poetry & prose
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...
Write about a time you were out of your element, a fish out of water. The "fish out of water" story is a classic one, with potential for tension,...
A favourite movie of mine is that 1998 Gwyneth Paltrow flick, Sliding Doors. The narrator runs to catch a subway train. In one version of her life,...
Recall an incident from your childhood and write about it, limiting your narration to the child's perspective, or the "Voice of Innocence." In...
There are four basic different kinds of conflict: Man against man Man against self Man against society Man against nature (or...
Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: A challenge in creative writing is to use a variety of descriptive techniques to depict ordinary scenes and...
Write a scene of a personal experience that risks painting you in a negative light. For example, you could write about a time you bullied somebody,...
This prompt is adapted from an exercise in Brian Kitelely's 3 AM Epiphany. The original prompt, titled "Déjà Vu," asks the writer to write a...
Find a piece of music that reminds you of a time and place from your past. Play it in the background while you write about a personal...
Do something you've never done before. Write about the experience. You might perform spoken word, go to a gun range, drive on the highway at...
