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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Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt
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Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt

Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt is the author of the critically acclaimed Peacekeeper’s Daughter: A Middle East Memoir (Thistledown, 2021), which was a finalist for the Quebec Writer’s Federation Mavis Gallant Award for Nonfiction.

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Bob Mann
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Bob Mann

Bob Mann’s work focuses on the uncomfortable, tragic, and sometimes funny gaps between the lines of everyday life.

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Lisa Jones
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Lisa Jones

Lisa Jones is a graduate of Simon Fraser’s Writer’s Studio and is currently undertaking her Masters of Social Work.

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Anthony Clarke
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Anthony Clarke

Raised in the Greater Toronto Area, and recently relocated to the Central Ontario town of Stayner, thirty-two year old Clarke has written a number of flash and short story pieces.

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Owen Day
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Owen Day

Owen Day is a Canadian writer studying in San Francisco, wishing they could go back home.

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Sarah Cheng
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Sarah Cheng

Sarah Cheng was born in Hong Kong in the 80s and grew up in Markham, Ontario.

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Celia Richard
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Celia Richard

The intricacies of the human connection are what motivate Celia Richard to write.

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Rose Camara
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Rose Camara

Rose Camara is an emerging writer, public servant, and recovering lawyer living and working on the Lekwungen people’s territory known as Victoria.

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Margot Block
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Margot Block

Margot Block has been writing since the age of fourteen. She won first prize in a poetry contest sponsored by the Writers Collective and an honourable mention in a poetry contest sponsored by the Lake Winnipeg Writers Group.

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Ashley Alexandra
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Ashley Alexandra

Ashley Alexandra is an emerging contemporary abstract mixed media artist that resides in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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Martin Mielke
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Martin Mielke

Martin Mielke grew up in southern Ontario before moving to the northern part of the province in 1991. He taught in a First Nations community for ten years before settling in Thunder Bay.

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Marek Przemieniecki
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Marek Przemieniecki

Marek Przemieniecki is an immigrant who has spent his life giving suggestions on how to improve sentences, plots, and structures as a high school English teacher.

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Joel Fishbane
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Joel Fishbane

Joel Fishbane is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter whose novel The Thunder of Giants is available from St. Martin’s Press.

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