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.

My sixth April asking, is it COVID or is it adult-onset seasonal allergies?

Is it an April Fool's Day fact that it ends at noon local time and no pranks shall be committed after that time, or is this another AFD ruse I fell for as a child and still believe?

Announcing the winners of our 2024 Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Michelle Cyca!

🥇 Predator, Prey — Hilary Fair
🥈 The Remember Timeline — Stephanie Chou
🥉 Witches of Silver Creek — Adèle Barclay

Find the winning stories + judge’s essay in EVENT 54/1 (Spring/Summer 2025).

How to Get Published in Lit Mags: A webinar by the Writers’ Union of Canada, March 27, 2025.

Tomorrow! I’ll talk about our publishing process @eventmags.bsky.social along with other lit mag editors across Canada. Visit TWUC for info and to register: writersunion.ca/webinars/how...

Excited to talk shop next week with my fellow litmag editors. All info can be found on the #TWUC website: writersunion.ca/webinars/how...

Congrats!

EVENT is thrilled to announce the short list for our 2024 Non-Fiction Contest! 🎉 From 163 submissions, 10 entries were selected for the short ist by judge Michelle Cyca. Winning stories & the judge’s essay will appear in EVENT 54/1. Stay tuned for the winner’s announcement, coming soon.

Reviews from our previous issue, EVENT 53/2, are now available to read on our website.

This issue featured reviews from Michael Lake, Avery Qurashi, Brett Josef Grubisic, and Stephen Meisel.

Read them all at eventmagazine.ca

The Winter issue of EVENT 53/3 is here!

Featuring Notes on Writing by Vincent Anioke, Adèle Barclay, and Kayla Czaga, new fiction from Zilla Jones and Sara Heinonen, poetry by Jim Johnstone, Rahat Kurd, and Amber McMillan, plus reviews and more.

Order your copy here: https://buff.ly/4gkfGbt

Delighted to have a new short story in the Winter 2025 issue of Grain Magazine.

Not one but TWO separate women eating potato chips on this train at 9am. Mad respect!

I should make my polydactyl cat an internet star, but I’m old and tired.

David Lynch has left this world and we're all supposed to just carry on our little tasks at our office jobs like it's a regular Thursday?

Until January 31, purchase a print or digital subscription to EVENT and receive a second subscription for FREE. Use coupon code 2FOR1 at checkout to share the best in contemporary poetry, fiction, and reviews with a fellow reader—or keep both for yourself! https://buff.ly/3FQGIFT

The sore throat and coughing arrived at 8am on day 1 of my holidays. Perfect.

Still reeling from getting a not-great message from the doctor's office, only to find out after two anxious days that the message was wrong; the test shows I do NOT have a serious, potentially life-threatening condition.

Yes, I'm an editor who can barely read my own messy chicken-scratch markups because my printing never progressed past 7-yr-old-boy level. This very normal, right?

My Spotify Wrapped is dominated by Canadians, a Kiwi, Aussies and an Irishwoman (Islands, Marlon Williams, Amyl and The Sniffers and Biig Piig).

I’m Sheridan’s writer in residence. Here’s what the college will lose when it suspends a writing program The loss of Sheridan College's creative writing and publishing program will have devastating consequences for Canadian literature.

Great piece by @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social on the repercussions of axing th Creative Writing & Publishing program at Sheridan College.

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In a cold sweat because I forgot to buy a Bonne Maman advent calendar

If you’re an American who doesn’t care about Thanksgiving, you might actually be Canadian

In the group chat we are all taste testing crackers that approximate the discontinued Stoned Wheat Thins. So far, none even come close

My high school caught fire, and everyone I know texted to say, did you know your high school caught fire? as though I haven’t been waiting for this since grade 10

This Thursday, doors @ 6:30pm! Five readers plus moi @bookhugpress.bsky.social's Vancouver launch of BACK WHERE I CAME FROM, hosted by eds Omar Mouallem & Taslim Jaffer at Notional Space. Hope to see you there!

Same crickets, different field

Can't wait to spend 15 years to build 361 followers all over again!