Marguerite Pigeon Reviews New Poetry Collections for EVENT 54/2

 •  March 3

Marguerite Pigeon Reviews: Matthew Gwathmey, Family Band, The Porcupine’s Quill, 2024Alice Burdick, Ox Lost, Snow Deep, Anvil Press,...

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Kathryn MacDonald Reviews Three Books of Poetry for EVENT 54/2

 •  March 3

Kathryn MacDonald Reviews: Jaspreet Singh, Dreams of the Epoch & the Rock, NeWest Press, 2024 Michael Trussler, 10:10, icehouse poetry...

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Announcing EVENT’s 2025 Non-Fiction Contest Short List

 •  February 12

EVENT is proud to announce our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest short list! Judged by Vinh Nguyen, this year’s contest saw 197 submissions. “Elvis...

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Poetry: “Your Breasts are like Twin Fawns” by Dora Prieto

 •  January 22

DORA PRIETO is a Vancouver-based poet and a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her debut collection, Girl Tejido, is...

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Poetry: “Vaporwave” by Ellie Sawatzky

 •  December 10

ELLIE SAWATZKY is the author of None of This Belongs to Me (Nightwood Editions, 2021). Her poems have appeared most recently in The...

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Falling Sideways Through One-Way Gates: Elena Johnson Interviews Natalie Rice

 •  October 20

NATALIE RICE is the author of Nightjar (Gaspereau Press, 2025) and Scorch (Gaspereau Press,2023). Her poems have appeared in journals such as...

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Poetry: “Steve and I travel to Calgary” by Christina Shah

 •  October 11

CHRISTINA SHAH lives in Vancouver and works in heavy industry. Her work was short-listed for 2021’s Ralph Gustafson Prize and was selected...

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Cara Waterfall Reviews Three Books of Poetry for EVENT 54/1

 •  October 7

Cara Waterfall Reviews: Derek Webster, National Animal, Véhicule Press, 2024Ben Robinson, As Is, ARP Books, 2024Holly Flauto, Permission...

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Adam McPhee Reviews New Fiction Books for EVENT 54/1

 •  September 30

Adam McPhee Reviews: Wayne Ng, Johnny Delivers, Guernica Editions, 2024 David Spaner, Keefer Street, Ronsdale Press, 2024 It’s 1977 in...

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Steven Maye Reviews New Essay Collections for EVENT 54/1

 •  September 18

Steven Maye Reviews: Jim Johnstone, Bait & Switch: Essays, Reviews, Conversations, and Views on Canadian Poetry, The Porcupine’s Quill,...

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