Curtain Call

John Barry Maher is a retired Geologist living in Calgary, Alberta. He is a member of the Alexandra Writers Centre Society and is currently seeking publication of his debut novel SPECK which received honourable mention in the Great Gutsy Novelist Page One Competition of 2022.

 

A graduate of SFU’s the Writer’s Studio, Janet Bartier lives in the territory of the Laich-Kwil-Tach Peoples (Campbell River, BC). She’s published poems in Prairie Fire, Arc Poetry, and others.

 

Pete Bock’s work has appeared in The Malahat Review, CV2 and Arc Poetry. He lives in eastern Ontario—in traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee Peoples, specifically the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk).

 

Lisa Borkovich writes poetry and prose. Her work has appeared in various national and international journals and ezines. She lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

 

Joe Davies’ short fiction has appeared in The Manchester Review, Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, Rampike, The Missouri Review, Descant, The Capilano Review, Grain, PRISM International, Stand Magazine, The Dalhousie Review, Queen’s Quarterly, The Dublin Review and previously in The New Quarterly. He lives in Peterborough, Ontario.

 

Kornelia Drianovski is a Toronto-based writer and artist. Her manuscript, which includes “The Smallest Things,” is supported by a Toronto Arts Council grant.

 

Anna Elgie (she/her) lives and writes in Calgary, Alberta. She is the 2024 winner of the Brenda Strathern award, and is writing a novel of historical Canadian fiction. Her published works may be read on annaelgie.com

 

Ennis Feairs first found creative community in Saskatoon’s youth spoken word poetry scene, and spent many years as both a performer and an organizer. Ennis’ work is preoccupied with queerness, religion, cowboys, and the prairies. She lives in Saskatoon with her wife and two feuding cats.

 

Veronika Gorlova is a queer, autistic, Jewish poet and writer living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, also known as Vancouver, BC. Runner up for the Federation of BC Writers Literary Contest, her writing appears in The Malahat Review, Grain and Arc Poetry Magazine, among others.

 

Tomas Hachard is the author of the novel City in Flames. His fiction has been published in The Walrus and he regularly contributes to the Literary Review of Canada.

 

Cori Howard is an award-winning journalist, essayist and poet. Her latest book, a poetry collection called The Fifth Season, is forthcoming from Caitlin Press in spring, 2026.

 

Natalie Hryciuk writes both non-fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in several publications. She is currently working on a memoir about dispossession. Natalie is a member of the Ukrainian diaspora.

 

Isabel Huggan has appeared in TNQ’s pages for over thirty years, as the author of fiction, essays, and poetry, and as the subject of interviews, notably Geoff Martin’s Edna Staebler essay (2024) The Isabel Letters.

 

David Kary is a native of Saskatchewan currently living in suburban Philadelphia. His more recent stories appear in Sci Phi Journal and Great River Review.

 

Aaron Kreuter’s most recent book is the novel Lake Burntshore, which takes place at a Jewish sleepover camp. He is the author of five other books and teaches at Trent University.

 

Aga Maksimowska is the author of the 2013 Toronto Book Award finalist novel Giant. Her second novel, Becalming, will be out in April. Aga’s stories and essays have been published widely.

 

Rose Maloukis’ poetry appears in the Global Poetry Anthology, has won prizes from both Geist and Arc Poetry, been published in The Fiddlehead, Vallum, among others.

 

Nyla Matuk is the author of two poetry collections. Her first novel will appear with House of Anansi in August, 2026.

 

Wendy McGrath is a Métis writer based on Treaty 6 Territory. The inaugural winner of The Prairie Grindstone Prize 2023-2024, her writing reflects ongoing experimentation with form, genre, and style.

 

Sharon McInnes is an award-winning short story writer living in the Comox Valley, British Columbia. Her memoir, Walking Each Other Home, will be released by BWL Publishing in April 2026.

 

Pamela Medland is grateful to live in Nanaimo, on the traditional lands of the Snuneymuxw people. Medland’s first book, Echo of Ash, was published in 2021.

 

Irina Moga lives in Toronto. Her book Variations sans palais (Éditions L’Harmattan) won the Dina Sahyouni Prize (France) in 2022. Quantum was published by DarkWinter Press in 2025. Website: https://www.irinamoga.com

 

Melinda Price-Wiltshire lives in Xwsepsum and Songhees territory on southern Vancouver Island. Her fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in Grain, Queen’s Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Story and elsewhere.

 

Trina Roache, a Mi’kmaw member of the Glooscap First Nation in Nova Scotia, is a journalist and assistant professor at the University of  King’s  College  with an MA in History.

 

jp rodriguez has been published in various journals such as The New Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review and Broken Pencil. His third novel, ‘No Wake Zone’, was published in 2024. Visit jprodriguezjp.com.

 

Raymond Sewell is a Bedford-based songwriter, professor, and poet, blending soul, country, and literary lyricism into intimate songs rooted in memory, place, and restless longing.

 

K. Sutha is a Canadian author and political scientist. With a focus on historiography and linguistics, she seeks to explore the intersections of cartography, identity, and the natural world.

 

Lilita Tannis is a writer and poet working on a hybrid memoir. Her work has been published in The New Quarterly, The Font, Haiku Canada Review, The Poemdemic Anthology, The Trillium Anthology. She won a Sakura Award, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Competition 2024. She comes from Latvian war refugees, and Canadian landscapes.

 

Deborah-Anne Tunney’s novel and her book of short stories were published by Great Plains Publication. Her collection of poetry, A Different Wolf, from McGill-Queen’s, won the 2021 Archibald Lampman award.

 

Biljana Vasilevska lives, walks, reads, writes, and makes music in Montreal. Her academic writing has appeared in migration, labour studies, and health policy books and journals.

 

Ben von Jagow is the author of Goalie (Guernica Editions). His work has appeared in Canadian Literature, Prairie Fire, Queen’s Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, and the Literary Review of Canada, among other publications. For more of Ben’s work, visit benvj.com.

 

Audrey J. Whitson is the author of Teaching Places (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003), The Glorious Mysteries and Other Stories (Thistledown, 2013), and most recently the author of a novel, The Death of Annie the Water Witcher by Lightning (NeWest Press, 2019). Audrey has an MA from the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley. She writes from amiskwacîwâska-hikan (also known as Edmonton) in Treaty 6 territory.