Announcing EVENT’s 2025 Non-Fiction Contest Short List
Event Mags • February 12EVENT is proud to announce our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest short list! Judged by Vinh Nguyen, this year’s contest saw 197 submissions. “Elvis...
Poetry: “Your Breasts are like Twin Fawns” by Dora Prieto
Event Mags • January 22DORA PRIETO is a Vancouver-based poet and a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her debut collection, Girl Tejido, is...
“An Uncommon Eye”: Reflections on the Life and Work of Sandy Shreve
Event Mags • December 16One of the first friends I made in the poetry world was Sandy Shreve. Despite our gap in age and experience, Sandy took in this wide-eyed...
Poetry: “Vaporwave” by Ellie Sawatzky
Event Mags • December 10ELLIE SAWATZKY is the author of None of This Belongs to Me (Nightwood Editions, 2021). Her poems have appeared most recently in The...
Falling Sideways Through One-Way Gates: Elena Johnson Interviews Natalie Rice
Event Mags • October 20NATALIE RICE is the author of Nightjar (Gaspereau Press, 2025) and Scorch (Gaspereau Press,2023). Her poems have appeared in journals such as...
Poetry: “Steve and I travel to Calgary” by Christina Shah
Event Mags • October 11CHRISTINA SHAH lives in Vancouver and works in heavy industry. Her work was short-listed for 2021’s Ralph Gustafson Prize and was selected...
Cara Waterfall Reviews Three Books of Poetry for EVENT 54/1
Event Mags • October 7Cara Waterfall Reviews: Derek Webster, National Animal, Véhicule Press, 2024Ben Robinson, As Is, ARP Books, 2024Holly Flauto, Permission...
Adam McPhee Reviews New Fiction Books for EVENT 54/1
Event Mags • September 30Adam McPhee Reviews: Wayne Ng, Johnny Delivers, Guernica Editions, 2024 David Spaner, Keefer Street, Ronsdale Press, 2024 It’s 1977 in...
Sanchari Sur Reviews Two Non-Fiction Books for EVENT 54/1
Event Mags • September 18Sanchari Sur Reviews: Mariam Pirbhai, Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging, Wolsak & Wynn, 2023Sadiya Ansari, In...
Steven Maye Reviews New Essay Collections for EVENT 54/1
Event Mags • September 18Steven Maye Reviews: Jim Johnstone, Bait & Switch: Essays, Reviews, Conversations, and Views on Canadian Poetry, The Porcupine’s Quill,...
