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Who’s on first? A dramatic and vaudevillian foray into the realm of first-person non-fiction writing

11.5.09 by Kristen Hewitt Leave a reply »

Who’s telling the story?
Yes, Who should be telling the story.
No, who is it that’s telling us the story?
Right. Who.
The style of writing we’re doing here in the writing track at Salt falls somewhere in the realm of creative non-fiction, narrative non-fiction, and documentary journalism. What we write is meant to tell a true story on [...]

Lunch Hour on Shepherd’s Hill

10.3.09 by Kristen Hewitt Leave a reply »

It’s lunchtime at the Shepherd’s Hill Mennonite School and the children are eating on the steps just outside the church. They’ve separated themselves into groups, boys and girls. The yard sloping down to the road is still, that is until Sister Joy Weaver—a proper but youthful and rosy-cheeked Mennonite school teacher— decides it is time [...]