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 •  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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To write about one’s dead: Talking poetry with Renée Sarojini Saklikar.

 •  September 18

We’re happy to bring you an interview with Renée Sarojini Saklikar, writer, poet and EVENT Advisory Board member. Her first book, Children of Air...

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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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Review: Poetry by Russell Thornton, Anne Compton and John Reibetanz.

 •  August 14

This review originally appeared in EVENT 42/3. Russell Thornton, Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain (Harbour Publishing, 2013) Anne Compton, Alongside...

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Summer Reads 2014 (with the EVENT editors)

 •  August 7

Hello beloved readers! We at EVENT thought it would be fun to jot down a few notes on our summer reading picks. If anything here piques your...

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Review: Poetry by Michael Crummey, Michael Mirolla and Stephanie McKenzie

 •  July 24

This review first appeared in EVENT 42/3. Michael Crummey, Under the Keel: Poems (Anansi, 2013) Michael Mirolla, The House on 14th Avenue...

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