Enter EVENT’S 2024 Non-Fiction Contest!
Event Mags • September 24Our 2024 Non-Fiction Contest deadline is now extended until October 20, 2024. Featuring $3,000 in total prizes, plus publication in EVENT....
50 Years of EVENT Magazine: Collected Notes on Writing
Event Mags • March 15Celebrate with us! 50 Years of EVENT Magazine: Collected Notes on Writing is now available.EVENT celebrates 50 years of publication with a Notes...
30 Non-Fiction Writing Prompts
Event Mags • February 24“Writing is an act of great courage, and writing creative non-fiction raises up the stakes even higher. It is not a genre for the...
REVIEWS from the ARCHIVES: Greg Bechtel’s “Boundary Problems” Kathy Page’s “Paradise & Elsewhere “
Event Mags • January 17REVIEWS from EVENT 44.1 Greg Bechtel's Boundary Problems & Kathy Page's Paradise & Elsewhere With a title like Boundary Problems, Greg Bechtel’s...
“Never Trust Any Writer’s Explanations About Process or Anything Else”: An Interview With Tim Bowling
Shashi Bhat • February 23As 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!...
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...
“Saying No With Love”: A Conversation With Chelene Knight
Shashi Bhat • February 9Chelene Knight is the author of Braided Skin (Mother Tongue 2015), the memoir Dear Current Occupant, winner of the 2018 Vancouver Book Award, and...
“Poetry Is the Potential Space Within the Walls of the Language House”: Cassie Williams Interviews Tolu Oloruntoba
Shashi Bhat • January 26Tolu Oloruntoba is a project management person and lapsed physician from Ibadan, Nigeria. He is the author of The Junta of Happenstance (Palimpsest...
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...
“We Will Encounter New Things, But We Will Be Able to Understand Them”: An Interview With Ben Ladouceur
Shashi Bhat • January 12Ben Ladouceur is an author living on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation (Ottawa). His first book, Otter, was selected as a best...
“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...
