30 Non-Fiction Writing Prompts
Event Mags • February 24“Writing is an act of great courage, and writing creative non-fiction raises up the stakes even higher. It is not a genre for the...
Non-Fiction Prompts #26-30
Shashi Bhat • April 13Completed 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...
Non-Fiction Prompt #25
Shashi Bhat • April 11For 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...
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...
Non-Fiction Prompt #23
Shashi Bhat • April 5When Hemingway was famously challenged by his friends to write a story using only six words, he wrote the following: For sale: Baby shoes, never...
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...
Non-Fiction Prompt #21
Shashi Bhat • March 22For 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...
Non-Fiction Prompt #20
Shashi Bhat • March 21Write one piece about two incidents from your life that occurred in the same place. The two incidents should not be directly related, but they...
Non-Fiction Prompt #19
Shashi Bhat • March 16About 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...
Non-Fiction Prompt #18
Shashi Bhat • March 14In 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...
