Event Magazine
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Literary magazine publishing the best new poetry & prose for over 50 years. Details on subscriptions, submissions, contests and more at http://eventmagazine.ca
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· Oct 3
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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On the EVENT Blog: an excerpt from "Your Breasts are like Twin Fawns" by Dora Prieto.
"The ecstatic angels of her eyes, so alive, so living,
in the green laser-haze of the party."
Read the full except here: www.eventmagazine.ca/2026/01/poet...
"The ecstatic angels of her eyes, so alive, so living,
in the green laser-haze of the party."
Read the full except here: www.eventmagazine.ca/2026/01/poet...
January 23, 2026 at 12:00 AM
On the EVENT Blog: an excerpt from "Your Breasts are like Twin Fawns" by Dora Prieto.
"The ecstatic angels of her eyes, so alive, so living,
in the green laser-haze of the party."
Read the full except here: www.eventmagazine.ca/2026/01/poet...
"The ecstatic angels of her eyes, so alive, so living,
in the green laser-haze of the party."
Read the full except here: www.eventmagazine.ca/2026/01/poet...
Join us Fri, Jan 30 (6–8pm) for the Geist 35th Anniversary Issue Launch Party at The Pleasant (2434 Main St). Readings from Geist, EVENT & friends, an open mic, and cake. Stick around after to mingle.
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January 15, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Join us Fri, Jan 30 (6–8pm) for the Geist 35th Anniversary Issue Launch Party at The Pleasant (2434 Main St). Readings from Geist, EVENT & friends, an open mic, and cake. Stick around after to mingle.
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KEVIN SHAW lives in Ottawa. His poetry has appeared in The New Quarterly, CV2, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review and elsewhere. His debut poetry collection, Smaller Hours, was published by icehouse press (Goose Lane Editions) in 2017.
Find two of Shaw's poems in EVENT 54/2.
Find two of Shaw's poems in EVENT 54/2.
January 9, 2026 at 2:01 PM
KEVIN SHAW lives in Ottawa. His poetry has appeared in The New Quarterly, CV2, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review and elsewhere. His debut poetry collection, Smaller Hours, was published by icehouse press (Goose Lane Editions) in 2017.
Find two of Shaw's poems in EVENT 54/2.
Find two of Shaw's poems in EVENT 54/2.
Happy new year from your friends at EVENT! If you haven't yet, pick up a copy (or subscription) of EVENT 54/2.
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January 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Happy new year from your friends at EVENT! If you haven't yet, pick up a copy (or subscription) of EVENT 54/2.
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The year begins with fresh pages. EVENT 54/2 is out now.
Inside: work by Alex Kitt, Maria Saba, Russell Thornton, Dora Prieto, Aidan Chafe, Jess Housty & more. Cover art: Caravan Park, Wonga Beach by Daniel Sneep.
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Inside: work by Alex Kitt, Maria Saba, Russell Thornton, Dora Prieto, Aidan Chafe, Jess Housty & more. Cover art: Caravan Park, Wonga Beach by Daniel Sneep.
Order or subscribe: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
January 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM
The year begins with fresh pages. EVENT 54/2 is out now.
Inside: work by Alex Kitt, Maria Saba, Russell Thornton, Dora Prieto, Aidan Chafe, Jess Housty & more. Cover art: Caravan Park, Wonga Beach by Daniel Sneep.
Order or subscribe: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
Inside: work by Alex Kitt, Maria Saba, Russell Thornton, Dora Prieto, Aidan Chafe, Jess Housty & more. Cover art: Caravan Park, Wonga Beach by Daniel Sneep.
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LESLIE PALLESON has been published in The Dalhousie Review, The Antigonish Review, filling Station, and more. She is the winner of the 2024 Alberta Magazine Awards silver medal. Find her work in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
December 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
LESLIE PALLESON has been published in The Dalhousie Review, The Antigonish Review, filling Station, and more. She is the winner of the 2024 Alberta Magazine Awards silver medal. Find her work in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
There’s still time to make use of our special holiday deal. Get two EVENT subscriptions for the price of one—a full year of poetry and prose for you and someone you love.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
There’s still time to make use of our special holiday deal. Get two EVENT subscriptions for the price of one—a full year of poetry and prose for you and someone you love.
Use code 2FOR1 at checkout: www.eventmagazine.ca/product-cate...
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MEZI is a Vancouver-based poet, photographer and Zen student. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Malahat Review, filling Station, Plenitude, The Inflectionist, Beyond Queer Words and elsewhere. www.mezi.site.
Find three of Mezi's poems in EVENT 54/1.
Find three of Mezi's poems in EVENT 54/1.
December 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
MEZI is a Vancouver-based poet, photographer and Zen student. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Malahat Review, filling Station, Plenitude, The Inflectionist, Beyond Queer Words and elsewhere. www.mezi.site.
Find three of Mezi's poems in EVENT 54/1.
Find three of Mezi's poems in EVENT 54/1.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A holiday gift that keeps delivering: 2 EVENT Magazine subscriptions for $29.95.
One for you, one for a friend. Code: 2FOR1. Limited time. 📚✨
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Hey, just a reminder that @eventmags.bsky.social is open for submissions for this month and January. I am excited to read your new poems! BIPOC writers are especially encouraged to submit www.eventmagazine.ca/submit/
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What We’re Looking For We generally have two open submissions windows during the months of July and August and December and January. Submission windows will close on the last day of the month, or when...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Hey, just a reminder that @eventmags.bsky.social is open for submissions for this month and January. I am excited to read your new poems! BIPOC writers are especially encouraged to submit www.eventmagazine.ca/submit/
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A new @elliesawatzky.bsky.social poem is always cause for celebration! 🥳
"Vaporwave" is up over at @eventmags.bsky.social:
"Vaporwave" is up over at @eventmags.bsky.social:
Poetry: "Vaporwave" by Ellie Sawatzky - EVENT
Read an excerpt from Zilla Jones' short story, "Cut Off." Originally published in EVENT issue 53/3.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
A new @elliesawatzky.bsky.social poem is always cause for celebration! 🥳
"Vaporwave" is up over at @eventmags.bsky.social:
"Vaporwave" is up over at @eventmags.bsky.social:
MARK TRUSCOTT’s third book, Branches (Book*hug, 2018), won the inaugural Nelson Ball Prize. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The Ampersand Review, Antiphony, Columba, Dialogist, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review and elsewhere. marktruscott.ca.
December 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
MARK TRUSCOTT’s third book, Branches (Book*hug, 2018), won the inaugural Nelson Ball Prize. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The Ampersand Review, Antiphony, Columba, Dialogist, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review and elsewhere. marktruscott.ca.
A holiday gift that keeps delivering: 2 EVENT Magazine subscriptions for $29.95.
One for you, one for a friend. Code: 2FOR1. Limited time. 📚✨
One for you, one for a friend. Code: 2FOR1. Limited time. 📚✨
December 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A holiday gift that keeps delivering: 2 EVENT Magazine subscriptions for $29.95.
One for you, one for a friend. Code: 2FOR1. Limited time. 📚✨
One for you, one for a friend. Code: 2FOR1. Limited time. 📚✨
JESS HOUSTY (’CÚAGILÁKV) is a parent, herbalist and land-based educator from the community of Bella Bella. 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: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
Find three of Housty's poems in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
JESS HOUSTY (’CÚAGILÁKV) is a parent, herbalist and land-based educator from the community of Bella Bella. 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: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
Find three of Housty's poems in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
Happy #BCMagazineDay! As a BC magazine, we’re grateful for the writers, editors, photographers, and readers who keep local stories alive. Discover more through the MagsBC catalogue or the Non-Traditional Newsstands around the Lower Mainland. If you already subscribe, tell us what keeps you reading.
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Happy #BCMagazineDay! As a BC magazine, we’re grateful for the writers, editors, photographers, and readers who keep local stories alive. Discover more through the MagsBC catalogue or the Non-Traditional Newsstands around the Lower Mainland. If you already subscribe, tell us what keeps you reading.
Congratulations to the EVENT contributors with poems in Biblioasis's Best Canadian Poetry 2026. Order your copy from Biblioasis here: www.biblioasis.com/shop/new-rel...
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Congratulations to the EVENT contributors with poems in Biblioasis's Best Canadian Poetry 2026. Order your copy from Biblioasis here: www.biblioasis.com/shop/new-rel...
MARIA SABA’s novella The Secret of Names won the 2023 Joy Kogawa Award. Her collection My First Friend was an Iowa Short Fiction Award semi-finalist, with its title story earning a Pushcart nomination. Born in Iran and now in Ottawa. Read her story “Crossing Borders” in EVENT 54/2.
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
MARIA SABA’s novella The Secret of Names won the 2023 Joy Kogawa Award. Her collection My First Friend was an Iowa Short Fiction Award semi-finalist, with its title story earning a Pushcart nomination. Born in Iran and now in Ottawa. Read her story “Crossing Borders” in EVENT 54/2.
CALL FOR COVER ART: BC-based photographers: EVENT is seeking landscape images for an upcoming wrap-around cover. Please send low-res jpegs/PDFs to event@douglascollege.ca. If selected, we’ll request hi-res files. Payment is $200 + 2 copies.
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
CALL FOR COVER ART: BC-based photographers: EVENT is seeking landscape images for an upcoming wrap-around cover. Please send low-res jpegs/PDFs to event@douglascollege.ca. If selected, we’ll request hi-res files. Payment is $200 + 2 copies.
Author JOY KOGAWA, best known for Obasan, has received the Order of Canada, the Order of BC, and Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun for her work preserving Japanese Canadian history. Read “Roosters” in our 50th Anniversary issue: www.eventmagazine.ca/product-cate...
Photo by Samuel Engelking
Photo by Samuel Engelking
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Author JOY KOGAWA, best known for Obasan, has received the Order of Canada, the Order of BC, and Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun for her work preserving Japanese Canadian history. Read “Roosters” in our 50th Anniversary issue: www.eventmagazine.ca/product-cate...
Photo by Samuel Engelking
Photo by Samuel Engelking
Toronto poet, grief & death worker, and organizer JODY CHAN is the author of sick, impact statement, and madness belongs to the people (forthcoming 2026).
Find three of Chan's poems in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
Photo credit: Albert Hoang
Find three of Chan's poems in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
Photo credit: Albert Hoang
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Toronto poet, grief & death worker, and organizer JODY CHAN is the author of sick, impact statement, and madness belongs to the people (forthcoming 2026).
Find three of Chan's poems in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
Photo credit: Albert Hoang
Find three of Chan's poems in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
Photo credit: Albert Hoang
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Thanks to @eventmags.bsky.social for including two new poems in their latest issue, including an ode to my moustache 🥸
November 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Thanks to @eventmags.bsky.social for including two new poems in their latest issue, including an ode to my moustache 🥸
Did you know you can still grab a copy of our 50th Anniversary Notes on Writing issue? 70+ essays on the art and struggle of writing by Jane Urquhart, André Alexis, Joy Kogawa, Eden Robinson, Joshua Whitehead & more.
A perfect gift for the writer in your life. www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
A perfect gift for the writer in your life. www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Did you know you can still grab a copy of our 50th Anniversary Notes on Writing issue? 70+ essays on the art and struggle of writing by Jane Urquhart, André Alexis, Joy Kogawa, Eden Robinson, Joshua Whitehead & more.
A perfect gift for the writer in your life. www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
A perfect gift for the writer in your life. www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
ALEX KITT is an emerging writer from Red Deer, residing in Vancouver. He was the winner of The New Quarterly’s Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award in 2023 and received the 2024 National Magazine Award for Fiction. Find Kitt's story, Memory Box, in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
November 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
ALEX KITT is an emerging writer from Red Deer, residing in Vancouver. He was the winner of The New Quarterly’s Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award in 2023 and received the 2024 National Magazine Award for Fiction. Find Kitt's story, Memory Box, in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...
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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:
www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/10/poet...
Read 'Steve and I travel to Calgary' here:
www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/10/poet...
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.
www.eventmagazine.ca
October 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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:
www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/10/poet...
Read 'Steve and I travel to Calgary' here:
www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/10/poet...
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"Shame Flavoured" by @allegorically.bsky.social, from the Fall 2025 issue of @eventmags.bsky.social.
November 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"Shame Flavoured" by @allegorically.bsky.social, from the Fall 2025 issue of @eventmags.bsky.social.