Faced with standardized writing tests, students must write on demand to prompts they haven't chosen. While students have little control over the prompts they must answer or the time and space limitations in which they must answer them, students and teachers have opportunities for meaningful resistance to standardized writing tests in reconsidering their genre of response. This piece narrates the year-long journey of students who successfully responded in a variety of genres to a statewide writing test that traditionally calls for nonfictional prose essays.