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Yusuf Saadi’s first collection is Pluviophile (Nightwood Editions April 2020). He previously won The Malahat Review‘s 2016 Far Horizons Award for Poetry and the 2016 Vallum Chapbook Award. His writing has also appeared in journals including Brick, Best Canadian Poetry 2019, Best Canadian Poetry 2018, Canadian Notes & Queries, Arc, CV2, and The Puritan. Yusuf holds an MA from the University of Victoria and currently resides in […]

jaye simpson an Oji-Cree Saulteaux indigiqueer writer with roots in Sapotaweyak Cree Nation. they often write about being queer in the Child Welfare system, as well as being queer and Indigenous. their work has been featured in Poetry Is Dead, This Magazine, PRISM international, SAD Mag, GUTS Magazine and Room. simpson resides on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), […]

Jenna Butler is the author of the poetry collections Seldom Seen Road, Wells, and Aphelion; a collection of ecological essays, A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail; and the travelogue Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard. Revery: A Year of Bees, essays about beekeeping, climate grief, and trauma recovery, was […]

Serena Lukas Bhandar is a Punjabi/Welsh/Irish transfemme witch, youth worker, and facilitator living as a settler on Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ lands. Her Pushcart Prize-nominated writing has appeared in print in Nameless Woman and Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture, among other places. She is currently working on a novel and a hybrid collection of […]

David A Robertson is the author of numerous books for young readers including When We Were Alone, which won the 2017 Governor General’s Literary Award and was nominated for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.  A sought-after speaker and educator, Dave is a member of the Norway House Cree Nation and currently lives in Winnipeg. His latest […]

Kyeren Regehr, born Sydney, Australia, immigrated to Canada in 2002.  She has twice received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and served for several years on the poetry board of The Malahat Review. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies in Canada, Australia and America, and her genre-bending first collection, Cult Life, was released with […]

Jesse Thistle is Métis-Cree, from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He is an assistant professor in Métis Studies at York University in Toronto. He is a finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and the Indigenous Voices Awards, won a Governor General’s Academic Medal in 2016, and is a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Scholar and a Vanier Scholar. […]

Mallory Tater’s poetry and fiction have been published in literary magazines across Canada and shortlisted for several awards. She was the 2016 recipient of CV2’s Young Buck Poetry Prize. Tater’s first book of poetry is This Will Be Good and she is the founder of Rahila’s Ghost Press, which publishes limited-edition poetry chapbooks. Tater completed her MFA […]

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, scholar, and musician, and a member of Alderville First Nation. She is the author of five previous books, including This Accident of Being Lost, which was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Trillium Book Award, was longlisted for CBC Canada Reads, and […]

Arleen Paré is a Victoria writer. She has published five collections of poetry, two of which are cross-genre. She has been short-listed for the BC Book Prizes Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award and has won a Golden Crown Award for Lesbian Poetry, the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize, and a Governor General’s Literary Award. A lyrical […]

Danny Ramadan is an award-winning Syrian-Canadian author and LGBTQ-refugees activist. The Clothesline Swing, Ramadan’s debut novel, won the Independent Publisher Book Award for LGBT Fiction, The Canadian Authors Association’s award for Best Fiction, and was shortlisted for Evergreen Award, Sunburst Award and a Lambda Award. It was long listed for Canada Reads 2018. The novel […]

A memoir told in sonnets?! Who takes on this type of challenge — and pulls it off with poetic aplomb in 140 syllable segments! Who else but celebrated poet John Barton with Lost Family. It’s an extraordinary portrait taken as a whole or in single sonnets. Barton, Victoria’s current Poet Laureate, has pushed the boundaries […]