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Poetry: "Steve and I travel to Calgary" by Christina Shah - EVENT Read an excerpt from Zilla Jones' short story, "Cut Off." Originally published in EVENT issue 53/3.

Thank you to EVENT @eventmags.bsky.social and @raoulfernandes.bsky.social for featuring one the poems in my new book on your blog!! So excited to read 54/2 @allegorically.bsky.social and more!

Read 'Steve and I travel to Calgary' here:

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"Shame Flavoured" by @allegorically.bsky.social, from the Fall 2025 issue of @eventmags.bsky.social.

And check out his collection Gospel Drunk
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J.R. MCCONVEY lives in the far west end of Toronto with his family. His fiction has been shortlisted for the Journey Prize and published in Joyland, The Malahat Review, and other journals. His 2019 collection, DIFFERENT BEASTS, won the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

NEW on the EVENT blog: Falling Sideways Through One-Way Gates: Elena Johnson Interviews Natalie Rice

"I only sit down to write if I’ve caught myself on a sharp image or have a heard or felt sense of what I want to say..."

Read the full interview here: www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/10/elen...

Don't forget, our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest officially closes tomorrow, October 26th. Send us your best work before the end of the day. We won't be extending the deadline any further!

Submit here: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

Read “Steve and I travel to Calgary," by Christina Shah. From if: prey, then: huntress, out now.

"business causal: the uniform of confusion, which the engineers simply ignore. no one brings proper footwear. harried airport carnival, a carry-on cubic cram..."

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DORA PRIETO is a Vancouver-based poet and a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her debut collection, Girl Tejido, is forthcoming with House of Anansi (April 2027).

Find two of Prieto's poems in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

Didn't get your work in to our 2025 Non-Fiction contest in time? Well, you're in luck! We've extended the deadline to submit until October 26th, 2025.

This will be our only extension, so don't fall behind this time. Submit your work here: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

Tomorrow’s the final day to enter EVENT’s 2025 Creative Non-Fiction Contest! Submit your work before time runs out: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

Three days to go. EVENT’s 2025 Non-Fiction Contest closes Oct 15th. $3,000 in prizes, plus publication for winners. Judged by Vinh Nguyen. Submit here: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

Kathryn MacDonald reviews Conversations with the Kagawong River by @sophieanneedwards.bsky.social in the fall 2025 issue of @eventmags.bsky.social! Check it out:

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AIDAN CHAFE is a poet and educator. His poems have appeared in CV2, EVENT, The Fiddlehead and PRISM international. He lives on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver).

Find two of Chafe's poems in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

One week left to enter EVENT’s 2025 Non-Fiction Contest. $3,000 in prizes, publication for winners, and judged by Vinh Nguyen. Students get a discounted entry (Only $19.95) Deadline: Oct 15th: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

Looking for new books to add to your fall/winter reading list?

Reviews from EVENT 54/1 are now up on our website. Read poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and essay reviews from writers Steven Maye, Cara Waterfall, Adam McPhee, and Sanchari Sur.

See them all at eventmagazine.ca

EVENT 54/2, our Fall 2025 issue, features fiction from Alex Kitt and Maria Saba, creative non-fiction from Russell Thornton, poetry by Dora Prieto, Aidan Chafe and Jess Housty, book reviews by Marguerite Pigeon and Alex Trnka, and much more.

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2 weeks left! EVENT’s 2025 CNF Contest closes Oct 15. $3,000 in prizes + publication. This year's judge is Vinh Nguyen (Writers’ Trust Prize shortlist). Students can now enter for $19.95: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

New on the EVENT blog. Read an excerpt from “The Remember Timeline” by Stephanie Chou, which won 2nd place in EVENT's 2024 Non-Fiction Contest. Read the full excerpt here: www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/09/the-...

Submit to our 2025 Non-Fiction contest here: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

Find two poems by Christina Shah in EVENT 54/1. Her debut rig veda (2023) was followed by if: prey, then: huntress, out now with Nightwood Editions: nightwoodeditions.com/products/978...

One month left! EVENT’s 2025 Creative Non-Fiction Contest closes Oct 15.

✨ $3,000 in prizes + publication
📚 NEW THIS YEAR: Student entries just $19.95 (includes 1-year subscription)

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ALPAY ULKU’s poetry has previously appeared in EVENT, as well as The American Poetry Review, The Fiddlehead and The Malahat Review, and a personal essay was published in Plume. His first collection, Meteorology, was published by BOA Editions. www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

Famous Last Words New Westminster Wednesday September 24th A spoken word show like no other Poems like you've never heard before Featuring: Aaron Hunter, Babaloluwa "Lolu" Oyedele, Ever Roberts, Jenny Garcha, Marlo Browne, Uni the Unicorn and host Sean McGarragle FREE TO THE PUBLIC! Centennial Lodge Queens Park Doors 6:30 PM Show 7:00 PM There is no cover charge but donations are accepted. The tickets for this show are free (thank you @artsnewwest , @sappzine , @eventmags @canadianpoets and @royalcitylit ) but I encourage everyone who wants to attend to book your tickets through eventbrite to guarantee your seat. https://famouslastwordsnewwestep2.eventbrite.ca www.deathridesaunicorn.com https://www.tiktok.com/@deathridesaunicorn.com

Famous Last Words is back thanks to RCLAS, SAPP zine, @artsnewwest.bsky.social , @eventmags.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social

•September 24th, 7 PM
•Centennial Lodge, Queen's Park, New Westminster
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As summer fades, a reminder: EVENT subscriptions (3 issues/year, $29.95) keep new poetry, prose & essays coming all year.

Our Creative Non-Fiction Contest is open until Oct 15, 2025 — $3,000 in prizes + publication.

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📚 EVENT is back at #WORDVancouver 2025! Catch Pitch Perfect on Sat, Sept 20 (3:30–4:30 PM) with Shashi Bhat (EVENT), Michelle Cyca (The Narwhal), Jessica Key, and Stephen Smysnuik.

We’ll also be at the exhibitor fair all weekend. Stop by our booth, meet the team, and learn Canadian lit mags.

STEPHANIE CHOU is a writer currently living in Vancouver. Her work has previously appeared in BOMB Magazine and has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. This story was the runner-up for last year's CNF contest. Our 2025 contest is now open. Submit here: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

CHIEMEZIEM EVEREST UDOCHUKWU’s writing appears in Evergreen Review, Efiko, Lolwe, and more. He won the EC Michaels Short Story Prize and has been a finalist for the Black Warrior Review Nonfiction Contest, the Quramo Writers’ Prize, and others. www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

The Relationship of Body and Harmony: Rob Taylor interviews Kate Braid - EVENT Kate Braid has written many books of poetry and creative non-fiction. Her awards include for the Remarkable Woman of the Arts and Pandora’s Collective BC Mentor’s Awards in Vancouver, and for poetry, ...

I was lucky enough to speak with Kate Braid about her new essay collection, The Erotics of Cutting Grass (@caitlinpress.bsky.social), at her book launch in May. We expanded on that conversation for a print interview which is now online at @eventmags.bsky.social. I hope you enjoy it!

Lisa Baird's latest poetry collection is WHEN WHALES WENT BACK TO THE WATER.

Thanks to these literary magazines for supporting her work:
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"My personal way of dealing with the current horrors in the world is to seek beauty, most often by going outside. Not just with casual glances but paying attention to beauty and harmony of any kind – seeing trees sway, feeling the power in their bark, watching waves roll over sand..."