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No. 232 Fall 2025
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Instagram: @poetraniel AMBROSE ALBERT, Fredericton’s Poet Laureate from 2019–2021, is a transmasc poet living on the traditional unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Wolastoqiyik People. His debut collection, Bec and Call (2018), won the New Brunswick Book Awards’ Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize. A chapbook, mal à l’aise, came out in 2024. website: https://ambrosealbert.com/ Instagram: @ambrosealbert_poet Bluesky: @ambrosealbert.bsky.social DARYL BRUCE is a queer scholar, poet, and writer based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. A recent graduate of Concordia University’s Creative Writing MA, he is currently a PhD student at Dalhousie University. His creative work has appeared in The New Quarterly, PRISM International, Antigonish Review, and others. Instagram: @daryldbink ISOBEL BURKE was born and raised on Vancouver Island. Her “inheritance” won the 2023 Saints & Sinners Literary Festival poetry contest. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in PRISM International, Pinhole Poetry, and Anti‐Heroin Chic. Instagram: @poet.unmoored GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE has published twenty‐five poetry works; served as the fourth Poet Laureate of Toronto and the seventh Poet Laureate of Canada; and taught at Duke, McGill, Harvard, and the University of Toronto. He has four titles in Chinese, Romanian, Italian, and Bangla. website: georgeelliottclarke.net MARLENE COOKSHAW, author of six collections of poetry, including Mowing (2019) and Lunar Drift (2005), and a former editor and vegetable farmer, lives in Sidney, BC. PAUL DHILLON’s work has appeared in The Malahat Review, Prairie Fire, Geist, and EVENT. He holds an MFA from the U of British Columbia. He lives on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Coast Salish Peoples. He is a high school English teacher. GUY ELSTON is the author of The Character Actor Convention (2025), his debut fulllength poetry collection. His poems have appeared in Geist, Literary Review of Canada, The Ex‐Puritan, EVENT, CV2, and Canadian Literature. Instagram: @poems_guy_3000 MARISA GRIZENKO is the reviews editor of EVENT and writes the newsletter Plain Pleasures. website: marisagrizenko.com KARINE HACK has been published in The Rumpus, Grain, and elsewhere. She splits her time between Toronto and New York City, where she is pursuing an MFA in nonfiction at New York University. Instagram: @shecareens JOHN LENT has been publishing poetry, fiction, and non‐fiction nationally and internationally for the past thirty years. His publications include ten books of poetry and fiction and Abundance (2007), a book of conversations with Robert Kroetsch about the writing life. Molecular Cathedral: The Poetry of John Lent appeared in 2024. website: johnlent.ca LILLIAN LIAO is a writer and editor living in Vancouver, BC. EDWARD LUETKEHOELTER is a Canadian writer, living either on the West Coast or on the flat bit a province over. CAROL MATTHEWS is the author of a collection of short stories and four works of memoir, as well as many book reviews and academic papers. ROSALIE MORRIS is a writer, editor, and educator from BC. Her work can be found in The Malahat Review, Room Magazine, The Fiddlehead, and Indie Is Not A Genre. BRETT NELSON is a queer writer living in the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəəm (Musqueam), Sḵwwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil‐Waututh) Nations. His nonfiction has appeared in Briarpatch, Current Affairs, and Our Times. ISMAIL YUSUF OLUMOH, SWAN VII, a writer and teacher pursuing a DVM at the University of Maiduguri, won the 2025 Folio Literary Journal Poetry Prize. He writes from Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. Linktree: linktr.ee/icreatives0 GLADWELL PAMBA is a Montreal‐based writer from Kenya. She won the Ibua Manuscript Prize 2025 and has been longlisted for Writivism Short Story Prize. Her work appears in The Rumpus, Northwest Review, Waxwing Journal, The Offing, and elsewhere. She has an MA from Concordia University’s Creative Writing Program. X: @GladwellPamba ELIZABETH PHILIPS, author of four poetry collections, most recently Torch River (2007), and a new collection, The Time of the Great Singing (2026), lives in Saskatoon. JEAN-CHRISTOPHE RÉHEL is a novelist, poet, and screenwriter. He has published seven poetry collections and two novels, Ce qu’on respire sur Tatouine (2018; translated as Tatouine [2020]) and La blague du siècle (2018; All Kidding Aside [2025]). website: jeanchristopherehel.com BEN ROBINSON is a poet, musician, and librarian. His first book was The Book of Benjamin (2023), an essay on naming, birth, and grief. His poetry collection, As Is, was published in 2024. He has only ever lived in Hamilton, ON. website: benrobinson.work Instagram: @benjamonrobinsin SUSAN SANFORD BLADES lives on the territory of the Ləʷəŋən Peoples. Her debut novel, Fake It So Real, won the ReLit Award and was a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her second novel, Girl on Paper, will be published in spring 2027. website: susansanfordblades.com NEIL SMITH is a writer and translator from Montreal. His most recent translations are Jean‐Philippe Baril Guérard’s You Crushed It (2025) and Jean‐Christophe Réhel’s All Kidding Aside (2025). His own latest novel is Jones (2024). Instagram: @neilwordsmith LAURA G. STEPHENSON, a lifelong Cowichan Valley resident, works as an editor and arts administrator and has published in various genres. website: laurageanwrites.com MARK TRUSCOTT’s third book, Branches (2018), won the inaugural Nelson Ball Prize (2020). Recent poems appear in The Fiddlehead, Grain, Hampden‐Sydney Poetry Review, and elsewhere. website: marktruscott.ca Instagram: @marktruscottpublic CHUKWUDUBEM UKAIGWE, born in Lagos, Nigeria, is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and writer with a BFA from the University of Manitoba. He is a founding member of Patterns Collective. He has been shortlisted for the 2025 Sobey Art Award. Instagram: @chukwudubem.ukaigwe LYNNE VAN LUVEN is a former journalist, editor, and writing professor at the University of Victoria. She interviewed Mavis Gallant in the early 1990s and has always regretted not taking up the author’s invitation to visit her in Paris. JADE WALLACE is a queer & disabled writer & critic. They have authored a poetry collection, Love Is a Place But You Cannot Live There (2023), and a genderless novel, ANOMIA (2024), and co‐authored a poetry collection, ZZOO (2025), under the name MA|DE. website: jadewallace.ca + ma‐de.ca Instagram: @nycterosea Bluesky: @nycterosea.bsky.social | |
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