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Winter 2024-2025 (53/3)

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EVENT's annual book sale fundraiser is back! Join

EVENT's annual book sale fundraiser is back! Join us March 17-21st at the Douglas College New Westminster campus to get your hands on our curated collection of books.

We collect books all year long from local writers, teachers, and readers, ranging from fiction to poetry, textbooks, and beyond. This is one sale you don't want to miss!

The sale runs Monday through Friday from 10am to 5pm, with new books and deals arriving each day. Stop by often to get your hands on the best goods.

See you there!

EVENT is proud to announce the shortlist of our 20

EVENT is proud to announce the shortlist of our 2024 Non-Fiction Contest shortlist! Of the 163 submissions we received, our readers selected 10 for the short list, submitted to judge Michelle Cyca. The winning entries and judge’s essay will be published in issue 54/1 of EVENT, Spring/Summer 2025.

Thank you to all our contributors. Look out for the winner's announcement coming soon!

Cover art for EVENT 53/3 comes from Madeleine Gue

Cover art for EVENT 53/3 comes from Madeleine Guenette, titled: At Marrello's Farm.

"This photo was taken at Marrello's Farm in Blewett, BC. The farm is home to horses, chickens, geese, sheep, cows, peacocks, and many more animals. I used to take my photography class here every year to cover the animal category, and the students always enjoyed their visits," says Guenette.

Are you a BC-based photographer looking to get your work featured in EVENT? Head to eventmagazine.ca/cover-art-event/ to submit your work.

Reviews from our previous issue, EVENT 53/2, are n

Reviews from our previous issue, EVENT 53/2, are now available to read on our website.

This issue featured reviews from Michael Lake, Avery Qurashi, Brett Josef Grubisic, and Stephen Meisel.

Read them all at eventmagazine.ca

EVENT 53/3 is our Notes on Writing issue, and incl

EVENT 53/3 is our Notes on Writing issue, and includes three new essays from notable writers.

VINCENT ANIOKE is a Nigerian-Canadian writer and software engineer. He won the 2021 Austin Clarke Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the 2023 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award. Perfect Little Angels, published by Arsenal Pulp Press in April 2024, is his debut short story collection.

Read Anioke's essay, Call of the Void, when you order or subscribe. Link in bio to purchase.

EVENT 53/3, the Winter 2025 issue, is here! This

EVENT 53/3, the Winter 2025 issue, is here!

This issue features Notes on Writing essays by Vincent Anioke, Adèle Barclay and Kayla Czaga, new short fiction from Zilla Jones and Sara Heinonen, poetry by Jim Johnstone, Rahat Kurd and Amber McMillan, reviews of recent poetry and fiction, and much more.

Cover art for this issue comes from Madeleine Guenette . Titled, “At Marrello’s Farm.”

Order your copy through the link in our bio.

Now on the EVENT website. Read the poem, High Risk

Now on the EVENT website. Read the poem, High Risk Potentially Lethal by Jónína Kirton. Read the poem through the link in our bio.

Kirton's poem was featured in this month's EVENT newsletter, along with a short writeup. Sign up to see future contributor notes, publishing opportunities, and more. That link is also in our bio.

Don't miss out! Our 2-for-1 subscription deal ends

Don't miss out! Our 2-for-1 subscription deal ends tomorrow!

A year subscription to EVENT includes three issues delivered right to your door. Subscriptions are available in both print and digital, in one, two, and five year deals.

Use code 2FOR1 at checkout to redeem. Purchase link in bio.

JAS M. MORGAN is a Cree-Métis-Saulteaux curator,

JAS M. MORGAN is a Cree-Métis-Saulteaux curator, editor, writer, SSHRC doctoral scholarship recipient and McGill Art History PhD student. Morgan won the 2019 Dayne Ogilive Prize and has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, an Indigenous Voices Literary Award, and several National Magazine Awards.

They were nominated as the lead editor for the summer 2017 issue of Canadian Art in the “Best Editorial Package” category — an issue on the theme of Kinship. Their writing has appeared in The Malahat Review, Room, GUTS, Mice, esse, The Inuit Art Quarterly, Teen Vogue, and other publications. Morgan’s first book nîtisânak was released in 2019. They currently live in Toronto.

Find Morgan's essay, Unmarketable Lives, in our 50th anniversary issue. Link in bio to purchase.

EVENT is still seeking cover photo submissions fr

EVENT is still seeking cover photo submissions from BC-based photographers.

In Editor Shashi Bhat's words:

"We're looking for unique photos that catch the eye--on newsstands, on social media, on a coffee table--and we particularly love photos that suggest a theme, a dinstinct mood and/or narrative. Photos should be in landscape format and contain enough negative space for us to include the title, issue number, bar code, call-outs, et-cetera."

Have a photo you think fits? Send it to via the link in our bio.

Cover art for issue 53/2 comes from @patrick_conaty

TEYA HOLLIER (she/her) is a graduate of York Unive

TEYA HOLLIER (she/her) is a graduate of York University’s creative writing program. Her work has recently appeared in The Soap Box Press, Grain, Room and Verses Magazine. She is the 2022 recipient of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers (fiction). Hollier lives in Toronto and is currently working on her first novel.

Find Teya's non-fiction work, The Weight of the World, in EVENT issue 53/2. https://buff.ly/3Yt3CyY

There's still time to get your hands on print and

There's still time to get your hands on print and digital copies of our Fall issue (53/2).

Shop individual issues online, or take advantage of our 2-for-1 subscription deal, happening until January 31st. Use coupon code 2FOR1 at checkout to get three issues of EVENT per year, delivered right to your door.

Purchase through the link in our bio.

Carolyn Smart is the author of six volumes of poet

Carolyn Smart is the author of six volumes of poetry and an award-winning memoir. Two of her poetry collections have been internationally staged as full-length performances. She is the founder of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, poetry editor for the MacLennan Series of McGill-Queen’s University Press, and for 32 years she was Director of Creative Writing at Queen’s University, mentoring generations of emerging authors.

TOSH SHERKAT (they/them) is a Persian-Doukhobor se

TOSH SHERKAT (they/them) is a Persian-Doukhobor settler-of-colour born on Sinixt territory (Nelson, BC). They are an MFA candidate studying poetry at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan) on Syilx territory. Their writing has appeared in filling Station, carte blanche, Terrain.org and others, and is forthcoming at Grain.

Photo credit: Sandy Ibrahim

Until January 31, purchase a print or digital subs

Until January 31, purchase a print or digital subscription to EVENT and receive a second subscription for FREE. Use coupon code 2FOR1 at checkout to share the best in contemporary poetry, fiction, and reviews with a fellow reader—or keep both for yourself!

Click the link in our bio to subscribe.

Happy 2025 from your friends at EVENT! A reminder

Happy 2025 from your friends at EVENT! A reminder that we are accepting Canadian fiction and poetry submissions until January 31st (or until we hit our cap). These submissions are currently open to Canadian citizens and residents only.

Find the submission link in our bio.

Happy new year!

MAŁGOSIA HALLIOP immigrated to Canada from Poland

MAŁGOSIA HALLIOP immigrated to Canada from Poland as a child, and has lived in Toronto for more than 25 years. In the past decade, she has been a sometime writer, editor, community organizer, visual artist, wildlife tracker and nature educator while homeschooling two kids. She is currently working to hone her craft as a poet.

Find her poetry in EVENT 50/1.

ANNICK MACASKILL’s poetry collections include Sh

ANNICK MACASKILL’s poetry collections include Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022), winner of the Governor General’s Award, and Votive (Gaspereau Press, 2024). Her fiction has previously appeared in The Ampersand Review, Plenitude and Canthius, among others. She lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) on the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq.

Find MacAskill's short fiction, The Pale, in EVENT 53/2.

We're offering 2-for-1 subscriptions to EVENT unti

We're offering 2-for-1 subscriptions to EVENT until January 31st.

A 1-year subscription to EVENT includes three issues delivered right to your door. Price includes all applicable taxes and shipping within Canada. US residents are subject to a $10 shipping fee; overseas residents pay $20 for shipping (by air).

Use 2FOR1 at checkout to claim this offer. Purchase link in bio.

NEIL GRIFFIN is an award-winning poet and essayist

NEIL GRIFFIN is an award-winning poet and essayist. His work lives in The Narwhal, The Tyee and on CBC Books (as well as dwelling in the unsearchable archives of various extant and extinct literary journals). His website, which is rarely updated, is www.neilcgriffin.com.

Find two of Griffin's poems in EVENT 53/2: https://buff.ly/3Yt3CyY

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