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Spring/Summer 2026 (55/1)

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Do you have an essay that's a little weird? Take a

Do you have an essay that's a little weird? Take advice from our past guest judge Michelle Cyca and enter it into EVENT's 2026 Non-Fiction Contest!

The contest offers $3,000 in total prizes, and all three winners will be published in EVENT. Your entry fee includes a one-year subscription or renewal. Enter anytime until October 15, 2026.

#writingcontest #nonfictioncontest #nonfiction #cnf #canlit #creativenonfiction

We're eagerly awaiting the arrival of our spring/s

We're eagerly awaiting the arrival of our spring/summer 2026 issue, EVENT 55/1, which features the three winning essays of our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Vinh Nguyen. Plus, poetry by Lorna Crozier, James Owens and Daniela Elza, fiction by Sue Murtagh and Rob Taylor, book reviews by Rebecca Peng, Selena Mercuri and Jay Ruzesky, and much more.

Click the link in our bio to subscribe or renew, and you won't miss it.

RORY SAY is a fiction writer from Victoria. Storie

RORY SAY is a fiction writer from Victoria. Stories of his have recently appeared in The New Quarterly, Air/Light, Metastellar and Grain. A chapbook collection, THE MARKSMAN, was published by Red Bird Chapbooks in 2024, while a full-length collection, NOTHING HAS HAPPENED TO YOU, is forthcoming via Lethe Press.

Read his story "Gladman" in EVENT 54/3.

E.S. TAILLON is a queer, neurodivergent writer bas

E.S. TAILLON is a queer, neurodivergent writer based in Tkaronto. Their French-to-English translation of SCENES FROM THE UNDERGROUND (House of Anansi, 2022) was short-listed for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers. Their most recent translation is THE SEATED WOMAN (House of Anansi, 2025).

Find E.S. Taillon's poems "Sweet Enough to Curl the Tongue" and "Simple Alternating Pattern" in EVENT 54/3.

Did you know that submissions are now open for our

Did you know that submissions are now open for our 2026 Non-Fiction Contest?

We offer $3,000 in total prizes, and all three winners will be published in EVENT. The entry fee is $34.95 per submission, or $19.95 for students, and includes a one-year subscription (or renewal). Deadline: October 15, 2026.

#writingcontest #cnf #nonfiction #canlit

We’re thrilled to announce that @elliesawatzky's p

We’re thrilled to announce that @elliesawatzky's poems “Truth Serum” and “Vaporwave,” from EVENT 54/2, have been nominated for a 2026 National Magazine Award @magawards in Poetry! Big thanks to our poetry editor Raoul Fernandes.

Also, more congratulations: to Kate Cayley for making the @cbcbooks Short Story Prize shortlist. Read Kate’s story “Running” in EVENT 52/3. And to contributor Rebecca Peng (forthcoming in EVENT 55/1) who is a finalist for the @writerstrust RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers (Short Fiction).

JACK WANG is the author of THE RIVETER (Anansi & H

JACK WANG is the author of THE RIVETER (Anansi & HarperVia, 2025) and WE TWO ALONE (Anansi, 2020; HarperVia 2021), long-listed for Canada Reads and winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award from the Writers’ Union of Canada for best debut collection in English. He teaches writing at Ithaca College.

Find his Notes on Writing essay in EVENT 54/3.

This is no April Fools’ Day joke! EVENT is celeb

This is no April Fools’ Day joke!

EVENT is celebrating National Poetry Month by opening for poetry submissions from Canadian writers (citizens in Canada or anywhere in the world, or non-citizen residents of Canada) until April 30! Or until we hit our submission cap (so get your work in early).

Fiction submissions will open in July.

Find submission guidelines in the Linktree in our bio.

We're thrilled to announce the winning essays of o

We're thrilled to announce the winning essays of our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest! Judged by Vinh Nguyen, author of the acclaimed memoir THE MIGRANT RAIN FALLS IN REVERSE, this year's contest saw more than 190 submissions. And the winners are…

FIRST PLACE ($1,500): “Metaphors We Die By,” Jennifer Manuel

SECOND PLACE ($1000): “Waiting for the Bus: a memoir of dementia,” Meredith Quartermain

THIRD PLACE ($500): “The Shrine,” Hannah Roh

The winning entries and judge’s essay will be published in issue 55/1 of EVENT, Spring/Summer 2026. Thank you to all who submitted!

Our current issue, EVENT 54/3, features Notes on W

Our current issue, EVENT 54/3, features Notes on Writing essays by Conor Kerr, Bren Simmers, Pablo Strauss and Jack Wang, new poetry from Jade Y. Liu, Kevin Irie and Carolyn Nakagawa, plus fiction by Jason Jobin and Susan Mersereau, reviews of new fiction and non-fiction books, and much more! Cover photo is by Garrick Bassey.

Digital issues are also available online, alongside our ongoing subscriptions. Link in bio to purchase.

CONOR KERR is a Métis/Ukrainian writer, Labrador-r

CONOR KERR is a Métis/Ukrainian writer, Labrador-retriever wrestler and English professor from the Prairies who has lost every major literary award in Canada—some multiple times. He is the author of five books.

Find Kerr's Notes on Writing essay, Half-Dozen Oysters, in our current issue: EVENT 54/3. Subscriptions and single issues can be purchased through the link in our bio.

EVENT is offering a paid part-time internship oppo

EVENT is offering a paid part-time internship opportunity, starting this May. If you’re a student or recent graduate in the Vancouver area who wants to gain hands-on experience with an award-winning literary magazine, please get in touch! The application deadline is March 31, 2026. For details, see the link in bio, or visit eventmagazine.ca.

EVENT's annual book used sale fundraiser is back!

EVENT's annual book used sale fundraiser is back! Join us March 16 to 20 at Douglas College’s New Westminster campus for a huge selection of fiction, poetry, YA & kids’ books, cookbooks, textbooks, CDs, DVDs/Blu-rays, magazines, and much more. The sale runs Monday through Friday, 10 am to 5 pm, with new books and deals arriving each day. All proceeds go to support the magazine. See you there!

NEW on the EVENT Blog: “Sending and Receiving Lett

NEW on the EVENT Blog: “Sending and Receiving Letters: Melissa McDonald Interviews Nadia Ragbar.

"I love to send and receive letters in the mail—I think it’s such a lovely, gentle, thoughtful act. When I was a teenager, I didn’t actually realize that I loved to write until I was exchanging letters with someone—I had always loved to read, but until that point writing was purely utilitarian, for homework."

Read the full interview through the link in our bio.

PABLO STRAUSS is a translator of fiction from Queb

PABLO STRAUSS is a translator of fiction from Quebec and non-fiction from wherever. He was born In Williams Lake, grew up in Victoria, and has lived in Quebec City for two decades.

Find Strauss' Notes on Writing essay, Finding the Right Music, in our current issue: EVENT 54/3.

JADE Y. LIU is a Chinese-Canadian poet from the un

JADE Y. LIU is a Chinese-Canadian poet from the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. A recipient of the George McWhirter Prize in Poetry, she has been short listed for Arc’s Poem of the Year and has twice won Reader’s Choice in CV2’s 2-Day Poem Contest. Other work appears in Chestnut Review, HAD and elsewhere.

Find two of Liu's poems in EVENT 54/3.

NEW on the EVENT Blog: “Never Trust Any Writer’s E

NEW on the EVENT Blog: “Never Trust Any Writer’s Explanations About Process or Anything Else”: Marie-Ange Horn Interviews Tim Bowling

"Tick, tick, tick. There go a few more seconds. Grab them and try to hold them. You can’t. And as you get older, your desire for holding onto time increases as the strength of your grip decreases. If anything, I’m more time-haunted now than ever, more aware of the ephemerality of everything... So how can an aging person hold on and celebrate as the final darkness approaches? One way is through art."

Read the full interview through the link in our bio.

JESS HOUSTY (’CÚAGILÁKV) is a parent, herbalist an

JESS HOUSTY (’CÚAGILÁKV) is a parent, herbalist and land-based educator from the community of Bella Bella. They live and thrive in their Heiltsuk homelands surrounded by the generational abundance of both human and non-human kin. Jess’s debut poetry collection Crushed Wild Mint was published by Nightwood Editions in 2023.

Find three of Housty's poems in EVENT 54/2.

EVENT is proud to announce our 2025 Non-Fiction Co

EVENT is proud to announce our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest short list! Of the 197 submissions we received, our readers selected 11, which were submitted to judge Vinh Nguyen. The winning entries and judge’s essay will be published in issue 55/1 of EVENT, Spring/Summer 2026.

Thank you to all our contributors. Look out for the winners' announcement coming soon!

EVENT 54/3 (Winter 2025–26) is out now, featuring

EVENT 54/3 (Winter 2025–26) is out now, featuring essays on writing and not writing by Conor Kerr, Bren Simmers, Pablo Strauss, and Jack Wang; poetry by Chris Bailey, Alamgir Hashmi, Kevin Irie, Jade Y. Liu, rob mclennan, Terence Young, and more; and fiction from Jason Jobin, A.C. Koch, Susan Mersereau, and Rory Say. Also in the issue: reviews by Sumaiya Matin, Avery Qurashi, and Tintin Yang.

Subscribers will see their issues in the mailbox soon. Single issues and subscriptions can be purchased through the link in our bio.

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