Non-Fiction Prompts #26-30

 •  April 13

Completed 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...

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Non-Fiction Prompt #25

 •  April 11

For 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...

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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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Review: Brett Josef Grubisic’s This Location of Unknown Possibilities & Ed MacDonald’s Atomic Storybook

 •  February 22

This fiction review first appeared in EVENT 43/2 Brett Josef Grubisic, This Location of Unknown Possibilities, Now or Never Publishing, 2014 Ed...

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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 #14

 •  January 22

Write 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,...

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Non-Fiction Prompt #13

 •  January 19

A 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,...

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Non-Fiction Prompt #12

 •  January 18

Recall an incident from your childhood and write about it, limiting your narration to the child's perspective, or the "Voice of Innocence." In...

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Non-Fiction Prompt #11

 •  January 15

There are four basic different kinds of conflict: Man against man Man against self Man against society Man against nature (or...

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Non-Fiction Prompt #10

 •  January 13

Making the Familiar Unfamiliar:  A challenge in creative writing is to use a variety of descriptive techniques to depict ordinary scenes and...

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