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...
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...
Cara Waterfall Reviews Three Books of Poetry for EVENT 54/1
Event Mags • October 7Cara Waterfall Reviews: Derek Webster, National Animal, Véhicule Press, 2024Ben Robinson, As Is, ARP Books, 2024Holly Flauto, Permission...
Adam McPhee Reviews New Fiction Books for EVENT 54/1
Event Mags • September 30Adam McPhee Reviews: Wayne Ng, Johnny Delivers, Guernica Editions, 2024 David Spaner, Keefer Street, Ronsdale Press, 2024 It’s 1977 in...
