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her to the magazine at every level, from
student reader to contributor to section
editor. “Probably the first time I ever

saw Event was when I was a student at
Douglas College...we used the book as

a course material for a class we were
taking,” Bachinsky recalls. “Years later,
one of my first publications was with Event
Magazine.” Bachinsky began working for
the magazine in 2005 as a genre editor for
the poetry section under Billeh Nickerson,
and eventually took over for former editor
Rick Maddocks in 2010.

Today’s Event: 40th Anniversary Issue
The current issue of Event is a special one:
the 40th Anniversary Issue. As Bachinsky
writes on the issue’s back cover, “This is
an issue of Champions. Not only those
champions we publish—but also those
who keep passing the torch, and passing
it well.” Framed with an introduction
commemorating the anniversary, in which
Bachinsky speaks to the longevity of the
magazine and pays tribute to those who

Renamed
EVENT:

The Douglas
College Review

have dedicated themselves to Event in the
past, the issue features an appropriately
jubilant mix of old and new, contrasting a
retrospective of past-editors’ selections with
fresh works.

Another forty?

With sales of print publications dwindling
across the country, it’s difficult not to
wonder about the future of Douglas
College’s mecca of literary culture.

While no one can totally predict how
the format may evolve, Bachinsky has faith
in the genre. “I think, at its core, literary
magazines are always going to do what
they’ve always done—which is provide a
venue for emerging and established writers
to show their work. I think that’s always
going to be true.”

Managing editor Nikki Reimer adds
that “there are constantly new challenges,
and publishing is changing rapidly,” but
points to the magazine’s longevity through
struggle in the past as an indicator of
its future in the next few years. “In four

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years, it could be a very different project,
although...it’s been so strong for such a long
time, I feel confident in saying that [Event]
will still be around and still be a part of
Canadian literature.”

Indeed, when reflecting on Event’s
history during the production of the 40th
Anniversary Issue, Bachinsky was struck
by how the magazine has repeatedly been
faced with strife—and how its editors
have protected it. “Every single one of the
editors and managing editors, everybody,
has always really been a champion for this
project. Everyone has at some point been to
a place where you don’t know what’s going
to happen with [the magazine], like funding
changes. It gets very scary, and everyone is
always fighting for it, and it’s made it. It’s a
bit remarkable.”

The big Event

A milestone like this can’t go by without
some cake and circumstance, so Event is
throwing a party.

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SPECIALISSUES

1974 International Women’s Year Issue
1975 Howard O'Hagen Issue
19765 New Writers Issue

1979 West Coast Canada Issue
1980 Fantasy Issue

1982 Work Issue

_ 1986 15th Anniversary Issue
1986 Peace and War Issue

= 1987 BC Writers Issue

_ 1989 Fiction Only Issue

+994 20th Anniversary Issue
2002 30 Year Retrospective Issue
2011 40 Year Anniversary Issue

   

“Tt is going to be a fantastic celebration
of the magazine and everyone who has
worked so hard to make it a magazine that’s
lasted for forty years,” says Reimer.

The event, which will be held at the
college on the evening of Wednesday,
October 26, will be hosted by Bachinsky
and will feature Event editorial alumni
David Zieroth, Calvin Wharton, Cathy
Stonehouse, Billeh Nickerson, and Rick
Maddocks. ““What’s exciting is that we’re
going to hear from five former editors
who will each speak a little bit about their
time at the magazine, as well as the piece
that they’ve selected to be profiled in the
retrospective section—and they’ re also all
going to share some of their current work,
because they’re all writers who write as
well as being editors,” says Reimer.

Event Magazine's 40th Anniversary
celebration will be held at the New
Westminster campus on Wednesday,
October 26 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. in
the Douglas Room. Admission is free.

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