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No. 231 Summer 2025
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Twitter/X: @badmusace HAMISH BALLANTYNE is a writer and translator living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil‐Waututh Peoples (Vancouver, BC). He has published two chapbooks, Imitation Crab (2020) and Blue Knight (2022), and one full-length collection, Tomorrow is a Holiday (2024). KATHERINE J BARRETT lives in rural Nova Scotia / Mi’kma’ki. Her work has appeared in The New Quarterly, Humber Literary Review, The Antigonish Review, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, a disobedient gathering, was published in 2024. katherinejbarrett.com Bluesky: @kathj.bsky.social Instagram: @katherinejbarrett DOMINIQUE BÉCHARD is the author of the poetry collection One Dog Town (2019). She has a doctorate from the University of New Brunswick and currently works in publishing in Windsor, ON. Her second collection is forthcoming in 2026. ROSEBUD BEN-ONI is the author of several collections, including If This is the Age We End Discovery (2021), which won the Alice James Award and was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Her work has been commissioned by Paramount, the National September 11th Memorial, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage. rosebudbenoni.com Bluesky: @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social Instagram: @matarose Threads: @matarose Twitter/X: @RosebudBenOni COURTNEY BILL’s work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, PRISM International, The New Quarterly, Canthius, The /tƐmz/ Review, Literary Heist, Frighten the Horses, January Magazine, and elsewhere. Her fiction was a finalist for Adroit’s 2024 Prize for Prose. Instagram: @courtneybill Twitter/X: @compass10n CID V. BRUNET’s debut memoir is This is My Real Name (2021). They have recently published poems in CV2 and Eavesdrop. Cid has been working on their MFA through UBC’s optional residency program while living in Montreal / Tiohtiá:ke. cidvbrunet.com Instagram: @cidvbrunetwrites KATE REIDER COLLINS is a poet and nonfiction writer who is a two‐time alumnus of poetry writing residencies at Banff. Her essays and poems explore memory, loss, the imaginary, and how we experience time—fast and slow. She now lives in Toronto. MEGHAN FANDRICH lives on the edge of Lytton, BC (Nlaka’pamux Territory), a village destroyed by wildfire in 2021. She is the author of Burning Sage: Poems from the Lytton Fire (2023) and a nonfiction book in progress. meghanfandrich.com Instagram: @meghanfandrich JAIME FORSYTHE is the author of the poetry collections I Heard Something (2018) and Sympathy Loophole (2012). Her work has also appeared in EVENT, Grain, ARC Poetry, The Ampersand Review, This Magazine, and others. A third collection is forthcoming in 2026. She lives in Nova Scotia / Mi’kma’ki. jaimeforsythe.com Instagram: @jaimemforsythe DANIEL GOOD is a multi‐disciplinary artist who works and volunteers for nonprofits on Vancouver Island. His work has been supported by The Dalhousie Review, Same Day Entertainment, and No Ego Press. VERONIKA GORLOVA is a queer, autistic, Jewish poet and writer living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil‐Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, BC). Her family immigrated to Canada from Ukraine when she was five. Her writing appears in Grain, ARC Poetry, and The /tƐmz/ Review, among others. Instagram: @gorlova_veronika KEVIN IRIE won Grain’s 2024 poetry contest, second prize in Prairie Fire’s 2024 poetry contest, and third prize in The New Quarterly’s 2024 poetry contest. His work is in The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration (2025). His next book is Evacuations (2026). JAKE KENNEDY is currently working—with writer Paul Hong—on a long prose work concerning a thirty‐two‐year series of mid‐twentieth‐century Southwestern Ontario farm journals. MONICA KIM is a queer Korean diaspora writer living on Canarsie and Munsee Lenape land (Brooklyn, NY). She is a first reader at Augur Magazine and has been part of the Tin House Summer Workshop, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Periplus Collective, and The Watering Hole. Her writing has appeared in Sho Poetry Journal, Gulf Coast Journal, Honey Literary, and other publications. monicakimwrites.com Instagram: @monjookim JESSIE KRAHN is a writer and PhD student in cinema and media studies at York University. Jess’s writing has appeared in The New Review of Film and Television Studies, among other venues, including her YouTube channel, Flunderingchipper. JAMES NIZAM is a photographer and a sculptor, using light both as his material and as his subject. He lives and works in Vancouver, BC. jamesnizam.com Instagram: @james.nizam RICHARD PICKARD is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, where he teaches courses in environmental humanities, composition, and technical writing. He was recently the president of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC). https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/english/people/regularfaculty/pickard-richard.php JOSEPH (J) SHEA-CARTER, an instructor in English and culture at the University of Guelph and Brock University, has published or has forthcoming work in The Malahat Review, Capilano Review, Ex‐Puritan, Canadian Literature, and Amodern. Their academic work focuses on queer writing, contemporary culture, and sound studies. Instagram: @jsheacarter JILLIAN STIRK is a former Canadian diplomat who lived and worked in Central Europe during much of her career. Her writing has appeared in various Canadian publications, including The Malahat Review, Queen’s Quarterly, Quarantine Review, the Globe and Mail, and Trek Magazine. MOEZ SURANI is a writer and artist. He is the author of the novel The Legend of Baraffo (2023), as well as four poetry books, most recently Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real (2019). His visual art has been shown at Nuit Blanche Toronto, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Centre, and WhiteBox in New York. moezsurani.com DEBORAH VAIL believes everyone has the capacity to write memorable stories and facilitates writing workshops through the Port Moody Rec Centre in the Fraser Valley. Her work has been published in several Canadian journals. She lives in Mission, BC, on the unceded, ancestral territory of the Stó:lō People. vailwrite.ca C. WHITE’s work has received a Pushcart Prize nomination, the Eden Mills Writers Festival Fringe Award, and third place (fiction) in the 2024 Short Grain Contest, and been longlisted for the Peter Hinchcliffe Award. Her stories have been published in The Madison Review, Sycamore Review, The New Quarterly, and Grain, amongst others. She splits her time between Toronto and Montreal. | |
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