Gabriel Munro
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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.

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M J Malleck
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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.

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Nicole Kagan
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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.

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Penny L. Ferguson
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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).

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Emily Conlon
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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.

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Rod Carley
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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.

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Brigid Cami
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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.

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John Van Rys
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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.

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Samuel Strathman
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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.

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Cindy Patrick
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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.

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Robin Pacific
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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.

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Aileen Luo
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Aileen Luo

Aileen Luo (she/her) is a Chinese Canadian poet, artist, and graphic designer based in Toronto. Her interests include drinking soup and petting cats.

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Caitlin Lindsay
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Caitlin Lindsay

Caitlin Lindsay(she/her) lives and works on the unceded Traditional Coast Salish Lands of the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw), Tsleil-Waututh (səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ) and Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) Nations in what is now known as British Columbia.

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Sarah Law
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Sarah Law

Sarah Law is a reporter for the Gravenhurst Banner newspaper and lives in Muskoka, Ontario. She enjoys writing, running, and playing with her cat, Panda.

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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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Joe Bongiorno
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Joe Bongiorno

Joe Bongiorno is a Montreal-based writer and journalist. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in Canadian Notes & Queries, Geist, Event, Freefall, Broken Pencil, the The Antigonish Review and CBC.

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Elvira Berezowsky
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Elvira Berezowsky

Elvira Berezowsky is a professional communications writer, author, and mother, working from her cold basement office in Edmonton, AB.

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Daniel Bay
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Daniel Bay

Daniel Bay is a fiction writer based out of Southern Ontario. After obtaining his B.A. in Geography at York University, he completed his MA in Critical and Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire.

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Angela Zheng
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Angela Zheng

Angela Zheng lived in New York City for five years where she first started photography—there was always something interesting to see in the city. She currently lives in southern Ontario where she works as an economist.

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