Issue #2
: Michael Aird Chris Banks Erin Bedford Shannon Bramer Aidan Chafe Allison
Chisholm Daniel Cowper Catherine Graham James Lindsay Dominik Parisien Constance Schultz
Isabella Wang
A limited amount of copies will be
available for free at the following locations:
Open Books: A Poem Emporium (Seattle WA), Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop (Brooklyn NY),
knife| fork | book (Toronto ON) and the ottawa small press book fair, November
24, 2018 (Ottawa ON).
Michael Aird lives and works in Vancouver,
Canada. He recently completed his first full-length manuscript, Something to Eat and Drink on Every Page.
Chris Banks is the author of four previous collections of poems. His first full-length collection, Bonfires, was awarded the Jack Chalmers Award for poetry by the Canadian Authors’ Association in 2004. Bonfires was also a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. His poetry has appeared in The New Quarterly, Arc Magazine, The Antigonish Review, Event, The Malahat Review, Prism International, among other publications. He lives and writes in Waterloo, Ontario.
Erin Bedford’s work is published in William
Patterson University's Map Literary, Flash Fiction Magazine and The Temz Review.
She attended and won a Certificate of Distinction for her novel Fathom Lines from the
Humber School for Writers. Currently, she is acting as shill for her
second novel, Illumining, and
has just completed a manuscript of poetry. Follow her to find out more
@ErinLBedford
Shannon Bramer is the author of four books of
poetry, most recently, Precious Energy,
with Book*hug. Her plays The Hungriest
Woman in the World, The Collectors
and Monarita were all produced thanks
to the dramaturgy and support of the Women’s Work Festival in St.
John’s, Newfoundland. Shannon has a children’s book forthcoming from Groundwood
in March 2019.
Aidan Chafe is a writer and public school
teacher. His debut collection of poems Short
Histories of Light was published with McGill-Queen’s University Press
(2018). His work has appeared in literary journals including CV2, Event,
PRISM international and The Maynard. He lives on the unceded
territory of the Qayqayt First Nation (Burnaby, BC).
Allison Chisholm is an award-winning pie baker. She
lives and writes in Kingston, Ontario. She played glockenspiel in the Hawaiian-Dream-Pop
band SCUB. Her poetry has appeared in The
Northern Testicle Review (Proper Tales Press) and The Dollhouse (Puddles of Sky Press). Her chapbook, On the Count of One, was published in
2017 (Proper Tales Press). Her forthcoming book of poetry, On the Count of None, will be released this fall through Anvil
Press. She is the curator of The Museum of Tiny Objects.
Daniel Cowper’s first
book of poetry is forthcoming from McGill-Queen’s University Press. His
chapbook, The God of Doors, was
published by Frog Hollow Press as co-winner of its chapbook contest. Daniel and
his wife serve as the poetry editors for Pulp
Literature, and live mostly in a small cabin on Bowen Island, BC.
Catherine
Graham is a
Toronto-based writer of poetry and fiction. Among her six poetry
collections The Celery Forest was named a CBC Books Top 10
Canadian Poetry Collection of 2017 and appears on their Ultimate Canadian
Poetry List. Michael Longley praised it as “a work of
great fortitude and invention, full of jewel-like moments and dark gnomic
utterance.” Her Red
Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects
was a finalist for the Raymond Souster Award and CAA Award for Poetry and her
debut novel Quarry won an Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal
for fiction. She received an Excellence in Teaching Award at the University of
Toronto and was also winner of IFOA’s Poetry NOW. Her work is
anthologized internationally and she has appeared on CBC Radio One’s The
Next Chapter with Shelagh
Rogers. Visit her at www.catherinegraham.com. Follow her on Twitter and
Instagram @catgrahampoet.
James Lindsay is the author of the poetry
collection Our Inland Sea (Wolsak and
Wynn) and the chapbook Ekphrasis!
Ekphrasis! (Anstruther Press). He has a regular column for Open Book where he interviews poets
about their work. He is also the owner of Pleasence Records, a Toronto-based
record label.
Dominik Parisien’s work can be found in The Fiddlehead, Wordgathering, Plenitude,
Exile: The Literary Quarterly, as
well as other magazines and anthologies. His poetry chapbook, We, Old Young Ones, is forthcoming from
Frog Hollow Press. He is also the co-editor, with Navah Wolfe, of The Starlit Wood, which won the Shirley
Jackson Award, and Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction with Elsa
Sjunneson-Henry. Dominik is a disabled, bisexual, French Canadian. He lives in
Toronto.
Constance Schultz has often been stopped by trains although now she doesn't see them
much. She has writing in various journals and literary magazines
including Figroot Press, The Seattle Star, Empty Mirror, Stonecoast
Review and some are forthcoming in Them
Dam Writers.
Isabella Wang: I am an emerging Chinese-Canadian
writer living in Vancouver B.C. My poetry and prose have appeared previously in
The New Quarterly and Looseleaf Magazine. At 17, I am the
youngest writer to be shortlisted for The
New Quarterly’s 2017 Edna
Staebler Essay Contest. I will be studying English at SFU in the fall of 2018,
while serving as an intern for Room
Magazine.
