LIBRARY GUIDE TO WRT 3086 - Creative Nonfiction

Top Tier Magazines

• The Atlantic Monthly
• Harper’s 
• The New Yorker

We access these magazines' online content through databases, so that before you get to the issues of the magazine you will have to pass through ABI/Inform or Academic OneFile on your way. Also, each of these high-profile magazines has a public website with a paywall. Outisde the paywall you will find selected items from the magazine, but also blogs and other unique online content including creative nonfiction. See: http://www.theatlantic.com/ ; http://www.newyorker.com/ ; http://harpers.org/.

Journals

• Brevity Magazine
• Creative Nonfiction
• Fourth Genre*
• Hippocampus Magazine 
• Michigan Quarterly Review*
• Oxford American
• 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction
• The Normal School
• River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative*
• The Southern Review*
• The Sun

*Indicates OU LIbrary full-content access through a database provider. The other sites have paywalls but do offer some free content, and are devoted/sympathetic to creative non-fiction as a genre.

2014 Pushcart Prize Ranking of Literary Magazines — Nonfiction
One man's ranking of the literary magazines by the number of Pushcart Prizes awarded to pieces they've published.

Links dealing directly with the craft of writing creating nonfiction:

• The Lyric Essay
• Brevity journal

Available Online (requires OU login)

• Crafting the Personal Essay, by Dinty Moore
• To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction, by Phillip Lopate

Available in Print - 3rd Floor 

• The Art of Memoir, by Mary Karr - PS 3561 .A6929 Z46 2015
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott - PN 147 .L315 1994
• Tell it Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, by Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola - PE 1408 .M548 2019 
• The Truth of the Matter, by Dinty Moore - PE 1404 .M6635 2007
• On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, by William Zinnser - PE 1429 .Z5 1990
• You Can’t Make this Stuff Up, by Lee Gutkind -  PN 3377.5.R45 G89 2012

On Order, Available Soon

• The Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House
• The Writing Workshop Notebook: Notes on Creating and Workshopping, by Alan Ziegler

Numbers about people and things:

• American Factfinder - current US census and updates.
• Statistical Abstract of the United States - concise historical coverage on a wide variety of topics.

Articles and other kinds of information:

ARTstor
ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

NAXOS Music Library
A collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 262,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. While listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database.

VAST: Academic Video Online
A multidisciplinary collection of videos that touches on the curriculum needs of virtually every department. Look for specialized collections (Theatre in Video, Opera in Video) under Advanced Search.