Late-breaking recap: EVENT was able to raise a record-breaking amount at our annual book sale this year (March 19 – 22 in the New Westminster Campus Concourse and March 26 & 27 in the David Lam Main Atrium) and we owe it all to you! Special thanks to local writers-and-book-donators Billeh Nickerson & Kwantlen College, … Continue reading »
Wow, what a week! We’re so pleased to hear that Bill Gaston (‘Four Corners’) and Kate Millar (‘Year of the Rooster’) were both finalists in the Fiction Category for the 2011 Western Magazine Awards. Both stories were published in our Winter issue 40/3. We have a very few number of copies available for sale in … Continue reading »
In the Fiction Category: Wayde Compton was nominated for ‘The Instrument’ (issue 40/1) and Bill Gaston for ‘Four Corners’ (issue 40/3). In the Personal Journalism category: Chris Donahoe was nominated for ‘Busted’! (issue 40/3). Check out the rest of the nominees and the stories online on the National Magazine Awards website. And, check out Nicole … Continue reading »
Hello world! And welcome to our new site. Please bear with us while we sort out all of the kinks — if something you’re exploring doesn’t work, let us know! Hope you like it, and don’t forget to pick up the newest issue of EVENT!
You should probably enter! This year’s judge will be Zsuzsi Gartner. Postmark deadline April 15, 2012. For more information, visit our online contest page or write to event@douglascollege.ca. More details below.
Come help us celebrate! EVENT, Poetry is Dead, and PRISM cordially invite you to a cake-eating, toe-tapping, poetry-reading, make-February-a-little-brighter issue launch. Readings by Garry Thomas Morse and Marita Dachsel. Hosted by Elizabeth Bachinsky $5 suggested donation at the door. Grab all three mags for the $15! (That’s a really good deal, y’all.) DJ That’s So … Continue reading »
Nick Thran is the author of two collections of poetry Every Inadequate Name (Insomniac Press, 2006) and, most recently, Earworm (Nightwood Editions, 2011). His poems have appeared in numerous publications across Canada including Geist, Maisonneuve, and The Walrus and he is a frequent contributor and reviewer for EVENT magazine. Guest blogger Sheryda Warrener had the chance … Continue reading »
EVENT 40 Year Anniversary Party Please join us at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, October 26 for a reading and celebration in honour of EVENT Magazine’s 40th Anniversary. Featuring readings and reflections by former editors David Zieroth, Calvin Wharton, Cathy Stonehouse, Billeh Nickerson and Rick Maddocks. Hosted by current editor Elizabeth Bachinsky. David Zieroth‘s latest publication … Continue reading »
Congratulations to Kaitlin Fontana on the upcoming launch of her first book Fresh at Twenty: The Oral History of Mint Records! Kaitlin’s Creative Non-Fiction story ‘Sleeping with the Dead’ was the winner of our 18th Creative Non-Fiction Contest, and was first published in EVENT 34/3. Kaitlin’s story also appears in our Fall 40 Year Anniversary … Continue reading »
As I head toward Little Italy, also known as Commercial Drive, to interview Vancouver writer and EVENT contributor Wayde Compton, I think about other cultural hot spots that exist in Vancouver. Compton starts off with telling me a bit about a hot spot I never knew about, Hogan’s Alley. It was the first and possibly … Continue reading »
