Announcing EVENT’s 2024 Non-Fiction Contest Winners

 •  March 28

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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Poetry: “Glazing” by Michael Goodfellow

 •  March 28

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

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A Choreography of Meanings: Elena Johnson Interviews Isabella Wang

 •  March 17

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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Announcing EVENT’s 2024 Non-Fiction Contest Short List

 •  February 27

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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Fiction: “Cut Off” by Zilla Jones

 •  February 27

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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Avery Qurashi Reviews New Fiction for EVENT 53/2

 •  February 18

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

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

 •  February 17

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

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

 •  February 14

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

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Stephen Meisel Reviews New Short Fiction for EVENT 53/2

 •  February 7

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

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Poetry: “High Risk Potentially Lethal” by Jónína Kirton

 •  January 21

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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