Curtis John McRae is the author of Quietly, Loving Everyone, and the Fiction Editor at Véhicule Press. His fiction has appeared in The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, and others. He won the 2021/22 David McKeen Award, was longlisted for the 2025 DISQUIET Literary Fiction Contest, received an honorable mention in the 2024 Peter Hinchcliffe award, and was a finalist in the 2019 Quebec Writers' Federation contest for emerging young writers. Curtis teaches English literature at John Abbott College. A Concordia University fellowship recipient, he holds an MA in Creative Writing.
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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.

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 a writer and editor currently residing in Montreal and pursuing degrees in English Literature and Psychology at McGill University. She has roots in California and Canada, born in Ottawa but spending her formative years in San Diego, where the saltwater air dizzied her, and so Montreal called her back. Her background is in journalism and publishing, writing and editing extensively for award-winning publications like The Tower and the Stanford Daily. Dreams of following Joan Didion’s trajectory from journalistic writing to creative prose have led her now to yolk.

Zoe Lubetkin's fiction has appeared in carte blanche, yolk, and elsewhere. She received second place in the 2024 Montreal Fiction Prize.

Ennie Gloom (she/her) is a writer somewhat-from and currently residing in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her poetry has been featured in Soliloquies Anthology, Headlight Anthology, Crab Apple Literary, and, prior to her infiltration into their system, in yolk. Ennie is currently completing a MA in English Literature and Creative Writing at Concordia University and is working on her first book of poetry. Unhappy that she is, she cannot heave her heart into her mouth.

Misha Solomon is a homosexual poet in and of Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. He is the author of My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet (Brick Books). His work has appeared in journals across Canada and has been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry 2024 and 2026 (Biblioasis) and in On Occasion: Poems for the People (Coach House). He is a student in Concordia’s Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD program.

Allegra Kaplan is a queer writer and editor living on unceded lək̓ʷəŋən territory. Her poems have appeared in Grain, Room, Beaver Magazine, LBRNTH, The Fieldstone Review, Ahoy Literary, Unstamatic Magazine, and elsewhere. A former Poetry Editor for The Warren Review and member of the poetry editorial board for PRISM international, she now serves as a Poetry Intern with Planet Earth Poetry. Allegra holds an MA in English Literature from the University of British Columbia and is currently developing her first collection of poetry.

Kate Sianos runs on instinct.

Philippe Blondel (b. 1999, France) is an artist and documentary photographer. Growing up between France, Germany, and Canada, his work explores questions of identity, territory, and memory. Working through an immersive and long-term approach, he has developed projects across his travels in Africa, Europe, and North America. His practice often engages with lived experience, examining the tensions between personal narratives and broader socio-political contexts. In 2025, he published his first book, Nassara (Four Eyes Editions, Paris). He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Studio Arts and Media at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).

Bronwyn Garden-Smith is a writer from Stratford, Ontario who now calls Tiohtià:ke/Montréal home. She holds a Hons. BSc from the University of Toronto, where she founded an undergraduate journal called ROVE. You can find her fiction and poetry in carte blanche, Soliloquies, Goose, Acta Victoriana, Hardwire, Garbage Day, and more. She loves vanity license plates, reading on the subway, and music in unusual time signatures. She hopes one day she'll make it on the Wikipedia list of notable Bronwyns.

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.

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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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.