One month left! EVENT’s 2025 Creative Non-Fiction Contest closes Oct 15. ✨ $3,000 in prizes + publication 📚 NEW THIS YEAR: Student entries just $19.95 (includes 1-year subscription) Submit here: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

ALPAY ULKU’s poetry has previously appeared in EVENT, as well as The American Poetry Review, The Fiddlehead and The Malahat Review, and a personal essay was published in Plume. His first collection, Meteorology, was published by BOA Editions. www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

Famous Last Words is back thanks to RCLAS, SAPP zine, @artsnewwest.bsky.social , @eventmags.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social •September 24th, 7 PM •Centennial Lodge, Queen's Park, New Westminster •Free but accepting donations •Reserve tickets: famouslastwordsnewwestep2.eventbrite.ca

As summer fades, a reminder: EVENT subscriptions (3 issues/year, $29.95) keep new poetry, prose & essays coming all year. Our Creative Non-Fiction Contest is open until Oct 15, 2025 — $3,000 in prizes + publication. www.eventmagazine.ca

📚 EVENT is back at #WORDVancouver 2025! Catch Pitch Perfect on Sat, Sept 20 (3:30–4:30 PM) with Shashi Bhat (EVENT), Michelle Cyca (The Narwhal), Jessica Key, and Stephen Smysnuik. We’ll also be at the exhibitor fair all weekend. Stop by our booth, meet the team, and learn Canadian lit mags.

STEPHANIE CHOU is a writer currently living in Vancouver. Her work has previously appeared in BOMB Magazine and has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. This story was the runner-up for last year's CNF contest. Our 2025 contest is now open. Submit here: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

CHIEMEZIEM EVEREST UDOCHUKWU’s writing appears in Evergreen Review, Efiko, Lolwe, and more. He won the EC Michaels Short Story Prize and has been a finalist for the Black Warrior Review Nonfiction Contest, the Quramo Writers’ Prize, and others. www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

I was lucky enough to speak with Kate Braid about her new essay collection, The Erotics of Cutting Grass (@caitlinpress.bsky.social), at her book launch in May. We expanded on that conversation for a print interview which is now online at @eventmags.bsky.social. I hope you enjoy it!

Lisa Baird's latest poetry collection is WHEN WHALES WENT BACK TO THE WATER. Thanks to these literary magazines for supporting her work: @rogueagent.bsky.social @canthius.bsky.social @eventmags.bsky.social @pinholepoetry.bsky.social https://bit.ly/3DNesb7 @eramosageese.bsky.social

A 1-year subscription to EVENT includes three issues per year, delivered right to your door. Subscriptions are also availalbe in 2 and 5-year packages. Learn more and order yours here: www.eventmagazine.ca/product-cate...

NEW on the EVENT Blog: The Relationship of Body and Harmony: Rob Taylor interviews Kate Braid: www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/08/rob-...

CHRISTIAN PAULISICH is a graduate student. He lives in Maryland and is originally from California. His poems have been published in, or are forthcoming from, Southeast Review, Salamander, Frontier Poetry, Literary Matters, Denver Quarterly and others. Find two of Paulisich's poems in EVENT 54/1.

This interview with my friend Hilary Fair, whose winning CNF essay is in @eventmags.bsky.social www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/07/bush...

Read Dennis Cooley's poem, The Flies, now on the EVENT blog: www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/08/poet...

"Soft Furnishings" by Emily Davidson, from the Winter 2024/25 issue of @eventmags.bsky.social.

NEW on the EVENT blog: Bushwhacking Through Drafts: Krista Eide Interviews Contest Winner Hilary Fair "In both writing and therapy, the tool of the trade is the self in relation to life’s material—your own or others’ or, probably most often, both." www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/07/bush...

Touch grass. Then, order EVENT 54/1 to read the winning essays from our 2024 Non-Fiction Contest, plus poetry, fiction, and book reviews. Order here: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

🚨 GUEST JUDGE ANNOUNCEMENT: This year’s Non-Fiction Contest will be judged by Vinh Nguyen: writer, educator, and author of The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse. Submit by Oct 15, 2025. Details: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/ #WritingContest #NonFiction

"Father Fled North" by Nicholas Selig, in the new issue of @eventmags.bsky.social.

SHANE NEILSON is a poet and physician from New Brunswick. Find two of his poems in EVENT 54/1: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

NOFEL is an MTLl-based poet and essayist writing in English and Arabic. His writing has been published by the League of Canadian Poets, Geist, Canadian Notes & Queries, Contemporary Verse 2, and Plenitude, among others. Find three of Nofel's poems in EVENT 54/1: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

Whether you're soaking it up this summer or retreating indoors, consider carving out time for our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest. The deadline is October 15th. 3 winning pieces will be awarded a total of $3,000 in prizes—and published in EVENT. www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

New on the EVENT Blog: Preview “Predator, Prey” by Hilary Fair, the winning essay from our 2024 Non-Fiction Contest. Read here: www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/07/fict... Our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest is now open for submissions. Submit here: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

KELLY SHEPHERD’s third poetry collection, Dog and Moon, has just been published with Oskana (University of Regina Press). His second collection, Insomnia Bird (Thistledown Press, 2018) won the 2019 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. Find three of Shepherd's poems in EVENT 54/1.

ANDREW FRENCH is a queer poet who has published three chapbooks, most recently Buoyhood (Alfred Gustav Press, forthcoming 2025). Beyond their writing, Andrew has talked to their favourite writers on Page Fright: A Poetry Podcast since 2019. Find two of French's poems in EVENT 54/1.

Thinking about submitting to our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest? Our current issue, EVENT 54/1, includes the three winning essays from last year's contest, as well as Michelle Cyca's judges essay. Issues of EVENT are available in print and digital editions: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

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Don't forget, our 2025 Non-Fiction contest is currently open for submissions until October 15th. Up for grabs is $3,000 in total prizes, plus publication in EVENT. $34.95 per entry; includes a one-year subscription (or renewal) to EVENT. Find submission info here: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

CANLIT & SFF OPEN CALLS 👀⬇️

GRACE KWAN is a Malaysian-born sociologist and writer raised in ‘Vancouver,’ the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Their first full-length book The Sacred Heart Motel was published by Metonymy Press in November 2024. Find two of Kwan's poems in EVENT 54/1.

Y.S. LEE is the winner of CV2 ’s 2022 Foster Poetry Prize. Her lyric essay ‘Tek tek’ was shortlisted for the 2022 CBC Nonfiction Prize. Ying’s debut picture book, Mrs. Nobody, is now available from Groundwood Books (April 2025). Find two of Lee's poems in EVENT 54/1.

EVENT 54/1, our Spring/Summer 2025 issue, features the three winning essays of our 2024 Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Michelle Cyca. Don't forget, our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest is now open for submissions! Submit here: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

Read Hayden Ward's poem, I Am Afraid of the Magnolia Blossoms, now on the EVENT blog. Thinking of submitting to EVENT? Reading previously published work is a great first step to seeing your own work in our pages. www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/06/poet...

“Brothers” by Russell Thornton in EVENT 31.2, Summer 2002 @eventmags.bsky.social

“when I dreamed her splintered” by shauna paull from EVENT 31.2 Summer 2002 @eventmags.bsky.social

HILARY FAIR is a writer from Ontario. Her essays have been short-listed for both the Edna Staebler Award and the CNFC/Humber Literary Review Nonfiction Contest. Her essay, Predator, Prey, won the 2024 EVENT Magazine Non-Fiction Contest. Our 2025 contest is now open: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

NEW on the EVENT blog: Hannah Macready interviews Ben von Jagow about his new book of poetry, Goalie. "...as James Carson, editor of Queen’s Quarterly put it, '[Goalie] has both nothing and everything to do with hockey.'" www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/06/hann...

Big thank you to EVENT Magazine for publishing two of my poems in 54/1, out now! Both poems are in my new book! @raoulfernandes.bsky.social @shahshibhat.bsky.social Calvin Wharton @eventmags.bsky.social eventmagazine.ca @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social nightwoodeditions.com/collections/...

Now on the EVENT website: Michelle Hardy reviews We Are Already Ghosts by Kit Dobson and Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele. This review was originally published in the print issue of EVENT 53/3 Read it here: www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/05/mich...

EVENT 54/1 is here. Our Spring/Summer 2025 issue features winning Non-Fiction Contest work (selected by Michelle Cyca), plus new writing from Dennis Cooley, Grace Kwan, Dale Tracy, Liz Stewart & more. Submissions open July 1: www.eventmagazine.ca/submit/

DEARBHAILE HOUSTON is a writer from Ireland. Her work has appeared in Banshee, The Dublin Review, The Irish Times and Tolka. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Trinity College Dublin. Find her short story, Three Stories, in EVENT 53/3.

Now on the EVENT website: Noah Cain reviews three new books of poetry: Scientific Marvel by Chimwemwe Undi, Deviant by Patrick Grace, and Northerny by Dawn Macdonald. This review was originally published in the print issue of EVENT 53/3. Read it here: eventmagazine.ca/2025/05/noah...

Find two new poems by Emily Davidson in EVENT 53/3. Based in Vancouver (on unceded Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh territory), Davidson is the author of Lift (Thistledown, 2019). Her work has appeared in Arc, CV2, The Fiddlehead, Room & more. #CanLit #EVENTmagazine #Poetry

We’re thrilled to share that four poems first published in EVENT have been selected for Best Canadian Poetry 2026 🎉 Congrats to John Wall Barger, Henry Heavyshield, Estlin McPhee & Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi! Out Nov 18 from @biblioasis.bsky.social

Like the geese on our cover (photograph by Madeleine Guenette), we’re stepping forward, out of winter’s grit, into something lighter. This season’s Notes on Writing issue is a companion for the coming spring. Subscribe, purchase, and more: www.eventmagazine.ca/shop/

Now on the EVENT website, read an excerpt of Recognition, a short story by Sara Heinonen. www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/05/fict...

MAYA SOMOGYI (she/her) is a writer from the Sunshine Coast, BC. Her work can be found in the Temz Review and the Literary Review of Canada and is forthcoming in Ricepaper Magazine and PRISM international. Read two of Somogyi's poems in EVENT 53/3.

“Jahan” by Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social in @eventmags.bsky.social "Dear fearful parents, do you shrivel, snivel at pronouns, shake fists at rainbows? Across the playground your children run to greet mine, fluently shouting the names of a whole world"

Thrilled to see familiar names on upcoming awards lists! Danuta Gleed shortlist: Vincent Anioke (53/3), Billy-Ray Belcourt (52/3), Shashi Bhat (our editor!) And Annick MacAskill’s “The Pale” (53/2) is up for a National Magazine Award in fiction. Congrats to all!

Join us this coming Thursday, May 15th for Bite-Sized Lit! 📍 New Westminster Public Library (Main Branch) 🕕 6:00–7:30PM 💻 Attend in person or via Zoom (registration required) Ft. Carleigh Baker, Jen Currin, Shashi Bhat, and host Cathy Stonehouse See nwpl.ca/events for more info.