May 14  • 

Preview: “Fracture” by Cassidy McFadzean

CASSIDY McFADZEAN is the author of three books of poetry including Crying Dress (House of Anansi, 2024). Her fiction has appeared in...

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April 8  • 

Connor Harrison Reviews New Essays for EVENT 52/2

Connor Harrison Reviews: Deborah Dundas, On Class, Biblioasis, 2023Tree Abraham, Cyclettes, Book*hug Press, 2022 There is an incredible...

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April 1  • 

Eleanor Hoskins Reviews New Short Story Collections for EVENT 52/2

Eleanor Hoskins Reviews: Chelsea Vowel, Buffalo Is the New Buffalo, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022Corinna Chong, The Whole Animal, Arsenal Pulp...

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March 18  • 

Marcie McCauley Reviews New Fiction for EVENT 52/2

Marcie McCauley Reviews: Marie Hélène Poitras, Trans. Rhonda Mullins, Sing, Nightingale, Coach House Books, 2023Barbara Joan Scott, The...

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March 11  • 

EVENT’S Annual Used Book Sale is Back!

Our biggest fundraiser of the year is back! Join us at the Douglas College concourse in New Westminster between March 18th and 22nd for five...

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March 8  • 

2023 Non-Fiction Contest Winners

Thank you to everyone who entered our 2023 Non-Fiction Contest. And the winners are… FIRST PLACE ($1,500): ‘Flowering,’ Austen Lee,...

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February 23  • 

In the Dream World of Poems: Elena Johnson Interviews Kareem Tayyar

KAREEM TAYYAR’s most recent book, Keats in San Francisco & Other Poems, was published byLily Poetry Review Books in 2022, and his work has appeared...

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February 22  • 

Lara El Mekaui Reviews Two Novels for EVENT 52/2

Lara El Mekaui Reviews: Mariam Pirbhai, Isolated Incident, Mawenzi House, 2022Saeed Teebi, Her First Palestinian, House of Anansi Press,...

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February 13  • 

EVENT Seeks Volunteer First Readers

EVENT Magazine is seeking volunteer first readers Do you love reading? Would you like to help publish the very best in contemporary poetry and...

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January 25  • 

My Lil’wat Love, Song by Russell Wallace

-- RUSSELL WALLACE is an award-winning composer, producer and traditional sing­er from the St’at’imc Nation (Salish). In 2022, he was...

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January 18  • 

Video Poem: fireseed by Mark Mushet and Catherine Graham

https://vimeo.com/858859786 Mark Mushet, a photographer and video producer, recently worked with EVENT contributor Catherine Graham to create a...

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December 18  • 

Nick Thran Reviews New Poetry for EVENT 52/1

Nick Thran Reviews: Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin, Fire Cider Rain, Coach House Books, 2022 rob mclennan, the book of smaller, University of...

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December 11  • 

Avery Qurashi Reviews New Fiction for EVENT 52/1

Avery Qurashi Reviews: Cynthia Flood, You Are Here, Biblioasis, 2022 Clark Blaise, This Time, That Place, Biblioasis, 2022 Both born...

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December 4  • 

Julien Farout Reviews New Novels for EVENT 52/1

Julien Farout Reviews: Michael Hingston, Try Not to Be Strange, Biblioasis, 2022 Heidi Sopinka, Utopia, Hamish Hamilton, 2022 Michael...

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November 23  • 

Susan Sanford Blades Reviews New Fiction for EVENT 52/1

Susan Sanford Blades Reviews: Erica McKeen, Tear, Invisible Publishing, 2022 Jowita Bydlowska, Possessed, Dundurn Press, 2022 What...

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November 6  • 

A Two-Way Flow: Elena Johnson Interviews Samantha Jones

Samantha Jones (she/her) is an earth scientist, writer, and copyeditor based in Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary), Treaty 7 territory. Her words appear in...

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