See you at WORD Vancouver!

 •  September 23

We’re thrilled to invite all writers, readers and general symbol-users to WORD Vancouver for a celebration of all things written. Festivities take...

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EVENT’s new editor: Farewell from Elizabeth Bachinsky, hello from Shashi Bhat.

 •  September 10

It's been a busy summer here at EVENT. We ran our 27th annual creative non-fiction contest and put out a new Notes on Writing issue. That's not...

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Announcing the winners of EVENT’s 2014 Creative Non-Fiction Contest

 •  September 4

Ten manuscripts were chosen from the entries received by EVENT’s Editor and assistants and sent without the writers’ names to Deborah Campbell...

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2014 Non-Fiction Contest Shortlist

 •  July 18

Last spring, you sent us a heap of non-fiction manuscripts for our 2014 contest. After many evenings of heavy reading and equally many afternoons of...

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Notice of Retraction

 •  February 26

EVENT magazine retracts the following book review, published in the 42/3 Winter 2013/2014 edition of EVENT magazine: Ayelet Tsabari, The Best...

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EVENT 42/3 is here!

 •  February 4

Our latest Contest issue, EVENT 42/3, is now available at newsstands and in our new online store. 42/3 features the three winning entries from our...

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Congratulations to the winners of EVENT’s 2013 Creative Non-Fiction Contest!

 •  January 22

We read. We deliberated. We fought. We laughed. We cried. We deliberated some more. Then, we packaged up what we thought to be the best 10 creative...

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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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CWILA announces inaugural resident critic

 •  December 19

Montreal poet Sue Sinclair, whose poem "The Dead"  appears in EVENT issue 41/2, has been named the Canadian Women in the Literary Arts’ first...

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PRISM IS A DEAD EVENT

 •  January 19

Come help us celebrate! EVENT, Poetry is Dead, and PRISM cordially invite you to a cake-eating, toe-tapping, poetry-reading,...

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