Michael Foy
2019 Alanna Rusnak 2019 Alanna Rusnak

Michael Foy

Michael was born and raised in Surrey, BC. He completed degrees in psychology and teaching at Simon Fraser University.

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Erin Alladin
2019 Alanna Rusnak 2019 Alanna Rusnak

Erin Alladin

Erin Alladin grew up in North Bay and Corbeil, Ontario, where her family did such charming old-fashioned things as tap maple trees, make patchwork quilts, and know wildflowers by name.

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Vivian Zenari
2020 Alanna Rusnak 2020 Alanna Rusnak

Vivian Zenari

Vivian Zenari’s work has appeared most recently in The Forge Literary Magazine, Eclectica, and Canthius. Her story “Royal Visit” won the silver award for fiction in the 2015 Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Showcase Award.

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Christina Wiebe
2020 Alanna Rusnak 2020 Alanna Rusnak

Christina Wiebe

Christina Wiebe is a chronic illness warrior who has turned to the healing power of writing to process and cope with the chaos and uncertainty that are inherent in living life with a complex, chronic and invisible disease.

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Marina L. Reed
2020 Alanna Rusnak 2020 Alanna Rusnak

Marina L. Reed

Marina L. Reed (honB.A., M.A., B.Ed.) grew up in rural Ontario. She has since lived and worked in countries around the world as an educator, a journalist, writer, and artist.

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Laura Jane Petelko
2020, 2023 Alanna Rusnak 2020, 2023 Alanna Rusnak

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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Andrew Lafleche
2020 Alanna Rusnak 2020 Alanna Rusnak

Andrew Lafleche

Andrew Lafleche is an award-winning poet and author of No Diplomacy; Shameless; Ashes; A Pardonable Offence; One Hundred Little Victories; On Writing; Merica, Merica on the Wall; and After I Turn into Alcohol.

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Tye Kraimer
2020 Alanna Rusnak 2020 Alanna Rusnak

Tye Kraimer

Tye Kraimer is an emerging writer and filmmaker based in Toronto, interested in embodied stories of becoming tied to specific environmental contexts.

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Lisa Free
2020 Alanna Rusnak 2020 Alanna Rusnak

Lisa Free

Lisa Free is a Canadian artist known for her loosely rendered sparkling waterscapes with elegant tonal palettes.

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Robert Chursinoff
2020 Alanna Rusnak 2020 Alanna Rusnak

Robert Chursinoff

During daylight hours Robert works as a digital media producer, director and editor. After sundown the pen and paper come out.

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Mitchell Toews
2020, 2018 Alanna Rusnak 2020, 2018 Alanna Rusnak

Mitchell Toews

Mitchell Toews lives and writes at Jessica Lake in Manitoba. When an insufficient number of, “We are pleased to inform you…” emails are on hand, he finds alternative joy in the windy intermingling between the top of the water and the bottom of the sky or skates on the ice until he can no longer see the cabin.

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Molly Steels
2020 Alanna Rusnak 2020 Alanna Rusnak

Molly Steels

Molly Steels is a photographer from Bradford, Ontario who recently moved out of her small town to Toronto, Ontario.

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2020 Alanna Rusnak 2020 Alanna Rusnak

Ellis Scott

Ellis Scott is a new writer, and an old man. His first short story was published by Into The Void magazine in October 2019 and his second will be published by High Shelf Press in February 2020.

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