Gena Ellett a National Magazine Awards Finalist
Shashi Bhat • May 3Hey guess what? Gena Ellett is a National Magazine Awards finalist in the Personal Journalism category! Her nominated essay, "The Back Roads," first...
Trevor Corkum a National Magazine Awards Finalist
Shashi Bhat • May 2Congratulations to Trevor Corkum, whose glittering, haunting story, "Dar a Luz," has been selected as one of three finalists for the National...
Spring Launch Event
Shashi Bhat • April 27What are you doing next Thursday? Come schmooze with lit mag folks, hear some brilliant readings and performances, pick up an issue, eat some...
Non-Fiction Prompts #26-30
Shashi Bhat • April 13Completed some of our previous prompts but don't feel your essay is quite done yet? Or do you have an older essay you'd like to whip into shape to...
Non-Fiction Prompt #25
Shashi Bhat • April 11For this exercise, you'll write about an incident from your life that has two sides to it. For example, you might describe an argument between...
Non-Fiction Prompt #24
Shashi Bhat • April 11In Gena Ellett's essay, "The Back Roads," which won EVENT's 2015 Non-Fiction Contest, she writes about the death of a childhood friend. Early in the...
Non-Fiction Prompt #23
Shashi Bhat • April 5When Hemingway was famously challenged by his friends to write a story using only six words, he wrote the following: For sale: Baby shoes, never...
Non-Fiction Prompt #22
Shashi Bhat • April 4In her short non-fiction piece, "What You Learn in College," Karen Donley-Hayes writes about a personal experience playing strip spin-the-bottle in...
Review: Sean Arthur Joyce’s Laying the Children’s Ghosts to Rest & Vangie Bergum’s Downstream
Shashi Bhat • March 26This non-fiction review first appeared in EVENT 43/3. Sean Arthur Joyce, Laying the Children’s Ghosts to Rest: Canada’s Home Children in the...
Non-Fiction Prompt #21
Shashi Bhat • March 22For this exercise, you'll write a piece of non-fiction in an experimental format: as a list. In a 2011 issue of Brevity, there appears a very...
