Hi Larry!
In The Events Calendar, events can only be created from the backend, but our Community Events add-on provides a front-end form which will allow users to submit events without having admin access. It also provides some options, like whether or not to require users to have an account to create events and what status events should be submitted into, allowing you the opportunity to review and edit them before they are published to your calendar.
We do offer full refunds within 30 days of purchase, so if you’d like to take Community Events for a test run, feel free to do so! Please let me know if you have any additional questions.
Thanks,
Jennifer