We had a wonderful group of writers talk about their work and share their stories with us this past Wednesday. Click here for the recorded live stream of our November 12th event featuring Lisa Baird, Premee Mohamed, Guy Elston, and Terese Mason Pierre, with guest speaker Farzana Doctor who spoke to us on the topic “Psych Hacks for…

Terese Mason Pierre is an award-winning writer and editor whose work has been published in The Walrus, Room, Brick, Fantasy, and elsewhere. She is the author of “Myth,” a poetry collection, and the editor of “As the Earth Dreams,” an anthology of Black Canadian SFF fiction. Terese lives in Toronto. Yearning Belongs in Poetry: An Unserious Rant…

Premee Mohamed is a multiple award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. In 2024, she was the Edmonton Public Library writer-in-residence, and her short fiction has appeared in several best-of anthologies. She can be found on her website at www.premeemohamed.com Does This Idea Have Legs? One thing I get asked frequently when I…

Lisa Baird is a queer poet, essayist and community acupuncturist. Her chapbook Persephone’s Crickets was published by Baseline Press in fall 2024. Her second poetry collection, When Whales Went Back to the Water, came out with UAlberta Press in early 2025. www.lisabaird.ca Blue Angel My dad, nearly 50 and over six feet tall, bends down to grasp the bar at…

Guy Elston is a UK-born, Toronto-based poet. His debut collection is the The Character Actor Convention (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2025). His poems have appeared in The Malahat Review, The Literary Review of Canada, The Ex-Puritan, Grain, CV2 and elsewhere. He is a member of the Meet the Presses Collective. Link: Poetry in Motion: Guy Elston + The Character Actor Convention Read a review of…