Meet the master practitioners of memoir, journalism and creative nonfiction who contributed exercises to Now Write! Nonfiction.

CONTRIBUTORS WITH SAMPLE EXERCISE

Paul Lisicky is the author of Lawnboy and Famous Builder.  He’s taught in the graduate writing programs at Cornell, Sarah Lawrence, Fairfield, and Antioch Los Angeles.  He currently teaches at NYU and in the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark.  He has two books forthcoming: The Burning House (novel, 2011) and Unbuilt Projects (short prose pieces, 2012.) Download his exercise: On Propriety, Or The Fear Of Looking Foolish.

Malina Saval was formerly Features Editor at Variety, where she covered film, TV, music and theater. She’s won two LA Press Club awards and is a board member of the LA Press Club. Saval wrote screenplays for Touchstone Pictures and Walt Disney Films. Her book,The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens was published in 2009 and she has appeared as a guest on such programs as NPR’s “Talk of the Nation,” CBS Radio and the “Patt Morrison” show. Download her exercise: Permission to Eavesdrop.

All Contributors – with site links if available:

Marilyn Abildskov

Dianne Aprile

Reza Aslan rezaaslan.com

Robert Atwan Amazon page

Lynne Barrett lynne.barrett.googlepages.com

Jocelyn Bartkevicus

Ishmael Beah alongwaygone.com

Madeline Blais Wiki page

Jenny Boully jennyboully.blogspot.com

Gwendolyn Bounds gwendolynbounds.com

Neal Bowers nealbowers.com

Barrie Jean Borich barriejeanborich.com

Janet Burroway janetburroway.com

Joy Castro joycastro.com

Leah Hager Cohen leahhagercohen.com

Kathryn Deputat Love’s Freeway

Bruce Dobler Wiki page

Samantha Dunn samanthadunnwriter.com

Hope  Edelman hopeedelman.com

Rebecca Blevens Faery

Celeste Fremon witnessla.com

Philip Gerard philipgerard.com

Denise Gess

David Gessner davidgessner.com

Cecile Goding

Philip Graham 

Lee Gutkind leegutkind.com

Robin Hemley robinhemley.com

Christine Hemp christinehemp.com

Marcie Hershman

Richard Hoffman

Barbara Hurd barbarahurd.com

Jay Kirk

Judith Kitchen judithkitchen.com

Carl Klaus  Amazon page

Lisa Knopp lisaknopp.com

Sydney Lea www.sydneylea.net

Gretchen Legler 

Leslie Lehr leslielehr.com

Robert Leleux robertleleux.com

Paul Lisicky paullisicky.blogspot.com

Tom Lutz Wiki page

Eric Maisel ericmaisel.com

Carole Maso Wiki page

John Matteson Wiki page

Tilar Mazzeo tilar-mazzeo.com

Shara McCallum Amazon page

Rebecca McClanahan rebeccamcclanahanwriter.com

Fritz McDonald www.create20.com

Michael McGregor

Christopher Merrill christophermerrillbooks.com

Brenda Miller

Dinty Moore dintywmoore.com

Honor Moore honormoore.com

Maureen Murdock

Daniel Nester www.danielnester.com

Lia Purpura liapurpura.com

Hilda Raz hildaraz.com

Kathryn Rhett

Robert Root rootwriting.com

Malina Saval at Variety

Brandon Schrand brandonrschrand.com

Mimi Schwartz mimischwartz.net

Sandra Scofield

Mary Kay Shanley marykayshanley.com

Suzanne Strempek Shea

Ashley Shelby ashleyshelby.com

Sue Silverman suewilliamsilverman.com

Natalia Rachel Singer nataliarachelsinger.org

Myra Sklarew Wiki page

Kathleen Spivack kathleenspivack.com

Michael Steinberg mjsteinberg.net

Reine Steinke Wiki page

Laurie Stone

Ned Stuckey-French

Ira Sukrungruang

Gay Talese official site on Penguin Random House

Susan Tiberghien susantiberghien.com

Thrity Umrigar umrigar.com

David Vann davidvann.com

Kathryn Watterson

Sandy Wisenberg slwisenberg.blogspot.com

Ira Wood irawood.com

Xu Xi xuxiwriter.com

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