The June Issue 2022
Radical & Independent Journalism
List of contributors
Toula Drimonis

Toula Drimonis is a Montreal-based freelance opinion columnist, writer and news producer.
Sandy Hudson & Nora Loreto

Sandy Hudson and Nora Loreto are writers and activists based in Los Angeles and Quebec City.
Tom Fennario

Tom Fennario is a video journalist/producer for APTN News in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal.
Madeline Lines

Madeline Lines is a writer and current Funding and Outreach Coordinator at CKUT.
Stefan Spirodon Christoff

Stefan Spirodon Christoff is a media maker, community activist and artist living in Montreal.
Charlotte Morris

Charlotte Morris is a queer multidisciplinary artist and a recent graduate of Dawson College, who will be starting her studies in English Literature at Concordia University in the Fall.
The May Issue 2022
A launch party for Font!
The April Issue 2022
SWANA Voices
List of contributors
Emné Nasereddine

Emné Nasereddine is a poet living in Montréal/Tio’tia:ke.
Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch

Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a writer, poet, magazine editor, and acquisitions editor at Metonymy Press living in Montréal/Tio’tia:ke.
Ehab Lotayef

Ehab Lotayef is a poet, justice activist and IT Manager of Egyptian origin. He has been calling Montréal/Tio’tia:ke home for over 30 years.
Nadah el Shazly

Nadah el Shazly is a singer and composer from Cairo, Egypt and now based in Montreal.
Symon Henry

Egypto-Québécois Symon Henry’s artistic practice is based on the interaction between three major axes in their creations, namely concert music, visual arts and poetry.
Leila Marshy

Leila Marshy is of Palestinian and Newfoundland parentage, which is A LOT. Her first novel, The Philistine, was published by LLP in 2018. She is working on another.
Baharan Baniahmadi

Baharan Baniahmadi is a writer and actress, originally from Iran and based in Montreal.
Elkahna Talbi

Elkahna Talbi a.k.a Queen Ka is a poet, performer and actress, born in Montréal/Tio’tia:ke, from an Amazigh background.
Hoda Adra

Spoken word poet, visual artist, and literary translator Hoda Adra was born in Lebanon and grew up in Saudi Arabia until 17, before being adopted by Montreal/Tio’tia:ke in 2002.
Ehab Lotayef

Ehab Lotayef is a poet, justice activist and IT Manager of Egyptian origin. He has been calling Montréal/Tio’tia:ke home for over 30 years.
The March Issue 2022
Imagination Festival at the Morrin Centre
List of contributors
Elspeth Tulloch
Elspeth Tulloch is a specialist of Canadian literature in the Département of littérature, théâtre et cinéma at Université Laval.
Luc Murray Mercier

Luc Murray Mercier is a Laval University graduate student born and currently living in Québec City.
Roxanne Bédard-Saucier

Roxanne Bédard-Saucier is studying English literature in Quebec City and spends most of her time between the pages of her favorite novels.
Mary Thaler

Mary Thaler is a writer, webcomic creator, and microbial ecologist, living in Quebec City.
Abel Martinez

Abel Martinez is an up-and-coming content creator, video editor, and passionate linguist from Northern Mexico looking to make their words reach way beyond the border.
Carrie Lynn Evans
Carrie Lynn Evans is a PhD student with Université Laval, working on science fiction literature, and a podcast host on the New Books Network.
The February Issue 2022
Fireworks at Teesri Duniya
List of contributors
Lydie Dubuisson

Lydie Dubuisson is a theater creator, playwright, director, and curator. Her art explores intersectionality, dystopia, collective memory and multilingual creative processes.
Alessandra Tom

Alessandra Tom is a director, dramaturg, and performance creator currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal and is the artistic facilitator at Teesri Duniya Theatre, providing literary management and coordinating the Fireworks Playwright Program.
Nathaniel Hanula-James

Nathaniel Hanula-James (he/him) is a theatre-maker. Born and raised in Vancouver (the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations), he now makes his home in Toronto/T’karonto. He is working toward an artistic practice that is irreverent, zany, and unabashedly queer.
Transcript
This is the transcript of a fake podcast interview with fictional playwright Caren Hwite-Phaggét, whose real-life play “In Pontréal” will be produced in Montreal/Tio’tia:ke in 2024.
Carolyn Fe

Carolyn Fe is a Filipino-Canadian actress, singer-songwriter, playwright and writer; born in the Philippines, grew up in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal) and is now living in Tkaronto (Toronto).
Sangeeta Wylie

Sangeeta Wylie is an actor, playwright/poet, and dentist originally from Newfoundland, now residing in the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples (Vancouver).
Tiernan

Tiernan is a performer/artist born and based in Tiohti:áke/Montréal.
Caroline Lou

Caroline Lou is a poet and nature enthusiast who currently lives in Tkaronto/Toronto.
Debdeep Chatterjee

Debdeep Chatterjee is a Ph.D. candidate researching corporate sustainability. He is from India and has been living in Montréal/Tio’tia:ke.
Lib Spry
Lib Spry has been a theatre maker for 50+ years as a director, playwright, dramaturge, popular theatre worker, performer, translator, community artist and educator.
The January Issue 2022
Spoken Ancestries in Lower Saint Lawrence
List of contributors
Lisa Wagner
Lisa Wagner is a part-time resident in Quebec. She’s a writer, naturalist, and gardener in Rimouski (Mi’gmaq territory).
Dona Nham
Dona Nham is a spoken word artist, storyteller, facilitator, and cultural worker living in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal).
Larch
Larch grew up in Chibougamau, Quebec. Now living in Rimouski for most of the year, with summers and Xmases spent in Nunavik.
Cornelius Hammer
Cornelius Hammer is a retired fisheries biologist and writer who recently immigrated to Québec, living now in Rimouski.
Lisan Chng
Lisan Chng is a mosaic artist, cultural manager and aspiring writer living in the Lower Saint Lawrence region of Quebec.
Barb Amsden
Barb Amsden is a Montrealer born and bred, whose heart is in the Gaspé.
Judith Catt
Judith Catt was born and raised in England, then emigrated to Canada as a young bride. She lived her married life in Northern Quebec with her French husband and then, after he died, moved to the Lower Saint Lawrence.
Emy Harwood-Jones
Emy Harwood-Jones is a hard working student and lifeguard facing the troubles of being a girl from the Lower Saint Lawrence.
Anik Tardif
Anik Tardif is a grade 8 student from Métis Beach school. She writes with passion and expresses her feelings through her words.
The December Issue 2021
Emerging in the Eastern Townships
List of contributors
R.A. Garber
R.A. Garber lives in the hinterland of Maple Leaf, QC, and is editor of The Townships Sun.
Eleanor Gang
Eleanor Gang is a musician, writer and chronic knitter who has made her home in Lennoxville since the late ’80s.
Louise Abbott
Louise Abbott is a writer, photographer, and independent filmmaker in the Eastern Townships. She is a founding member and past president of Studio Georgeville.
Tanya Standish McIntyre
Tanya Standish McIntyre is a poet and visual artist living in Quebec’s Eastern Townships.
Loch Bailie
Loch Baillie is an aspiring writer and editor based in Quebec City.
Heather Davis
Heather Davis assembles words and teaches at two universities in Sherbrooke. She believes that writing is a social act and that art is energy.
Jacqueline Korschun Hyman
Jacqueline Korschun Hyman is a writer from Sawyerville (Eastern Townships) enjoying her retirement from a career as a professor of anthropology and co-proprietor of a dairy farm.
Louise Abbott
Louise Abbott is a writer, photographer, and independent filmmaker in the Eastern Townships. She is a founding member and past president of Studio Georgeville.
Angela Leuck
Angela Leuck is a poet and publisher living in the Eastern Townships.
Gabriel Safdie
Gabriel Safdie is a writer and photographer. He is the director of the Centre des arts de Stanstead that features the bilingual poetry reading series.
The November Issue 2021
Young Black Writers
List of contributors
Sherwins-A. Jean
Born and raised in Quebec, Sherwins-A. Jean is a writer and poet of Haitian descent working in Montreal / Tio’tia:ke.
Anne Victoria Jean-François
Anne Victoria Jean-François is a Montreal-based singer / songwriter currently co-authoring a Canadian Black history book in Montreal / Tio’tia:ke with the Black Community Resource Centre.
Matthew Mullone
Matthew Mullone is a Créole-Texan anthropologist, communicator and multidisciplinary artist, using his art to push for change and understanding. Currently based in Tio’tia:ke / Montreal.
GG
Amanda Asomani-Nyarko also known as GG (she/her/elle) is a writer, poet, and spoken word artist living in Montreal / Tio’tia:ke.
Ayana Monuma
Ayana Monuma is a writer and poet working in Montreal / Tio’tia:ke.
Cindy Keza
Cindy Keza (she/her) is a Rwandan writer and poet based in Montreal / Tio’tia:ke who is working on her happiness and finding her purpose.
Fabiola Ingabire
Fabiola Ingabire is a Montreal / Tio’tia:ke based aspiring writer and researcher interested in the intersections of race, gender and new media.
Fanta Ly
Fanta Ly is an aspiring writer and lawyer pursuing an impact-oriented career utilizing her experience in law, policy, and advocacy to challenge anti-Black racism, equality, and organizational responsibility.
Renee White
Renee White is a writer and poet working in Montreal / Tio’tia:ke.
Jessica Williams-Daley
Jessica Williams-Daley is an altruistic Black woman, writer and poet working in Montreal / Tio’tia:ke.
No One the artist
No One is a singer-songwriter, poet and playwright working in Montreal / Tio’tia:ke.
Deanna Smith
Deanna Smith is a poet, performer, social justice advocate, teaching artist, and 5th generation Canadian.