Elena Sénéchal-Becker is a writer and editor living in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. A co-founder of Groundwork, a generative workshop for queer writers, her writing has appeared in Xtra, Azure, Arc Poetry, The Temz Review, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by the Toronto Arts Council and the McCormack Writing Centre. She is a PhD student at McGill University, where she edits book reviews for the Montreal International Poetry Prize.

Jeremy Audet's writing has been awarded the Bridge Prize and listed for the Writers' Trust Bronwen Wallace Award, the CBC Short Story Prize, the Montreal International Poetry Prize, and others. A 2026 Writer-in-Residence at the Al & Eurithe Purdy A-Frame, he is the Publicist at McGill-Queen's University Press and Founding Editor at Canto.

Julia Bifulco teaches in the English department at Dawson College. She holds an MA in English from McGill University. Her research focuses on representations of sisterhood in Victorian women’s poetry. She is the founding editor of pixie literary magazine at Concordia University.

Ennie Gloom (she/her) is a writer, English teacher, and former bookseller from Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her poetry has been featured in carte blanche, LBRNTH, and more. She has an MA in English Literature & Creative Writing from Concordia University and is currently working on her first book of poetry. Unhappy that she is, she cannot heave her heart into her mouth.

María Isabel Martínez is a writer and editor from Toronto, now living in Montreal. Her fiction has been supported by the Tin House Workshop, the Canada Council for the Arts, and she was the 2023-24 Susan Jeanne Briscoe Fellow at Concordia University. Her work has appeared in PRISM international, The Ex-Puritan, Public Parking, and CBC Music, among other publications.

Mitra Thompson (she/her) is a writer, editor and researcher. Her work has been published by the Oxford University Press, Global News, Le Figaro and AFP. Mitra was a 2018 mentee in the Quebec Writers Federation Mentorship Program, and is working on her first novel. She lives in Montreal, where she can often be found poking her nose into places where visitors aren’t welcome, exploring the tales within.

Sariah Hossain (she/her) is an editor and writer with roots in Southern California and Montreal. She has held editorial, copy, and book design roles with the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, and Véhicule Press. She earned a BA in English Literature and Psychology from McGill University and now lives in New York, where she is pursuing an MA in Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement at NYU. She remains constantly fascinated by how literature moves through the world.

Marcia Walker’s writing has appeared in Electric Literature, Prairie Fire, Bellevue Literary Review, The New Quarterly, The New York Times, CBC radio, and elsewhere. She has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, PRISM’s fiction and non-fiction prize, and the Writers’ Union of Canada short prose competition. Her debut short story collection, Things to Think About When Looking at the Sky, is forthcoming with Freehand Books in spring 2027.

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Claire Dooley is a Vancouver to Montréal transplant. She has been published in Soliloquies Anthology and was a 2026 fiction mentee in the QWF Writing Mentorship Program. Claire is an MA student in Creative Writing at Concordia University, where she is the 2026-2027 fiction reader for Headlight Anthology.

Kate Sianos runs on instinct.

Kassie Frid is a writer, student, and server originally from Vancouver Island, now based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. She loves to read and write letters. Her writing has been published in a few places, but she would prefer you read her work through her Substack, "far from discreet."

Christie Martin, originally from Toronto and now living in Montreal, entered into the world of publishing in 2021. Specializing in Marketing and Event Management, they have worked with Canadian Scholars’ and Women’s Press, the Literary Press Group of Canada, and Brick Books. They are an active member of the Awards Gala Committee at the Quebec Writers' Federation. With a versatile background in event planning, spanning from performance art to academic conferences, Christie currently serves as the Events Manager at yolk.

Paige LaPierre, born and raised in Montreal, has a thorough history working in the non-profit sector. She holds a BA from Bishop’s University, where she majored in Sociology and minored in English Literature, and an MA from McGill in International Development. Paige has been raising funds since the age of 6, gathering change at her lemonade stand for various charities. She has worked at the Douglas Foundation, Skateboards for Hope and Catalyste+ in proposal development and grant making. In her spare time, she can usually be found doing two of favourite things: reading, or reconnecting with Mother Earth and uncovering her many hidden secrets.

Mia is a Montreal-based McGill BCom graduate with experience in ESG and finance. Having spent time in Brazil and Switzerland, she is drawn to new environments and the perspectives they offer, guided by a natural curiosity about people and a love of conversation.

Caitlin Aboud is a Montreal born artist who currently lives in Squamish, BC. While maintaining unique ideas and creativity across all her projects, her work varies from custom illustrations to web design. Her continued desire to learn has fuelled her growth as a designer. She is self-taught in web design, in HTML & CSS, in UI/UX design, and in how to run large-scale music/art events. In her free time, she often finds herself researching current design topics, such as inclusive design and visual trends.