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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.

The excessively long title for this blog post says it all, but we'll say it again with a few more words. Writers and poets have voted MoonLit Getaway Literary Journal as a Hidden Gem among thousands of literary magazines with Chill Subs accounts! We are absolutely honored and immensely grateful for those who voted for us. We were listed with some exceptional journals, be sure to check them out as well.

Robin Duncan is an emerging, self-taught artist based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is passionate about creating hand-cut analog collages, watercolours, and other mixed media pieces. Her watercolour art was recently featured on merchandise for local indie and folk singer-songwriter Tina Hertz.

Premee Mohamed does a rare thing with The Butcher of the Forest, she recounts a tale that harks to the roots of our fears and folklore: a lone walk into the deep, dark woods. And she does so with crystalline prose and eloquent simplicity. This story is tended to with such a microscopic perspective, that you feel the weight of the canopy, the scratch of the branches.

Aida Gradina is a professional photographer whose journey began in 2009 when she attended the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts. Now based on Pender Island, British Columbia, she was born and raised in Vukovar, Croatia, and moved to Canada at the age of nine. Her fine art photography has been exhibited in galleries throughout Canada and Europe, and her work has been featured in several international publications.

Sreelekha Chatterjee is an award-winning writer, poet, and editor. She has a postgraduate degree in science from Calcutta University and is also a trained singer with a degree in music (Geeta Bharati). Through her creative writing, she delves into the countless facets of human experience and aims to capture the ordinary, often overlooked aspects of daily existence, transforming them into subjects of reflection.

'Juiceboxers' is a powerful story of friendship, family, and war, informed by Benjamin Hertwig's experiences as a soldier in Afghanistan.