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Winter 2024-2025 (53/3)

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Join us this coming Thursday, May 15th for Bite-Si

Join us this coming Thursday, May 15th for Bite-Sized Lit! An evening of short stories, conversation, and live readings.

📍 New Westminster Public Library (Main Branch)
🕕 6:00–7:30PM
💻 Attend in person or via Zoom (registration required)

Featuring Carleigh Baker, Jen Currin, Shashi Bhat, and host Cathy Stonehouse

See nwpl.ca/events for more info.

There’s a lot happening at EVENT this season—a

There’s a lot happening at EVENT this season—and we’d love to have you in the mix.

1. Our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest is now open and offers $3,000 in total prizes and publication in EVENT. Deadline to submit is October 15, 2025. Find more info through the link in our bio.

2. We’re also on the lookout for striking cover art from BC-based photographers. Think mood, texture, and images that reward a second look. Wraparound format. Curious? Details in our bio.

3. If you simply want to read something rich and resonant this season, consider subscribing to EVENT. We offer 1, 2, and 5 year subscriptions. Every subscription includes three issues per year—delivered straight to your door (Canadian shipping included; international shipping applies).

Support Canadian literature! Submit. Subscribe. Share.

HAYDEN WARD is a writer and musician living in Tio

HAYDEN WARD is a writer and musician living in Tiohti:áke/Montreal on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. He holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia Okanagan, where he was the recipient of the Creative Writing Prize. His poetry has appeared in Grain and EVENT, among others, and anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry 2021.

Find two of Ward's poems in EVENT 53/3.

Did you know, submissions are now open for our 202

Did you know, submissions are now open for our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest?

The contest offers a total of $3,000 in total prizes. All three winners will be published in EVENT.

The entry fee is $34.95 per submission, which includes a one-year subscription (or renewal) to EVENT.

Submissions are accepted online via Submittable or by post.
Deadline: October 15, 2025 (submitted or postmarked)

Guest judge to be announced. Find more info through the link in our bio.

Where are they going—and would you follow? The

Where are they going—and would you follow?

The geese on our EVENT 53/3 cover (photographed by Madeleine Guenette) are perfectly in step with the season: winter’s behind them, and spring is ahead.

Inside this issue:
Notes on Writing by Vincent Anioke, Adèle Barclay, and Kayla Czaga.
New fiction from Zilla Jones and Sara Heinonen.
Poetry by Jim Johnstone, Rahat Kurd, and Amber McMillan.
Plus reviews and more to accompany you wherever you're headed next.

Purchase single issues and subscriptions through the link in our bio.

KAYLA CZAGA is the author of three books of poetry

KAYLA CZAGA is the author of three books of poetry: For Your Safety Please Hold On (Nightwood Editions, 2014), Dunk Tank (House of Anansi, 2019) and Midway (House of Anansi, 2024).

Find Czaga's Notes on Writing essay, How Long Does It Take?, in EVENT 53/3. Link in bio to purchase.

You can still order copies of our 50th anniversary

You can still order copies of our 50th anniversary issue on the EVENT website!

This Notes on Writing anthology features more than 70 personal essays with insights into the joys and struggles of the writer’s life and process, 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.

Order yours through the link in our bio.

PAUL DHILLON’s (he/him) work has appeared in The

PAUL DHILLON’s (he/him) work has appeared in The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire and Geist. He holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia. He lives on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Coast Salish peoples with his sweetie and their brindled mutt. He is a high school English teacher.

Find three of Dhillon's poems in EVENT 53/3. Link in bio to purchase.

Spring is here, and EVENT 53/3 makes for ideal rea

Spring is here, and EVENT 53/3 makes for ideal reading as the season turns.

This issue features Notes on Writing by Vincent Anioke, Adèle Barclay and Kayla Czaga, new fiction from Zilla Jones, Sara Heinonen, Dearbhaile Houston and Hsien Chong Tan, and poetry by Jim Johnstone, Rahat Kurd, Amber McMillan, Jess Yuan and more—plus cover art by Madeleine Guenette.

It's time to take your reading outside! Order a copy or subscribe through the link in our bio.

VINCENT ANIOKE is a Nigerian-Canadian writer and s

VINCENT ANIOKE is a Nigerian-Canadian writer and software engineer. He won the 2021 Austin Clarke Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the 2023 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award. Perfect Little Angels, published by Arsenal Pulp Press in April 2024, is his debut short story collection.

Find Anioke's full Notes on Writing essay in EVENT 53/3. Link in bio to purchase.

MAYA SOMOGYI (she/her) is a writer from the Sunshi

MAYA SOMOGYI (she/her) is a writer from the Sunshine Coast, BC. Her work can be found in the Temz Review and the Literary Review of Canada and is forthcoming in Ricepaper Magazine and PRISM international. She graduated from the University of Victoria with a BA in English Honours and Writing.

Find two of Somogyi's poems in EVENT 53/3. Link in bio to purchase.

We're excited to announce the winners of our 2024

We're excited to announce the winners of our 2024 Non-Fiction Contest! Judged by journalist, essayist, and literary critic Michelle Cyca, this year's contest saw more than 160 submissions.

And the winners are…
FIRST PLACE ($1,500):
‘Predator, Prey,’ Hilary Fair, Clinton, ON

SECOND PLACE ($1000):
‘The Remember Timeline,’ Stephanie Chou, Vancouver, BC

THIRD PLACE ($500):
‘Witches of Silver Creek,’ Adèle Barclay, Vancouver, BC

The winning entries and judge’s essay will be published in issue 54/1 of EVENT, Spring/Summer 2025. Thank you to all who submitted!

On the EVENT blog: A Choreography of Meanings: Ele

On the EVENT blog: A Choreography of Meanings: Elena Johnson Interviews Isabella Wang

"The poems originate out of occasions, sentiments, and grief, and oftentimes I am inventing a form outright to be a more fitting vessel for the conceptual aesthetics of what I want to express."

Read the full interview on the EVENT website. Or, through the link in our bio.

AMBER McMILLAN is the author of This Is a Stickup,

AMBER McMILLAN is the author of This Is a Stickup, The Running Trees, The Woods: A Year on Protection Island and We Can’t Ever Do This Again. She has been a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Award, the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry, the New Brunswick Book Awards and the Atlantic Book Awards. She lives in New Brunswick on Wolastoqey/Maliseet territory.

Find three of McMillan's poems in EVENT 53/3.

Cover art for EVENT 53/3 comes from Madeleine Guen

Cover art for EVENT 53/3 comes from Madeleine Guenette.

Are you a BC-based photographer who would like to see their work on one of our covers? EVENT accepts cover art submissions on a rolling basis. We generally look for landscape images that have a large background, so we can some flexibility on the title and spine.

Think you have the right pic? Find submission link and guidelines in our bio.

MICHAEL GOODFELLOW is the author of the poetry col

MICHAEL GOODFELLOW is the author of the poetry collections Naturalism, An Annotated Bibliography (2022) and Folklore of Lunenburg County (2024), both published by Gaspereau Press. His poems have appeared in the Literary Review of Canada, The Dalhousie Review and elsewhere. He lives in Nova Scotia.

Find two of Goodfellow's poems in EVENT 53/3: https://buff.ly/Iz3xXZy

ADÈLE BARCLAY is the recipient of the 2016 Lit PO

ADÈLE BARCLAY is the recipient of the 2016 Lit POP Award, The Walrus 2016 Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry and The Fiddlehead‘s 2022 Fiction Contest. They are the author of If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You, which won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and Renaissance Normcore, both with Nightwood Editions.

Find Barclay's full essay, Every Possible Way, in EVENT 53/3.

EVENT 53/3 presents three incisive essays on writi

EVENT 53/3 presents three incisive essays on writing by Vincent Anioke, Adèle Barclay, and Kayla Czaga. In these pages, they explore the alchemy of their craft—transforming pain into poetry, questions into prose, and the raw material of the world into art.

For a deeper dive into our collected reflections on writing, explore our 50th Anniversary Anthology. Both the anthology and this issue are available for purchase now through the link in our bio.

EVENT's annual book sale fundraiser is back! Join

EVENT's annual book sale fundraiser is back! Join us March 17-21st at the Douglas College New Westminster campus to get your hands on our curated collection of books.

We collect books all year long from local writers, teachers, and readers, ranging from fiction to poetry, textbooks, and beyond. This is one sale you don't want to miss!

The sale runs Monday through Friday from 10am to 5pm, with new books and deals arriving each day. Stop by often to get your hands on the best goods.

See you there!

EVENT is proud to announce the shortlist of our 20

EVENT is proud to announce the shortlist of our 2024 Non-Fiction Contest shortlist! Of the 163 submissions we received, our readers selected 10 for the short list, submitted to judge Michelle Cyca. The winning entries and judge’s essay will be published in issue 54/1 of EVENT, Spring/Summer 2025.

Thank you to all our contributors. Look out for the winner's announcement coming soon!

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