Leah Smith
Leah Smith lives within the countryside of Cape Breton Island, a small rock hidden within Nova Scotia.
Chanice Boyd
Chanice Boyd is a copywriter who’s lately been wandering off the brief and into her own imagination. These days, she’s exploring fast fiction and personal essays.
Kristina Kasparian
Kristina Kasparian is a writer, health activist, translator, and travel photographer with a PhD in neurolinguistics.
Laurence Lumsden
Once upon a time Laurence Lumsden worked in tech, but he escaped under the cover of the pandemic, just to tell stories.
Beveley Brenna
Emerging visual artist Beverley Brenna brings a unique perspective to the Saskatchewan art scene, one deeply informed by her distinguished career as a writer and educator.
Hilary Shirra
Hilary Shirra is a hydrotechnical engineer, and emerging writer from Calgary, Alberta.
Stephanie Bontorin
Stephanie Bontorin is a writer and editor for a small publisher based in Vancouver, BC.
Renee Cronley
Renee Cronley is a writer from Manitoba that stepped away from nursing to prioritize her children, and has been channelling her knowledge and experiences into a poetry book about nursing burnout.
Spencer Gorham
Spencer Gorham (they/them), born and raised in Fredericton, New Brunswick, is a musician and poet.
Isobel Cunningham
Isobel Cunningham lives on the unceded indigenous lands of the Kaien’keha”ka/Mohawk Nation in Montreal.
Valéry Brosseau
Valéry Brosseau is a passionate speaker, writer, and mental health advocate.
Lucy Wilde
Lucy Wilde is a writer who lives in a cottage in the forest on Salt Spring Island, BC.
Elle Warr-Addae
ELLE WARR-ADDAE is an emerging screenwriter, a creator of absurd fictional worlds. Her written works are perfect for being read aloud, or for the stage and screen.
Rebecca St. Pierre
Rebecca’s work has been published in national and international publications, and juried into an Ontario public art project and many exhibitions, including shows at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
Joel Smith
Joel Smith grew up on a small prairie farm in Manitoba. He took a sabbatical from his engineering career to study philosophy, politics, and economics at McGill University.
Raye Hendrickson
Raye Hendrickson has loved words her entire life. They have fed her, moved her to laughter and to tears, and stretched her mind.
Glen Weatherhead
Glen Weatherhead is a fantasy author, known for his fantasy short story, “Foray Into the Blood Tree Forest.”
