Celebrate with us! 50 Years of EVENT Magazine: Collected Notes on Writing is now available. EVENT celebrates 50 years of publication with a Notes on Writing anthology, featuring more than 70 personal essays with insights into the joys and struggles of the writer’s life and process, written by notable Canadian writers, including Jane Urquhart, David Bergen, André Alexis, Madeleine Thien, Eden Robinson, Jen Sookfong Lee, Zoe Whittall, Joy Kogawa, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Joshua Whitehead, and many others. Order yours now! Weighing in at 284 pages, this special anthology makes a grea ..read more

Amanda Merritt Reviews: Tamas Dobozy, Ghost Geographies, New Star Books, 2021 Amber McMillan, The Running Trees, Goose Lane Editions, 2021 Tamas Dobozy’s latest collection of short stories, Ghost Geographies, contemplates ‘the ruins [of time, which] testify less to history, to what fascism and communism did, than to what failed to emerge, some dream whose corroded outline is all that remains.’ Yet, for a collection with such virtuosic variety, each of these stories seeks to resolve the same contradiction: the manner in which ‘absence’ is a tangible noun, the truth of which Dobozy, and many ar ..read more

Jeff Miller Reviews: Esi Edugyan, Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling, House of Anansi Press, 2021 Andrew Chesham and Laura Farina, Eds., Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing, Anvil Press, 2022 Anti-Black racism is a narrative, a story about whose lives matter and whose don’t. In Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling, novelist Esi Edugyan examines the origins of this fiction and how it metastasized in different cultures around the world since the emergence of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Examining a number of artistic forms, including portraiture, film and literature ..read more

Véronique Darwin Reviews: Mike Steeves, Bystander, Book*hug Press, 2022 James Clammer, Insignificance, Coach House Books, 2021 There is a certain kind of person whom the first-person narrator of Bystander by Mike Steeves is keen to avoid. Peter calls this figure, often a handyman, the ‘monologist’ because of the way they force others ‘to listen as they describe the most mundane aspects of their life.’ Hiding from one, our narrator admonishes himself: ‘You are a thirty-five-year-old man with an enormous amount of professional responsibility and power… But you behave like a prisoner waiting in ..read more

John Wall Barger’s poems and critical writing have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review Online, Zyzzyva, Rattle, The Cincinnati Review, The Hopkins Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and Best of the Best Canadian Poetry. His poem, “Smog Mother,” was co-winner of The Malahat Review’s 2017 Long Poem Prize. His fifth collection of poems, Resurrection Fail (Spuyten Duvyil Press, 2022), was a finalist for the Raymond Souster Poetry Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and the Grayson Book Prize. His latest collection, Smog Mother, was released last year (Palimpsest Press, 20 ..read more

EVENT is proud to announce our 2022 Non-Fiction Contest shortlist, judged by Jenny Heijun Wills. “It’s Funny Because It’s True,” Becky Blake, Toronto, ON “Faulty Wiring,” Morgan Charles, Ottawa, ON “Black Pill,” Carolyn Chung, Toronto, ON “Seven Forward, Seven Back,” Donna Costa, London, ON “Never,” Abigail Deveney, Whistler, BC “The Devil You Know,” Justyna Krol, Vancouver, BC “Kickback,” Jennifer Landrey, Penticton, BC “Fat Ladies,” Mark Mazullo, Saint Paul, MN “Differential,” Shane Neilson, Cambridge, ON “Reverberations of Institutional Violence: a spectrum,” Adelle Purdham, Peterborough ..read more

EVENT is proud to welcome Krista Eide as its new Managing Editor. Krista is taking over for Ian Cockfield, who has been a part of EVENT’s editorial staff for over 20 years. Krista brings with her a wealth of experience and enthusiasm to this position. She was the former Executive Editor of PRISM international and has already worked as a first reader and editorial assistant for EVENT. Her creative writing, including both fiction and non-fiction, has been featured in various Canadian journals and publications. Krista also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia ..read more

Celebrate with us! 50 Years of EVENT Magazine: Collected Notes on Writing is now available. EVENT celebrates 50 years of publication with a Notes on Writing anthology, featuring more than 70 personal essays with insights into the joys and struggles of the writer’s life and process, written by notable Canadian writers, including Jane Urquhart, David Bergen, André Alexis, Madeleine Thien, Eden Robinson, Jen Sookfong Lee, Zoe Whittall, Joy Kogawa, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Joshua Whitehead, and many others. Order yours now! Weighing in at 284 pages, this special anthology makes a grea ..read more

Trynne Delaney is a writer currently based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). They were born on the West Coast and raised on the East Coast. the half-drowned was their first book and A House Unsettled is their second. In their spare time they like to garden. A message from EJ Kneifel: “When we spoke, it was a weekend. Trynne had biked, had had another long phone call; was now eating curry, now talking to me. I pictured some leaf big over their shoulder, leg over the side of a chair-arm, swinging. I pictured Trynne so tall, too, with everything they knew about this world, b ..read more

Whether you’re a new or seasoned writer, finding the right home for your work can be a challenge. There are many great Canadian literary journals to choose from, each with a unique focus and aesthetic. So how do you know if your work is a good fit for EVENT? We recently spoke to our editorial team to get their thoughts on what they’re looking for in literary submissions. Here’s what they had to say. What are some traits of writing that EVENT publishes? EVENT is looking for writing that is compelling, featuring fresh plots, arresting imagery, lyricism, and style. The language should be polished ..read more