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Recent Awards and Achievements & Some Writers who have written for EVENT


EVENT congratulates its contributors, whose work first appeared in our pages and went on to achieve the following:

National Magazine Awards

2009:   Finalist:

Personal Journalism Category:
David Janzen,
'Approaching the Moon in a Stream: Reflections on Li Bai' (37/3)

  Finalist: J. Jill Robinson, 'The Letter'
  Finalist: 

Poetry Category:
Warren Heiti, 'the uncollected works of sallie chisum'  (37/1)

  Finalist: Fiction Category:
Sarah Keevil, 'Pyro' (37/1)
2008:    Finalist:

Personal Journalism Category:
Kanina Dawson,
'Pashtu, for Bird and Other Words that Hurt' (36/3)

2007: Finalist: Personal Journalism Category:
Sheree Ann Frappied, 'Idylwylde Park' (35/3)
2006: Winner: Silver, Personal Journalism Category:
Kaitlin Fontana, 'Sleeping with the Dead' (34/3)
Finalist: Fiction Category:
Kari Strutt, 'Skyglass Bastard' (34/2)
2005: Finalist: Fiction Category:
Craig Davidson, 'Rocket Ride' (33/3)
2004: Finalist: Personal Journalism Category:
Beth Jones, Inside (32/3)
2003: Finalist: Personal Journalism Category
Kanina Dawson, 'The End of August' (31/2)
2002: Winner: Gold, Personal Journalism Category:
Michelle Barker, 'Blessings,' (30/2)
  Finalist: Poetry Category:
John O'Neill, Four Poems (30/3)
  Finalist: Fiction Category:
Barry Webster, 'The Royal Conservatory: Statement and Fugue for Eight Voices' (30/3)
2001: Finalists: Personal Journalism Category:
Gordon Cavenaile, 'Homemade Pistol: A True Story of Addiction and Suicide' (29/3)
    Marcello Di Cintio, 'Bone Etchings & Blood Tattoos: Letters from Niger' (29/3)
1999: Finalist: Poetry Category:
Don McKay, Five Poems (27/3)
  Finalist: Personal Journalism Category:
Pat Krause, 'Acts of Love' (27/3)
1998: Finalist: Poetry Category:
Julia van Gorder, Three Poems (26/1)
1997 Winner:  Gold, Personal Journalism Category:
Peggy McCann, 'Water Sky' (25/3)
1996: Finalists: Poetry Category:
Tim Bowling, Three Poems (24/2)
    A.F. Moritz, 'The Little Walls Before China' (24/2)
1995: Finalist: Poetry Category:
Sarah Klassen, Three Poems (23/3)
1994: Winner: Gold, Poetry Category:
Janice Kulyk Keefer, Three Poems (22/1)
  Finalist: Personal Journalism Category:
Diana Kiesners, 'Going the Wrong Way' (22/3)

Western Magazine Awards

2008:     Winner: Fiction Category:
Théodora Armstrong, 'Whale Stories' (36/2)
2006: Finalists:     Fiction Category:
Kari Strutt, 'Skyglass Bastard' (34/2)
Deborah Willis, 'Traces' (34/1)
Finalist Best Photography, People and Portraiture Category:
Anne Grant, 'Woman on Bench' (34/1)
2005: Winner: Fiction Category:
Craig Davidson, 'Rocket Ride' (33/3)
  Winner: Human Experience Category:
Nancy Mauro, 'The Grillers's Guide to Love and Loss' (33/3)
Finalist: Human Experience Category:
Susan Olding, 'At Lingyin Si' (33/3)
2004: Finalist: Fiction Category:
Craig Davidson, 'Life in the Flesh' (32/3)
  Finalists: Human Experience Category:
Jeremiah Aherne, 'The Long, Hard Hangover' (32/2)
    Jancis Andrews, 'Country of Evil' (32/3)
2003: Winner:  Human Experience Category
Kanina Dawson, 'The End of August' (31/2)
2002: Winner:  Fiction Category:
Carol Windley, 'What Saffi Knows' (30/3)
  Finalist: Human Experience Category:
Cathy A. Ostlere, 'Icarus's Sister' (30/3)
2001: Winner:

Fiction Category:
Kevin Armstrong, 'The Cane Field' (29/1)
  Finalist: Fiction Category:
Annabel Lyon, 'Fishes' (29/1)
  Finalist Human Experience Category:
Marcello Di Cintio, 'Bone Etchings & BloodTattoos: Letters from Niger' (29/3)
2000: Finalist: Human Experience Category:
Kevin Sallows, 'Paths' (28/2)
1999: Finalists: Human Experience Category:
Ruth Krahn, 'What You Learn' (27/3)
    Greg Watson, 'The Newborn Toad' (27/1)
1998: Finalist: Human Experience Category:
Margret Foster, 'The Myth of My Birth Parents' (26/3)
1997: Winner: Human Experience Category:
Gordon Cavenaile (Jeff Walken, pseudonym) 'Junk' (25/3)
1995: Finalist: Fiction Category:
Zsuzsi Gartner, '...This House' (23/2)
1994: Winner: Fiction Category:
Cynthia Flood, 'Country Life' (22/1)

Journey Prize

2008:    Finalist: Théodora Armstrong, 'Whale Stories' (36/2)
2003: Finalist: Tim Mitchell, 'Night Finds Us' (31/3)
2002: Finalist: Neil Smith, 'Green Fluorescent Protein' (30/3)
2001: Winner: Kevin Armstrong, 'The Cane Field' (29/1)
  Finalist: Annabel Lyon, 'Fishes' (29/1)
2000: Finalists: Jessica Johnson, 'We Move Slowly' (28/3)
    Timothy Taylor, 'Pope's Own' (28/3)
1998: Finalist: Madeleine Thien, 'Simple Recipes' (26/2)
1994: Finalist: Jim Reil, 'Dry' (22/3)

Pushcart Prize, Best of the Small Presses

1998: Winner: Gordon Cavenaile (Jeff Walken, pseudonym), 'Junk' (25/3)
  Finalist: Margaret Thompson, 'Flight' (26/1)

Best Canadian Stories (Oberon Press)

2008: Amy Jones's 'What Boys Like' (36/2)
2003: Elisabeth Harvor's 'One Whole Hour (or Even More) with Proust and Novocaine' (31/2)
  Carol Windley's 'What Saffi Knows' (30/3)
2001: Bill Gaston's 'The Alcoholist' (29/2)
2000: Stephen Guppy's 'The Light of Distant Planets' (28/1)

Some Writers Who Have Written for EVENT


André Alexis
Anita Rau Badami
Sandra Birdsell
Stephanie Bolster
George Bowering
Marilyn Bowering
Di Brandt
Tim Bowling
Grant Buday
Charles Bukowski
Sharon Butala
George Elliot Clarke
Lorna Crozier
Don Dickinson
Bill Gaston
Zsuzsi Gartner
Leona Gom
Kenneth J. Harvey
Elizabeth Harvor
Robert Hilles
Jack Hodgins
Greg Hollingshead
Isabel Huggan
Mark Anthony Jarman
Janice Kulyk Keefer
Zoe Landale
Patrick Lane
Pat Lowther
Annabel Lyon
Alistair MacLeod
Maureen McCarthy Don McKay
George McWhirter
Michael Mirolla
Rita Moir
Lisa Moore
A.F. Moritz
Susan Musgrave
Pablo Neruda
Alden Nowlan
Cynthia Ozick
Gordon Pinsent
Andrew Pyper
Nino Ricci
Leon Rooke
Jay Ruzesky
Diane Schoemperlen
Andreas Schroeder
Carol Shields
Heather Spears
Timothy Taylor
Madeline Thien
Russell Thornton
Bronwen Wallace
Tom Wayman
Sue Wheeler
Howard White
George Woodcock
Patricia Young
Terrence Young
W.D. Valgardson