Notes on Writing: A Preview

 •  June 15

We’ve just mailed out EVENT 44.1, our annual ‘Notes on Writing’ issue (so you can stop those eager daily calls to your local post office)....

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Launch Party May 8 2015

 •  May 5

Local Lit Mags Launch Party May 8, 2015, at Lost + Found Cafe Join EVENT and local lit mags PRISM international, Room, subTerrain and Poetry is...

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Meet Andrew Westoll, Our 2015 Non-Fiction Contest Judge

 •  March 30

EVENT's 2015 Non-Fiction Contest is open for submissions until April 15. You'll have a shot at fame (and $1500 in prizes) for your stories. We're...

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EVENT Breaks Records in Annual Fundraising Book Sale

 •  March 24

EVENT’s Annual Fundraising Book Sale took over the Douglas College Concourse last week with a dazzling—no, stupefying—number of...

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I guess I live in this whale now: An interview with Creative Non-Fiction Contest winner Hilary Dean

 •  January 30

Hilary Dean is a writer and filmmaker from Scarborough, Ontario and the first place winner of EVENT’s 2014 Creative Non-Fiction Contest for her...

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How do we stack up? Complete our survey for a chance to win!

 •  January 29

The time has come once again to find out what YOU think about us! Your responses to this brief survey will tell us who you are, and what you think...

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On Interning at EVENT: A Note from Brittany McGillivray

 •  January 16

I was beyond thrilled when I found out I had been chosen as the new intern for EVENT. My love of literature has more or less dictated my educational...

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I Read as Scatteredly as I Write: An Interview with Stuart Ross

 •  December 17

Stuart Ross published his first literary pamphlet on the photocopier in his dad’s office one night in 1979. Through the 1980s, he stood on...

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Un/inhabitated: EVENT interviews Jordan Abel

 •  October 29

Jordan Abel is a Nisga'a writer from Vancouver, where he is in the process of pursuing a Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University. Abel’s work has...

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Review: Fiction by Corinna Chong and Claire Wilkshire

 •  October 4

This review originally appeared in EVENT 42/3. Corinna Chong, Belinda’s Rings (NeWest, 2013) Claire Wilkshire, Maxine (Breakwater Books,...

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