![]() If yes: Do you have any idea why? If no: How can we find them? Editors are open to creativity-so long as we writers don’t misrepresent the facts.Īre there as few American Indian and people of color writing nonfiction as it seems? It’s been moving farther and farther away from “just the facts.” Increasingly we are given more freedom in terms of storytelling, allowed-even expected-to use techniques of fiction and to even break some rules now and then so that the prose can flow. ![]() How has writing nonfiction for children changed over the past few years? Today’s interview is with Tonya Bolden and is about the art of nonfiction writing. The list of poetry titles that Nikki Grimes mention yesterday contained works based both in fact and in fiction. ![]() Memoirs can be fiction ( Brown Girl Dreaming Woodson) or nonfiction ( Becoming Maria). Sometimes there are no clear lines between these genres. When we look at numbers that relate how few books are written by American Indians and authors of color we’re only considering works of fiction. ![]() Nonfiction can feel like a stepchild of children’s literature. ![]()
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