See you at WORD Vancouver!

 •  September 23

We’re thrilled to invite all writers, readers and general symbol-users to WORD Vancouver for a celebration of all things written. Festivities take...

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To write about one’s dead: Talking poetry with Renée Sarojini Saklikar.

 •  September 18

We’re happy to bring you an interview with Renée Sarojini Saklikar, writer, poet and EVENT Advisory Board member. Her first book, Children of Air...

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EVENT’s new editor: Farewell from Elizabeth Bachinsky, hello from Shashi Bhat.

 •  September 10

It's been a busy summer here at EVENT. We ran our 27th annual creative non-fiction contest and put out a new Notes on Writing issue. That's not...

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Announcing the winners of EVENT’s 2014 Creative Non-Fiction Contest

 •  September 4

Ten manuscripts were chosen from the entries received by EVENT’s Editor and assistants and sent without the writers’ names to Deborah Campbell...

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Review: Poetry by Russell Thornton, Anne Compton and John Reibetanz.

 •  August 14

This review originally appeared in EVENT 42/3. Russell Thornton, Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain (Harbour Publishing, 2013) Anne Compton, Alongside...

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Summer Reads 2014 (with the EVENT editors)

 •  August 7

Hello beloved readers! We at EVENT thought it would be fun to jot down a few notes on our summer reading picks. If anything here piques your...

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Review: Poetry by Michael Crummey, Michael Mirolla and Stephanie McKenzie

 •  July 24

This review first appeared in EVENT 42/3. Michael Crummey, Under the Keel: Poems (Anansi, 2013) Michael Mirolla, The House on 14th Avenue...

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2014 Non-Fiction Contest Shortlist

 •  July 18

Last spring, you sent us a heap of non-fiction manuscripts for our 2014 contest. After many evenings of heavy reading and equally many afternoons of...

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Review: Non-Fiction by Carol Shaben and Jay Ruzesky

 •  July 13

This non-fiction review first appeared in EVENT 42/3. Carol Shaben, Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changed the Lives of a Pilot, a...

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Any Semblance of Departure Will Be a Continuation: An Interview with Russell Thornton

 •  June 12

Interview by Elena E. Johnson Russell Thornton’s latest book, Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain (Harbour, 2013), has been shortlisted for the Governor...

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