Angela Sawyer
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Angela Sawyer

With a motto of 'everyone has a story to tell', Angela spends their days writing and exploring how narratives impact us (when they're not spending time with their dog).

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Andrenia Romero
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Andrenia Romero

Andreina Romero is a freelance writer originally from Venezuela, now based in Port Coquitlam, BC.

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Sharron Shoenfeld
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Sharron Shoenfeld

Saskatchewan-born visual artist Sharron Schoenfeld has spent her career learning to listen to the places most people pass without pausing.

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Derin Emre
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Derin Emre

Derin Emre Born and raised in Istanbul, Derin Emre graduated from New York University with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Comparative Literature.

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Wendy Hayes
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Wendy Hayes

Wendy Hayes is a former high school librarian, originally from Montreal.

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Yan Castaldo
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Yan Castaldo

Yan Castaldo lives in Toronto, and is beginning grad school at McMaster University in September 2026 to become a psychotherapist.

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Julia Edda Pape
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Julia Edda Pape

Julia Edda Pape lives in Toronto with her cats. She loves to write stories and drink coffee.

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Al Gord
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Al Gord

Al Gord is a self-taught, Toronto-based artist whose creative journey was reignited in 2015 as a way to manage an anxiety disorder.

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Sarah El Sioufi
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Sarah El Sioufi

Sarah El Sioufi is an Egyptian Canadian whose unpublished manuscript won the Muskoka Novel Marathon and was longlisted for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award.

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James Monroe
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James Monroe

James Monroe is a writer from Mississauga with degrees in English and Teaching.

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Stephanie Silk
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Stephanie Silk

Stephanie Silk is a library technician who inherited her love of storytelling from her father, and her dark humour from her mother.

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Louie Leyson
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Louie Leyson

Louie Leyson was awarded the CBC Literary Prize in Nonfiction (2023), longlisted for the CBC Literary Prize in Poetry (2024), and is the recipient of a grant by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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John McPhee
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John McPhee

John McPhee is retired from a career in community newspapers that spanned more than 25 years.

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George Zancola
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George Zancola

George Zancola is a writer of poetry and short fiction focusing on the marginalized in modern society.

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Justine Leonhardt
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Justine Leonhardt

Justine Leonhardt is a writer with an Associate of Arts Degree in Creative Writing from Camosun College.

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