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It’s NaNonFiWriMo (National Nonfiction Writing Month)

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Marcia Riefer Johnston

NoNonFiWriMo

Thanks to writing coach Nina Amir, founder of National Nonfiction Writing Month (NaNonFiWriMo), November now beckons to writers of nonfiction, too.

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