Question

What is the difference between fiction and creative nonfiction?

Answer 1

Fiction: Is telling a story with events that are not real.
Creative nonfiction: A genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factual writing.
Hope this helps :)

Answer 2

Fiction is basically a story with fictional elements and is not real. Creative fiction is, as @zoiemoka says, a non-fiction writing that uses literary styles and techniques. So basically, creative fiction won't seem like you are reading a text book.

Here are some Modern Creative Non-fiction examples:

Susan Orlean, My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere
Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life: A Memoir
Russell Baker, Growing Up
Alan Bennett, Untold Stories