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Shashi Bhat is the Editor of EVENT. She is the author of the novels The Most Precious Substance on Earth (McClelland & Stewart, 2021; Grand Central, 2022), a finalist for the 2022 Governor General’s Award for fiction, and The Family Took Shape (Cormorant, 2013), a finalist for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. Her short story collection, Death by a Thousand Cuts, is forthcoming from M&S in 2024. Her fiction has appeared in publications across Canada, including Best Canadian Stories 2018, 2019 and 2021, Journey Prize Stories 24 & 30, and others. She won the 2018 Journey Prize and has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award for fiction and the Bronwen Wallace Award. She is on the creative writing faculty at Douglas College.
Krista Eide is the Managing Editor of EVENT. She is a past Executive Editor of PRISM international and a former first reader and editorial assistant for EVENT. Her fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in publications across Canada, and she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Krista also has a broad range of experience in consumer magazine publishing, communications and marketing, film and television, and arts administration.
Fiction Editor Christine Dewar Christine Dewar, Fiction Editor at EVENT, is the Coordinator of Performing and Fine Arts (PEFA) at Douglas College. She has been the instructor of Theatre History and PEFA courses for over 20 years. Christine has been the Fiction Editor since 1995, and a reader for EVENT’s Reading Service for Writers since its inception. She also curates art exhibits for the Amelia Douglas Gallery and collaborates in the performance art work of Margaret Dragu (Lady Justice) in an ongoing role as Diligence/Sloth.
Raoul Fernandes is the Poetry Editor of EVENT. He lives with his wife and two sons on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, BC). His first collection of poems, Transmitter and Receiver (Nightwood Editions, 2015) won the Dorothy Livesay Award and the Debut-litzer Award for Poetry in 2016. He is a board member for The Real Vancouver Writers Series and a committee member of the Dead Poets Reading Series. He has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including the Best of the Best Canadian Poetry 2017. Read more about him at raoulfernandes.com.
Marisa Grizenko is EVENT’s Reviews Editor. A writing consultant and editor, she holds an MA from the University of British Columbia and a BA from Concordia University. Her writing can be found at marisagrizenko.com.
Cathy Stonehouse, B.A. Hons (Oxford) M.F.A. (UBC) is a member of EVENT’s Fiction Committee. She is the author of the novel The Causes (Pedlar Press, 2019), two collections of poetry, The Words I Know (Press Gang, 1994) and Grace Shiver (Inanna Publications, 2011) as well as a collection of short fiction, Something about the Animal (Biblioasis 2011). Her fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and literary reviews have appeared in a wide range of literary journals, anthologies and publications, including The Globe and Mail, Best Canadian Stories 2019 &2010, FORCE FIELD: 77 Women Poets of BC, Literary Review of Canada and The New Quarterly. The Editor of EVENT for three years, she also edited the creative nonfiction anthology Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008). Her current interests include experimental fiction, cross-genre writing and illustrated and graphic narrative.
Proofreader Rob Hughes Rob Hughes is EVENT’s Proofreader. He was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, and raised in Burnaby. A graduate of UBC and the Print Futures program at Douglas College, he developed his editing skills doing closed captioning for the hearing impaired, copy-editing a Toronto-based heavy metal magazine, and (with some trepidation) helping his wife complete her manuscripts. When not proofreading EVENT and working full-time as a technical writer, he volunteers for the Society for Technical Communication and the subTerrain Editorial Collective. You can check out his music writing at hellbound.ca and diffmusic.blogspot.com.
Hannah Macready is the Marketing Manager at EVENT. She runs social media, promotions, event planning, and sits on the fiction board for upcoming issue content. She holds an honours Bachelors in Creative Writing from University of Wales Trinity Saint David. In 2017 she received the Maurice Hodgson Award of Creative Distinction. Her writing can be found in Bandit Fiction (UK), SAD Magazine, and in various online publications. See more at hannahmacready.com
Reading Service gillian harding-russell gillian harding-russell is a Reading Service Editor at EVENT. She is a poet, editor and reviewer. She has published four poetry books, including In Another Air (Radiant, 2018), which was short-listed for the City of Regina Saskatchewan Book Award; and five chapbooks, including Fox Love (Alfred Gustav Press, 2016). Her work has been short-listed three times for Exile’s Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Competition; and in 2016, the sequence “Making Sense” was chosen as Best Suite by a Poet at Any Time in Her Career. Her work has appeared in 17 anthologies and been published in journals across Canada. She received an MA from McGill, and a PhD from the University of Saskatchewan, completing her dissertation on postmodern Canadian poetry.
Managing Editor Ian Cockfield Ian Cockfield is the Prose Editor of EVENT’s Reading Service for Writers, and the magazine’s former Managing Editor. He is also a past Fiction Editor of PRISM international. Ian has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, completed SFU’s Fiction Editing & Publishing and Book Editing Immersion workshops, and attended the Banff Centre’s Wired Writing Studio (Fiction). His fiction, non-fiction and poetry have appeared in various Canadian journals, including Prairie FireDescantPRISM international, EVENT, Rampike and the Carleton Arts Review, and in the anthology Exact Fare Only II (Anvil Press, 2003, which he also edited). From 2005 to 2007, he served as President of the BC Association of Magazine Publishers (now the MABC). He has been a freelance editor since 2003 and has edited for UBC Press, Anvil Press, the Vancouver School Board, Douglas College and the UBC Creative Writing Department. He has been on publishing panels at Word on the Street Vancouver, MagNet (Toronto), BC Book and Magazine Week, the Magazine Writers’ Craft Fair (Vancouver) and SFU’s The Writer’s Studio; and has been a judge for the National Magazine Awards, the Alberta Magazine Awards and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards (US).