Paul Edward Costa
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Paul Edward Costa

Paul Edward Costa is a literary artist, former Poet Laureate for the City of Mississauga, and the current Director of Toronto's Art Bar Poetry Series.

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Andrew Lindsay
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Andrew Lindsay

Dr. Andrew Lindsay is an occasional teacher of college history with a fond memory of growing up, and attending school in Scarborough, Ontario.

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Tom Ball
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Tom Ball

Tom Ball has published novels, novellas, short stories, and flash. He is currently a senior editor at FLEAS ON THE DOG.

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Daryl Bruce
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Daryl Bruce

Daryl Bruce (he/him) is a recovering dairy farmer turned writer based in Montreal. An emerging voice in queer Canadian prose and poetry, his work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Open Minds Quarterly, and more.

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Rob Omura
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Rob Omura

Rob Omura calls Anmore, BC, Canada home where he lives with his common law wife and three too many cats.

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Jessie Carson
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Jessie Carson

Jessie Carson lives in Almonte, Ontario. She is a writer, a reader, a teacher, and the mother of three boys.

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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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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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Oleksandra Budna
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Oleksandra Budna

Oleksandra Budna grew up in Ukraine. She now lives in Toronto with her family and works as a communications professional for a social justice and health equity organization.

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Pauline Shen
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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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Haley Down
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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.

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V J Hamilton
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V J Hamilton

V.J. Hamilton lives and works in Toronto. “Tattletale” is based on a report from BBC Business Daily on employee monitoring software.

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Angela Dallago
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Angela Dallago

From a young age, Angela Dallago has always been fascinated with water… She has dreamed of living by the ocean or sailing for months at a time but, while living in Whistler surrounded by the Coastal Mountains, Angela gets her water fix by paddle boarding on the lakes or swimming in the cool waters.

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Rhonda Skinner
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Rhonda Skinner

Rhonda Skinner is an Edmonton-based writer. When she’s not writing, she enjoys reading, playing golf, taking photos of wildlife, or playing her ukulele.

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Jozef Leyden
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Jozef Leyden

Jozef Leyden (pseudonym) lives in Ottawa, Ontario. He was born and raised in Bohemia and lived for a few decades in the Netherlands before he found his home in Canada.

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Ronald Zajac
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Ronald Zajac

Ronald Zajac was born and raised in Montreal, where he completed a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature at McGill University.

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Laura Jane Petelko
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Laura Jane Petelko

A Professional Photographic Artist residing in Toronto, ON, Laura Jane Petelko’s work has explored the psychology of ones identity and self-image, simultaneous with transformation and transcendence.

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