Ayelet Tsabari on Writing, Food and Rules

 •  December 3

The pages of EVENT magazine bring you many experienced and established writers. But it is the up-and-coming voices that can be the most exciting to...

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EVENT Magazine at Word Vancouver, featuring Billeh Nickerson and Anne Fleming

 •  October 6

Word Vancouver has come and gone, wrapping up last (rainy) Sunday. Fortunately the organizers managed to move the exhibitors and most of the...

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Peculiar Radiance: An Interview with Sue Sinclair

 •  September 27

Sue Sinclair's latest collection of poetry is Breaker, published by Brick Books and nominated for the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Pat Lowther...

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Go Away, I’m Reading. Really: EVENT in conversation with author Anne Fleming

 •  September 23

One year Anne Fleming gave her nephew a book for Christmas and watched from the sidelines as the volume captivated him for the next three hours....

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The Automated Poetry Project

 •  September 21

Remember gumball machines? Of course you do. For me, their draw was never really about the gumball. It was the process. It was putting the coin into...

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2013 Non-Fiction Contest Shortlist Released

 •  August 28

Nine manuscripts were chosen from 94 entries by EVENT’s editor and assistants, and sent without the writers’ names to Russell Wangersky for final...

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Pretending I Don’t Write At All: EVENT Interviews Souvankham Thammavongsa

 •  May 6

Souvankham Thammavongsa was born in Nong Khai, Thailand in 1978. She is the author of two poetry books, one of which, Small Arguments, won a...

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3-for-1 Spring Issue Launch Party!

 •  April 23

Spring has sprung, and EVENT is celebrating with a spring issue mega-launch with our local lit-mag pals, Poetry is Dead and PRISM...

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BREAKING NEWS: Non-fiction contest deadline EXTENDED!

 •  April 11

Well, spring has sprung, and with the longer daylight hours come diversions aplenty, so we're giving all you writers out there an extra week to get...

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Punk’s not dead(lines)

 •  April 9

Libby Zeleke’s non-fiction story, “We Were Punk Rockers” (writing as Livvy Black), was one of the two winning entries in our 2012 Creative...

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