VINCENT ANIOKE is a Nigerian-Canadian writer and software engineer. He won the 2021 Austin Clarke Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the 2023 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award. Perfect Little Angels, published by Arsenal Pulp Press in April 2024, is his debut short story collection.

ADÈLE BARCLAY is the recipient of the 2016 Lit POP Award, The Walrus 2016 Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry and The Fiddlehead‘s 2022 Fiction Contest. They are the author of If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You, which won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and Renaissance Normcore, both with Nightwood Editions.

NOAH CAIN is a school counselor, multi-modal artist and critic in Winnipeg. His writing has appeared in publications across North America, including CV2, Prairie Fire and Yolk Literary. Find him online at www.noahjcain.com.

KAYLA CZAGA is the author of three books of poetry: For Your Safety Please Hold On (Nightwood Editions, 2014), Dunk Tank (House of Anansi, 2019) and Midway (House of Anansi, 2024).

IRENA DATCU-ROMANO is a poet of Romanian descent studying religions, cultures and writing at the University of Victoria. Her poetry has been published in Work in Progress Mag, VOICES/VOIX Poetry Journal and Yolk Literary. Her poetry zine, Chess Game, was shortlisted for Broken Pencil’s Zine Awards in 2021.

EMILY DAVIDSON resides in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, and her poetry and fiction have appeared in Arc, The Antigonish Review, CV2, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Maisonneuve, Room and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, Lift, was released in 2019 by Thistledown Press.

PAUL DHILLON’s (he/him) work has appeared in The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire and Geist. He holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia. He lives on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Coast Salish peoples with his sweetie and their brindled mutt. He is a high school English teacher.

AMANDA EARL (she/her) is a writer, editor, visual poet, publisher, reviewer and literary events organizer living on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg peoples. Her latest book is Beast, Body Epic (AngelHousePress, 2023), a long-poem collection provoked by her near-death health crisis.

Irish-Canadian LESLEY-ANNE EVANS is author of Mute Swan (The St. Thomas Poetry Series, 2021). Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Antigonish Review, Banshee, CV2, Image, Poetry Ire- land Review and Letters (Yale), among other publications. She resides in Kelowna, BC, and is currently studying for an MA in Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast, in the North of Ireland.

MICHAEL GOODFELLOW is the author of the poetry collections Naturalism, An Annotated Bibliography (2022) and Folklore of Lunenburg County (2024), both published by Gaspereau Press. His poems have appeared in the Literary Review of Canada, The Dalhousie Review and elsewhere. He lives in Nova Scotia.

MADELEINE GUENETTE was born in Sudbury, ON, attended Laval University, and moved to Nelson, BC in 1989, where she taught middle school, including photography, for 28 years. She loves to photograph mountains, lakes and wildlife, as well as cityscapes.

MICHELLE HARDY is a developmental editor and book reviewer. She completed a master’s degree in English at the University of Regina in 2012 and obtained an editing certificate from Simon Fraser University in 2021. A member of Editors Canada and the Editorial Freelancers Association, Michelle lives in Victoria.

SARA HEINONEN’s story collection Dear Leaves, I Miss You All (Mansfield Press, 2013) was shortlisted for a 2014 ReLit Award. Her fiction has appeared in Grain, EVENT, The Fiddlehead and The New Quarterly. Sara is a former landscape architect who has self-published photography books about urban buildings and places. She lives in Hamilton, ON.

DEARBHAILE HOUSTON is a writer from Ire- land. Her short fiction has appeared in Banshee, The Dublin Review, The Irish Times and Tolka. She is a recipient of Agility Awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, and she holds a PhD in English Literature from Trinity College Dublin. She lives in Montreal.

JIM JOHNSTONE is a Toronto-based poet, editor and critic. His recent books are The King of Terrors (Coach House, 2023) and Bait & Switch: Essays, Reviews, Conversations, and Views on Canadian Poetry (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2024).

ZILLA JONES is an African-Canadian woman writing in Treaty 1 (Winnipeg). In 2023, she won the Journey Prize and was shortlisted for the Bronwen Wallace Award, and in 2024, was shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in Prairie Fire, Grain, The Malahat Review and elsewhere. Her debut novel, The World So Wide, is forthcoming with Cormorant Books in April 2025.

RAHAT KURD’s work includes The Book of Z (poems, forthcoming with Talonbooks, fall 2025), Cosmophilia (poems, Talonbooks, 2015) and The City That Is Leaving Forever: Kashmiri Letters, co-authored with Sumayya Syed (non-fiction and poetry hybrid, Talonbooks, 2021).

AMBER McMILLAN is the author of This Is a Stickup, The Running Trees, The Woods: A Year on Protection Island and We Can’t Ever Do This Again. She has been a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Award, the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry, the New Brunswick Book Awards and the Atlantic Book Awards. She lives in New Brunswick on Wolastoqey/Maliseet territory.

MAYA SOMOGYI (she/her) is a writer from the Sunshine Coast, BC. Her work can be found in the Temz Review and the Literary Review of Canada and is forthcoming in Ricepaper Magazine and PRISM international. She graduated from the University of Victoria with a BA in English Honours and Writing.

HSIEN CHONG TAN was born in Singapore and lives in Vancouver. His fiction has appeared in Geist, PRISM international, Mid-American Review and elsewhere, and was included in The Journey Prize Stories (2020). He lives in Vancouver with his wife, cats and dog.

HAYDEN WARD is a writer and musician living in Tiohti:áke/Montreal on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. He holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia Okanagan, where he was the recipient of the Creative Writing Prize. His poetry has appeared in Grain and EVENT, among others, and anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry 2021.

JESS YUAN (she/her) is a poet and architect. She is the author of Slow Render (Airlie, 2024), winner of the Airlie Prize, and Threshold Amnesia (2020), winner of the Yemassee Chapbook Contest. Jess has received fellowships from Kundiman and Miami Writers Institute, and her poems appear in Best New Poets, Tupelo Quarterly, jubilat, Beloit Poetry Journal and elsewhere.