Announcing EVENT’s 2025 Non-Fiction Contest Winners

 •  March 24

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

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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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Non-Fiction: “The Remember Timeline” by Stephanie Chou

 •  September 11

STEPHANIE CHOU is a writer currently living in Vancouver. Her work has previously appeared in BOMB Magazine and has been supported by the Canada...

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Bushwhacking Through Drafts: Krista Eide Interviews Contest Winner Hilary Fair

 •  July 29

HILARY FAIR is a writer from Ontario. Her work has been published in The New Quarterly and is forthcoming in Prairie Fire. Her essays have been...

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Announcing EVENT’s 2024 Non-Fiction Contest Winners

 •  March 28

EVENT is proud to announce our 2024 Non-Fiction Contest winner's list! Judged by Michelle Cyca, this year’s contest saw 163 submissions. And...

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Announcing EVENT’s 2024 Non-Fiction Contest Short List

 •  February 27

EVENT is proud to announce our 2024 Non-Fiction Contest short list! Judged by Michelle Cyca, this year’s contest saw 163 submissions. Witches...

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Michael Lake Reviews New Essays for EVENT 51/3

 •  August 28

Michael Lake Reviews: Elizabeth Yeoman, Exactly What I Said: Translating Words and Worlds, University of Manitoba Press, 2022Tim Bowling, The...

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Announcing EVENT’s 2022 Non-Fiction Contest Shortlist

 •  January 31

EVENT is proud to announce our 2022 Non-Fiction Contest shortlist, judged by Jenny Heijun Wills. “It’s Funny Because It’s True,”...

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Kate Dooley Reviews Non-Fiction from Madhur Anand and Billy-Ray Belcourt for EVENT 49/3

 •  April 27

Kate Dooley Reviews: Madhur Anand, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart, Strange Light, 2020 Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My...

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Preview Erin MacNair’s Winning 2018 Non-Fiction Contest Entry, “Where Things Rise, Unannounced”

 •  October 18

Erin MacNair's story, "Where Things Rise, Unannounced" was the winner of EVENT's 2018 Creative Non-Fiction Contest. This story appears in EVENT...

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