Announcing EVENT’s 2025 Non-Fiction Contest Short List
Event Mags • February 12EVENT is proud to announce our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest short list! Judged by Vinh Nguyen, this year’s contest saw 197 submissions. “Elvis...
Poetry: “Your Breasts are like Twin Fawns” by Dora Prieto
Event Mags • January 22DORA PRIETO is a Vancouver-based poet and a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her debut collection, Girl Tejido, is...
Poetry: “Vaporwave” by Ellie Sawatzky
Event Mags • December 10ELLIE SAWATZKY is the author of None of This Belongs to Me (Nightwood Editions, 2021). Her poems have appeared most recently in The...
Poetry: “Steve and I travel to Calgary” by Christina Shah
Event Mags • October 11CHRISTINA SHAH lives in Vancouver and works in heavy industry. Her work was short-listed for 2021’s Ralph Gustafson Prize and was selected...
Poetry: “The Flies” by Dennis Cooley
Event Mags • August 11DENNIS COOLEY has been active on the Prairies as poet, editor, critic and publisher. He has received lifetime achievement awards from the League of...
Bushwhacking Through Drafts: Krista Eide Interviews Contest Winner Hilary Fair
Event Mags • July 29HILARY 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...
Non-Fiction: “Predator, Prey” by Hilary Fair
Event Mags • July 8HILARY 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...
Poetry: “I Am Afraid of the Magnolia Blossoms” by Hayden Ward
Event Mags • June 11HAYDEN 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...
Fiction: “Recognition” by Sara Heinonen
Event Mags • May 13SARA HEINONEN’s story collection Dear Leaves, I Miss You All (Mansfield Press, 2013) was shortlisted for a 2014 ReLit Award. Her fiction has...
Poetry: “Glazing” by Michael Goodfellow
Event Mags • March 28MICHAEL GOODFELLOW is the author of the poetry collections Naturalism, An Annotated Bibliography (2022) and Folklore of Lunenburg...
