Items Tagged with "Nonfiction"
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Literary Nonfiction Book Prize Deadline Change
In an effort to select a winner early enough for University of Nebraska Press to work more strategically with our book prize winners, the editors at River Teeth have moved back our annual book contest deadline to November 1, 2012. You have a little over five months to perfect that 150-400 page
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What I Wish I Didn't Know
I wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to write about myself. I’ve been an enthusiastic reader since childhood, and at ten years old genre lines were very simple. Nonfiction meant reading biographies, or history books, or newspaper articles; fiction meant devouring the adventures of the
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Tributary: New Online Journal for High School Writers
Tributary is an online journal being launched by the editors of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and the English Department at Ashland University. Since its inception in 1999, River Teeth—one of only four exclusively nonfiction journals in the country—has published the wo
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Why We\'re Here: 2nd Annual River Teeth Conference
I’ve been staring at my bookshelf in my office for the last few minutes, spotting the spines of friends on paperbacks and hardcovers—Harvey, Root, McClanahan, Edelman, Sanders, Hopper, Huber, Cowser, Christman—and so many others whose heartbeats for the story that had to be told ha
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2014 Conference Speakers Announced
We're delighted to announce our featured speakers for the 2014 River Teeth Nonfiction Conference: Philip Gerard and Brenda Miller!In addition to these talented writers, River Teeth welcomes a dozen others for the next conference: Jill Christman, Bob Cowser, Jr., Valerie Due, Hope Edelman, Jill Gerar
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Search and Research: A Discovery Process
In this presentation from the 2013 River Teeth Nonfiction Conference, Hope Edelman and Sonya Huber discuss "Search and Research: A Discovery Process," a conversation about research in essay and in memoir, how each writer approaches research, and techniques for researching.Listen to the audio file he
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The Stealth Memoir: Writing Your Life Between the Lines
In this presentation from the 2013 River Teeth Nonfiction Conference, Michelle Herman discusses "The Stealth Memoir: Writing Your Life Between the Lines," a conversation about combining your personal narrative with subject matter beyond your immediate life story.Listen to the audio file here.
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28 Days of Beautiful Things
The wonder of the winter snow drifting and blowing wears down to threadbare chill, bitter and dark: when will spring be here, we groan, but there’s still February, still another month (at least) of bundling and shoveling and crumpled Kleenexes in pockets. What can stir the spirit along wi
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RTNC 2014 Schedule of Events
The River Teeth Nonfiction Conference Schedule of Events 2014 is now available, featuring the following panel sessions:"Going Long: Challenges and Opportunities of Moving from the Essay to the Memoir"with Jill Christman, Steven Harvey, and Sonya Huber"The Telling Part: Reflection in Memoir" wit
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Book Contest News
After a one-year hiatus, the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize Series returns in full force, with a new publisher and a series judge.Beginning this fall, the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize will be published by the University of New Mexico Press. Series Co-Editors, Dan Lehman and Joe Macka
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Why We\'re Here: Third Annual River Teeth Nonfiction Conference
For as intimate and vulnerable as the writing process is, the process of sending my work out into the world for possible publication feels like the most distant and impersonal interaction there is between writer and reader.And yet, what is publishing our words except engaging in a broader conversati
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Going Long, It\'s Tense, Research, Getting Connected, Reflection, Naming and more from #RTNC2014
The River Teeth Nonfiction Conference took place one month ago, with new friendships forged and conversations to fuel the spark of creativity and drive necessary to keep the fingers to the keyboard or pen to the paper. Videos of the speaker presentations are now available in the Conference Arch
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4th Annual Nonfiction Conference Will Feature Cheryl Strayed and Jerald Walker
Our 2015 speakers and preliminary schedule are now available. This year’s conference will be May 29-31, 2015 on the Ashland University campus. Join us for readings, seminars, and manuscript consultations. Speakers and guests include perennial favorites, as well as new faces to River
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Scholarship Deadline Extended to March 15
We are extending the deadline to submit student scholarship applications for the River Teeth Nonfiction Conference, which is scheduled for May 29-31 on the Ashland University main campus. The new deadline is March 15, 2015River Teeth is offering four scholarships to students currently enr
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Why We're Here: River Teeth Nonfiction Conference 2015
In the midst of long commutes and longer working days, children’s softball games and fast-food dinners, late bedtimes and repeatedly hitting snooze these last few weeks, I lamented to my husband, “It would be so much easier if I didn’t have this.”This being the itch and twitc
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