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Episode 37: Structure for Longform Nonfiction presented by Lee Gutkind, live from The 2016 Creative Nonfiction Writers’ Conference

Last year Creative Nonfiction Magazine and Behind the Prose teamed up to bring you special excerpts from the amazing Creative Nonfiction Writers’ Conference (CNFWC). (Remember Lee Gutkind’s feature panel on how Law and Order teaches story structure to creative nonfiction writers?) This year, if you couldn’t join us in Pittsburgh,

Episode 18: Get your grown writer on with editor of Full Grown People, Jennifer Niesslein, co-founder of Brain, Child Mag

Hello from Pittsburgh, PA! I’m way past my bedtime and I still have homework to do for Dinty W. Moore’s Master Class at the Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference 2015. But the show must go on. And boy is it a show. Jennifer Niesslein, a founder

Episode 16: An intimate conversation with Lee Gutkind, the “Godfather” of Creative Nonfiction

Yes, you read it right. The legendary Lee Gutkind graces the Behind the Prose virtual studio for a chat with yours truly. In this interview, we discuss everything from what time he goes to bed to how he crafted an overall narrative in a collection of