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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: |
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| Finalist: | J. Jill Robinson, 'The Letter' | |
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Poetry Category: |
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| Finalist: | Fiction Category: Sarah Keevil, 'Pyro' (37/1) |
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| 2008: | Finalist: |
Personal Journalism Category: |
| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Finalist: | Fiction Category: Barry Webster, 'The Royal Conservatory: Statement and Fugue for Eight Voices' (30/3) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Finalist: | Human Experience Category: Susan Olding, 'At Lingyin Si' (33/3) |
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| 2004: | Finalist: | Fiction Category: Craig Davidson, 'Life in the Flesh' (32/3) |
| Finalists: | Human Experience Category: Jeremiah Aherne, 'The Long, Hard Hangover' (32/2) |
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| 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) |
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| 2001: | Winner: |
Fiction Category: Kevin Armstrong, 'The Cane Field' (29/1) |
| Finalist: | Fiction Category: Annabel Lyon, 'Fishes' (29/1) |
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| Finalist | Human Experience Category: Marcello Di Cintio, 'Bone Etchings & BloodTattoos: Letters from Niger' (29/3) |
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| 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 |