Prompt #8: National Day Each day presents numerous opportunities, but some are more guided than others. Today, for example, is “National Sneak Some Zucchini Into Your Neighbour’s Porch Day.” Yes, you read that correctly. Although it may seem ridiculous,...
Prompt #7: Refill A warm hug on a bad day, a heart on the top of your latte, or a bus driver that waits as you run for it. These can be some of the things that restore our...
Prompt #6: Destiny Finding money on the ground, running into someone you know halfway across the world, cancelling your uber because of a long wait time and then getting matched with one whose driver gives you life-changing advice: are...
Prompt #5: Coping Everyone deals with pain, stress, and pressure differently. The coping mechanisms, or lack thereof, that we put in place pull at the foundations of relationships in our lives, even if it’s just the relationship with ourselves....
Prompt #3: Limits Limits, and the way we navigate them, tell us a lot about ourselves. Sometimes we are pushed to our limits, and sometimes we push against them. Limits can build slowly, be a combination of what seems...
Prompt #2: Contact On the night bus home, I receive a tap on my shoulder from the person next to me. Pulling out my headphones, I turn my head towards him. He says, “you know you’re never going to...
Prompt #1: Solstice Perhaps the only thing blistering is your tattered feet, clad in a new pair of Birkenstocks, expecting a sunny walk to the bus stop on June 20th, the day the calendar dictated as the first day...
Written by Mariah Devcic. Maybe when you hear crows cawing, you’re transported back to the street you grew up on, walking home from school. Taking a shortcut down an alleyway filled with the smell of simmering onions, it could be...
Written by Matt Cardinal. With our Creative Non-Fiction Contest deadline of July 15th fast approaching, we thought we would give you all some food for thought as you work through your submissions! What keeps people from writing creative non-fiction?...