Many of our contributors have gone on to receive awards and prizes after being published in EVENT. Click the links to see which EVENT contributors have won these prestigious awards and prizes.
National Magazine Awards
Western Magazine Awards
Journey Prize
Best Canadian Poetry
Best Canadian Stories
Pushcart Prize, Best of the Small Presses
National Magazine Awards
| 2023 | Finalist: | Personal Journalism Category: Cayenne Bradley, ‘Penance’ (51/1) |
| 2021 | Finalist: | Poetry Category: Shazia Hafiz Ramji, ‘Dear Kin’; ‘Dear Kin (VI)’ (49/3) |
| 2021 | Finalist: | Poetry Category: Patricia Young, ‘The Great Flu’; ‘Song of Birth and Death’; ‘Subject – Verb – Object’ (49/2) |
| 2020 | Winner: | Silver, Poetry Category: Cassidy McFadzean, ‘The Way’/Study of a Torso (48/1) |
| 2016 | Finalist: | Fiction Category: Trevor Corkum, ‘Dar a Luz’ (44/2) |
| Finalist: | Personal Journalism Category: Gena Ellett, ‘The Back Roads’ (44/3) |
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| 2015 | Finalist: | Poetry Category: George Elliott Clarke, ‘Fire!!!’; ‘The Confession of Marie-Josephe Angelique, juin 1734’; ‘The Confession of Marie-Josephe Angelique, juin 1734 [Unexpurgated Translation]’ (43/3) |
| 2014 | Finalist: | Poetry Category: Lisa Robertson, From ‘On Physical Real Beginning and What Happens Next’ (42/3) |
| 2013 | Finalist: | Fiction Category: Craig Davidson, ‘Friday Night Goon Squad’ (41/2) |
| Finalist: | Poetry Category: Sina Queyras, ‘The Dead Ones’ (41/3) |
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| 2012 | Winner: | Gold, Fiction Category: Bill Gaston, ‘Four Corners’ (40/3) |
| Winner: | Silver, Fiction Category: Wayde Compton, ‘The Instrument’ (40/1) |
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| Finalist: | Personal Journalism Category: Chris Donahoe, ‘Busted’ (40/3) |
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| 2011 | Winner: | Gold, Fiction Category: Jeff Stautz, ‘Asymptote’ (39/2) |
| Winner: | Silver, Fiction Category: Jesus Hardwell, ‘Sandcastles’ (39/2) |
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| Finalist: | Poetry Category: Monty Reid, ‘Smoke,’ ‘Update from the ATM’ and ‘For a New Kitchen’ (39/1) |
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| 2010 | Finalist: | Fiction Category: André Alexis, ‘Orpheus’ (38/1) |
| Finalist: | Fiction Category: Carolyn Black, ‘At World’s End, Falling Off’ (38/3) |
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| Finalist: | Personal Journalism Category: Katherine Fawcett, ‘Asleep at the Wheel’ (38/3) |
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| 2009 | Finalist: | Personal Journalism Category: David Janzen, ‘Approaching the Moon in a Stream: Reflections on Li Bai’ (37/3) |
| Finalist: | Personal Journalism Category: J. Jill Robinson, ‘The Letter’ |
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| Finalist: | Poetry Category: Warren Heiti, ‘the uncollected works of sallie chisum’ (37/1) |
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| Finalist: | Fiction Category: Sarah Keevil, ‘Pyro’ (37/1) |
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| 2008 | Finalist: | Personal Journalism Category: Kanina Dawson, ‘Pashtu, for Bird and Other Words that Hurt’ (36/3) |
| 2007 | Finalist: | Personal Journalism Category: Sheree Ann Frappied, ‘Idylwylde Park’ (35/3) |
| 2006 | Winner: | Silver, Personal Journalism Category: Kaitlin Fontana, ‘Sleeping with the Dead’ (34/3) |
| Finalist: | Fiction Category: Kari Strutt, ‘Skyglass Bastard’ (34/2) |
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| 2005 | Finalist: | Fiction Category: Craig Davidson, ‘Rocket Ride’ (33/3) |
| 2004 | Finalist: | Personal Journalism Category: Beth Jones, Inside (32/3) |
| 2003 | Finalist: | Personal Journalism Category: Kanina Dawson, ‘The End of August’ (31/2) |
| 2002 | Winner: | Gold, Personal Journalism Category: Michelle Barker, ‘Blessings,’ (30/2) |
| Finalist: | Poetry Category: John O’Neill, Four Poems (30/3) |
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| Finalist: | Fiction Category: Barry Webster, ‘The Royal Conservatory: Statement and Fugue for Eight Voices’ (30/3) |
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| 2001 | Finalist: | Personal Journalism Category: Gordon Cavenaile, ‘Homemade Pistol: A True Story of Addiction and Suicide’ (29/3) |
| Finalist: | Personal Journalism Category: Marcello Di Cintio, ‘Bone Etchings & Blood Tattoos: Letters from Niger’ (29/3) |
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| 1999 | Finalist: | Poetry Category: Don McKay, Five Poems (27/3) |
| Finalist: | Personal Journalism Category: Pat Krause, ‘Acts of Love’ (27/3) |
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| 1998 | Finalist: | Poetry Category: Julia van Gorder, Three Poems (26/1) |
| 1997 | Winner: | Gold, Personal Journalism Category: Peggy McCann, ‘Water Sky’ (25/3) |
| 1996 | Finalist: | Poetry Category: Tim Bowling, Three Poems (24/2) |
| Finalist: | Poetry Category: A.F. Moritz, ‘The Little Walls Before China’ (24/2) |
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| 1995 | Finalist: | Poetry Category: Sarah Klassen, Three Poems (23/3) |
| 1994 | Winner: | Gold, Poetry Category: Janice Kulyk Keefer, Three Poems (22/1) |
| Finalist: | Personal Journalism Category: Diana Kiesners, ‘Going the Wrong Way’ (22/3) |
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| 1992 | Winner: | Silver, Poetry Category: Elisabeth Harvor, ‘The Street Where We Lived/Madam Abundance/Living With Poets’ (20/1) |
| 1990 | Winner: | Gold, Poetry Category: Janice Kulyk Keefer, ‘Fields’ (18/3) |
| 1988 | Winner: | Silver, Poetry Category: Patricia Young, ‘Four Poems’ (16/2) |
Western Magazine Awards
Journey Prize
| 2020 | Long-list: | Susan Sanford Blades, ‘The Rest of Him’ (48/1) |
| 2020 | Long-list: | Fawn Parker, ‘Feed Machine’ (48/3) |
| 2019 | Long-list: | Jason Jobin, ‘They Would Pour Us Into Boxes’ (47/2) |
| 2018 | Long-list: | Philip Huynh, ‘The Forbidden Purple City’ (46/2) |
| 2016 | Finalist: | J.R. McConvey, ‘How the Grizzly Came to Hang at the Royal Oak Hotel’ (44/1) |
| 2013 | Finalist: | Doretta Lau, ‘How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?’ (38/3) |
| 2010 | Finalist: | Andrew MacDonald, ‘Eat Fist!’ (38/3) |
| 2009 | Finalist: | Paul Headrick, ‘Highlife’ (37/2) |
| Finalist: | Sarah Keevil, ‘Pyro’ (37/1) | |
| 2008 | Finalist: | Théodora Armstrong, ‘Whale Stories’ (36/2) |
| 2003 | Finalist: | Tim Mitchell, ‘Night Finds Us’ (31/3) |
| 2002 | Finalist: | Neil Smith, ‘Green Fluorescent Protein’ (30/3) |
| 2001 | Winner: | Kevin Armstrong, ‘The Cane Field’ (29/1) |
| Finalist: | Annabel Lyon, ‘Fishes’ (29/1) | |
| 2000 | Finalist: | Jessica Johnson, ‘We Move Slowly’ (28/3) |
| Finalist: | Timothy Taylor, ‘Pope’s Own’ (28/3) | |
| 1998 | Finalist: | Madeleine Thien, ‘Simple Recipes’ (26/2) |
| 1994 | Finalist: | Jim Reil, ‘Dry’ (22/3) |
| 1992 | Finalist: | Michael Mirolla, ‘A Theory of Discontinuous Existence’ (20/3) |
| 1992 | Finalist: | Maria Billion, ‘No Miracles Sweet Jesus’ (20/1) |
| 1991 | Finalist: | Sheldon Oberman, ‘This Business With Elijah’ (19/3) |
| 1990 | Finalist: | André Alexis, ‘Despair: Five Stories of Ottawa’ (18/3) |
| 1989 | Finalist: | Bronwen Wallace, ‘Chicken ‘n Ribs’ (17/2) |
| 1989 | Finalist: | Fiction Category: Kevin Van Tighem, ‘Whoopers’ (17/1) |
Best Canadian Poetry
| 2025 | Erin Bedford, ‘For my dad who never read my poems but died with a well-thumbed copy of Watership Down‘ (52/2) | |
| D.A. Lockhart, ‘Hussain Recites Ginsberg While Driving Down Kedzie’ (52/2) | ||
| 2024 | Robert Hogg, ‘Death Is’ (50/3) | |
| Sarah Lachmansingh, ‘he hasn’t arrived and someone has turned on the streetlamps’ (51/2) | ||
| Matt Rader, ‘Heat Dome’ (51/2) | ||
| James Warner, ‘Dame Philosophy’ (50/3) | ||
| 2019 | Sue Chenette, ‘Poem in which I remember Mary Tyler Moore on an April Tuesday’ (47/1) | |
| 2016 | Sheri Benning, ‘Vigil’ (44/1) | |
| Sylvia Symons, ‘Duffle’ (44/2) | ||
| 2014 | Hoa Nguyen, ‘A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure’ (42/3) | |
| 2011 | Al Rempel, ‘We Love Bananas’ (39/2) | |
| Marita Dachsel, ‘Maria & Sarah Lawrence’ (39/2) | ||
| 2010 | Jamella Hagen, ‘Driving Dayton’ (37/3) |
Best Canadian Essays
| 2024 | Nicole Boyce, ‘One Route, Over and Over’ (51/1) | |
| Sandy Pool, ‘I Love Lucy’ (51/2) | ||
| 2016 | Jane Campbell, ‘Good as Dead’ (45/2) |
Best Canadian Stories
| 2025 | Caitlin Galway, ‘Heatstroke’ (52/2) | |
| 2023 | Alexandra Mae Jones, ‘How to Fake a Breakdown’ (50/1) | |
| 2021 | Alice Gauntley, ‘Stripped’ (49/1) | |
| 2016 | Ben Stephenson, ‘Its Size’ (44/2) | |
| 2008 | Amy Jones, ‘What Boys Like’ (36/2) | |
| 2003 | Elisabeth Harvor, ‘One Whole Hour (or Even More) with Proust on Novocaine’ (31/2) | |
| 2002 | Carol Windley, ‘What Saffi Knows’ (30/3) | |
| 2001 | Bill Gaston, ‘The Alcoholist’ (29/2) | |
| 2000 | Stephen Guppy, ‘The Light of Distant Planets’ (28/1) |
Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses
| 1997 | Winner: | Human Experience Category: Gordon Cavenaile (Jeff Walken, pseudonym) ‘Junk’ (25/3) |
