CANADIAN WRITERS: EVENT is currently seeking fiction and poetry submissions from Canadian citizens and residents, both emerging and established. Make sure to submit early before we reach our cap! Find the full guidelines and submission link on our website: www.eventmagazine.ca/submit/

Have you been dreaming of seeing your work in the pages of EVENT? We are currently accepting fiction and poetry submissions from Canadian citizens and residents. We encourage you to submit early, as spaces are limited. Read our full guidelines and submit here: www.eventmagazine.ca/submit/

K. A. POLZIN’s stories have appeared in Subtropics, swamp pink, Gulf Coast, Wigleaf and elsewhere. Polzin was shortlisted for the PRISM international Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction. Find K. A. Polzin’s story "Guidelines" in EVENT 55/1: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

New on the EVENT Blog ⛵️ Read a preview of "Undercover" by Sue Murtagh: www.eventmagazine.ca/2026/07/fict... Find the complete story in EVENT 55/1.

Take a peek inside our summer issue ⛱️ Discover fiction, poetry, and more from emerging and established authors in EVENT 55/1. Get your copy: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even... Canadian writers: submissions reopen in August for prose and poetry. We can’t wait to read your work!

New on the EVENT blog: reviews from EVENT 54/3. • Sumaiya Matin on Rabindranath Maharaj & Pratap Reddy • Avery Qurashi on Clea Young & Catherine Bush • Tintin Yang on Andrea Currie & Edem Awumey Read all three reviews: www.eventmagazine.ca/category/rev...

CASSIDY MENARD (she/her) was born and raised in Yellowknife. She has a bachelor’s degree in writing from the University of Victoria and served on the editorial board of The Malahat Review. Read her full story in EVENT 55/1. Order now: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

WINSHEN LIU’s chapbook, Paper Money, was published with Driftwood Press in 2025. Find two of her poems in EVENT 55/1. 🌈 Have dreamy work you’d love to see in print? EVENT is open to poetry and prose submissions in July and August. Guidelines: www.eventmagazine.ca/submit/

Bring summer with you in EVENT 55/1. The cover, 'Patio Parasol' by Hannah Block, invites us to pause, to look up from our screens, and toward the sky. Inside: the 2025 Non-Fiction Contest winners, plus poetry, fiction, and reviews. Order your copy here: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

📢 Submissions are now open! July 1-31: General fiction and poetry, with a special invitation to BIPOC writers. August 1-31: Canadian fiction and poetry from Canadian citizens and residents. Submit early, as spaces are limited: www.eventmagazine.ca/submit/

Congratulations to Jennifer Manuel, first-place winner of EVENT's 2025 Non-Fiction Contest for "Metaphors We Die By." Find her winning essay in EVENT 55/1. Purchase the issue or subscribe here: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

Read “Organic Matter,” one of three poems by Elaine Lee featured in EVENT 55/1, now on the EVENT blog. Purchase the issue or subscribe here: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

NEW on the EVENT Blog: “Stand Up For Yourself on the Page”: An Interview with Memoirist Nicole Breit. “Writing gives me a feeling of personal power and authority over my life when I often felt powerless at the time of an event I'm writing about.” Read the full interview: buff.ly/SgAaeiE

EVENT 55/1, our Spring/Summer 2026 issue, features the three winning essays of our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Vinh Nguyen. The issue will hit subscribers' mailbox soon. Purchase it or subscribe here: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

Do you have an essay that's a little weird? Take advice from past judge Michelle Cyca and enter it into EVENT's 2026 Non-Fiction Contest! Submit anytime until October 15, 2026: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

We're eagerly awaiting the arrival of our spring/summer 2026 issue, EVENT 55/1, which features the three winning essays of our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Vinh Nguyen. Subscribe or renew, and you won't miss it: www.eventmagazine.ca/subscriptions/

RORY SAY's stories have recently appeared in The New Quarterly, Air/Light, Metastellar and Grain. A chapbook, THE MARKSMAN, was published by Red Bird Chapbooks in 2024, while a full-length collection, NOTHING HAS HAPPENED TO YOU, is forthcoming via Lethe Press. Read his story "Gladman" in EVENT 54/3

E.S. TAILLON is a queer, neurodivergent writer in Tkaronto. Their translation of SCENES FROM THE UNDERGROUND (House of Anansi, 2022) was short-listed for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize, and their most recent translation is THE SEATED WOMAN (House of Anansi, 2025). E.S. Taillon has two poems in EVENT 54/3.

Submissions are now open for our 2026 Non-Fiction Contest. There are $3,000 in total prizes, and all three winners will be published in EVENT. The entry fee is $34.95 per submission, or $19.95 for students, and includes a one-year subscription or renewal: www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/

We’re thrilled to announce that Ellie Sawatzky’s poems “Truth Serum” and “Vaporwave,” from EVENT 54/2, have been nominated for a 2026 National Magazine Award @canadamediaawards.bsky.social in Poetry! You can read “Vaporwave” on our website: tinyurl.com/3zh58na9 #NMAS26

Poetry: "Vaporwave" by Ellie Sawatzky - EVENT

Read "Vaporwave" by Ellie Sawatzky. Originally published in EVENT issue 54/2.

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JACK WANG is the author of THE RIVETER (Anansi & HarperVia, 2025) and WE TWO ALONE (Anansi, 2020; HarperVia 2021). Find his Notes on Writing essay in EVENT 54/3: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

This is no April Fools’ Day joke! EVENT is celebrating National Poetry Month by opening for poetry submissions from Canadian citizens and residents until April 30! Submission guidelines: buff.ly/3zlNd1a

Announcing the winners of our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Vinh Nguyen! 🥇 “Metaphors We Die By,” Jennifer Manuel 🥈 “Waiting for the Bus: a memoir of dementia,” Meredith Quartermain 🥉 “The Shrine,” Hannah Roh Find the winning essays + judge’s essay in EVENT 55/1 (Spring/Summer 2026).

EVENT 54/3 features Notes on Writing essays, new poetry from Jade Y. Liu, Kevin Irie and Carolyn Nakagawa, plus fiction by Jason Jobin and Susan Mersereau, reviews of new books and much more! Cover photo is by Garrick Bassey.

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Our Winter 2025-2026 issue, EVENT 54/3, features Notes on Writing essays by Conor Kerr, Bren Simmers, Pablo Strauss and Jack Wang, new poetry from Jade Y. Liu, Kevin Irie and Carolyn Nakagawa, plus…

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CONOR KERR is a Métis/Ukrainian writer, Labrador-retriever wrestler and English professor from the Prairies who has lost every major literary award in Canada—some multiple times. He is the author of five books. Find Kerr's Notes on Writing essay, Half-Dozen Oysters, in our current issue: EVENT 54/3

Our annual book sale fundraiser is back! Find great deals on fiction, poetry, YA & kids’ books, cookbooks, textbooks, CDs, DVDs/Blu-rays, magazines & much more. New inventory and deals daily! 📍 Douglas College, New Westminster 📅 March 16–20, 10 am–5 pm daily 📖 All proceeds support EVENT Magazine

PABLO STRAUSS is a translator of fiction from Quebec and non-fiction from wherever. He was born In Williams Lake, grew up in Victoria, and has lived in Quebec City for two decades. Find Strauss' Notes on Writing essay, Finding the Right Music, in our current issue: EVENT 54/3.

JADE Y. LIU is a Chinese-Canadian poet from the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations.She has received the George McWhirter Prize in Poetry and twice won CV2’s 2-Day Poem Contest; her work was shortlisted for Arc’s Poem of the Year. Find two of Liu's poems in EVENT 54/3.

JESS HOUSTY (’CÚAGILÁKV) is a parent, herbalist and land-based educator from the community of Bella Bella. They live and thrive in their Heiltsuk homelands. Jess’s debut poetry collection Crushed Wild Mint was published by Nightwood Editions in 2023. Find three of Housty's poems in EVENT 54/2.

Announcing our 2025 Non-Fiction Contest short list! The winning entries and judge Vinh Nguyen's essay will be published in the Spring/Summer 2026 issue of EVENT.