Newspaper drudges vs creative nonfiction "artists"
It’s the Good Olde Summertime for those college instructors of writing, both fiction and non, and that means they're now heading for the hundreds of conferences and workshops at campuses across the country to make more money teaching writing rather than actually writing themselves.
Before you sign up for one of those "creative non-fiction" sessions when the urge to tell your life story overwhelms you, take time to read this commentary on the subject in the March/April Poets and Writers:
It’s titled "Greenhaired Gumshoes or Hidebound Hacks: Creative nonfiction vs. journalism.