LEAH BOBET’s novels have won the Sunburst and Aurora Awards. Her poetry placed in the Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize and the Rhonda Gail Williford Award, and she co-edited Reckoning’s Utopia Award-winning 2021 climate joy issue. She lives in Toronto, where she builds food sovereignty networks and plants both tomatoes and trees.

DARYL BRUCE is a Halifax-based poet, writer and PhD student at Dalhousie University. His work braids queer witness, ritual and pop culture, informed by research on paratext, translation and autofiction. Recent writing appears, or is forthcoming, in FreeFall, The Malahat Review, PRISM international, The New Quarterly and others. He teaches literature and creative writing.

PHILLIP CRYMBLE is a poet and upper-limb amputee from Belfast now living in Atlantic Canada. A poetry editor at The Fiddlehead, he holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and a PhD from the University of New Brunswick. His work has appeared in The Walrus, The Malahat Review, Maisonneuve and elsewhere.

JEN CURRIN has published two collec-tions of stories, Hider/Seeker (Anvil, 2018), a Globe and Mail Best Book, and Disembark (House of Anansi, 2024), winner of the 2025 Fred Kerner Book Award. Currin has also published five collections of poetry, most recently Trinity Street (House of Anansi, 2023). They teach creative writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

JOSEPH DANDURAND is a Kwantlen storyteller-poet-playwright.

ROCCO DE GIACOMO lives in Toronto with his wife Lisa Keophila, a fibre artist, and daughters Ava and Matilda. His work has appeared in journals in Canada, Australia, England, Hong Kong and the US. The author of numerous poetry chapbooks and full-length collections, his latest, Casting Out (Guernica Editions), was published in April 2023.

HILARY DEAN is seeking representation for her novel Dolly Zoom. Her writing has won CBC’s Creative Nonfiction Prize, EVENT’s Non-Fiction Contest twice, was a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2015, received the 2016 Lascaux Prize in Fiction and was short-listed for the Journey and Commonwealth prizes. Her film So You’re Going Crazy… aired on CBC for a decade.

JAIME FORSYTHE’s most recent book of poetry is Yield (Wolsak & Wynn/Buck-rider Books, 2026). Her previous collections are I Heard Something (Anvil Press, 2018) and Sympathy Loophole (Mansfield Press, 2012). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and currently lives close to where she grew up in Nova Scotia/Mi’ kma’ ki.

MATTHEW GWATHMEY lives in Fredericton on Wolastoqey Territory. He has published three poetry collections: Our Latest in Folktales (Brick Books, 2019), Tumbling for Amateurs (Coach House Books, 2023) and Family Band (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2024). His fourth book is forthcoming in 2027 with Brick Books.

MICHELLE HARDY is a developmental editor and book reviewer. She completed a master’s degree in English at the University of Regina in 2012 and obtained an editing certificate from Simon Fraser University in 2021. A member of Editors Canada and the Editorial Freelancers Association, Michelle lives in Victoria.

MEGHAN HARRISON is a writer, performer and editor based in Toronto. Her first poetry collection is due out from Biblioasis in 2027. You can find more of her work at meghanharrison.net.

KATHERINE ALEXANDRA HARVEY is the author of Quiet Time (Vagrant Press, 2022). Her work has appeared in The Walrus, Stand Magazine, The Malahat Review, Literary Review of Canada, This Magazine, CV2, Queen’s Quarterly, Room, Grain and EXILE, among others. Her second novel, Green Eye Blue, will be released in autumn 2026.

MIRIAM HO NGA WAI is a writer and architect. Her stories have appeared in CBC Books, Ecotone and Nimrod. She has been short-listed for the CBC Literary Prizes, long-listed for the Commonwealth Prize and nominated for the PEN/DAU Prize. She is a founding editor of -SITE Magazine, and a former fiction editor at Guernica. She is at work at a short-story collection and a novel.

CATY JANZE lives in Vancouver. Her writing has previously appeared in Pearls 45 and the 2023 New Shoots anthology.

SIERRA LOUIE is a Chinese-Canadian writer and artist working on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwxw̱ ú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ land. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and she is the Acquisitions and Poetry Editor at Pulp Literature Press. Her writing has appeared in CV2, Grain, SAD Mag and elsewhere. Find her work at sierralouie.com.

DAWN MACDONALD lives in Whitehorse, where she grew up without electricity or running water. Her poetry collection Northeny (University of Alberta Press) won the 2025 Canadian First Book Prize and was long-listed for the Nelson Ball Prize. Her latest publication is the chapbook Weeds of Canada (above/ ground press).

MOLLY McCARRON writes fiction and non-fiction from a backyard shed in Toronto. Her work has appeared in The New Quarterly, The Humber Literary Review, Queen’s Quarterly and Saranac Review.

JOSIAH NELSON holds an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan, where he occasionally teaches creative writing. His work has appeared in Brick, CV2, Grain and Literary Review of Canada. His debut book is forthcoming with Invisible Books (Fall 2027). He lives in Saskatoon.

FEJIRO OKIFO is a Nigerian-American author and physician. Her fiction, poetry and personal essays have been published in Tahoma Literary Review, Sou’wester, The Kalahari Review, The Christian Science Monitor and The Journal of Academic Medicine, among others. She has been named a finalist in the 2021 Black Warrior Contest and was a 2025 Pushcart Prize nominee.

TOLU OLORUNTOBA deploys and manages virtual health technologies for health authorities and organizations. He was a primary-care physician in his first career. His third poetry collection, Unravel (McClelland & Stewart, 2026), was a National Book Critics Circle finalist. His other work has won the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Griffin Poetry Prize. He lives in Calgary.

CATHERINE OWEN, a Vancouveritedmontonian, is the author of 17 collections of poetry and prose, including her latest, Moving to Delilah (Freehand Books, 2024), nominated for the Al Purdy Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Award. Her new book, a hybrid-memoir called 16 Homes, is due out from Wolsak & Wynn in Fall 2026.

AKHILA PINGALI is a research scholar and Spanish teacher in Hyderabad, India. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in South Carolina Review, Frontier Poetry, trampset, Euonia Review, Mid-way Journal, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Stanchion Lit Zine, SoFloPoJo and BRUISER Mag. You can find her on Twitter @AkhilaPingali.

MELANIE POWER is the Montreal-based author of Full Moon of Afraid and Craving (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022). Her poetry has won The Fiddlehead’s Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem and subTerrain’s Lush Triumphant Award. She has new work forthcoming in The Malahat Review, Grain and Prairie Fire.

ELENA SÉNÉCHAL-BECKER is a writer and editor living in Montreal. She is the Senior Editor of Yolk Literary Journal and runs a workshop for queer writers called Groundwork. She is also a PhD student at McGill University.

GORDON TAYLOR is a queer emerging poet who walks an ever-swaying, braided wire of technology and poetry. A 2025 CBC long-lister, his poems have appeared in PRISM international, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, EVENT and more. He writes to invite people into a world they may not have seen.

RYAN WALTER WAGNER is a Vancouver-based artist and photographer whose photos have been exhibited internationally and published in National Geographic, The Guardian and Forbes. He has self-published a book of portraits Through the Window, and the zine AS/ IF. He has also captured cultural figures including the Dalai Lama, David Letterman, Neil Young and David Suzuki.

MATTHEW WALSH (MW) is a poet from Nova Scotia whose first two collections were both finalists for the Trillium Award for Poetry. Their third poetry collection is due out in 2027.

TOM WAYMAN’s recent poetry collections are How Can You Live Here? (Frontenac House, 2024) and Out of the Ordinary (Harbour Publishing, 2025). He received the 2022 George Woodcock Award for Lifetime Achievement in the literary arts. Forthcoming is a chapbook, Evacuation Route (Alfred Gustav Press, 2026) about the horrific 2024 wildfires in BC’s Slocan Valley, where he lives.

ERIN WILSON’s poems have appeared in The Fiddlehead, Arc, TNQ, Vallum and elsewhere internationally. She has won a Pushcart, a Silver Medal at the National Magazine Awards, and has work in Best Canadian Poetry 2026. She lives on Robinson-Huron Treaty Territory. She refuses to carry a cell phone.

SHELLEY WOOD (she/her) lives on the ancestral, unceded lands of the Syilx/ Okanagan people in Kelowna. Her short stories and essays have been published in literary journals, newspapers and magazines internationally. Her latest novel, The Leap Year Gene (HarperCollins Canada), was published in August 2024.