Defining Creative NonFiction

CNF Writing Academy Week 1

I was 16 when I took my first overseas flight. Filled with the strange mix of nervous excitement and boredom you get on a long flight, I slid the in-flight magazine from the seat-pocket in front of me and opened to a travel article in an attempt to distract myself. I wasn’t a big reader of magazines, especially travel ones. My friends had Cosmopolitans …