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Winter 2025-2026 (54/3)

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EVENT is proud to announce our 2025 Non-Fiction Co EVENT is proud to announce our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest short list! Of the 197 submissions we received, our readers selected 11, which were submitted to judge Vinh Nguyen. The winning entries and judge’s essay will be published in issue 55/1 of EVENT, Spring/Summer 2026.

Thank you to all our contributors. Look out for the winners' announcement coming soon!
EVENT 54/3 (Winter 2025–26) is out now, featuring EVENT 54/3 (Winter 2025–26) is out now, featuring essays on writing and not writing by Conor Kerr, Bren Simmers, Pablo Strauss, and Jack Wang; poetry by Chris Bailey, Alamgir Hashmi, Kevin Irie, Jade Y. Liu, rob mclennan, Terence Young, and more; and fiction from Jason Jobin, A.C. Koch, Susan Mersereau, and Rory Say. Also in the issue: reviews by Sumaiya Matin, Avery Qurashi, and Tintin Yang. 

Subscribers will see their issues in the mailbox soon. Single issues and subscriptions can be purchased through the link in our bio.
NEW on the EVENT Blog: “Saying No With Love”: Cait NEW on the EVENT Blog: “Saying No With Love”: Caitlyn Carr Interviews Chelene Knight.

"Publishing can be competitive, but the writing and creative process is so much more than publishing, and this is the bit we often need to be reminded of. Writing is a tool, an art, an action."

Read the full interview through the link in our bio.
AIDAN CHAFE is a poet and educator. His poems have AIDAN CHAFE is a poet and educator. His poems have appeared in CV2, EVENT, The Fiddlehead and PRISM international. He lives on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver). 

Find two of Chafe's poems in EVENT 54/2. Link in bio to subscribe or purchase.
ELLIE SAWATZKY is the author of None of This Belon ELLIE SAWATZKY is the author of None of This Belongs to Me (Nightwood Editions, 2021). Her poems have appeared most recently in The Walrus, Canadian Literature and SAD Mag. She lives in Vancouver, where she works as an editor and poetry teacher. Find her at elliesawatzky.com and @elliesawatzky. 

Find two of Sawatzky's poems in EVENT 54/2.
Got the Juneuary blues? Curl up with a copy of EVE Got the Juneuary blues? Curl up with a copy of EVENT 54/2. Filled with fiction, poetry, and CanLit book reviews, it might be just the thing to break you out of those winter doldrums. 

Single issues or subscriptions available through the link in our bio.
AIDAN CHAFE is a poet and educator. His poems have AIDAN CHAFE is a poet and educator. His poems have appeared in CV2, EVENT, The Fiddlehead and PRISM international. He lives on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver). 

Find two of Chafe's poems in EVENT 54/2.
NEW on the EVENT Blog: “Poetry Is the Potential Sp NEW on the EVENT Blog: “Poetry Is the Potential Space Within the Walls of the Language House”: Cassie Williams Interviews Tolu Oloruntoba.

"I started to write poetry when I was 15 or 16, so this was before I even went to medical school. It is the vocation I have kept at the longest of all. The writing sustained me (not financially lol) through the rest of my teenage years, medical training, and practice. It was always a way to process the inputs I was receiving at each stage of my life. So everything, at every stage, bleeds in."

Read the full interview through the link in our bio.
On the EVENT Blog: an excerpt from "Your Breasts a On the EVENT Blog: an excerpt from "Your Breasts are like Twin Fawns" by Dora Prieto.

"The ecstatic angels of her eyes, so alive, so living,
in the green laser-haze of the party."

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Join us for the Geist 35th Anniversary Issue Launc Join us for the Geist 35th Anniversary Issue Launch Party on Friday, January 30, from 6–8pm, in the back gallery room at The Pleasant (2434 Main Street).

Founder Stephen Osborne will open the evening, followed by readings from Geist, EVENT, and other literary friends, with an open mic to close out the night. There will be cake, drinks and snacks available from the bar—and once things wrap at 8pm, everyone’s invited to drift into the main room and keep the conversation going. 

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NEW on the EVENT Blog: “We Will Encounter New Thin NEW on the EVENT Blog: “We Will Encounter New Things, But We Will Be Able to Understand Them”: Jasper Fleming Interviews Ben Ladouceur.

"They were trying to enact a future, and they felt wholly good about it. Can you imagine such a feeling? Everything was going to be so great... The way people thought: we will encounter new things, but we will be able to understand them, and we will survive through them, and we will enjoy a happiness our parents and their parents never knew or dreamed."

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KEVIN SHAW lives in Ottawa. His poetry has appeare KEVIN SHAW lives in Ottawa. His poetry has appeared in The New Quarterly, CV2, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review and elsewhere. He’s received Arc’s Poem of the Year award and the grand prize in the PRISM international Poetry Contest. His debut poetry collection, Smaller Hours, was published by icehouse press (Goose Lane Editions) in 2017. 

Find two of Shaw's poems in EVENT 54/2.
Happy new year from your friends at EVENT! If you Happy new year from your friends at EVENT! If you haven't yet, pick up a copy (or subscription) of EVENT 54/2.

Cover art for this issue comes from Daniel Sneep, who describes the image this way: "This photograph depicts a simple laundry block in one of the many caravan parks along the coast of North Queensland, Australia. It reflects that human tendency to impose modern conveniences into a setting intended to provide an experience of nature."

Will you be imposing any human tendencies this year?

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The year begins with fresh pages. EVENT 54/2 is ou The year begins with fresh pages. EVENT 54/2 is out now, featuring fresh poetry and prose for winter reading. On the cover: Caravan Park, Wonga Beach by Daniel Sneep. 

Inside, you'll find fiction from Alex Kitt and Maria Saba, creative non-fiction from Russell Thornton, poetry by Dora Prieto, Aidan Chafe and Jess Housty, book reviews by Marguerite Pigeon and Alex Trnka, and much more.

Order your copy, or subscribe today. Link in bio.
LESLIE PALLESON’s (she/her/hers) work has been pub LESLIE PALLESON’s (she/her/hers) work has been published in The Dalhousie Review, The Antigonish Review, filling Station, Room, Descant, Prism Online, The Cape, and has been short-listed and long-listed for various literary awards. She is the winner of the 2022 subTerrain Lush Triumphant Literary Award for Fiction and a 2024 Alberta Magazine Awards silver medal.

Find Palleson's short story, Surrey Girl, in EVENT 54/2. Link in bio to purchase.
There’s still time to make use of our special holi There’s still time to make use of our special holiday deal. Get two EVENT subscriptions for the price of one—a full year of poetry and prose for you and someone you love. 

Single copies of our current issue, EVENT 54/2, are also available for puchase on our website.

Use code 2FOR1 at checkout. Link in bio to purchase.
An uncommon eye for the everyday, and a lifelong c An uncommon eye for the everyday, and a lifelong commitment to art, work, and community.

We’re honoured to publish a new feature from poet Rob Tayloer, reflecting on the life and work of Sandy Shreve. Join us as we mark key anniversaries in her writing, editing, and visual art practice, alongside memories from those who have worked alongside her.

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MEZI is a Vancouver-based poet, photographer and Z MEZI is a Vancouver-based poet, photographer and Zen student. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Malahat Review, filling Station, Plenitude, The Inflectionist, Beyond Queer Words and elsewhere. He is also the author of Medellín (2017), a chapbook of photo-poetry for the benefit of refugees. www.mezi.site.

Find three of Mezi's poems in EVENT 54/1.
MARK TRUSCOTT’s third book, Branches (Book*hug, 20 MARK TRUSCOTT’s third book, Branches (Book*hug, 2018), won the inaugural Nelson Ball Prize. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The Ampersand Review, Antiphony, Columba, Dialogist, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review and elsewhere. marktruscott.ca. 

Find two of Truscott's poems in EVENT 54/2. Link in bio to purchase.
Give a gift that lasts all year. ✨ EVENT’s holida Give a gift that lasts all year. ✨

EVENT’s holiday special is back: 2 subscriptions for $29.95 — one for you, one for your favourite reader.

A full year of poetry, prose, and surprise discoveries, delivered right to the mailbox. Canada shipping included. Limited-time offer.

Each subscription includes three issues per year. Use code 2FOR1 at checkout.
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