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College
Literary
Magazine
Turns 20

Cos culture does not lack
great literature, but we
drawers of water and hewers of
wood often cannot see the forest
for the trees.

Any list of noted Canadian
wordsmiths would include Mar-
garet Atwood, W.O. Mitchell, P.K.
Page, Alice Munro, Mordecai
Richler, Gabrielle Roy, Robertson
Davies.

But, having said that, the
bedrock of the writing community
is not made up only of luminaries.
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Dale Zieroth, editor of Event.

there; works by writers such as
Elizabeth Harvor and Brenda
Baker grace few people's coffee
tables, but they are writers with
much to say.

They are also writers whose
works Douglas College’s Event
Magazine, 20 years old this spring,
likes to publish, says editor Dale
Zieroth.

“Tt’s our mandate to foster that
kind of writer,” he says. “Event is
a venue for authors who are
talented, but not necessarily
famous.”

Twenty years have not turned
Event into a mass object. Instead,
says Zieroth, the magazine helps
Canadian writers by letting them
know that they don’t struggle alone.

“In many ways, the magazine is
a necessary service to writers,” he
says. “Event goes a long way
toward creating a community of
writers. It’s difficult, at times, for
that community — the country is
so big.”

As Zieroth notes, the eagerness
with which Event participates in
the literary world does not go un-
recognized. Last year Janice Kulyk
Keefer’s long poem “Fields”, pub-
lished in Event 18/3, won the
Gold Medal for Poetry in the Na-
tional Magazine Awards. Work
published in Event is nominated
for awards or included in national
anthologies each year.

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