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Zak Jones is the author of Fancy Gap (Hamish Hamilton, 2026). He is a writer and literary scholar. A dual Canadian-American citizen, he grew up between rural North Carolina and Toronto. Jones is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto studying veterans’ narratives in American Literature, writing his second novel, and developing an archival documentary project, Riding Six White Horses.

Guille Blancarte is a Mexican visual artist and designer whose work has been exhibited in Miami, New York, Mexico City, Hong Kong, and Mazatlán. Her work is also permanently archived on the surface of the Moon in digital format as part of the Lunaprise Moon Museum. Inspired by music, science fiction, the sea, and its creatures, Guille creates introspective works that often carry a sense of nostalgia. She believes that the simplest forms can evoke the deepest emotions. Working

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Aga Maksimowska is the author of Becalming (Rare Machines, 2026) and Giant (Pedlar Press, 2012), which was a finalist for the 2013 Toronto Book Award. Her stories and essays have been published in the anthology Polish[ed]: Poland Rooted in Canadian Fiction, Brick, The New Quarterly, The Humber Literary Review, Room, White Wall Review, The Lincoln Review, The Globe and Mail, and elsewhere.

Adrianne Huang works across painting, drawing, and book arts to navigate uncertainty and complex emotional states. Her work celebrates the fading, the fleeting, and the departed, inviting viewers to pursue catharsis in the absence of certainty. How do we know to treasure things before they’re gone, or when to let them go after?

What Life Is Like Here on Earth, out from Sheila-na-Gig in spring 2026, is Katherine Riegel’s fourth full-length collection of poetry. She also has a lyric memoir about grief, Our Bodies Are Mostly Water (Cornerstone Press, 2025) and a chapbook of prose poems, Letters to Colin Firth (Sundress, 2015). Her poems appear in Poets Reading the News, Rattle, SWWIM, and elsewhere. Co-founder and managing editor of Sweet Lit, she runs online classes for writers of poetry and short cre

Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike is an assistant professor in the Department of English and the 2025-2026 Wayne O. McCready Emerging Fellow at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary, Canada. His teaching and research interests include African and African Diaspora literatures, postcolonial literatures, gender and sexuality, cultural studies, and creative writing.

Erika is an emerging self-taught artist that uses photography as her medium. Born and raised in Mexico, Schmidt has been living in Canada since 2012, making Port Moody her home. Using her iPhone as her main tool to create art, Schmidt champions its use to blur the line between what is considered “professional” and “amateur” photography. The ability to choose a composition, harness natural light, or convey emotion is what truly transforms an image into a memorable work of art.

Born in 1979 in Saskatoon, Jackie Morisette is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist who works primarily in watercolours, inks, and acrylics. First guided by her impressionist mother she refined her affinity towards atmosphere and light through a series of independent studies and workshops in Florence, Barcelona, Brussels, Mexico City, and at home.

Lisa Martin is an award-winning poet and essayist. She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, One Crow Sorrow (Brindle & Glass, 2008), Believing is Not the Same as Being Saved (University of Alberta Press, 2017), and Nighthawks (University of Alberta Press, 2026). Her first novel is A Story Can Be Told About Pain (NeWest Press, 2025). She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at MacEwan University in Edmonton, on Treaty 6 territory.