Thinking about audience

          Your assignments for this course require you to think about audience as you develop your essays. Because Michael Steinberg, one of the editors of your textbook is also an editor of Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, you can begin to get an idea of reader expectations for that publication. What do the personal essays Steinberg and Root selected for your text have in common? How would you characterize the writing? The choice of material? The tone?

Some of you might want to consider submitting your work to Fourth Genre. Check out the submission guidelines .

Other publication you might want to consider (some of these are mentioned in your text) inlcude:


The Writer's Chronicle
Kean is a member organization of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. For samples of Nonfiction published in The Writer's Chronicle, scroll down to the sample articles, or pick up a recent copy of the journal in the English Department office.

Creative Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction publishes creative nonfiction, as well as essays on writing about creative nonfiction. The current issue provides writers who are beginning to work in the genre with the ABC's of the craft.


Wired Magazine
Although Wired is predominantly journalism, it published "Stripped for Parts" by Jennifer Kahn, one of the essays you will read as an example of literary journalism, a form of creative nonfiction.

The North American Review
You can check out the North American Review in Kean's Library.