Finding Creative Nonfiction - ENGL 380 - Memoir & Creative Nonfiction

Finding Finding Creative Nonfiction, Memoirs, & Essays

Creative Nonfiction Quarterly
Literary journal with archive to 25 years of issues, searchable by type (flash, memoir, etc.), date, and subject.

Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Open access literary journal publishing brief essays. Archive of issues over 20 years.
The Atlantic
Available online & in the library on the 1st floor browsing shelves
The New Yorker
Available online & in the library on the 1st floor browsing shelves
Ploughshares
Available online & in the library on the 1st floor browsing shelves. Essays are listed under Prose.
Cimarron Review
On library 1st floor browsing shelves. Essays listed under Nonfiction.
Iowa Review
Available online & on the library's 1st floor browsing shelves. Essays listed under Nonfiction.
The Paris Review
Available online & on the library 1st floor browsing shelves. Essays listed under Nonfiction.

One way to find collections of contemporary essays is to search the "Best American" series - Best American Essays, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best American Science & Nature Writing, etc. To find all of the titles in these series, search the catalog search box below with these words: best american and essays

Alternately, you can search on essays as a subject - Type in the keyword essays and select the "subject" field from the drop-down menu.