Poetry, Passion, People and a Plan: EVENT Interviews George Elliott Clarke

 •  April 7

  George Elliott Clarke is a seventh-generation Canadian of African-American and Mi’kmaq Amerindian heritage. Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia in...

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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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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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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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