{"id":176467700,"date":"2016-07-26T00:13:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T05:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176467700"},"modified":"2016-07-26T00:13:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T05:13:40","slug":"pub-creative-nonfiction-how-we-teach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2016\/07\/26\/pub-creative-nonfiction-how-we-teach\/","title":{"rendered":"PUB: Creative Nonfiction &#8211; How We Teach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/creative-nonfiction60_Cover-1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176467701\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/creative-nonfiction60_Cover-1.gif\" alt=\"creative nonfiction60_Cover-1\" width=\"180\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"page-title\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\">How We Teach<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Deadline: August 29, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For the spring 2017 issue of\u00a0<em>Creative Nonfiction<\/em>\u00a0magazine, we\u2019re looking for original essays about teaching\u2014whether in a traditional classroom or online; in summer camp or college; in preschool or in a prison; in the woods or in a workshop. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">We welcome personal stories as well as profiles, and we\u2019re open to a very wide range of experiences and circumstances. Above all, we are looking for narratives\u2014true stories, rich with scene, character, detail, and a distinctive voice\u2014that give insight into what it means to teach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Creative Nonfiction<\/em>\u00a0editors will award\u00a0<strong>$1,000 for best essay and $500 for runner-up<\/strong>, and all essays submitted will be considered for publication.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Guidelines: Essays must be previously unpublished and no longer than 4,000 words. All essays must tell true stories and be factually accurate. Everything we publish goes through a rigorous fact-checking process; editors may ask for sources and citations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">There is a $20 reading fee, waived for current\u00a0<em>Creative Nonfiction\u00a0<\/em>subscribers. You can also submit and become a subscriber, extend your subscription, or give a gift subscription by submitting $25 to include a 4-issue subscription to\u00a0<em>Creative Nonfiction<\/em>\u00a0(US addresses only). Multiple entries are welcome ($20\/essay) as are entries from outside the United States (though due to shipping costs we cannot offer the subscription deal).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">You may submit essays online or by regular mail:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>By regular mail<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Postmark deadline\u00a0<strong>Monday, August 29, 2016<\/strong>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Please send manuscript and reading fee, accompanied by cover letter with complete contact information including the title of the essay and word count; and SASE or email for response:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Creative Nonfiction<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Attn: How We Teach<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">5119 Coral Street<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Pittsburgh, PA 15224<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Online<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Deadline to upload files:\u00a0<strong>11:59 pm EST August 29, 2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/creativenonfiction.submittable.com\/submit\/60010\">Upload submissions here &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/creativenonfiction.submittable.com\/submit\/60012\">Current\u00a0<em>Creative Nonfiction\u00a0<\/em>subscribers, upload submissions here &gt;&gt;<\/a>\u00a0<strong>OR<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativenonfiction.submittable.com\/submit\/60010\">upload and renew your subscription here &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&gt;via:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativenonfiction.org\/submissions\/how-we-teach\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.creativenonfiction.org\/submissions\/how-we-teach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; How We Teach Deadline: August 29, 2016 For the spring 2017 issue of\u00a0Creative Nonfiction\u00a0magazine, we\u2019re looking for original essays about teaching\u2014whether in a traditional classroom or online; in summer camp or college; in preschool or in a prison; in the woods or in a workshop. \u00a0 We welcome personal stories as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176467700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176467700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176467700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176467702,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176467700\/revisions\/176467702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176467700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176467700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176467700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}