2016 Non-Fiction Contest Shortlist
Shashi Bhat • August 3After many a late night of thrilling reads, EVENT has selected its shortlist for our annual Non-Fiction Contest! Thank you to all the writers who...
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 #14
Shashi Bhat • January 22Write 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,...
Non-Fiction Prompt #13
Shashi Bhat • January 19A 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,...
Non-Fiction Prompt #12
Shashi Bhat • January 18Recall an incident from your childhood and write about it, limiting your narration to the child's perspective, or the "Voice of Innocence." In...
Non-Fiction Prompt #11
Shashi Bhat • January 15There are four basic different kinds of conflict: Man against man Man against self Man against society Man against nature (or...
Non-Fiction Prompt #10
Shashi Bhat • January 13Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: A challenge in creative writing is to use a variety of descriptive techniques to depict ordinary scenes and...
Non-Fiction Prompt #9
Shashi Bhat • January 12Write 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,...
Non-Fiction Prompt #8
Shashi Bhat • January 11This 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...
