EVENT is proud to announce our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest short list! Judged by Vinh Nguyen, this year’s contest saw 197 submissions.

• “Elvis and Me,” Hilary Dean
• “Accidental Signatures,” Tazi Rodrigues
• “A Bigger Animal,” Aldona Dziedziejko
• “Fire Mosaic,” Judith Wright
• “Index: From Head to Hand and Back Again,” Leah Sandals
• “Secret Walkman,” Jaime Forsythe
• “Metaphors We Die By,” Jennifer Manuel
• “Making for Grace,” Shelley Wood
• “Waiting for the Bus: a memoir of dementia,” Meredith Quartermain
• “Evidence of a Zombie,” Adrienne Gruber
• “The Shrine,” Hannah Roh

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 judge’s essay will be published in issue 55/1 of EVENT, Spring/Summer 2026.

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