Where our 2023 Contributors come from.
We are so proud to be Canadian and love to celebrate our contributors—most who currently call Canada home, some who join us from afar.
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2023 Contributors
Ace Baker ~ writer (Not Julie…Yet—Volume 7, Issue 4 - 06/23)
Tom Ball ~ writer (Some Books of the Future—Volume 7, Issue 3 - 03/23; A Genius Musician—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23)
Deborah Blenkhorn ~ writer (Slip Sliding Away—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23)
Danila Botha ~ writer (Things That Cause Inappropriate Happiness—Volume 8, Issue 2 - 12/23)
Daryl Bruce ~ writer (Gym Class—Volume 7, Issue 3 - 03/23)
Oleksandra Budna ~ photographer (Rooted: Lessons From a Tree—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23)
Finnian Burnett ~ writer (Lift Capacity—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23)
Jessie Carson ~ writer (The Water That Knows Me Best—Volume 7, Issue 3 - 03/23)
Gene Case ~ writer (Cymbeline, My Lover—Volume 8, Issue 2 - 12/23)
Randy Sébastien Charles ~ writer (The Sun—Volume 7, Issue 4 - 06/23)
Alexxa Collins ~ poet (Into the Storm—Volume 7, Issue 4 - 06/23)
Alline Cormier ~ writer (The Victoria Collective—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23)
Paul Edward Costa ~ poet (There’s Wisdom in the Crimson Mural—Volume 7, Issue 3 - 03/23)
Angela Dallago ~ artist (Just a Short Drive—Volume 8, Issue 2 - 12/23)
Paul Desjardins ~ poet (Nature—Volume 7, Issue 4 - 06/23)
JJ Detttman ~ writer (Unspeakables—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23)
Haley Down ~ poet (The Poetry Teacher Tells Us To Write About Desire—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23)
Sheila Burpee Duncan~ writer (I’m Not You—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23)
Miriam Edelson ~ writer (A Pivotal Moment—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23)
Brad Furlott ~ writer (Undoing—Volume 8, Issue 2 - 12/23)
Eva Grace ~ writer (An Artist’s View of a Sunset Over the Rockies—Volume 8, Issue 2 - 12/23)
V. J. Hamilton ~ writer (A Day in the Life—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23)
Erica Helder ~ artist (A Collection of Rising—Volume 7, Issue 3 - 03/23)
Suzanne Johnston ~ writer (The Day Lonnie Saw Three Unicorns—Volume 7, Issue 3 - 03/23)
Linda Jones ~ writer (Waitress—Volume 7, Issue 4 - 06/23; Cooking Lesson—Volume 8, Issue 2 - 12/23)
Bill Garvey ~ poet (The TTC, Lockdown, A Walk in the Juction—Volume 8, Issue 2 - 12/23)
Meghan Kemp-Gee ~ poet (The Bad Dog, Sonnet, and Two Skins—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23)
Carole Glasser Langille ~ writer (No One Knows in What Land He Will Die—Volume 7, Issue 4 - 06/23)
Eric Lee ~ writer (We Have Created a List of Things for Paul to Do and There is No Paul—Volume 7, Issue 3 - 03/23)
Ellen Lesiuk ~ writer (Another Day—Volume 7, Issue 4 - 06/23)
Jozef Leyden ~ writer (Sad Pictures in Ark of Steel—Volume 7, Issue 3 - 03/23)
Olivia B. Li ~ writer (Lost and Found—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23)
Andrew Lindsay ~ writer (Brown-Haired Nostalgia—Volume 7, Issue 3 - 03/23)
Jamie Quinn Mader ~ poet (The Golden Hour—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23)
Michael McGrath ~ writer (Stayin’ Alive—Volume 7, Issue 4 - 06/23)
Gabriel Munro ~ writer (Caretaker—Volume 7, Issue 4 - 06/23)
Gail M. Murray ~ reviewer, writer (Coronation Year—Volume 7, Issue 3 - 06/23; To Launch or Not to Launch—Volume 7, Issue 3 - 03/23; The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale—Volume 7, Issue 3 - 03/23; The Porcelain Moon—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23; Brock’s Spirit—Volume 8, Issue 2 - 12/23)
Josiah Nelson ~ poet (Ghosts; Winter Cry—Volume 7, Issue 4 - 06/23)
Desiree Nippard~ writer (An Early Thaw—Volume 8, Issue 2 - 12/23)
Rob Omura ~ poet (On Kurelek’s Not Going Back to Pick up a Clock; If They are in the Fields—Volume 7, Issue 3 - 03/23)
Christopher Pastulovic ~ poet (Basically—Volume 8, Issue 2 - 12/23)
Laura Jane Petelko ~ photographer (Ma—Volume 7, Issue 4 - 06/23)
John RC Potter ~ writer (In Search of Alice Munro—Volume 7, Issue 4 - 06/23)
Mark E. Prior ~ writer (Joseph—Volume 8, Issue 2 - 12/23)
Sarah Ralph ~ poet (Woodstock Exhibition, Lighter Than Water—Volume 8, Issue 2 - 12/23)
Benjamin Rempel ~ writer (Small Town Monster—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23)
Tom Reynolds ~ poet (Fancy That—Volume 7, Issue 3 - 03/23)
Suzanne Rintoul ~ writer (Maps—Volume 7, Issue 4 - 06/23)
Joan Rivard ~ poet (Leaky—Volume 7, Issue 4 - 06/23)
Christine Collie Rowland ~ writer (Two Out of Three—Volume 8, Issue 2 - 12/23)
Gun Roze ~ photographer (As Above, So Within—Volume 8, Issue 2 - 12/23)
Michael Schmidt ~ poet (You Could Never Forget What It’s Like to be Here—Volume 7, Issue 4 - 06/23)
Pauline Shen ~ writer (Jubilee—Volume 7, Issue 3 - 03/23)
Carol Shumas ~ artist (Theatre on the Wall—Volume 7, Issue 4 - 06/23)
Isobel Sinclair ~ poet (Oft on a Dawn’s Break and I Have a Timeshare—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23)
Rhonda Skinner ~ poet (A Writer/Editor Conversation—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23)
Dennis Stein ~ writer (Demons of Damascus—Volume 7, Issue 3 - 03/23)
Karen Taylor ~ artist (Bold Type—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23)
Eric Twa ~ writer (The Empty Sky—Volume 8, Issue 2 - 12/23)
Rosemary Twomey ~ writer (The Sundial—Volume 8, Issue 2 - 12/23)
Jeanette Vo ~ writer (A Moment—Volume 7, Issue 4 - 06/23)
Karen Walker ~ poet (Things Awaiting the Baby—Volume 7, Issue 3 - 03/23)
Ronald Zajac ~ writer (Rembrandt of Raindrops—Volume 7, Issue 3 - 03/23; Rosa Rugosa—Volume 8, Issue 1 - 09/23)