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    What’s the Story?

    Mar 29, 2021 4 minutes
    I hope you enjoy this retrospective issue as much as we have enjoyed putting it together.

    THE FIRST ISSUE of Creative Nonfiction was published in early 1994. It was a literary journal then, or “little magazine,” as such publications were sometimes called, and a modest affair—ninety-two pages, perfect bound, no illustrations save for a really cool paper tear on the cover.

    When I first came up with the idea of a journal devoted exclusively to creative or narrative nonfiction, the genre was an outlier in the academy, thought by many to be superfluous, or a passing fad. Creative writing programs weren’t as ubiquitous then as they are today, and the

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