May 22  • 

Noah Cain Reviews Three Books of Poetry for EVENT 53/3

Noah Cain Reviews: Chimwemwe Undi, Scientific Marvel, House of Anansi Press, 2024Patrick Grace, Deviant, University of Alberta Press,...

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May 22  • 

Amanda Earl Reviews New Poetry from AJ Dolman and Concetta Principe for EVENT 53/3

Amanda Earl Reviews: AJ Dolman, Crazy/Mad, Gordon Hill Press, 2024Concetta Principe, Disorder, Gordon Hill Press, 2024 In two recent...

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May 22  • 

Michelle Hardy Reviews Novels from Kit Dobson and Sydney Hegele for EVENT 53/3

Michelle Hardy Reviews: Kit Dobson, We Are Already Ghosts, University of Calgary Press, 2024Sydney Hegele, Bird Suit, Invisible Publishing,...

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May 13  • 

Fiction: “Recognition” by Sara Heinonen

SARA HEINONEN’s story collection Dear Leaves, I Miss You All (Mansfield Press, 2013) was shortlisted for a 2014 ReLit Award. Her fiction has...

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March 28  • 

Announcing EVENT’s 2024 Non-Fiction Contest Winners

EVENT is proud to announce our 2024 Non-Fiction Contest winner's list! Judged by Michelle Cyca, this year’s contest saw 163 submissions. And...

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March 28  • 

Poetry: “Glazing” by Michael Goodfellow

MICHAEL GOODFELLOW is the author of the poetry collections Naturalism, An Annotated Bibliography (2022) and Folklore of Lunenburg...

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March 17  • 

A Choreography of Meanings: Elena Johnson Interviews Isabella Wang

ISABELLA WANG is the author of the chapbook, On Forgetting a Language, and her full-lengthdebut, Pebble Swing, shortlisted for the Dorothy...

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February 27  • 

Announcing EVENT’s 2024 Non-Fiction Contest Short List

EVENT is proud to announce our 2024 Non-Fiction Contest short list! Judged by Michelle Cyca, this year’s contest saw 163 submissions. Witches...

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February 27  • 

Fiction: “Cut Off” by Zilla Jones

ZILLA JONES is an African-Canadian woman writing in Treaty 1 (Winnipeg). In 2023, she won the Journey Prize and was shortlisted for the Bronwen...

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February 18  • 

Avery Qurashi Reviews New Fiction for EVENT 53/2

Avery Qurashi Reviews: RM Vaughan, Pervatory, Coach House Books, 2023Russell Smith, Ed., Secret Sex: An Anthology, Dundurn Press,...

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February 17  • 

Michael Lake Reviews New Non-Fiction for EVENT 53/2

Michael Lake Reviews: Mike Barnes, Sleep Is Now a Foreign Country, Biblioasis, 2023Steacy Easton, Daddy Lessons, Coach House Books,...

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February 14  • 

Brett Josef Grubisic Reviews New Queer Fiction for EVENT 53/2

Brett Josef Grubisic Reviews: Jen Currin, Disembark, House of Anansi, 2024Myriam Lacroix, How It Works Out, Doubleday Canada, 2024 In...

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February 7  • 

Stephen Meisel Reviews New Short Fiction for EVENT 53/2

Stephen Meisel Reviews: Allison Graves, Soft Serve, Breakwater Books Limited, 2023Jennifer Falkner, Above Discovery, Invisible Publishing,...

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January 21  • 

Poetry: “High Risk Potentially Lethal” by Jónína Kirton

JÓNÍNA KIRTON, a Red River Métis and Icelandic poet, was 61 when she received the 2016 Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for an Emerging Artist in...

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November 28  • 

12 Curated Gift Ideas for Canadian Literature Enthusiasts

Winter is here, and that means the season of gift-giving is upon us. For writers, or friends of writers, finding the right gift is never easy. You...

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November 26  • 

Fiction: “Net” by Alex Leslie

ALEX LESLIE has published two collections of poetry, The things I heard about you (Nightwood, 2014) and Vancouver for Beginners (Book*hug,...

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