Non-Fiction Prompts #26-30
Completed some of our previous prompts but don’t feel your essay is quite done yet? Or do you have an […]
Non-Fiction Prompt #25
For this exercise, you’ll write about an incident from your life that has two sides to it. For example, you might […]
Non-Fiction Prompt #24
In Gena Ellett’s essay, “The Back Roads,” which won EVENT’s 2015 Non-Fiction Contest, she writes about the death of a […]
Non-Fiction Prompt #23
When Hemingway was famously challenged by his friends to write a story using only six words, he wrote the following: […]
Non-Fiction Prompt #22
In her short non-fiction piece, “What You Learn in College,” Karen Donley-Hayes writes about a personal experience playing strip spin-the-bottle […]
Non-Fiction Prompt #21
For this exercise, you’ll write a piece of non-fiction in an experimental format: as a list. In a 2011 issue of […]
Non-Fiction Prompt #20
Write one piece about two incidents from your life that occurred in the same place. The two incidents should not be directly […]
Non-Fiction Prompt #19
About a year ago, I came across the following image, which a friend had posted on Facebook: Since then, I’ve […]
Non-Fiction Prompt #18
In this exercise, you’ll imagine what the life of a person you know was like before you met them. You might […]
Non-Fiction Prompt #16
Here’s a prompt to make use of any post-Valentine’s Day ruminating. The New York Times recently began releasing the podcast version […]
Non-Fiction Prompt #15
The November 15, 2015 episode of radio show This American Life told several stories around the theme of “Status Updates.” Their episode […]