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Brandi Bird is a Two-Spirit Saulteaux, Cree and Metis writer/editor from Treaty 1 territory currently living and learning on Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh & Musqueam land. Their work has been published in The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Puritan, Poetry is Dead, Room Magazine, Brick Magazine, Prism International, Arc and The Fiddlehead. Interviewed by Cara Nelissen Cara Nelissen (CN): […]

Mark Anthony Jarman’s new book Czech Techno is a gorgeous collection of short stories—both for the stories themselves and also for the graphic design they are enhanced by. This is his sixth book of short stories, but he also has written poetry, fiction, and travel. The five stories in Czech Techno weave in and out […]

Born in Congo-Kinshasa, Téa Mutonji now lives and writes in Scarborough, Ontario. She was selected as emerging writer of the year (2017) by the Ontario Book Publishers Organization.  Mutonji’s collection of linked short stories, Shut Up You’re Pretty, came out in 2019 and was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust of Canada, a Publishing Triangle Award winner, and a […]

Here are the details about Linda K. Thompson: born and raised on a potato and cattle farm in the Pemberton Valley and now lives in Port Alberni, where she been for many years. She has a chapbook called “Four Small People in Sturdy Shoes” and many poems in literary journals across the country. “Black Bears […]

Samantha Martin-Bird is a citizen of Peguis First nation currently living in a house she painted purple in Thunder Bay, Ontario. She works in philanthropy with the Mastercard Foundation to address inequities in education and employment for Indigenous young people. As a way to pass the time during the pandemic, Sam started writing poetry about […]

Andrea Actis was born in Toronto but for most of her life has lived in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She teaches writing and literature at Capilano University and from 2015 to 2017 edited The Capilano Review. Grey All Over is her first book. Late in the evening […]

Troy Sebastian |nupqu ʔak·ǂam̓ is a Ktunaxa writer from ʔaq̓am. Troy has a MFA from the University of Victoria where he teaches writing. His story tax niʔ pikak̓— a long time ago– was longlisted for the 2018 CBC Short Story Prize and the 2019 Writers’ Trust Journey Prize. He was selected as a 2020 Writer’s Trust Rising Star by Lynn Coady and […]

Isabella Wang has been shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry, Minola Review’s Poetry Contest, and was the youngest writer to be shortlisted twice for The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest. Wang’s poetry and prose have appeared in over thirty literary journals and three anthologies. She studies English and world literature at Simon Fraser […]

Jasmine Sealy is a Bajan – Canadian writer based in Vancouver, BC. Her work has been published in The New Quarterly, Adda Stories, Cosmonauts Avenue, GEIST, Room and elsewhere. She has been previously longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.  Jasmine Sealy’s novel, An Island of Forgetting, will […]

Francesca Ekwuyasi is a writer, artist, and filmmaker born in Lagos, Nigeria. Her work explores themes of faith, family, queerness, consumption, loneliness, and belonging. Her writing has been published in Winter Tangerine Review, Brittle Paper, the Malahat Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, GUTS magazine and more. Her debut novel Butter Honey Pig Bread was a Canada Reads 2021 runner-up, was longlisted for […]

Victoria’s Julie Paul is the author of three short fiction collections, The Jealousy Bone, The Pull of the Moon, and Meteorites, and the poetry collection The Rules of the Kingdom. The Pull of the Moon won the 2015 Victoria Butler Book Prize, and The Rules of the Kingdom was a finalist for both the Dorothy […]

Jen Sookfong Lee is a BC writer who has written three adult novels (including The Conjoined, which was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award), creative non-fiction, as well as several fiction and non-fiction books for children and youth. She has been a columnist on the CBC for On the Coast, All Points West and The […]