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Sending and Receiving Letters: An Interview With Nadia Ragbar - EVENT
Sending and Receiving Letters: An Interview With Nadia Ragbar - EVENT
Nadia Ragbar lives in Toronto with her partner and son. She has previously published her flash fiction work in This Magazine, as well as Broken Pencil. The Pugilist and the Sailor is her debut novel. Melissa McDonald: The Pugilist and the Sailor is a story about conjoined twins Bruce and Dougie, told across various points...
“Never Trust Any Writer’s Explanations About Process or Anything Else”: An Interview With Tim Bowling
“Never Trust Any Writer’s Explanations About Process or Anything Else”: An Interview With Tim Bowling
As a small boy, Tim Bowling liked to dream about one day publishing a collection of short stories. Fifty-five years later, his dream has come true! The author of 24 other works of poetry and prose, and a recipient of many honours (including five Alberta Book Awards and a Guggenheim Fellowship), Bowling grew up at...
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Our Winter 2025-2026 issue, EVENT 54/3, features Notes on Writing essays by Conor Kerr, Bren Simmers, Pablo Strauss and Jack Wang, new poetry from Jade Y. Liu, Kevin Irie and Carolyn Nakagawa, plus fiction by Jason Jobin and Susan Mersereau, reviews of new fiction and non-fiction books, and much more!
Announcing EVENT's 2025 Non-Fiction Contest Short List
Announcing EVENT's 2025 Non-Fiction Contest Short List
EVENT is proud to announce our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest short list! Judged by Vinh Nguyen, this year’s contest saw 197 submissions. Congratulations to all of the writers on the short list! Contest results will be posted on our website and on social media in late February, and winners contacted before then. The winning entries and...
“Saying No With Love”: A Conversation With Chelene Knight
“Saying No With Love”: A Conversation With Chelene Knight
Chelene Knight is the author of Braided Skin (Mother Tongue 2015), the memoir Dear Current Occupant, winner of the 2018 Vancouver Book Award, and long-listed for the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. Her novel, Junie (Book*hug 2022) is winner of the 2023 Vancouver Book Award, long-listed for the inaugural Carol Shields Fiction...
Poetry: "Vaporwave" by Ellie Sawatzky - EVENT
Poetry: "Vaporwave" by Ellie Sawatzky - EVENT
Read an excerpt from Zilla Jones' short story, "Cut Off." Originally published in EVENT issue 53/3.
“Poetry Is the Potential Space Within the Walls of the Language House”: Cassie Williams Interviews Tolu Oloruntoba
“Poetry Is the Potential Space Within the Walls of the Language House”: Cassie Williams Interviews Tolu Oloruntoba
Tolu Oloruntoba is a project management person and lapsed physician from Ibadan, Nigeria. He is the author of The Junta of Happenstance (Palimpsest Press, 2021), Each One a Furnace, and Unravel (McClelland & Stewart, 2022, 2025). His work has won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize and Governor General’s Literary Award for English Language Poetry. He...
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Celebrate with us! 50 Years of EVENT Magazine: Collected Notes on Writing is now available. EVENT celebrates 50 years of publication with a Notes on Writing anthology, featuring more than 70 personal essays with insights into the joys and struggles of the writer’s life and process, written by notable Canadian writers, including Jane Urquhart, David Bergen, André...
Poetry: "Your Breasts are like Twin Fawns" by Dora Prieto - EVENT
Poetry: "Your Breasts are like Twin Fawns" by Dora Prieto - EVENT
Read an excerpt from Zilla Jones' short story, "Cut Off." Originally published in EVENT issue 53/3.
“We Will Encounter New Things, But We Will Be Able to Understand Them”: An Interview With Ben Ladouceur - EVENT
“We Will Encounter New Things, But We Will Be Able to Understand Them”: An Interview With Ben Ladouceur - EVENT
Ben Ladouceur is an author living on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation (Ottawa). His first book, Otter, was selected as a best book of 2015 by the National Post, nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, and awarded the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award; his second book, Mad Long Emotion, was awarded the Archibald Lampman Prize. He is...
Falling Sideways Through One-Way Gates: Elena Johnson Interviews Natalie Rice - EVENT
Falling Sideways Through One-Way Gates: Elena Johnson Interviews Natalie Rice - EVENT
NATALIE RICE is the author of Nightjar (Gaspereau Press, 2025) and Scorch (Gaspereau Press,2023). Her poems have appeared in journals such as Grain, Queen’s Quarterly, EVENT, TheMalahat Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Terrain.org and several others. She lives in NovaScotia, Canada. FOG Like something distantand bright not everythinghas to be perfect form. What you see at dusk:a...
Poetry: "Steve and I travel to Calgary" by Christina Shah - EVENT
Poetry: "Steve and I travel to Calgary" by Christina Shah - EVENT
Read an excerpt from Zilla Jones' short story, "Cut Off." Originally published in EVENT issue 53/3.
Poetry: "The Flies" by Dennis Cooley - EVENT
Poetry: "The Flies" by Dennis Cooley - EVENT
Read an excerpt from Zilla Jones' short story, "Cut Off." Originally published in EVENT issue 53/3.
The Relationship of Body and Harmony: Rob Taylor interviews Kate Braid - EVENT
The Relationship of Body and Harmony: Rob Taylor interviews Kate Braid - EVENT
Kate Braid has written many books of poetry and creative non-fiction. Her awards include for the Remarkable Woman of the Arts and Pandora’s Collective BC Mentor’s Awards in Vancouver, and for poetry, the Pat Lowther and Vancity Book Prizes. She has also been writer in residence at Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico....
Bushwhacking Through Drafts: Krista Eide Interviews Contest Winner Hilary Fair - EVENT
Bushwhacking Through Drafts: Krista Eide Interviews Contest Winner Hilary Fair - EVENT
HILARY FAIR is a writer from Ontario. Her work has been published in The New Quarterly and is forthcoming in Prairie Fire. Her essays have been short-listed for both the Edna Staebler Award and the CNFC/Humber Literary Review Nonfiction Contest. In 2021, she won the inaugural Amy Award for memoir. KRISTA EIDE: Congratulations on winning first...
Non-Fiction: "Predator, Prey" by Hilary Fair - EVENT
Non-Fiction: "Predator, Prey" by Hilary Fair - EVENT
Read an excerpt from Zilla Jones' short story, "Cut Off." Originally published in EVENT issue 53/3.
Poetry: "I Am Afraid of the Magnolia Blossoms" by Hayden Ward - EVENT
Poetry: "I Am Afraid of the Magnolia Blossoms" by Hayden Ward - EVENT
Read an excerpt from Zilla Jones' short story, "Cut Off." Originally published in EVENT issue 53/3.
Skates, Pads, and Poems: Hannah Macready Interviews Ben von Jagow - EVENT
Skates, Pads, and Poems: Hannah Macready Interviews Ben von Jagow - EVENT
For EVENT Magazine, Hannah Macready interviews Ben von Jagow on his new book of poetry, Goalie, and how sports influences his creative life.
Fiction: "Recognition" by Sara Heinonen - EVENT
Fiction: "Recognition" by Sara Heinonen - EVENT
Fiction: "Cut Off" by Zilla Jones - EVENT
Fiction: "Cut Off" by Zilla Jones - EVENT
Poetry: "High Risk Potentially Lethal" by Jónína Kirton - EVENT
Poetry: "High Risk Potentially Lethal" by Jónína Kirton - EVENT
Fireseed by Mark Mushet and Catherine Graham
Fireseed by Mark Mushet and Catherine Graham
From Issue 51/3: Dying to Live by Liselle York - EVENT
From Issue 51/3: Dying to Live by Liselle York - EVENT
So You Want to Write for EVENT? Here’s What Our Editors Are Looking For - EVENT
So You Want to Write for EVENT? Here’s What Our Editors Are Looking For - EVENT
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