Non-Fiction Prompt #24
Shashi Bhat • April 11In 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Like Prompt #11, this exercise requires you to consider an unexpected antagonist: your own body. There are countless memoirs about illness, so many...
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...
The November 15, 2015 episode of radio show This American Life told several stories around the theme of "Status Updates." Their episode synopsis...