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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Here comes the judge…an interview with Russell Wangersky

 •  March 14

EVENT's creative non-fiction contest deadline is only a month and a day away! To help you with that last push to the finish line, we called upon our...

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On Newsstands Now–Our Hot New Issue!

 •  February 20

Perhaps it’s a trifle presumptuous to refer to one’s own magazine as “hot”, but when you see the literary lineup we’ve got in Issue 41.3,...

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We ♥ Our Interns: Carleigh Baker

 •  February 4

Imagine our delight when we heard that Carleigh Baker, one of our very own EVENT interns, had won the subTerrain magazine 2012 Lush Triumphant...

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Hurry! (Writing contests for procrastinators)

 •  January 28

Is there anything a writer likes hearing more than “the deadline’s been extended”? There are a couple of terrific writing contests on right...

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