Unusual genres/text types

Longform Journalism, also known as Narrative Journalism, is new to me, but looks like a genre students might enjoy.

I discovered Hint Fiction at a workshop at NCTE only to discover that NPR did a great story about it and the New Yorker had a column about it.

How about a two sentence story?

How about the one pager?

How about having students write an open letter? Here are a few potential mentors:

• An Open Letter to Every Senior Waiting to Hear from Colleges

• An Open Letter to Our High School

• An Open Letter to my High School Self

• Dear Medium: A Writer's Open Letter

• An Open Letter to my High School Bullies

Listicles

• What's a listicle? And here are some examples (but warning -- some dead links.)

• Listicles-like (these pieces contain lists of some sort) How 50 Cent, Rapper and Actor, spends his weekend, What Bill Nye can't travel without, and Billie Elish is in the mood for love., Thanks to Paige Timmerman 's blog on Moving Writers for these mentors.