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Non-Fiction Prompt #25

Shashi Bhat • April 11

For 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 11

In 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 5

When 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 4

In 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 26

This 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 22

For 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...

Non-Fiction Prompt #20

Shashi Bhat • March 21

Write one piece about two incidents from your life that occurred in the same place. The two incidents should not be directly related, but they...

Non-Fiction Prompt #19

Shashi Bhat • March 16

About a year ago, I came across the following image, which a friend had posted on Facebook: Since then, I've showed it to three different...

Non-Fiction Prompt #18

Shashi Bhat • March 14

In this exercise, you'll imagine what the life of a person you know was like before you met them. You might choose to write about someone many years...