks. The creative nonfiction genre fuses the journalist's eye for truth with the descriptive storytelling craft of the fiction writer.
"Columbia College Chicago is at the forefront of this cutting-edge literary medium, hosting the annual Creative Nonfiction Week festival," continues Weller, who wrote the authorized biography of science fiction icon Ray Bradbury, scheduled for publication in April 2005. "This event culls many of the nation's most prominent practitioners of the form, from award-winning journalists, to renowned essayists, to authors pushing the narrative boundaries of that controversial literary oxymoron: the nonfiction novel. Editors from prominent publishing houses, literary journals and commercial magazines also offer advice on this growing field. Creative Nonfiction Week is an unprecedented celebration of this burgeoning field."