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Wendy Call has served as Writer in Residence at two dozen institutions, including five national parks, three universities, a historical archive and a public hospital. She has devoted a decade each of her professional life to grassroots organizing, freelance writing & editing, and university teaching. She now writes, edits, and translates books in Seattle, on unceded Duwamish land.
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Dive into Creative Nonfiction with Me!

I'm teaching a ten-week all online creative nonfiction class, beginning September 29, 2014. We'll explore eight key elements of successful creative nonfiction.

We’ll dissect great examples from masters of the genre – including James Baldwin, Jo Ann Beard, Annie Dillard, Joan Didion, Zora Neale Hurston, George Orwell, Luis Alberto Urrea, Alice Walker, and David Foster Wallace, looking at the gorgeo Read more of this blog post »

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	Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University by Mark Kramer, Wendy Call (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 1,378 ratings — published 2007 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writers and Their Notebooks by Diana Raab (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Phillip Lopate (Foreword), Wendy Call (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.88 avg rating — 283 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems by Mikeas Sánchez, Wendy Call (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Shook (Translator) 4.24 avg rating — 248 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater by Irma Pineda, Wendy Call (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.47 avg rating — 38 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rooted: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction by Josh MacIvor-Andersen (Editor), Bill McKibben (Introduction), Renée E. D'Aoust (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 37 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy 4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	[No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy] [By: Call, Wendy] [June, 2011] by Wendy Call (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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message 3: by Jessica

Jan 21, 2013 04:58PM

Wendy: can you help with this?
El Salvadorean author rec?
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message 2: by Jessica

Aug 22, 2011 06:46AM

Wendy, congratulations on your book! Am going to try to make it to one of your events, they're a bit far from me tho... if I don't make it, will get your book of course!

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message 1: by Tamela

Dec 08, 2008 08:52AM

Hi Wendy,
Have you read Oxygen by fellow Washingtonian Carol Cassella? (do WA state residents call themselves Washingtonians?)

http://www.amazon.com/Oxygen-Novel-Ca...

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