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Spring/Summer 2026 (55/1)

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Take a peek inside our summer issue ⛱️ Want to g

Take a peek inside our summer issue ⛱️

Want to get your hands on the best new writing? Discover fiction, poetry, and more from emerging and established authors in EVENT 55/1. Get your copy through the link in our bio.

Want to see your work in print? Prose and poetry submissions reopen in August for Canadian authors. We can’t wait to read your work.

Six new Canadian books in three thoughtful reviews

Six new Canadian books in three thoughtful reviews.

Our latest online reviews from EVENT 54/3 are now on the blog:

• Sumaiya Matin reviews short fiction by Rabindranath Maharaj and Pratap Reddy.
• Avery Qurashi reviews novels by Clea Young and Catherine Bush.
• Tintin Yang reviews a lyrical memoir by Andrea Currie and a novel by Edem Awumey.

Read all three reviews through the link in our bio.

Looking for places to submit your writing? EVENT'

Looking for places to submit your writing?

EVENT's monthly newsletter includes a curated roundup of literary magazine submissions, writing contests, and publishing opportunities from across Canada.

Sign up for the EVENT newsletter through the link in our bio.

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CASSIDY MENARD (she/her) was born and raised in Ye

CASSIDY MENARD (she/her) was born and raised in Yellowknife. She has a bachelor’s degree in writing from the University of Victoria and served on the editorial board of The Malahat Review. Her work has appeared in Grain, The Fiddlehead, SAND Journal, and was long-listed for the 2024 Room Magazine Fiction Contest.

Read her full story, Remind Me Tomorrow in EVENT 55/1. Order yours through the link in our bio.

WINSHEN LIU learned how to play mahjong late in li

WINSHEN LIU learned how to play mahjong late in life compared to her cousins. Her chapbook, Paper Money, was published with Driftwood Press in 2025. In addition to writing, she loves long-distance train travel, baking and bakeries, and stickers. You can follow her work at winshenliu.com.

Find two of Liu’s poems in EVENT 55/1.

🌈 Have some dreamy work you’d love to see in print? EVENT is open to poetry and prose submissions in July and August. Read the full guidelines through the link in our bio.

Whether you’re reading on the beach or staying coo

Whether you’re reading on the beach or staying cool indoors, bring summer with you in EVENT 55/1.

The cover art is 'Patio Parasol' by Hannah Block, who describes the image as an invitation to pause, look up from our screens, and turn our faces toward the sky.

Inside, you’ll find the three winning essays from the 2025 Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Vinh Nguyen, alongside new poetry, fiction, and book reviews.

Order your copy through the link in our bio.

📢 UPDATE: We have met our submission cap for gener

📢 UPDATE: We have met our submission cap for general submissions, and will reopen submissions for Canadian citizens and residents in August!

This July and August, we invite writers to submit their work for consideration.

July 1-31:
General fiction and poetry submissions are welcome, with a special invitation to BIPOC writers.

August 1-31:
Canadian fiction and poetry submissions are open to Canadian citizens and residents.

We encourage you to submit early, as spaces are limited. Find the full guidelines and submit through the link in our bio.

Congratulations to Jennifer Manuel, first-place wi

Congratulations to Jennifer Manuel, first-place winner of EVENT's 2025 Non-Fiction Contest for her essay "Metaphors We Die By."

Manuel's debut novel, The Heaviness of Things That Float, won the 2017 Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction. She has also published YA and children’s books, including a Red Cedar Award nominee. In 2025, she was short-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize. She lives on Vancouver Island and teaches literature at Shawnigan Lake School.

Read her winning essay in EVENT 55/1. Purchase the issue or subscribe through the link in our bio.

Read “Organic Matter,” one of three poems by Elain

Read “Organic Matter,” one of three poems by Elaine Lee featured in EVENT 55/1, now on the EVENT blog.

Click the link in our bio to read the poem and find two more of Lee’s poems in the full issue.

NEW on the EVENT Blog: “Stand Up For Yourself on t

NEW on the EVENT Blog: “Stand Up For Yourself on the Page”: An Interview with Memoirist Nicole Breit.

“Writing gives me a feeling of personal power and authority over my life when I often felt powerless at the time of an event I'm writing about. … We embody a deep sense of power when we have the courage to say, ‘This happened to me, and here was the impact.’ To stand up for yourself on the page and speak your truth really does set you free.”

In this conversation, Nicole Breit reflects on memoir, grief, experimentation, and the transformative possibilities of creative nonfiction.

Read the full interview through the link in our bio.

EVENT 55/1 is here! Our Spring/Summer 2026 issue

EVENT 55/1 is here! Our Spring/Summer 2026 issue 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, reviews of new fiction and poetry books, and much more!

Purchase the issue or subscribe through the link in our bio.

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!

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