Review: Dede Crane’s Every Happy Family & Saleema Nawaz’s Bone and Bread

 •  November 30

This fiction review first appeared in EVENT 43/1 Dede Crane, Every Happy Family, Coteau Books, 2013 Saleema Nawaz, Bone and Bread, House of...

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EVENT Announces 2015 Creative Non-Fiction Contest Winners

 •  September 9

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Launch Party May 8 2015

 •  May 5

Local Lit Mags Launch Party May 8, 2015, at Lost + Found Cafe Join EVENT and local lit mags PRISM international, Room, subTerrain and Poetry is...

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Non-Fiction Contest

 •  April 15

CONTEST DEADLINE EXTENDED! You now have until APRIL 30 to submit your best non-fiction stories to EVENT’s annual Non-Fiction Contest. Riches and...

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On Interning at EVENT: A Note from Brittany McGillivray

 •  January 16

I was beyond thrilled when I found out I had been chosen as the new intern for EVENT. My love of literature has more or less dictated my educational...

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I Read as Scatteredly as I Write: An Interview with Stuart Ross

 •  December 17

Stuart Ross published his first literary pamphlet on the photocopier in his dad’s office one night in 1979. Through the 1980s, he stood on...

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To write about one’s dead: Talking poetry with Renée Sarojini Saklikar.

 •  September 18

We’re happy to bring you an interview with Renée Sarojini Saklikar, writer, poet and EVENT Advisory Board member. Her first book, Children of Air...

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EVENT’s new editor: Farewell from Elizabeth Bachinsky, hello from Shashi Bhat.

 •  September 10

It's been a busy summer here at EVENT. We ran our 27th annual creative non-fiction contest and put out a new Notes on Writing issue. That's not...

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Announcing the winners of EVENT’s 2014 Creative Non-Fiction Contest

 •  September 4

Ten manuscripts were chosen from the entries received by EVENT’s Editor and assistants and sent without the writers’ names to Deborah Campbell...

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Summer Reads 2014 (with the EVENT editors)

 •  August 7

Hello beloved readers! We at EVENT thought it would be fun to jot down a few notes on our summer reading picks. If anything here piques your...

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