A handbook on flash nonfiction edited by Ohio University Creative Writing Director Dinty W. Moore is a finalist for the ForeWord Reviews‘ 2012 Book of the Year Awards. The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction is named in two separate categories – Writing and Anthologies.
Featuring 26 eminent writers, editors, and teachers offering expert analysis, exercises, and examples of what make the brief essay form such a perfect medium for experimentation, insight, and illumination, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction is an essential handbook for anyone interested in the succinct flash nonfiction form. Rose Metal Press Inc. is an independent, not-for-profit publisher of hybrid genres.
Moore, professor of English in the College of Arts & Sciences, is the author of the memoir Between Panic & Desire, winner of the 2009 Grub Street Book Award for Nonfiction, and numerous other books, essays and stories. The Creative Writing Program offers students a range of beginning, intermediate, and advanced workshops in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
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