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Fall 2025 (54/2)

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MARIA SABA is a writer and storyteller in Persian

MARIA SABA is a writer and storyteller in Persian and English. Her novella The Se- cret of Names won the 2023 Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction. Saba’s story collection My First Friend was an Iowa Short Fiction Award semi-finalist, and the title story was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won Scoundrel Time’s Editors’ Choice Award. Born and raised in Iran, she now lives in Ottawa.

Find Saba's short fiction, Crossing Borders, in EVENT 54/2.

CALL FOR COVER ART EVENT is seeking landscape cov

CALL FOR COVER ART

EVENT is seeking landscape cover photography from BC-based photographers. We’re looking for images that are clear, inviting, and strong enough to hold a viewer’s attention.

Our covers wrap front to back, so please keep in mind that the photo needs enough negative space for title and text.

Send low-res jpegs or PDFs to event@douglascollege.ca
. If we’re interested, we’ll follow up for high-res files.

Payment is $200 plus two copies of the issue.

Acclaimed author JOY KOGAWA is best known as the a

Acclaimed author JOY KOGAWA is best known as the author of Obasan (1981), a Canadian novel that has become essential reading for a nation. Among her many honours, Joy has received an Order of Canada (1986), an order of British Columbia (2006) and, from the Japanese Government, an Order of the Rising Sun (2010) for ‘her contribution to the understanding and preservation of Japanese Canadian history.’

Find Kogawa's full Notes on Writing essay, Roosters, in our 50th anniversary issue. Link in bio to purchase.

Author photo by Samuel Engelking

JODY CHAN is a poet, grief and death worker, and c

JODY CHAN is a poet, grief and death worker, and community organizer based in Toronto/Tkaronto. They are the author of three books of poetry, sick (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), impact statement (Brick Books, 2024) and madness belongs to the people (Brick Books, forthcoming in 2026).

Find three of Chan's poems in EVENT 54/2. Link in bio to purchase.

Photo credit: @callmealbs

Did you know you can still purchase copies of our

Did you know you can still purchase copies of our 50th anniversary Notes on Writing issue.

Featuring more than 70 personal essays with insights into the joys and struggles of the writer’s life and process, this issue makes the perfect gift for the writers in your life.

Essays written by notable Canadian writers, including Jane Urquhart, David Bergen, Andre Alexis, Madeleine Thien, Eden Robinson, Jen Sookfong Lee, Zoe Whittall, Joy Kogawa, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Joshua Whitehead, and many others.

Purchase through the link in our bio.

ALEX KITT is an emerging writer from Red Deer, res

ALEX KITT is an emerging writer from Red Deer, residing in Vancouver. He was the winner of The New Quarterly’s Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award in 2023 and received the 2024 National Magazine Award for Fiction.

Find Kitt's short story, Memory Box, in EVENT 54/2. Link in bio to purchase.

J.R. MCCONVEY lives in the far west end of Toronto

J.R. MCCONVEY lives in the far west end of Toronto with his family. His fiction has been shortlisted for the Journey Prize and published in Joyland, The Malahat Review, Weird Horror and other journals. His 2019 collection, DIFFERENT BEASTS, won the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for speculative fiction.

Outside of fiction, his writing has appeared on the CBC Poetry Prize longlist, in The Walrus, the Globe and Mail, the West End Phoenix and other publications, and on TV for Discovery and CBC.

Find McConvey's full essay, The Ouroboros, in our 50th anniversary issue. Link in bio to purchase.

NEW on the EVENT blog: Falling Sideways Through On

NEW on the EVENT blog: Falling Sideways Through One-Way Gates: Elena Johnson Interviews Natalie Rice

"I would say most of my poems occur after walking in the forest. Poems usually come out fairly polished and close to their final form. I only sit down to write if I’ve caught myself on a sharp image or have a heard or felt sense of what I want to say. I like to write in front of a window. I’m lucky enough now to have a writing room that overlooks the tidal river..."

Read the full interview through the link in our bio.

Don't forget, our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest officia

Don't forget, our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest officially closes tomorrow, October 26th. Send us your best work before the end of the day. We won't be extending the deadline any further!

Submit here: https://www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

Read Christina Shah's poem, “Steve and I travel to

Read Christina Shah's poem, “Steve and I travel to Calgary," now on the EVENT blog.

"business causal: the uniform of confusion, which the engineers simply ignore. no one brings proper footwear. harried airport carnival, a carry-on cubic cram..."

“Steve and I travel to Calgary” from if: prey, then: huntress, Christine Shah's latest book, out now with Nightwood Editions. Reprinted with permission from the publisher. Find two of Shah’s poems in EVENT 54/1. Link in bio to read.

DORA PRIETO is a Vancouver-based poet and a 2025–2

DORA PRIETO is a Vancouver-based poet and a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her debut collection, Girl Tejido, is forthcoming with House of Anansi (April 2027). Her poems have appeared in Maisonneuve, Catapult, The Capilano Review and more. She is also co-translating JAWS by Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza and is a member of El Mashup Collective.

Find two of Prieto's poems in EVENT 54/2. Link in bio to purchase.

Didn't get your work in to our 2025 Non-Fiction co

Didn't get your work in to our 2025 Non-Fiction contest in time? Well, you're in luck! We've extended the deadline to submit until October 26th, 2025.

This will be our only extension, so don't fall behind this time. Submit your work through the link in our bio.

AIDAN CHAFE is a poet and educator. His poems have

AIDAN CHAFE is a poet and educator. His poems have appeared in CV2, EVENT, The Fiddlehead and PRISM international. He lives on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver).

Find two of Chafe's poems in EVENT 54/2, now available for purchase through the link in our bio.

There is just one week left to submit to EVENT’s 2

There is just one week left to submit to EVENT’s 2025 Creative Non-Fiction Contest! Prizes total $3,000: $1,500 for First Place, $1,000 for Second, and $500 for Third. All winning essays will be published in EVENT.

This year’s final judge is Vinh Nguyen, author of The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse, shortlisted for the 2025 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

Students can enter for just $19.95 — that’s $15 off the regular fee — and receive a one-year subscription to EVENT.

Deadline: October 15th, 2025
Submit through the link in bio.

Looking for new books to add to your fall/winter r

Looking for new books to add to your fall/winter reading list?

Reviews from EVENT 54/1 are now up on our website. Read poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and essay reviews from writers Steven Maye, Cara Waterfall, Adam McPhee, and Sanchari Sur.

See them all at https://eventmagazine.ca/

EVENT 54/2, our Fall 2025 issue, features fiction

EVENT 54/2, our Fall 2025 issue, features fiction from Alex Kitt and Maria Saba, creative non-fiction from Russell Thornton, poetry by Dora Prieto, Aidan Chafe and Jess Housty, book reviews by Marguerite Pigeon and Alex Trnka, and much more.

Cover art is “Caravan Park, Wonga Beach” by Daniel Sneep.

Please note, due to the ongoing Canada Post strike print issue delivery may be delayed.

Digital issues are also available online, alongside our ongoing subscriptions. Link in bio to purchase.

Two weeks remain to submit to EVENT’s 2025 Creativ

Two weeks remain to submit to EVENT’s 2025 Creative Non-Fiction Contest. Prizes total $3,000: $1,500 for First Place, $1,000 for Second, $500 for Third. All winning essays will be published in EVENT.

This year’s final judge is Vinh Nguyen, author of The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse, shortlisted for the 2025 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

Students can enter for just $19.95 — $15 off the regular fee — with a one-year subscription included.

Submit your work by October 15th. Link in bio.

New on the EVENT blog. Read an excerpt from “The R

New on the EVENT blog. Read an excerpt from “The Remember Timeline” by Stephanie Chou, which won 2nd place in EVENT's 2024 Non-Fiction Contest.

"A few hours later, I am looking at a a crescent of bright orange sun. A shadow travelling at speeds of 1400 to 2500 mph glides across the continent. We look up. The sun is the moon is the sun is the moon. Imagine if you could swallow the sun whole..."

Read the full excerpt through the link in our bio.

And don't forget! Submissions are open for our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest until October 15th. Find the contest submission link, also in our bio.

CHRISTINA SHAH lives in Vancouver and works in hea

CHRISTINA SHAH lives in Vancouver and works in heavy industry. Her work was short-listed for 2021’s Ralph Gustafson Prize and was selected for Best Canadian Poetry 2023. She’s one-fifth of Harbour Centre 5. rig veda (Anstruther, 2023) was her first chapbook.

Find two of Shah's poems in EVENT 54/1, and order her latest book of poetry, if: prey, then: huntress. Out now with Nightwood Editions.

There is officially one month left until our 2025

There is officially one month left until our 2025 Non-Fiction contest deadline! Don't forget to submit your work by October 15th.

New this year! We’re offering deeply discounted contest entry fees and one-year subscriptions to all post-secondary students. Are you completing a creative writing MFA and trying to save on contest submission fees? Are you an undergraduate student trying your hand at submitting for the first time? Submit to EVENT’s annual CNF contest for just $19.95. That’s a full $15 off our standard contest entry fee and includes a one-year subscription to EVENT.

Don’t have an essay ready? Students can still order a one-year subscription for $19.95, saving $10 off our usual rate. Just use coupon code STUDENT when you purchase a one-year subscription at eventmagazine.ca.

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