Non-Fiction Prompt #24

 •  April 11

In Gena Ellett's essay, "The Back Roads," which won EVENT's 2015 Non-Fiction Contest, she writes about the death of a childhood friend. Early in the...

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Non-Fiction Prompt #23

 •  April 5

When Hemingway was famously challenged by his friends to write a story using only six words, he wrote the following: For sale: Baby shoes, never...

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Non-Fiction Prompt #22

 •  April 4

In her short non-fiction piece, "What You Learn in College," Karen Donley-Hayes writes about a personal experience playing strip spin-the-bottle in...

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Non-Fiction Prompt #21

 •  March 22

For this exercise, you'll write a piece of non-fiction in an experimental format: as a list. In a 2011 issue of Brevity, there appears a very...

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Non-Fiction Prompt #20

 •  March 21

Write one piece about two incidents from your life that occurred in the same place. The two incidents should not be directly related, but they...

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Non-Fiction Prompt #19

 •  March 16

About a year ago, I came across the following image, which a friend had posted on Facebook: Since then, I've showed it to three different...

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Non-Fiction Prompt #18

 •  March 14

In this exercise, you'll imagine what the life of a person you know was like before you met them. You might choose to write about someone many years...

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Non-Fiction Prompt #17

 •  February 20

Like Prompt #11, this exercise requires you to consider an unexpected antagonist: your own body. There are countless memoirs about illness, so many...

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Non-Fiction Prompt #16

 •  February 17

Here's a prompt to make use of any post-Valentine's Day ruminating. The New York Times recently began releasing the podcast version of their Modern...

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Non-Fiction Prompt #15

 •  February 15

The November 15, 2015 episode of radio show This American Life told several stories around the theme of "Status Updates." Their episode synopsis...

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