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...
Non-Fiction Prompt #7
Shashi Bhat • January 9Find 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...
Non-Fiction Prompt #6
Shashi Bhat • January 7Do 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...
Non-Fiction Prompt #5
Shashi Bhat • January 6The full prompt: Describe in detail a book, story, magazine, movie or TV show you loved when you were younger. Then use this as a jumping off point...
Non-Fiction Prompt #4
Shashi Bhat • January 5This exercise is inspired partly by Ernest Hemingway's minimalist writing style, and partly by an exercise from John Gardner's craft book, The Art...
Non-Fiction Prompt #3
Shashi Bhat • January 4Since many are returning to school today after the holidays, our third prompt invites you to recall and write about a teacher from when you were in...
Non-Fiction Prompt #2
Shashi Bhat • January 3When I consider the phrase "Missed Connections," I imagine a hollow space, a kind of emptiness where a relationship might have been. Think of those...
Non-Fiction Prompt #1
Shashi Bhat • January 2For the next couple months we'll be posting non-fiction writing prompts in preparation for our 2016 Non-Fiction Contest. Our first prompt is a...
