Shawn Stibbards
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Shawn Stibbards

Shawn Stibbards lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. His stories and poems have appeared in Prism international, Grain, Broken Pencil, and Dalhousie Review.

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Tristan Marajh
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Tristan Marajh

Tristan Marajh’s The Complete Works of Min Ju Kim was awarded 2nd Prize at The Scugog Arts Council’s Ekphrastic Writing Competition (Canada, 2020).

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Claudette Manzanares
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Claudette Manzanares

Claudette Manzanares draws much of her creative inspiration from her upbringing in Northern Ontario, but now calls Acton, Ontario home.

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Riley Kelly
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Riley Kelly

Riley Kelly is a dedicated and enthusiastic secondary school teacher in York Region. She teaches English and loves to share her passion for literature and language with her students.

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George Herbers
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George Herbers

George A. Herbers is an undergraduate English student studying in Edmonton Alberta. A lifelong reader, he has long admired the paragons of existential literature among other classics.

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Bruce Geddes
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Bruce Geddes

Bruce Geddes is the author of The Higher the Monkey Climbs. His short fiction has appeared in The New Quarterly, Hart House Review, and Great Lakes Review. Born in Windsor, Ontario, he now lives in Toronto.

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Eva Dominelli
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Eva Dominelli

Eva graduated in 2017 from Emily Carr University of Art + Design with a BFA in Illustration. Currently, she works on editorial illustration, album art, and poster design. She has self published several artist books, including her 2020 zine Things Men Say to Me at Work, winner of Broken Pencil’s Art Zine of the year.

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Andrew Dasselaar
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Andrew Dasselaar

Andrew Dasselaar has written ten nonfiction books in Dutch and one in English. Originally from Amsterdam, he made Vancouver his home in 2017 to complete an MFA in Creative Writing at UBC, before moving to Toronto in November 2020 to take a job at the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency.

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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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Jordan Colledge
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Jordan Colledge

Jordan Colledge is a second-year university student majoring in computer science. Born and raised in Kelowna, BC, Jordan spent his grade school years both gladly and dejectedly walking his path alone.

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Vanessa R. Bradley
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Vanessa R. Bradley

Vanessa R. Bradley’s favourite thing to do is weave together imaginary worlds on paper, but she also works in communications to support her lifestyle of loving imperial stouts and cooking with fancy ingredients.

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Fraser Sager
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Fraser Sager

Fraser Sager was born and grew up in Calgary but now works in the Toronto financial district.

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Anne McGouran
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Anne McGouran

Anne McGouran lives in Collingwood, Ontario where she has developed a fascination with ice huts and orchard ladders.

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Michael R. Sullivan
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Michael R. Sullivan

Michael R. Sullivan is a writer from St. John’s, NL. A reader of fiction these days, his favourite authors and books have inspired him to write in the same vein.

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Chad Norman
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Chad Norman

Chad Norman lives beside the high-tides of the Bay of Fundy, Truro, Nova Scotia.

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Terence Young
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Terence Young

Terence Young lives in Victoria, British Columbia. He is a co-founder and former editor of The Claremont Review, a literary journal for younger writers.

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sharai mustatia
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sharai mustatia

For sharai, creating photographic art has replaced the feeling of isolation with a sense of belonging and connectedness.

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Joanne Morrison
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Joanne Morrison

Joanne Morrison’s work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series, and Elephant Journal.

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