title: Not muddying, clarifying: towards understanding the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction
abstract: Debates about the relationship between fiction and nonfiction are complex but remain critical to the field of book-length journalism, which is grounded in thepractice of representing in words actual people, events and issues. These debates have been flavoured by the conflating of various concepts, which has the effect of muddying rather than clarifying the field. A review of relevant scholarship in narrative and journalism studies shows how some scholars conflate notions of narrative with fictio
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