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 #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 #17
Shashi Bhat • February 20Like Prompt #11, this exercise requires you to consider an unexpected antagonist: your own body. There are countless memoirs about illness, so many...
Non-Fiction Prompt #15
Shashi Bhat • February 15The November 15, 2015 episode of radio show This American Life told several stories around the theme of "Status Updates." Their episode synopsis...
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...
