Issue 45-1: Notes on Writing
Shashi Bhat • July 1845-1, EVENT's annual Notes on Writing issue, provides a rare inside glimpse at the lives of five notable Canadian writers. Kevin Spenst writes...
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: Brett Josef Grubisic’s This Location of Unknown Possibilities & Ed MacDonald’s Atomic Storybook
Shashi Bhat • February 22This fiction review first appeared in EVENT 43/2 Brett Josef Grubisic, This Location of Unknown Possibilities, Now or Never Publishing, 2014 Ed...
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 #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,...
