For 50 years, EVENT has published the very best in contemporary new poetry and prose. We are one of Western Canada’s longest-running literary magazines, and welcome submissions written in English from around the world.

For 50 years, EVENT has published the very best in contemporary new poetry and prose. We are one of Western Canada’s longest-running literary magazines, and welcome submissions written in English from around the world. Each issue of EVENT includes high quality fiction, poetry, non-fiction and book reviews, and we feature emerging and established writers side-by-side in our pages. We also print commissioned illustrations alongside the writing, and each cover features the work of a BC photographer.

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EVENT Poetry & Prose

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Prizes: $3,000 in total prizes, plus publication in EVENT: First Place $1,500; Second Place $1,000; Third Place $500.   

Entry Fee: $34.95 per entry; includes a one-year subscription (or renewal) to EVENT and all applicable taxes and shipping.   
Entry Fee (Student Rate): $19.95 per entry; includes a one-year subscription (or renewal) to EVENT and all applicable taxes and shipping. 

EVENT Creative Non-Fiction Contest

For this general call for poetry submissions, we are open to submissions from everyone, but are particularly seeking poetry from self-identified BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) poets, whose communities are historically underrepresented.  If you identify as BIPOC, or as member of another underrepresented group, we encourage you to tell us about yourself in your cover letter.
Submit up to six poems. Each poem must be saved as its own separate file in a .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .txt file format (please no PDFs). Use standard poetry manuscript formatting (single-spaced, easily read font sizes, page numbers if more than one page long, etc.). All work should be previously unpublished.
When filling out the Cover Letter Field, please include your name, email address, full mailing address or details, telephone number, the title(s) of your poem(s), and a list of previous publications, if any. Please also include a brief biographical note. If you are a Canadian citizen or resident of Canada, please let us know.
To submit fiction, please go to our other Submittable category.
We will consider only one submission per writer at a time (in one genre only), excluding entries to our annual Non-Fiction Contest. Once you have received a response from us, you may submit another piece of writing.
Please also be advised, writers may only appear in EVENT once every two years, with the exception of Reviews, Notes on Writing and winning Non-Fiction Contest essays.

General Poetry/BIPOC Poets

For this general call for fiction submissions, we are open to submissions from everyone, but are particularly seeking stories from self-identified BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) writers, whose communities are historically underrepresented. If you identify as BIPOC, or as member of another underrepresented group, we encourage you to tell us about yourself in your cover letter.
Submit one short story (maximum 5,000 words) at a time. The story must be saved as its own separate file in a .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .txt file format (please no PDFs). Use standard manuscript formatting (double-spaced, easily read font sizes, page numbers, etc.). All work must be previously unpublished.
When filling out the Cover Letter Field, please include your name, email address, full mailing address or details, telephone number, the title(s) of your poem(s), and a list of previous publications, if any. Please also include a brief biographical note. If you are a Canadian citizen or resident of Canada, please let us know.
To submit poetry, please go to our other Submittable category.
We will consider only one submission per writer at a time (in one genre only), excluding entries to our annual Non-Fiction Contest. Once you have received a response from us, you may submit another piece of writing.
Please also be advised, writers may only appear in EVENT once every two years, with the exception of Reviews, Notes on Writing and winning Non-Fiction Contest essays.

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