{"id":193,"date":"2012-09-21T23:36:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T23:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/?page_id=193"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:56:15","slug":"creative-non-fiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Non-Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Page-list plugin v.6.3 wordpress.org\/plugins\/page-list\/ -->\n<div class=\"page-list page-list-ext \">\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/isme-bennie\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Isme Bennie\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Isme-Bennie-copy-150x150.jpg\" width=\"80\" alt=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Isme Bennie\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/isme-bennie\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Isme Bennie\">Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Isme Bennie<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Moving On \r\nI was never active politically as a student or in my early working years in South Africa. Like my parents, I was respectful of servants and black helpers generally, but any commitment to anti-apartheid stopped there.\r\n\r\nAfter working as a...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/cyril-dabydeen\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Cyril Dabydeen\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Cyril-Dabydeen-pic-150x150.jpg\" width=\"80\" alt=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Cyril Dabydeen\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/cyril-dabydeen\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Cyril Dabydeen\">Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Cyril Dabydeen<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">With E.R. Braithwaite \r\nMemories, feelings: about how he\u2019d visited us, because it was all about the writing life. Truth-telling:  how  I construed it. Yes, excited I became because celebrated author E.R. 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