Thanks to @eventmags.bsky.social for including two new poems in their latest issue, including an ode to my moustache 🥸

Did you know you can still grab a copy of our 50th Anniversary Notes on Writing issue? 70+ essays on the art and struggle of writing by Jane Urquhart, André Alexis, Joy Kogawa, Eden Robinson, Joshua Whitehead & more. A perfect gift for the writer in your life. www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

ALEX KITT is an emerging writer from Red Deer, residing in Vancouver. He was the winner of The New Quarterly’s Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award in 2023 and received the 2024 National Magazine Award for Fiction. Find Kitt's story, Memory Box, in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

Thank you to EVENT @eventmags.bsky.social and @raoulfernandes.bsky.social for featuring one the poems in my new book on your blog!! So excited to read 54/2 @allegorically.bsky.social and more! Read 'Steve and I travel to Calgary' here: www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/10/poet...

"Shame Flavoured" by @allegorically.bsky.social, from the Fall 2025 issue of @eventmags.bsky.social.

And check out his collection Gospel Drunk ualbertapress.ca/978177212546...

J.R. MCCONVEY lives in the far west end of Toronto with his family. His fiction has been shortlisted for the Journey Prize and published in Joyland, The Malahat Review, and other journals. His 2019 collection, DIFFERENT BEASTS, won the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

NEW on the EVENT blog: Falling Sideways Through One-Way Gates: Elena Johnson Interviews Natalie Rice "I only sit down to write if I’ve caught myself on a sharp image or have a heard or felt sense of what I want to say..." Read the full interview here: www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/10/elen...

Don't forget, our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest officially closes tomorrow, October 26th. Send us your best work before the end of the day. We won't be extending the deadline any further! Submit here: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

Read “Steve and I travel to Calgary," by Christina Shah. From if: prey, then: huntress, out now. "business causal: the uniform of confusion, which the engineers simply ignore. no one brings proper footwear. harried airport carnival, a carry-on cubic cram..." www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/10/poet...

DORA PRIETO is a Vancouver-based poet and a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her debut collection, Girl Tejido, is forthcoming with House of Anansi (April 2027). Find two of Prieto's poems in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

Didn't get your work in to our 2025 Non-Fiction contest in time? Well, you're in luck! We've extended the deadline to submit until October 26th, 2025. This will be our only extension, so don't fall behind this time. Submit your work here: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

Tomorrow’s the final day to enter EVENT’s 2025 Creative Non-Fiction Contest! Submit your work before time runs out: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

Three days to go. EVENT’s 2025 Non-Fiction Contest closes Oct 15th. $3,000 in prizes, plus publication for winners. Judged by Vinh Nguyen. Submit here: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

Kathryn MacDonald reviews Conversations with the Kagawong River by @sophieanneedwards.bsky.social in the fall 2025 issue of @eventmags.bsky.social! Check it out: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

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: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

One week left to enter EVENT’s 2025 Non-Fiction Contest. $3,000 in prizes, publication for winners, and judged by Vinh Nguyen. Students get a discounted entry (Only $19.95) Deadline: Oct 15th: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

Looking for new books to add to your fall/winter reading list? Reviews from EVENT 54/1 are now up on our website. Read poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and essay reviews from writers Steven Maye, Cara Waterfall, Adam McPhee, and Sanchari Sur. See them all at eventmagazine.ca

EVENT 54/2, our Fall 2025 issue, features 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. www.eventmagazine.ca/product-cate...

2 weeks left! EVENT’s 2025 CNF Contest closes Oct 15. $3,000 in prizes + publication. This year's judge is Vinh Nguyen (Writers’ Trust Prize shortlist). Students can now enter for $19.95: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

New on the EVENT blog. Read an excerpt from “The Remember Timeline” by Stephanie Chou, which won 2nd place in EVENT's 2024 Non-Fiction Contest. Read the full excerpt here: www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/09/the-... Submit to our 2025 Non-Fiction contest here: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

Find two poems by Christina Shah in EVENT 54/1. Her debut rig veda (2023) was followed by if: prey, then: huntress, out now with Nightwood Editions: nightwoodeditions.com/products/978...

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/