diff --git a/listener.go b/listener.go
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+++ b/listener.go
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+package events
+
+import (
+	"sync"
+)
+
+// ListenFunc is a type for listener functions must implement
+type ListenFunc func(event Event)
+
+// ListenerSink passes events through ListenFunc before draining through the
+// next sink below
+type ListenerSink struct {
+	dst    Sink
+	mu     sync.Mutex
+	closed bool
+	ListenFunc
+}
+
+// NewListenerSink returns a sink that will pass events to a listener
+func NewListenerSink(dst Sink, fn ListenFunc) *ListenerSink {
+	ls := &ListenerSink{
+		dst:        dst,
+		ListenFunc: fn,
+		closed:     false,
+	}
+	return ls
+}
+
+// Write passes the event to a listener and then forwards to the next sink
+func (ls *ListenerSink) Write(event Event) error {
+	ls.mu.Lock()
+	defer ls.mu.Unlock()
+
+	if ls.closed {
+		return ErrSinkClosed
+	}
+
+	ls.ListenFunc(event)
+
+	return ls.dst.Write(event)
+}
+
+// Close calls Close() on the sink below
+func (ls *ListenerSink) Close() error {
+	if ls.closed {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// set closed flag
+	ls.closed = true
+	return ls.dst.Close()
+}
diff --git a/listener_test.go b/listener_test.go
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+++ b/listener_test.go
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+package events
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestListener(t *testing.T) {
+	const nevents = 100
+	tm := &testMetrics{0, 0, 0}
+
+	ts := newTestSink(t, nevents)
+	es := NewListenerSink(ts, tm.egress)
+	eq := NewQueue(es)
+	is := NewListenerSink(eq, tm.ingress)
+
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	for i := 1; i <= nevents; i++ {
+		wg.Add(1)
+		go func(event Event) {
+			if err := is.Write(event); err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("error writing event: %v", err)
+			}
+			wg.Done()
+		}("event-" + fmt.Sprint(i))
+	}
+	wg.Wait()
+	checkClose(t, is)
+
+	ts.mu.Lock()
+	defer ts.mu.Unlock()
+
+	t.Logf("%#v", tm)
+
+	if len(ts.events) != nevents {
+		t.Fatalf("events did not make it to the sink: %d != %d", len(ts.events), 1000)
+	}
+
+	if tm.events != nevents && tm.incoming != nevents && tm.outgoing != nevents {
+		t.Fatalf("events, incoming, outgoing should all == %d, %#v", nevents, tm)
+	}
+
+	if !ts.closed {
+		t.Fatalf("sink should have been closed")
+	}
+	// t.Fatalf("%#v", tm)
+}
+
+type endSink struct {
+	Sink
+}
+
+type testMetrics struct {
+	events   int
+	incoming int
+	outgoing int
+}
+
+func (m *testMetrics) ingress(event Event) {
+	m.events++
+	m.incoming++
+}
+
+func (m *testMetrics) egress(event Event) {
+	m.outgoing++
+}