Creative non-fiction is the fastest growing area in publishing. It can take many forms including memoir and biography, personal essays, narrative poetry, drama… or it can be a mash-up of different kinds. What defines it isn’t its form but its relationship with truth.
Non-fiction means it must be based on facts; the ‘creative’ part doesn’t mean you can be creative with the truth, but that you can use literary techniques to craft aspects of real life into truthful but compelling and meaningful
