Non-Fiction Prompt #5
Shashi Bhat • January 6The full prompt: Describe in detail a book, story, magazine, movie or TV show you loved when you were younger. Then use this as a jumping off point...
Non-Fiction Prompt #4
Shashi Bhat • January 5This exercise is inspired partly by Ernest Hemingway's minimalist writing style, and partly by an exercise from John Gardner's craft book, The Art...
Non-Fiction Prompt #3
Shashi Bhat • January 4Since many are returning to school today after the holidays, our third prompt invites you to recall and write about a teacher from when you were in...
Non-Fiction Prompt #2
Shashi Bhat • January 3When I consider the phrase "Missed Connections," I imagine a hollow space, a kind of emptiness where a relationship might have been. Think of those...
Non-Fiction Prompt #1
Shashi Bhat • January 2For the next couple months we'll be posting non-fiction writing prompts in preparation for our 2016 Non-Fiction Contest. Our first prompt is a...
Special Holiday Deal on Subscriptions
Shashi Bhat • December 17Have a bookish friend on your gift list? From now until January 31, 2016 we’re offering a holiday deal: buy one subscription and receive a second...
Review: Paul Vasey’s The River & David Zieroth’s The November Optimist
Shashi Bhat • December 11This non-fiction review first appeared in EVENT 43/1 Paul Vasey, The River: A Memoir of Life in the Border Cities, Biblioasis, 2013 David...
Review: Dede Crane’s Every Happy Family & Saleema Nawaz’s Bone and Bread
Shashi Bhat • November 30This fiction review first appeared in EVENT 43/1 Dede Crane, Every Happy Family, Coteau Books, 2013 Saleema Nawaz, Bone and Bread, House of...
Introducing Creative Non-Fiction Contest Judge Ayelet Tsabari
Shashi Bhat • November 18EVENT’s 2016 Non-Fiction Contest is open for submissions until April 15. Winners receive fame and fortune ($1500 in prizes!). EVENT's editor and a...
#LitMagLove: Room Magazine Interviews EVENT Editor Shashi Bhat
Shashi Bhat • November 3Room Magazine is running a series of interviews on their blog called #LitMagLove, featuring editors of different literary and cultural magazines. For...
