EVENT 50th Collected Notes
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EVENT celebrates 50 years of publication with a Notes on Writing anthology, featuring 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.
This is the physical edition of 50 Years of EVENT Magazine: Collected Notes on Writing Click here for a digital edition.
Contents
Messages from EVENT Editors, Past and Present
Alistair MacLeod | ‘At the Moment’ |
Jane Urquhart | Notes on Fiction |
David Carpenter | The Word According to Carp |
Susan Glickman | Notes on Poetry |
Carolyn Smart | Writing from the Heart: South Africa |
Patricia Young | Silvery Magnificence |
Lorna Crozier | Writing My Father with Shame, with Terror |
Cynthia Flood | Dry Dirty Brain |
Nino Ricci | Notes Toward a Portrait of the Artist in Embryo |
Kate Braid | My Job Is to Listen |
Caroline Adderson | A Beginner’s Manual of Yoga for Writers |
David Bergen | Tricks |
Bill Gaston | Trying to Read Piggy Sneed |
Andre Alexis | So Far |
Don Dickison | Voyage from the Silence |
Elise Levine | Waving |
Julie Keith | Spears with Holes in Them |
Russell Thornton | Upon a Hundred Thousand Stages… |
Stephanie Bolster | Barton Fink’s Hotel Room |
George Elliott Clarke | On Writing Now |
Madeleine Thien | The Middle |
Marilyn Dumont | Process: Our Significant Other |
Camilla Gibb | Rebel Forces |
Lydia Kwa | I Keep on Finishing and It Takes Forever… |
Eden Robinson | About the Author |
Kevin Chong | On Writing and Contrarianism |
Ivan Coyote | Maybe She Did, Maybe She Did |
Emily Pohl-Weary | Popular Cultures |
Charlotte Gill | Made You Look |
Lynn Coady | All That’s Holy |
Timothy Taylor | On Writing |
Ruth Roach Pierson | For So Long as One Is Writing a Poem |
Zoe Whittall | Monday to Friday… |
Jen Sookfong Lee | A Writer, and Nothing Else |
Michael V. Smith | Confessions of a Sex Writer |
Rhea Tregebov | Writing Lives |
Russell Wangersky | On Writing and Playing with Fire |
Barry Dempster | The Voice that Will Be Written |
Amber Dawn | The Calling of the Goddess… |
Charles Demers | Remembrance of Things Delirious |
Jenn Farrell | Freezing Time |
Ray Hsu | Call for Acceptance, ‘The Way of Ray’… |
Susan Olding | Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley… |
Wayne Grady | On the Willing Suspension of Disbelief |
Anne Fleming | Novels Are for Children |
Sachiko Murakami | The Central Fact |
50 Years of EVENT Covers
Billeh Nickerson | Shelagh Rogers Called Me a Slut… |
Ayelet Tsabari | How to Make a Cream Sauce |
Gail Anderson-Dargatz | To Dance with a Cat |
Lauren B. Davis | Lies, Lies and More…Fiction |
Marcello Di Cintio | On Travel Writing |
Doretta Lau | When I Was Nearly Young |
Sue Goyette | Home 1,400 m |
Michael Christie | May I Have My Attention? |
Padma Viswanathan | A Hunger for the World |
Naben Ruthnam | Nathan Ripley |
Rahat Kurd | How Reading Drives Writing |
Kevin Spenst | Fill Your Heart with Happenstance… |
Kamal Al-Solaylee | Retreat? Not a Chance… |
David Scott Hamilton | On Not Being a Writer |
J.R. McConvey | The Ouroboros |
Leah Horlick | You Don’t Have to Do This |
Trevor Corkum | Reflections on Writing Mindfully |
Jennica Harper | Holes |
Benjamin Hertwig | On Violence & Memory |
Joy Kogawa | Roosters |
Philip Huynh | The Sidelong Glimpse |
John Elizabeth Stintzi | Notes on a Fragmented Life |
Jas M. Morgan | Unmarketable Lives |
Teresa Wong | Oh No, Have I Killed It? |
Maria Reva | Buy a Goat, Sell a Goat |
Souvankham Thammavongsa | The Nut and Bolt… |
Joshua Whitehead | On Bodies of Writing |