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Fall 2025 (54/2)

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

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 2025–27 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

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 Creat

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

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.

ALPAY ULKU’s poetry has previously appeared in E

ALPAY ULKU’s poetry has previously appeared in EVENT, as well as The American Poetry Review, The Fiddlehead and The Malahat Review, and a personal essay was published in Plume. His first collection, Meteorology, was published by BOA Editions. He grew up in Calgary and lives in Samsun, on the Black Sea coast of Türkiye.

Find two of Ulku's poems in EVENT 54/1. Link in bio to purchase or subscribe.

As summer slips into its last light, we’re here

As summer slips into its last light, we’re here with a reminder:

A subscription to EVENT offers three issues a year for $29.95, a subscription that keeps poetry, prose, and essays arriving long after the season changes.

Also, our Creative Non-Fiction Contest is open until October 15th, 2025. $3,000 in prizes, with winning work published in EVENT.

Buy, submit, or subscribe through the link in our bio.

EVENT is excited to once again be part of WORD Van

EVENT is excited to once again be part of WORD Vancouver's 2025 festival!

Join us Saturday, September 20, 2025 from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM for Pitch Perfect, featuring EVENT Editor Shashi Bhat, as well as The Narwhal's Michelle Cyca, and publisher Stephen Smysnuik. Moderated by subTerrain Magazine's Jessica Key.

We'll also have a booth setup all weekend long at the exhibitor fair. Come say hi, meet our staff, and learn more about Canadian literary magazines.

See you then!

STEPHANIE CHOU is a writer currently living in Van

STEPHANIE CHOU is a writer currently living in Vancouver. Her work has previously appeared in BOMB Magazine and has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.

Chou's story was the runner-up for EVENT's 2024 Non-Fiction Contest. Our 2025 contest is now open for submissions until October 15th, 2025. Submit via the link in our bio.

CHIEMEZIEM EVEREST UDOCHUKWU’s writing appears i

CHIEMEZIEM EVEREST UDOCHUKWU’s writing appears in Evergreen Review, Efiko, Lolwe, Jellyfish Review and Peatsmoke Journal. He won the EC Michaels Short Story Prize and has been a finalist for the Black Warrior Review Nonfiction Contest, the Quramo Writers’ Prize, the Nigerian NewsDirect Poetry Prize and the Dawn Project Competition.

Find Udochukwu's short story, Much More Than a Pet, in EVENT 54/1: https://www.eventmagazine.ca/product/event-54-1/

A 1-year subscription to EVENT includes three issu

A 1-year subscription to EVENT includes three issues per year, delivered right to your door.

Subscriptions are also availalbe in 2 and 5-year packages. Learn more and order yours through the link in our bio.

NEW on the EVENT Blog: The Relationship of Body an

NEW on the EVENT Blog: The Relationship of Body and Harmony: Rob Taylor interviews Kate Braid

"My personal way of dealing with the current horrors in the world is to seek beauty, most often by going outside. Not just with casual glances but paying attention to beauty and harmony of any kind – seeing trees sway, feeling the power in their bark, watching waves roll over sand and looking into my puppy’s solemn eyes..."

Read the full interview through the link in our bio.

CHRISTIAN PAULISICH is a graduate student. He live

CHRISTIAN PAULISICH is a graduate student. He lives in Maryland and is originally from California. His poems have been published in, or are forthcoming from, Southeast Review, Salamander, Frontier Poetry, Literary Matters, Denver Quarterly and others.

Find two of Paulisich's poems in EVENT 54/1.

Read Dennis Cooley's poem, The Flies, now on the E

Read Dennis Cooley's poem, The Flies, now on the EVENT blog.

"the sun rattles the fields
dry as corn stalks, as stubborn,
her thoughts dinging against the lid
drain in coffee cups and dirt..."

Link in bio to read the full poem.

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