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Event Turns 30

 

 

 

Tyler, Kerry & Karen

Tyler Bradford
Culture Editor

Douglas College’s very own Event magazine
recently turned 30 and as part of the celebration
held a launch party for it’s 31/1 issue, a 30-year
retrospective which is filled with highlights from
the award winning magazine’s first three
decades.

For those not familiar with Event, the literary

 

magazine focuses on fiction, poetry, creative
non-fiction, notes on writing and reviews. Its con-
tributors are primarily unsolicited, which allows
for writers both new and established to have
access to an outlet for their work to be published
and most importantly be seen. Many of
Event’s contributing writers have gone on to be
award winning authors, including Kevin
Armstrong whose story, ‘The Cane Field’ (which
was first published in Event) recently won the
prestigious 2001 Writers Trust/McClelland &
Stewart Journey Prize.

The launch party of the retrospective issue,
held on May 31, was moderately successful,
filling a large room of roughly 120 people at
SFU’s Harbour Centre to standing room only.
While the attendance was encouraging and the
material from which the reader’s drew was
strong (based mostly. on selections from the
retrospective issue), the actual readings were
less than spectacular. With the exception of MC
Tom Wayman, who closed out the night with two
crowd-pleasing comical poems, and author
Annabel Lyon, who seemed to become the
character from her selection, "Fishes", none of
the other authors could seem to draw themselves
(or their audience) into their own work.

Thankfully the retrospective issue itself is far

 

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more engaging. While some of the authors at the
launch party couldn’t create a connection with
their audience, all of the authors gracing the
pages of the retrospective issue make strong
connections with their readers in their written
work. The outstanding works featured in the
retrospective issue all have previously graced the
pages of Event before and represent an overview
of the magazine’s storied and award-winning
past. Some of the more famous names included
amongst the authors who have written for Event
and are represented here are Charles Bukoski
(who contributes two poems including one that
was published in Events first year of publication),
George Elliot Clarke (who contributes a piece in
the-"Notes on Writing" section) and Carol Shields
(who’s contribution "The Question of Fiction"
ponders some of the deeper meanings of why
writers write). With creative and innovative selec-
tions in poetry, fiction and non-fiction throughout
Event's 30-year retrospective issue is sure to
have something for any fan of literary work.

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