Donna Wise
DONNA WISE is a Toronto-based contemporary/abstract artist who has exhibited throughout Canada and the United States. Her acrylic paintings are large, bold, fluid, and full of energetic confidence.
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.
CMBearArt
Christine, owner of CMBearArt was born and raised in Southern Ontario where she currently resides with her husband and son. Always a creative soul, she didn't pursue art until she was in recovery from a life-threatening, life-altering car accident that left her immobile for several months. Since then, creating through art has become her full-time ministry and occupation.
Haley Down
Haley Down is a student at the University of Essex, currently pursuing a Masters of Wild Writing. She has been an editor at Blank Spaces since 2018. She writes environmental poetry and in her free time she can be found talking to the trees, at her sewing machine, or playing boardgames with her friends.
Jessica Lee McMillan
Jessica Lee McMillan is an emerging BC poet with an MA in English. She likes crooked, shiny things and her writing explores architectures of perception, existentialism and longing—especially in nature and music.
Ivanka Fear
Ivanka Fear is a former teacher now pursuing her passion for writing. Her poems and short stories appear in Spadina Literary Review, Montreal Writes, Adelaide Literary, October Hill, Scarlet Leaf Review, The Sirens Call, The Literary Hatchet, Wellington Street Review, Aphelion, Muddy River Poetry Review, and elsewhere.
Crystal Randall Barnett
Crystal Randall Barnett has always been obsessed with reading and writing. She studied Rhetoric and Professional Writing at the University of Waterloo, later followed by a Masters degree in Adult Education and Community Development at the University of Toronto.
Gary Kirchner
Gary J. Kirchner holds a Master’s degree in sports biomechanics. He played and coached football at McGill for three decades, and taught physics at the college and high school levels during the same period.
Gabriel Munro
Gabriel Munro is a writer and composer living in Regina. His writing has appeared in Literally Stories, Haunted MTL, and Sisyphus Quarterly. He’s the Creative Writer and Producer for a country radio station, and also the Director of Communications for Amarok Society, where he works to ensure the accessibility of education overseas.
M J Malleck
M J Malleck is a first generation university graduate who wrote business copy and a blog for leaders before returning to her first love, telling stories. She grew up on the Canada/US border and still likes her weather report in Fahrenheit degrees.
Nicole Kagan
A South African born, Toronto-based visual artist with a studio at Artscape’s Wychwood Barns, Nicole works in a large range of mixed-media.
Penny L. Ferguson
Penny L. Ferguson has two published poetry collections, Clarity That Is Darkness (Borealis Press, 2003) and Runaway Suite: Two Voices (Hidden Brook Press, 1997).
Emily Conlon
Emily Conlon is an interdisciplinary artist from Windsor, ON currently based in Saskatoon, SK. She is a second year MFA candidate in Studio Art at the University of Saskatchewan and holds a BFA Honours in Visual Arts from the University of Windsor.
Rod Carley
Rod Carley’s second novel, KINMOUNT, won the Silver Medal for Best Regional Fiction from the 2021 Independent Publishers Book Awards and was one of ten books longlisted for the 2021 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medallion for Humour.
Brigid Cami
Brigid Cami is a geotechnical software developer living in Toronto. Notwithstanding, she has wanted to be a writer ever since she was told, at the age of six, that there is no such thing as a career in wizardry.
John Van Rys
John Van Rys lives on a hobby farm outside Dunnville, Ontario, with his wife, two youngest children, dogs, cats, horses, and free-run egg-laying hens. When he’s not at home caring for animals, he spends his time as an English professor at Redeemer University in Hamilton, teaching literature and writing courses.
Samuel Strathman
Samuel Strathman is a poet, author, educator, and the founder/editor-in-chief of Floodlight Editions. Some of his poems have appeared in White Wall Review, Dreich Magazine, Orange Blush Zine, and elsewhere.
Cindy Patrick
Cindy Patrick At 56, these are Cindy’s formative years. After leaving Calgary, settling in a Sooke rainforest, she works in grocery retail just enough to keep a humble existence.
Robin Pacific
Robin Pacific just completed an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Kings College, Halifax. Based in Toronto, she has had a visual arts practice for twenty-five years.