Richard Kelly Kemick is an award-winning poet, journalist, and fiction writer. His debut collection of short stories, Hello, Horse, was published by Biblioasis in 2024.

He is also the author of I Am Herod (available on audiobook), the poetry collection Caribou Run, and the stage play Amor De Cosmos: A Delusional Musical. Richard’s limited series podcast, Natural Life, is an intimate and unexpectedly honest documentary on his cousin, who is serving a life sentence without parole in Michigan. 

Douglas Walbourne-Gough is a poet and mixed/adopted status member of the Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation from Elmastukwek (the Bay of Islands), Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland). His poetry and reviews have been published throughout Canada, and his poetry has garnered several awards and grants, recently winning the 2022 Riddle Fence poetry prize and a Professional Projects grant from ArtsNL.

Douglas has won the NL Arts and Letters Award five times and has twice served as the Award’s adjudicator. Most recently, he served as Writer-in-Residence at Memorial University’s St. John’s campus, the Corner Brook Rotary Arts Centre, and the Corner Brook Public Library.

Rebecca Salazar (she/they) is a queer, disabled, and racialized Latinx writer currently living on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik people.

Their first full-length collection sulphurtongue (McClelland & Stewart) was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the New Brunswick Book Awards, the Atlantic Book Awards, and the League of Canadian Poets’ Pat Lowther Memorial Award. antibody is their second poetry collection.

Benjamin (sometimes bonny cd) & their roommate (Bacchus, the dog of front but not back paw dewclaw) are currently living in rural AB (Treaty 7 Territory).

B has published poetry, non-fiction, and short fiction in various journals. They are a reader for PANK, and ARC Poetry Magazine, and earned their SSHRC-funded MA in Creative Writing from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. They are currently at work on a new science-fiction novel, Vat Vixens, funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.

B also collaborates on video projects, and produces various rugs of original design.

Jaime Burnet's first novel, Crocuses Hatch From Snow, was published by Vagrant Press in 2019. Crocuses was shortlisted for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the ReLit Award. Her second novel, milktooth, was published by Vagrant in April 2025.

Jaime lives with her family in Mulipjɨkejk/Herring Cove, Mi’kma'ki/Nova Scotia, where she writes, makes music, and walks by the ocean. She practices labour, employment, and human rights law in Kjipuktuk/Halifax.

A writer and educator of British and Mennonite descent, David Huebert (he/him) David is the author of two books of short fiction, two poetry collections, and the 2024 novel, Oil People, described by Quill and Quire as “inventive,” “hallucinatory,” and “lushly poetic.”

David Huebert’s work has won the CBC Short Story Prize and The Walrus Poetry Prize. His fiction debut, Peninsula Sinking, won the Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award, was shortlisted for the Alistair MacLeod Short Fiction Prize, and was runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. His latest book is the story collection Chemical Valley (Biblioasis 2021).

In 2018, David completed his PhD at Western University. He teaches fiction writing in the MFA Programme at The University of King’s College.

Jeremy Thomas Gilmer is a writer, traveler and consultant.

Born in Canada he spent his first years in Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Spain, Switzerland and Jamaica before returning to Canada.

His fiction writing focuses on the stories and spaces in between our present and future, creating characters and stories which echo the fragile world we live in and the shifting ground beneath our feet.

His nonfiction reaches widely from book reviews and criticism, science and environmental writing, and essays. His nonfiction, like his fiction, is heavily influenced by travel and over thirty years spent in the mining, environmental and engineering field.