EVENT Poetry & Prose Magazine
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For 50 years, EVENT has published the very best in contemporary new poetry and prose. We are one of Western Canada's longest-running literary magazines. Each issue of EVENT includes high-quality fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and book reviews, and we feature emerging and established writers side-by-side in our pages.
EVENT Poetry & Prose Magazine
1w ago
Marcie McCauley Reviews:
Marie Hélène Poitras, Trans. Rhonda Mullins, Sing, Nightingale, Coach House Books, 2023
Barbara Joan Scott, The Taste of Hunger, Freehand Books, 2022
Marie Hélène Poitras’s Sing, Nightingale and Barbara Joan Scott’s The Taste of Hunger contemplate familial and literary inheritance, as descendants of Anne Hébert and Jane Rule on desire and self-determination, and of M. NourbeSe Philip and Lee Maracle on womanhood and survival. Characters question the gap between their experiences and the stories they’ve been told, with all the expectations, frustrations and, sometimes ..read more
EVENT Poetry & Prose Magazine
2w ago
Our biggest fundraiser of the year is back! Join us at the Douglas College concourse in New Westminster between March 18th and 22nd for five days of bookselling madness!
Throughout the year, we gather books from local authors, educators, and publishers to offer a diverse range of fiction, non-fiction, children’s books, textbooks, and more.
Discover affordable prices and an extensive collection of fresh reading material. Plus, check back daily as we’ll be adding new books as they come in.
The post EVENT’S Annual Used Book Sale is Back! appeared first on EVENT ..read more
EVENT Poetry & Prose Magazine
2w ago
Thank you to everyone who entered our 2023 Non-Fiction Contest. And the winners are…
FIRST PLACE ($1,500):
‘Flowering,’ Austen Lee, Edmonton, AB
SECOND PLACE ($1000):
‘Hungry Daughter,’ Britt Gillman, Deep River, ON
THIRD PLACE ($500):
‘Where to Look,’ Suzanne Galante, San Carlos, CA
The winning entries, along with judge Omar Mouallem’s essay, will appear in EVENT 53/1 (Spring/Summer 2024).
Congratulations to all the other short-listed entrants:
‘Every Possible Way,’ Adèle Barclay, Vancouver, BC
‘Torpor,’ Adrienne Gruber, Bowen Island, BC
‘The Weight of the World,’ Teya Hollier, Ea ..read more
EVENT Poetry & Prose Magazine
1M ago
KAREEM TAYYAR’s most recent book, Keats in San Francisco & Other Poems, was published by
Lily Poetry Review Books in 2022, and his work has appeared in a variety of literary journals,
including Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner and Alaska Quarterly Review. His poem, “Two
Poets,” received the 2022 Atlanta Review International Poetry Prize, and his novel, The Prince
of Orange County, received the 2020 Eric Hoffer Prize for Young Adult Fiction. In 2020 he was
awarded a Glenna Luschei Poetry Prize, and in 2019 he was a recipient of a Wurlitzer Poetry
Fellowship.
Elena Johnson: Congratulations ..read more
EVENT Poetry & Prose Magazine
1M ago
Lara El Mekaui Reviews:
Mariam Pirbhai, Isolated Incident, Mawenzi House, 2022
Saeed Teebi, Her First Palestinian, House of Anansi Press, 2022
How many incidents does it take before a state admits to a systematic problem within society? Mariam Pirbhai’s debut novel Isolated Incident probes this question through a thrilling tale of angst and apprehension within a Muslim community in Ontario, concluding with the Quebec City mosque shooting on January 29, 2017.
Following the vandalism of a mosque on the outskirts of Toronto, university student Kashif Siddiqui and his fellow members of the ..read more
EVENT Poetry & Prose Magazine
1M ago
EVENT Magazine is seeking volunteer first readers
Do you love reading? Would you like to help publish the very best in contemporary poetry and prose from Canada and around the world? Apply to be an EVENT first reader!
As a first reader, you will:
Use Submittable to read and rate a minimum of 20 poetry or short fiction manuscripts per month during two annual submission periods
Write brief comments for our poetry and fiction editors
In exchange for your help, you’ll receive:
Your name in our masthead
A complimentary subscription to EVENT
Opportunities to volunteer at events ..read more
EVENT Poetry & Prose Magazine
2M ago
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RUSSELL WALLACE is an award-winning composer, producer and traditional singer from the St’at’imc Nation (Salish). In 2022, he was awarded the Lieutenant Governor’s Arts and Music Award in recognition of his music and contributions to arts and culture in British Columbia. His composition ‘Journey’ was performed at Biennale Arte 2022 in Venice this past September.
Read this and other works in EVENT 52/2.
The post My Lil’wat Love, Song by Russell Wallace appeared first on EVENT ..read more
EVENT Poetry & Prose Magazine
2M ago
Mark Mushet, a photographer and video producer, recently worked with EVENT contributor Catherine Graham to create a visual poem, fireseed, based off of Mark’s videography and Catherine’s words.
Catherine Graham work has appeared in EVENT 48/3 and 51/3.
Mark previously created a visual poem for Christina Shah’s poem, Rig Veda, which was originally published in EVENT 49/3. Unlike the Rig Veda video, which was inspired by the poem, Catherine Graham’s poetry contributions were inspired by Mark’s existing footage.
Learn more about the process behind the video here.
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CATHERINE GRAHAM is an aw ..read more
EVENT Poetry & Prose Magazine
3M ago
Nick Thran Reviews:
Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin, Fire Cider Rain, Coach House Books, 2022
rob mclennan, the book of smaller, University of Calgary Press, 2022
Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin’s debut Fire Cider Rain begins inside a plane leaving Mauritius, flying over Africa to France, then over the Atlantic Ocean to Canada. The book’s throughline linkage of diaspora, displacement and liquid dispersion is quickly established: ‘along a fibrous ridge of rain/the bodies converged.’ Many of those bodies belong to women. Mothers. Daughters. One is the speaker, eight years old. They are ‘dew-borne’ and ‘dew-torn’ w ..read more
EVENT Poetry & Prose Magazine
3M ago
Avery Qurashi Reviews:
Cynthia Flood, You Are Here, Biblioasis, 2022
Clark Blaise, This Time, That Place, Biblioasis, 2022
Both born in 1940, within months of Margaret Atwood and Dennis Lee, Cynthia Flood and Clark Blaise are part of a generation of writers who consciously engaged in developing and celebrating a distinctly Canadian body of literature. In their most recent collections, Flood and Blaise assemble favourite stories from their decades-long careers, showcasing their breadth and highlighting the themes and fascinations to which they have repeatedly returned in their work. In You Are ..read more