The Man Who Started It All: An interview with EVENT’s Founding Editor, David Evanier

 •  March 27

The past catches up with us in the strangest ways. A few weeks ago, I got an email from EVENT Editor Elizabeth Bachinsky: ‘David Evanier has...

Read more

In a Reality TV Show Kind of Way: A Brief Interview with Benjamin Willems

 •  March 13

Benjamin Willems’s ‘I dream of my standalone Quiznos’ placed second in EVENT’s 2013 Non-Fiction Contest and is featured in our current issue...

Read more


Review: Rachel Wyatt’s Suspicion and Anthony Bidulka’s Stain of the Berry

 •  February 27

This review first appeared in EVENT 42/2 Rachel Wyatt, Suspicion, Coteau Books, 2012 Anthony Bidulka, Stain of the Berry, Insomniac Press,...

Read more

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...

Read more


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...

Read more

Review: Bradley Somer’s Imperfections & C. P. Boyko’s Psychology and Other Stories

 •  February 4

This review first appeared in EVENT 42/2. Bradley Somer, Imperfections, Nightwood Editions, 2012 C.P. Boyko, Psychology and Other Stories,...

Read more


Cities, Airports, Houses, Histories: EVENT interviews Sachiko Murakami

 •  December 23

Sachiko Murakami is the poet responsible for The Invisibility Exhibit (Talonbooks, 2008) and Rebuild (Talonbooks, 2011). She is the poetry editor at...

Read more

Ayelet Tsabari on Writing, Food and Rules

 •  December 3

The pages of EVENT magazine bring you many experienced and established writers. But it is the up-and-coming voices that can be the most exciting to...

Read more


EVENT Magazine at Word Vancouver, featuring Billeh Nickerson and Anne Fleming

 •  October 6

Word Vancouver has come and gone, wrapping up last (rainy) Sunday. Fortunately the organizers managed to move the exhibitors and most of the...

Read more

Peculiar Radiance: An Interview with Sue Sinclair

 •  September 27

Sue Sinclair's latest collection of poetry is Breaker, published by Brick Books and nominated for the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Pat Lowther...

Read more