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Sarah El Sioufi is an Egyptian Canadian whose unpublished manuscript won the Muskoka Novel Marathon and was longlisted for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award.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

Amy Boyes is a writer and music teacher in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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Leslie Stark
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Leslie Stark

Leslie Stark is a teacher, mom, poet, playwright, dancer, singer, hula hoop maker, excellent baker, expert cat napper, champion of the arts, and wildly busy person.

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Pauline Shen
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Pauline Shen

Pauline Shen is an emerging writer in London, Ontario. Her writing aims to showcase beauty and courage rooted in unexpected and challenging places. Her work is published or forthcoming with Amethyst Review, Blank Spaces, CommuterLit, and Dreamers Creative Writing.

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