Indiana State Literacy Association 2021 Conference

In a time when truth can feel malleable and reality sometimes seems unreal, where do the boundaries lie between fiction and nonfiction? This session peels back the choices made in writing what's real--researching, contextualizing, employing real-world truth, fact, understanding to develop a book, whether it’s fiction or nonfiction or something in between. What is historical truth and how does the writer choose to express it? Thinking about the story in history along a fiction-nonfiction continuum offers readers new, shared lenses that are desperately needed in our time.