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"I couldn't sleep. We'd turned off the air conditi "I couldn't sleep. We'd turned off the air conditioning the week before, and now the wheeze of Josh's breathing machine carried cleanly through the vents between our rooms. We might as well have torn down the wall. It shouldn't have bothered me. The sound was as patterned as a whale song: whoosh, hiss, whoosh. It hadn't bothered me the year before. But there I was, rolling from side to back to side, wishing for sounds from the open window: drunks, traffic, anything..." from A.W. Moreno's "Paper Donkeys" in EVENT 50/1
Mehdi M. Kashani lives and writes in Toronto. He w Mehdi M. Kashani lives and writes in Toronto. He was recently selected as a finalist for the Tennessee Williams Fiction Contest.
Issue 50/1 is arriving at your door. This issue fe Issue 50/1 is arriving at your door. This issue features our 2020 Non-Fiction Contest winners and marks the first of three 50th anniversary issues coming out this year. Find work by Aidan Chafe, Liz Harmer, David Zieroth, Klara du Plessis, David Ishaya Osu, and more. Click the link in our bio to order your copy.
If you're looking to get your work published in a If you're looking to get your work published in a Canadian literary magazine, you probably know about submission windows. But, have you ever considered interviews, reviews, and contests? Read our latest blog (link in bio) to find some actionable ways to get your work out into the #CanLit community.
🌿🍃🪴🏡 Mia Fielding is an emerging write 🌿🍃🪴🏡 Mia Fielding is an emerging writer and student majoring in SASAH and art history at the University of Western Ontario.
Avery Qurashi Reviews Novels from Nina Munteanu an Avery Qurashi Reviews Novels from Nina Munteanu and Doreen Vanderstoop for EVENT 49/3-- "While both books present unsettling portraits of ecological dystopias that may incite us to mitigate the disasters they predict, Munteanu’s Diary highlights the urgency of the climate crisis by creating a fictional future wherein humanity’s survival is juxtaposed with the planet’s, whereas Vanderstoop’s Watershed provides a blueprint of how we might struggle and survive as beings that are part of a slowly dying natural world." Read the full review through the link in our bio.
Missed your favourite author’s work in an issue Missed your favourite author’s work in an issue of EVENT? Single issues and back issues are always available through our website📚#supportcanlit
Souvankham Thammavongsa's essay in our Notes on Wr Souvankham Thammavongsa's essay in our Notes on Writing issue explores the intricate beauty of sentences, language, and rhythm in writing.
Leehu Sigler Reviews Poetry Collections from Kevin Leehu Sigler Reviews Poetry Collections from Kevin Spenst, Annick MacAskill, and Simina Banu for EVENT 49/3-- "His penknife is language, wielded with deftness and whimsy. In the process of depicting his desire, he discovers not only his love for an ephemeral lover but also his love for poetry. The debris of consonance foregrounds the words, distracting readers from the absent lover and directing them toward the epiphany that the lover’s existence hinges on the musicality of the poet’s song..." Read the full review through the link in our bio.
Huge congratulations to EVENT contributors Shazia Huge congratulations to EVENT contributors Shazia Hafiz Ramji and Patricia Young for their #NMA21 finalist spots! Find their work in issues EVENT 49/2 and our current issue 49/3 (link in bio)
Flowers in the Concrete: Hannah Macready Interview Flowers in the Concrete: Hannah Macready Interviews Christina Shah-- "I am always looking for that flower growing out of a crack in the concrete, or a bird’s nest on a creosote piling on the working river. I like to think of it as poetic xeriscaping. The speakers my readers can expect to meet are people who’ve seen it all, and I think a certain amount of dark humour comes through. There’s sadness and humour and a real appreciation for the small, explosively beautiful moments that every day offers us...." Read the full interview through the link in our bio.
Cathy Stonehouse Reviews Short Fiction from Jean M Cathy Stonehouse Reviews Short Fiction from Jean Marc Ah-Sen and Katherine Fawcett for EVENT 49/3-- "This is short fiction—but not as we commonly know it. Ah-Sen and Fawcett lead the reader into whole new universes of mash-ups, collisions, borrowings, plot twists and red herrings, one stopping short in a recognizable galaxy, the other heading straight into deep space..." read the full review through the link in our bio.
We are coming up on 50 years of EVENT Magazine-- t We are coming up on 50 years of EVENT Magazine-- thinking back on what was, what is, and what is yet to be. 50 years is 150 issues, some 3,600 authors, thousands of fiction pieces, poems, illustrations, reviews, and essays. 50 years is countless events, readings, book launches; moments of community, both virtual and in-person. There is no doubt things have changed, some for the better, perhaps others for the worse. 50 years from now, we can expect even greater change. Thank you to the artists who have been part of this last half-century.
From the archives: Wayde Compton: Hybridity and Ho From the archives: Wayde Compton: Hybridity and Hogan’s Alley-- "My wife is white so no one’s ever going to look at my daughter and guess that she has any black heritage... All we have to describe that is ‘passing,’ and to say that a baby is ‘passing’ for something seems incredibly wrong. I need to give her some kind of tool to start thinking about these ideas when she grows up. It’s not what she’s doing it’s what other people are doing.” Read the full article through the link in our bio.
Kate Dooley reviews non-fiction work by Dr. Madhur Kate Dooley reviews non-fiction work by Dr. Madhur Anand and Billy-Ray Belcourt in EVENT Issue 49/3-- "‘I want to match every feeling in one partition with its mirror image in the second. I want to trace that four-sided figure: a country’s border drawn by connecting a number of arbitrary dots, the past meeting the future..." Read the full review on our website, through the link in bio.
Take a moment, breathe, let it all in. You’re he Take a moment, breathe, let it all in. You’re here now. You’re here. Photo by @campfirenotes, posing with our friends @granta_magazine
Happy #CanadaBookDay 🇨🇦 We aren’t a book, Happy #CanadaBookDay 🇨🇦 We aren’t a book, per se, but much of the work we publish becomes books, collections, novels, chapbooks, art pieces, and more. Thank you to all the authors who have trusted us with your pre-book work for the last 50 years.
"So I dig up the plant with my Swiss Army knife, c "So I dig up the plant with my Swiss Army knife, cradling its red berries in my handkerchief. In the distance I hear a train and suddenly-- you know how dreams are-- I'm in London at the office and get a call." From Dian Parker's short story, Edward Was Once On A Train in EVENT 49/3
"Whenever I am in the field, I look for elements o "Whenever I am in the field, I look for elements of design such as shape, line, texture, and pattern. In this instance, the vibrant colour of the sea, the ripples on the surface of the water and the intricate shape of the kelp grabbed my attention. I wanted to capture the movement, pattern, and striking colours." Catherine Babault on her cover photo, Kelp at Low Tide 🌿 🌊
Nearly one year ago Hannah Macready interviewed Cu Nearly one year ago Hannah Macready interviewed Curtis Leblanc on publishing in the first wave of the pandemic. Today, Curtis’ words still ring true— “We need words and stories more than ever in this age of isolation. We need that tonic for loneliness. So brew your batch, so to speak!” This interview and more are available online, through the link in our bio.
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