Gene Case
2023 Alanna Rusnak 2023 Alanna Rusnak

Gene Case

Gene Case is a second year student at Trinity College in the University of Toronto, majoring in English and Literature & Critical Theory.

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Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt
2022 Alanna Rusnak 2022 Alanna Rusnak

Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt

Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt is the author of the critically acclaimed Peacekeeper’s Daughter: A Middle East Memoir (Thistledown, 2021), which was a finalist for the Quebec Writer’s Federation Mavis Gallant Award for Nonfiction.

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Rod Ellard
2022 Alanna Rusnak 2022 Alanna Rusnak

Rod Ellard

Rod Ellard is a writer, a musician, an ex-lawyer, and a former government bureaucrat.

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Pauline Shen
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 Alanna Rusnak 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 Alanna Rusnak

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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Carol Anne Shaw
2017 Alanna Rusnak 2017 Alanna Rusnak

Carol Anne Shaw

Carol Anne Shaw is the author of three books in the award-winning HANNAH series (Ronsdale Press) and is currently working on a fourth.

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Mitchell Toews
2020, 2018 Alanna Rusnak 2020, 2018 Alanna Rusnak

Mitchell Toews

Mitchell Toews lives and writes at Jessica Lake in Manitoba. When an insufficient number of, “We are pleased to inform you…” emails are on hand, he finds alternative joy in the windy intermingling between the top of the water and the bottom of the sky or skates on the ice until he can no longer see the cabin.

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Heidi Eastman
2016 Alanna Rusnak 2016 Alanna Rusnak

Heidi Eastman

Heidi Eastman is a small town Ontario wife and mother to two delightfully weird girls.

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