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📢 Submissions are now open!

December 1-31: General fiction & poetry (BIPOC writers encouraged).
January 1-31: Canadian fiction & poetry (citizens/residents only).

Submit early—spaces are limited. Full details: https://t.co/R00ky9y5l5

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Congratulations to our Creative Writing instructor, Shashi Bhat, whose new story collection "Death by a Thousand Cuts" was selected for The Globe 100 Best Books of 2024! 🎉

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Get your hands on our fall issue, EVENT 53/2, while it lasts. Featuring poetry by Jónína Kirton, John Wall Barger, Meredith Quartermain & Tosh Sherkat, plus fiction by Alex Leslie, Mark Anthony Jarman & Annick MacAskill. Available now: https://t.co/c4hsj8A4El

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GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE, born in Windsor, NS (1960), near the Black Loyalist and Afro-Métis community of Three Mile Plains, is a celebrated poet and the inaugural E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at U of T.

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Looking for your next great read? Check out the EVENT website for insightful, in-depth reviews of must-read Canadian fiction, poetry, and non-fiction: https://t.co/4HYWcDFtM0

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Hi, It's Me by 2024 #AtwoodGibson finalist @FawnRParker follows a woman named Fawn on the day her mother dies.

See her interview with @cbcbooks' @MatteaRoach on how writing this book of fiction helped Fawn move past the initial stages of grief https://t.co/8dsyqyA7BM #WTAwards

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Cover art for issue 53/2 comes from Patrick Conaty, titled: Nepalese Monks. EVENT is currently seeking cover photo submissions from established or emerging photographers who are based in BC. Accepted submissions receive a $200 honorarium for one-time use. https://t.co/IQAV4U8rfN

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KHASHAYAR ‘KESS’ MOHAMMADI (they/them) is a queer, Iranian-born poet, writer & translator in Toronto. Their translation of Ghazal Mosadeq’s Andarzname (Ugly Duckling Presse) and Book of Interruptions (Wolsak and Wynn) are coming Fall 2025. Read their work: https://t.co/c4hsj8ACtT

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MARIA REVA writes fiction and opera libretti. She is the author of Good Citizens Need Not Fear (Doubleday, Virago, and Knopf Canada New Face of Fiction, 2020), set in an apartment block in Ukraine. Find Reva's full essay in EVENT's 50th anniversary issue: https://t.co/Rx1x9s0Dvf

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From Issue 53/2, read “¡Ay de mí Llorona, Llorona!” a poem by Yael Tobón: https://t.co/OMn6FxH4mW