Kate Dooley Reviews Non-Fiction from Madhur Anand and Billy-Ray Belcourt for EVENT 49/3
Kate Dooley Reviews: Madhur Anand, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart, Strange Light, 2020 Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History […]
Creative Non-Fiction Contest Deadline, EXTENDED to October 23: Don’t Miss Out, $3,000 in prizes!
Contest Details: eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/ Deadline Extended: October 23, 2019 (postmarked or submitted online) Genre: Creative Non-Fiction. Prize: $3,000 in prizes ($1,500 First Place, $1,000 Second […]
2018 Non-Fiction Contest Winners
And the winners are… FIRST PLACE ($1,500): ‘Where Things Rise, Unannounced’ by Erin MacNair, North Vancouver, BC SECOND PLACE ($1000): […]
Review: Books by R.M. Vaughan & Michael V. Smith
This non-fiction review first appeared in EVENT 44/2. R.M. Vaughan, Bright Eyed: Insomnia and Its Cultures, Coach House, 2015 Michael […]
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2016 Non-Fiction Contest Shortlist
After many a late night of thrilling reads, EVENT has selected its shortlist for our annual Non-Fiction Contest! Thank you to […]
Non-Fiction Prompt #22
In her short non-fiction piece, “What You Learn in College,” Karen Donley-Hayes writes about a personal experience playing strip spin-the-bottle […]
Review: Sean Arthur Joyce’s Laying the Children’s Ghosts to Rest & Vangie Bergum’s Downstream
This non-fiction review first appeared in EVENT 43/3. Sean Arthur Joyce, Laying the Children’s Ghosts to Rest: Canada’s Home Children […]
Non-Fiction Prompt #14
Write about a time you were out of your element, a fish out of water. The “fish out of water” […]
Non-Fiction Prompt #13
A favourite movie of mine is that 1998 Gwyneth Paltrow flick, Sliding Doors. The narrator runs to catch a subway train. […]
Non-Fiction Prompt #12
Recall an incident from your childhood and write about it, limiting your narration to the child’s perspective, or the “Voice of […]
Non-Fiction Prompt #11
There are four basic different kinds of conflict: Man against man Man against self Man against society Man against nature […]
Non-Fiction Prompt #10
Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: A challenge in creative writing is to use a variety of descriptive techniques to depict ordinary […]