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Talonbooks @talonbooks.bsky.social · 1d

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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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · 23h

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...

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · 2d

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/

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · 7d

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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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · 9d

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/

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · 14d

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/

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · 16d

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...

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · 25d

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)

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

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · 29d

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...

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Royal City Literary Arts Society @rclas.bsky.social · Sep 4

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
•Free but accepting donations
•Reserve tickets: famouslastwordsnewwestep2.eventbrite.ca

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.

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · Sep 9

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 Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · Sep 4

📚 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.

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · Sep 2

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/

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · Aug 28

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...

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Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · Aug 18

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!

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, ...

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University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

Thanks to these literary magazines for supporting her work:
@rogueagent.bsky.social
@canthius.bsky.social
@eventmags.bsky.social
@pinholepoetry.bsky.social

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@eramosageese.bsky.social

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · Aug 26

A 1-year subscription to EVENT includes three issues per year, delivered right to your door.

Subscriptions are also availalbe in 2 and 5-year packages. Learn more and order yours here: www.eventmagazine.ca/product-cate...

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · Aug 21

"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..."

Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · Aug 21

NEW on the EVENT Blog: The Relationship of Body and Harmony: Rob Taylor interviews Kate Braid: www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/08/rob-...

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · Aug 19

CHRISTIAN PAULISICH is a graduate student. He lives in Maryland and is originally from California. His poems have been published in, or are forthcoming from, Southeast Review, Salamander, Frontier Poetry, Literary Matters, Denver Quarterly and others.

Find two of Paulisich's poems in EVENT 54/1.

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Nancy Huggett @nancyhuggett.bsky.social · Aug 13

This interview with my friend Hilary Fair, whose winning CNF essay is in @eventmags.bsky.social www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/07/bush...

Bushwhacking Through Drafts: Krista Eide Interviews Contest Winner Hilary Fair - EVENT

HILARY FAIR is a writer from Ontario. Her work has been published in The New Quarterly and is forthcoming in Prairie Fire. Her essays have been short-listed for both the Edna Staebler Award and the CNFC/Humber Literary Review Nonfiction Contest. In 2021, she won the inaugural Amy Award for memoir. KRISTA EIDE: Congratulations on winning first...

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · Aug 14

Read Dennis Cooley's poem, The Flies, now on the EVENT blog: www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/08/poet...

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Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · Aug 9

"Soft Furnishings" by Emily Davidson, from the Winter 2024/25 issue of @eventmags.bsky.social.

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · Aug 12

NEW on the EVENT blog: Bushwhacking Through Drafts: Krista Eide Interviews Contest Winner Hilary Fair

"In both writing and therapy, the tool of the trade is the self in relation to life’s material—your own or others’ or, probably most often, both."

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