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...
Non-Fiction Prompt #17
Shashi Bhat • February 20Like Prompt #11, this exercise requires you to consider an unexpected antagonist: your own body. There are countless memoirs about illness, so many...
Non-Fiction Prompt #16
Shashi Bhat • February 17Here'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...
Non-Fiction Prompt #15
Shashi Bhat • February 15The November 15, 2015 episode of radio show This American Life told several stories around the theme of "Status Updates." Their episode synopsis...
Non-Fiction Prompt #14
Shashi Bhat • January 22Write 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,...
