Gwen Tuinman
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Gwen Tuinman

Gwen Tuinman is novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. Influenced by an interest in bygone days, her writing explores the landscape of human tenacity and how women navigate the social restrictions of their era.

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India Das-Brown
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India Das-Brown

India Das-Brown is based in Toronto. Currently working as a barista at an artisanal French bakery, she is interested in art, life, and photography, and always on the lookout for new opportunities.

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Finnian Burnett
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Finnian Burnett

Finnian Burnett teaches undergrad English and creative writing. They’ve published in the Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology, Daily Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Magazine, and more.

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Linda Woolven
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Linda Woolven

Linda is a Toronto artist with a degree in Fine Arts. Her work is characterized by her great love of colour and texture and by the movement she creates in her paintings, using light, layers and stroke.

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Rod Ellard
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Rod Ellard

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

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Sahil Alurkar
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Sahil Alurkar

Sahil Alurkar came to Toronto to pursue a career as an exploration geologist in the mining industry. He began photography around the age of 15, armed with a 3.2 MP Canon point and shoot camera .

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Stephanie Aykroyd
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Stephanie Aykroyd

Nature has always been the best antidote for the chaos in Stephanie’s like and she is happiest in the studio, outside with her hands in the garden, making pigments, portaging a canoe, or paddling the remote wilderness.

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David Brun
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David Brun

David Brun has worked in the Canadian film industry for twenty years. He recently embarked on the query process for his memoir, which is based on his mental health struggle while hitchhiking and busking through Latin America.

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Wendy Howell
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Wendy Howell

Wendy Howell has a passion for writing as well as art and can be found in her spare time scribbling down random ideas or starting multiple projects at once.

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Julie Meier
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Julie Meier

Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Julie Meier holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Calgary.

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Debbie Boekestein
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Debbie Boekestein

Debbie Boekestein lives in beautiful Grey Bruce, Ontario, spoiled with beautiful sunrises and sunsets.

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Jamie Quinn Mader
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Jamie Quinn Mader

Jamie Quinn Mader (they/them) is a queer, mad, fat, non binary femme who writes from what is colonially known as Toronto, Ontario.

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Alisa Caswell
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Alisa Caswell

Alisa Caswell is an engineer, a gardener, and a writer. She grew up on Prince Edward Island and now calls northern Alberta home.

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Dustin Ruth
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Dustin Ruth

Dustin Ruth is a former journalist now living in B.C. He always wanted to be a writer and has decided to give this whole writing thing another go.

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Ted McInnis
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Ted McInnis

Christina McArthur (she/her) is member of the pasture poets poetry collective, an informal group of interdisciplinary thinkers, knowers, and poets who feel most seen when weaving words.

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Christina McArthur
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Christina McArthur

Christina McArthur (she/her) is member of the pasture poets poetry collective, an informal group of interdisciplinary thinkers, knowers, and poets who feel most seen when weaving words.

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