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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Any Semblance of Departure Will Be a Continuation: An Interview with Russell Thornton

 •  June 12

Interview by Elena E. Johnson Russell Thornton’s latest book, Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain (Harbour, 2013), has been shortlisted for the Governor...

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In Conversation on Conversation: EVENT Interviews Joanne Arnott

 •  May 1

Although often used as a presentation space, the view from the Teck Gallery at Simon Fraser University’s downtown Vancouver campus threatens to...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Go Away, I’m Reading. Really: EVENT in conversation with author Anne Fleming

 •  September 23

One year Anne Fleming gave her nephew a book for Christmas and watched from the sidelines as the volume captivated him for the next three hours....

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Pretending I Don’t Write At All: EVENT Interviews Souvankham Thammavongsa

 •  May 6

Souvankham Thammavongsa was born in Nong Khai, Thailand in 1978. She is the author of two poetry books, one of which, Small Arguments, won a...

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