Tammy Armstrong

Tammy Armstrong grew up in St. Stephen, New Brunswick and has lived in Vancouver, B.C. for the past eight years, where she has earned a BA and a MFA from the University of British Columbia.
Her poems have appeared in the following publications: The Antigonish Review, Event, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Malahat Review, Pottersfield Portfolio, Prairie Fire, Room of One's Own, subTerrain, TickleAce, Zygote. "A Proper Burial for Song Birds" placed third in the League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest, Vintage 2000. "If In a Marriage to a Car Salesman" and "Clam Bake 1974" were performed on International Women's Day 2000 at the National Art Gallery.

Poetry: Bogman's Music, Unravel

Michael Barnholden

Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Michael Barnholden is the publisher and editor of The Rain Review of Books. His own books include the poetry collection On The Ropes (Coach House), as well as Gabriel Dumont Speaks (Talonbooks). Barnholden is a Kootenay School of Writing collective member and he co-edited (with Andrew Klobucar) the Kootenay School of Writing anthology, Writing Class (New Star). A Vancouver resident since 1970, Barnholden lives with his wife and has three grown sons. He works as an advocate with the B.C. Coalition of People with Disabilities.

Canadian History/Social Issues: Reading the Riot Act

Catherine Bennett

Catherine Bennett is a Vancouver writer whose work has appeared in numerous small magazines, including Grain, sub-TERRAIN, Tessera, and Mirage/Period(ical). She won first prize in the 1991 Short Grain Contest (Postcard Story Category). For many years, she was a member of the Kootenay School of Writing Collective. She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing and a M.A. in English Literature. Currently, she makes her living as a freelance editor.

Fiction: Sub-Rosa & Other Fiction

Dennis E. Bolen

Since his first highly-acclaimed 1991 novel, Stupid Crimes, Dennis E. Bolen has written two other novels: Stand In Hell and Krekshuns. He currently works as a parole officer in Vancouver and has taught creative writing at the University of British Columbia. For many years Mr. Bolen held the post of Fiction Editor for the literary journal subTerrain, contributing editor to the Vancouver Review, and has acted as a columnist and part-time editorial board member at the Vancouver Sun. His most recent novel is Toy Gun.

Fiction: Gas Tank & Other Stories, Stupid Crimes, Toy Gun

Bonnie Bowman

Bonnie Bowman has worked as a writer for the past ten years, contributing articles and reviews for a variety of regional and national publications, including local community newspapers, The Georgia Straight, and The Vancouver Sun. Also an accomplished songwriter, Bonnie has worked both solo and in collaboration with local musicians. Her 3-Day Novel entry, Spring Interviews, received an Honourable Mention in a previous year's contest. Ms. Bowman currently resides in Toronto.

Fiction: Skin

Grant Buday

Grant Buday is the author of the novels Under Glass, The Venetian, Sack of Teeth, and Rootbound. His collection of stories, Monday Night Man, was a finalist in the 1996 City of Vancouver Book Prize. The Green Gold Rush, a screenplay based on the marijuana industry in BC, was a co-winner of the Praxis Centre for Screenwriters spring 1998 screenplay development workshop. The film option for White Lung was recently acquired by John Pozer Productions. Mr. Buday lives on Mayne Island.

Fiction: White Lung, Monday Night Man
Non-Fiction, Ed: Exact Fare Only

Clint Burnham

Clint Burnham was born in Comox, British Columbia in 1962. He attended university at Royal Roads Military College, the University of Victoria, and York University. Burnham has taught at the University of British Columbia, Capilano College, Emily Carr Institute, and for three years ran an outreach program in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. He writes frequently about contemporary art in the Vancouver Sun, Flash Art, C, Fuse, and for various gallery catalogues in Canada and abroad. His short story collection Airborne Photo was at the centre of a sexual harrassment case at a Vancouver college, and his novel Smoke Show was short listed for a B.C. Book Prize in 2006. Since 1995 he has lived in the Mount Pleasant district of Vancouver.

Fiction: Airborne Photo, Rental Van

Bart Campbell

Bart Campbell's essays about the downtown eastside of Vancouver and his experiences there as a soup kitchen volunteer have appeared on CBC Morningside, and in Next City, True Life, Canadian Forum, and frequently in The Vancouver Review. A "non-fictional" excerpt from Bart's historic novel about the 4,000 Relief Camp Strikers who occupied Vancouver in the spring of 1935 appeared in Canadian Geographic Magazine, spring 2001. Bart lives in Vancouver and works as a medical laboratory technologist.

Non-Fiction: The Door Is Open

Jim Christy

Jim Christy is a writer, artist and tireless traveller. The author of twenty books, including poetry, short stories, novels, travel and biography, Christy has been praised by writers as diverse as Charles Bukowski and Sparkle Hayter. His travels have taken him from the Yukon to the Amazon, Greenland to Cambodia. He has covered wars and exhibited his art internationally. Raised in the slums of Philadelphia, he moved to Toronto when he was twenty-three years old and became a Canadian citizen at the first opportunity. He currently makes his home on BC’s Sunshine Coast.

Fiction: Tight Like That

Lincoln Clarkes

Lincoln Clarkes is an award-winning photographer (National Magazine Awards,Silver;Western Magazine Awards,Gold),who has worked in fashion while living in London and Paris and photographed numerous celebrities, including Deborah Harry, Helmut Newton, Noam Chomsky, Lucinda Williams and Oliver Stone. Mr. Clarkes has had solo shows in Vancouver, Toronto and Victoria and over a dozen group shows across the country. His photography has appeared in Details, People, The Globe & Mail, The National Post, The Vancouver Sun, Geist, Western Living, Saturday Night, High Times, subTerrain and British Cosmo.

Non-Fiction: Heroines

Tom Cone

Tom Cone is the author of numerous plays, operas, and librettos. While playwright-in-residence at the Stratford Festival, he premiered his play Stargazing and his adaptation of Goldoni’s Servant of Two Masters. The musical adaptation of his play Herringbone has been produced in Chicago, New York, London, Philadelphia, Edinburgh, Vancouver, and the Hartford Stage starring Joel Grey. Tom is currently working on a new full-length play, Love Lies Bleeding. He lives in Vancouver.

Drama: True Mummy

Jen Currin

Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Jen Currin currently lives in Vancouver, B.C., where she teaches for Vancouver Film School and Langara College’s Continuing Studies program. She has been published in numerous North American journals including River City, subTerrain, Mudfish, Good Foot, The Massachusetts Review, The Fiddlehead and The Cream City Review. Currin is a member of the poetry collective vertigo west (www.vertigowest.com).

Poetry: The Sleep of Four Cities

Salvatore Difalco

Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, the son of Italian immigrants, Difalco attended the University of Toronto, where he completed an M.A. in English. After several years of writing poetry, Difalco turned to short fiction in 2004. He has since released one chapbook of stories, Outside (Black Bile Press) and has had numerous stories published in journals and literary magazines.
Difalco is married to poet and short story writer Alexandra Leggat. They currently reside in Niagara Falls with their dog, Monk.

Fiction: Black Rabbit and Other Stories

Jenn Farrell
Jenn Farrell is a two-time winner of the Vancouver Courier Fiction Contest, recipient of the 2001 Maclean-Hunter Endowment Award, and a contributor to CBC Radio. Her stories have previously appeared in Prism and subTerrain magazine. Born and raised in southern Ontario, she now lives in Vancouver, where she works as a writer and editor.

Fiction: Sugar Bush & Other Stories

Matthew Firth

Matthew Firth is a critically acclaimed author, editor, and columnist. His publishing credits are numerous and include: Grunt and Groan: The New Fiction Anthology of Work and Sex, coedited with Max Maccari; and the short story collections, Can You Take Me There, Now? and Fresh Meat. Firth’s stories have been published in many anthologies and literary journals, including: Desire, Doom & Vice; Exact Fare Only 2; Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction; Concrete Forest: The New Fiction of Urban Canada; subTerrain; Quarry; Broken Pencil; and Queen Street Quarterly. Firth has run his own independent micro press, Black Bile Press, since 1993. He edits/publishes the literary magazine Front & Centre, and he’s had a regular books column in the Ottawa Xpress since April 2002.

Fiction: Suburban Pornography

George Fetherling

George Fetherling is a writer, editor, teacher, publisher, scholar, and visual artist. He is the author or editor of over fifty books ranging from poetry and fiction to biographies, cinema history, Asian Pacific studies, and histories of the gold rushes and the rise of newspapers in Canada. Mr. Fetherling is a former literary editor of the Kingston Whig-Standard and the Ottawa Citizen and was awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize in 1995 for his "substantial contribution to Canadian letters". He currently holds the post of books-and-ideas columnist at the Vancouver Sun.

Poetry: Singer, An Elegy

Rod Filbrandt

Rod Filbrandt is a Vancouver-based cartoonist and illustrator. His comic strip, Dry Shave, appeared weekly in Vancouver's The Georgia Straight and Toronto's Eye Weekly. His distinctive illustrative style has appeared in magazines both local and nationally, including Vancouver Magazine, Entertainment Weekly and Men's Health.

Fiction/Cartoon: Dry Shave

W. Mark Giles

W. Mark Giles’s fiction and other writing have appeared in magazines and papers across the country, including the Malahat Review, Geist, the New Quarterly, NeWest Review, Grain, The Antigonish Review and Canadian Fiction Magazine. He has studied at the Banff Centre, the University of Calgary, and has worked with Edna Alford, Fred Stenson, and Aritha van Herk. His nonfiction columns and reviews have appeared in the Calgary Sun and the Calgary Herald. Mark currently lives in Calgary.

Fiction: Knucklehead

Heidi Greco

Heidi Greco is an editor and writer whose poems have appeared in a range of magazines and anthologies. She also writes book reviews for newspapers and magazines. Heidi lives in South Surrey, BC, in a house surrounded by trees.

Poetry: Siren Tattoo: A Poetry Tryptych, Rattlesnake Plantain

Heather Haley

Heather Haley is a writer, editor, media poet, musician, and founder of the Edgewise ElectroLit Centre and the Vancouver Videopoem Festival. Ms. Haley also published Rattler, a critically acclaimed multimedia arts and literary journal and her work has appeared in numerous North American publications: The Antigonish Review, The Coe Review, Northern Lights, The Literary Storefront, subTerrain, On The Bus, Catalyst, Heresies, High Performance, Verb and the Manic D Press anthology, The Verdict Is In.

Poetry: Sideways

Loree Harrell

At thirty-six, Loree Harrell dropped out of the corporate business world to dedicate her time to writing. She is currently working on two short story collections: Sex, Death and Other Odds & Ends and The Simplest Insanity. She lives in Oregon.

Fiction: Body Speaking Words

Bradley Harris

Bradley Harris writes about American life from the special position of a Canadian: alien, but able to “pass” among those whose language and culture he examines. Undergraduate and graduate education in arts, law, English, linguistics and creative writing, and a varied professional background in government, industry, the military and higher education, contribute to his perspective and style. He crawls like a viper through the suburban streets of Memphis, and lives with, and at the sufferance of, his wife Trish and urchins. He's the author of Incoming and other dramatic plays, short stories, and is at work on three other novels in the Jack Minyard series: Six Flags Over Jesus, The Midnight Clear, and Water Moccasin.

Fiction: Ruby Ruby

Clint Hutzulak

Clint Hutzulak lives and works in Victoria, BC.He has a BA Honours in English and Creative Writing from the University of Victoria. Several of his short plays have been staged in Victoria. Selections from The Beautiful Dead End appeared in the anthologies Red Stains and Dust, from Creation Books of England. A soundtrack album to accompany the novel will be available Spring 2002. The instrumental music features dobro, pedal steel, accordion and electronics, in solo and ensemble performances, commissioned from 20 musicians living in BC, Quebec and Italy. For music samples and more information, visit www.ClintHutzulak.com.

Fiction: The Beautiful Dead End

Mark Anthony Jarman

A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a Fellow at Yaddo artists’ colony in New York, Mark Jarman’s work has appeared in virtually every Canadian literary journal worth mentioning. Recent publication credits include Queen’s Quarterly, Prism International, sub-TERRAIN, Hawaii Review, Prairie Fire and Quarterly West (Univ. of Utah). Previous books include two short story collections, Dancing Nightly In the Tavern (Alberta Writers’ Guild Award for Best Fiction), New Orleans is Sinking and a collection of poetry, Killing The Swan. Mr. Jarman also edited a book of alcohol related stories, An Ounce Of Cure. A new collection of stories, 19 Knives was recently released from House of Anansi.

Fiction: Salvage King Ya!

Brian Kaufman

Brian Kaufman has worked for years in the Vancouver art scene as a playwright, editor and publisher. He co-founded the internationally-known literary magazine subTERRAIN.

Drama: Fragments from the Big Piece
Anthology, Ed.: In the Trenches

Todd Klinck

Todd Klinck is a freelance production assistant working in the film and video industry in Toronto. He grew up in Windsor, Ontario and finished half a degree in Theatre at York University before dropping out. He is currently working on a screen adaptation of Tacones (high heels).

Fiction: Tacones

Ryan Knighton

Ryan Knighton studied pomo poetry with George Bowering and holds a MA from Simon Fraser University. He is co-founding editor (along with George Bowering, George Stanley and others) of TADS, a poetry bar 'zine in its fourth year. He has published academic essays on genre theory and rhetoric: published, to borrow from Myrna Kostach, "autofictions" on blindness and other issues in Geist and Matrix and has been nominatd for a Nantional Magazine Award for poetry. His work has been published in Prism, Prairie Fire, Fiddlehead, Rampike, Capimano Review, Malahat Review, Matrix, Geist, Write, Descant, subTerrain, filling station and the poetry anthologies Hammer & Tongs and Why I Sing the Blues.

Poetry: Swing In The Hollow

Eve Lazarus

Eve Lazarus has worked as a freelance journalist and writer for more than 15 years. Originally from Australia, she is the Vancouver correspondent for Marketing Magazine and the author of Frommer's with Kids Vancouver 2001 (John Wiley & Sons). She is a former newspaper reporter and has written for a variety of periodicals in Canada and the United States including the Globe & Mail, the Vancouver Sun, Style at Home, B.C. Business and Canadian Family magazines. In 2001, she won gold and silver awards at the Canadian Business Press KRW's. Lazarus has a communications degree from Simon Fraser University and a journalism diploma from Langara College. Since becoming obsessed with home histories, she has written articlea on the subject for Style at Home; REM; the Globe & Mail, and Nuvo Magazine. Eve lives in North Vancouver with her husband, three kids and miniature Schnauzer.

Non-fiction: At Home with History: The Untold Secrets of Heritage Homes

Mark Leiren-Young

Mark Leiren-Young is a popular Canadian performer, playwright and journalist. His plays have been produced throughout Canada and his award-winning drama, the romantic fantasy Blueprints from Space recently received a staged reading at New York’s Open Eye Theatre. Mark’s first radio drama, Dim Sum Diaries, received international attention when it debuted on CBC’s Morningside in 1991. Mark’s humorous commentaries have appeared in such publications as The Hollywood Reporter, The Toronto Star, The Vancouver Sun and The Georgia Straight. His writing has also appeared in The Utne Reader, TV Guide, This Magazine, The Globe and Mail and the South China Morning Post.

Drama: Shylock, Articles of Faith

Annette Lapointe

Annette Lapointe was born in Saskatoon on the coldest day of 1978 to hippy-type people who made their own granola and organic baby food. The family's pursuit of pastoral bliss led Annette to be schooled mostly in a small, scary town outside the city, for which her parents have since apologized. She did her BA at the University of Saskatchewan, and her MA at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the U of S. After achieving Masterhood, she taught ESL in South Korea and Women's Studies at the U of S. Recently, she wandered back to South Korea and thence to Winnipeg, to pursue doctoral studies in English. She currently divides her time between Saskatoon and Winnipeg, with the result that most of her time is actually spent on the road.

Fiction: Stolen

Jodi Lundgren

A past winner of the Open Space Emerging Writers' Competition and a finalist in Paragraph's Short Fiction Contest, Jodi Lundgren has published in literary magazines such as Trivia, Paragraph and subTERRAIN, as well as in the anthologies Beyond Bedlam and In The Trenches. Her critical writing has appeared in Canadian Literature, Matrix and Essays on Canadian Writing. She is currently working on a novel for young adults.

Fiction: Touched

Judy MacInnes Jr.

Judy MacInnes Jr. was born in Prince George, British Columbia in 1970. Raised in Surrey, a graduate of Kwantlen College, the University of Victoria (BFA), and the University of British Columbia (MFA), Judy has worked in the film industry since 1994. Her writing has been anthologized in Northwest Edge: New Writing from the Pacific Northwest (Two Girls), Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets (Harbour), Eye Wuz Here: Women Writers Under Thirty (Douglas & McIntyre), In the Trenches (Anvil, forthcoming) and has appeared in an number of literary magazines including Other Voices, Room of One's Own, CV2, Geist, Prism International, Blood & Aphorisms, The Capilano Review, Prairie Fire, and sub-TERRAIN. She lives in Vancouver with screenwriter Andrew McEvoy.

Poetry: Snatch

David MacLean

David MacLean is an award-winning graphic designer, playwright and poet. The Sound of Whales was produced by Dark Horse Theatre in Vancouver in December, 1995. The impetus for The Sound of Whales came out of the author’s (and his wife’s) frustration dealing with the various bureaucracies regarding their son, who has Central Aphasia. Mr. MacLean lives in Deep Cove, B.C. with his wife, Jan, and their two children.

Drama: The Sound of Whales

Carol E. Mayer

Carol E. Mayer is Senior Curator at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, where she is responsible for the world-wide collection of ceramics. She was awarded the National Award for Outstanding Achievement by the Canadian Museums Association for her research and curating of the permanent exhibition of European ceramics at the UBC Museum of Anthropology. She has contributed to books such as The Potter's Art, Made of Clay, and Hot Clay. Mayer was a co-founder of the Northwest Ceramics Foundation (NWCF), served as its first president and continues to serve as a board member. In 2005, her support for the makers of ceramics, particularly in British Columbia, was recognised by a Lifetime Membership Award from the Potters Guild of British Columbia.

Non-fiction: Transitions of a Still Life: The Ceramic Work of Tam Irving

Sharon McCartney

Sharon McCartney's poetry has been published in numerous magazines and journals including The Fiddlehead, Prism international, Event, Grain, sub-TERRAIN, Prairie Fire, Iowa City and the Malahat Review. Ms. McCartney has an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa, Writers' Workshop and a law degree from the University of Victoria.

Poetry: Under the Abdominal Wall

Angela Lee McIntyre

Ms. McIntyre is a professional transient. She has lived in 9 US and 4 Canadian cities. Besides writing poetry, she paints, makes paper from seaweed, and takes photographs. She now lives in Victoria but is yearning for the Himalayas.

Poetry: Siren Tattoo: A Poetry Tryptych

George McWhirter

George McWhirter is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of over a dozen books of poetry and fiction. His translation of selected poems by Jose Emilio Pacheco won him the F.R. Scott Prize for translation. Mr. McWhirter's collection, Catalan Poems, shared the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, and his novel, Cage, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 1987.

Poetry: Where Words Like Monarchs Fly

Chris Millis

Chris Millis has been a professional freelance cartoonist since 1994. He works on the syndicated panel "Close to Home" with John McPherson which is distributed to 650 newspapers by Universal Press Syndicated. His most recent illustrated book is An American Bestiary, a humorous zoological study of American politics, by retired Senator, and former presidential candidate, Eugene J. McCarthy.

He resides in his hometown of Saratoga Springs, NY with his wife Lisa and dog Jameson. Small Apartments is his first published work of fiction.

Fiction: Small Apartments

Rachel Mines

Rachel Mines has a Ph.D. in English from King’s College, University of London, U.K. and an M.A. in English from the University of B.C. She recently started a "writing and editing services" venture under the name of The Language Doctor.

Humour: A Toilet Paper

Karen Moe

Karen Moe is a Vancouver photographer and multi-media performance artist. Her shows include perros y leones de centro habana at the Havana Gallery in Vancouver and Pteros Gallery in Toronto, and Lethe: a mock-metaphysics at Xchanges Gallery in Victoria. Moe's work also graces books and album covers, as well as such journals as Dandelion and West Coast Line. The detritus pieces were exhibited at Exposure Gallery in Vancouver in Spring 2005.

Poetry: Cusp/Detritus

Isabella Legosi Mori

Isabella Legosi Mori's poetry has appeared in numerous small literary magazines and alternative newspapers. She is presently working on her first play, Dog-Nosed Missile of Fate.

Poetry: Siren Tattoo: A Poetry Tryptych

Susan Musgrave

Susan Musgrave, the author of more than 25 books including What the Small Day Cannot Hold: Collected Poems 1970-1985, has won numerous prizes, including the CBC Award for Poetry and the bpNichol Poetry Chapbook Award. She has been a writer-in-residence at universities across Canada and has given readings around the world. She lives on Vancouver Island.

Anthology: The Fed Anthology

Lyle Neff

Lyle Neff is a poet and literary journalist whose work has appeared in The Vancouver Sun, Terminal City, subTerrain, The Westender, and The Georgia Straight. His first collection of poetry, Ivanhoe Station, was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1998. His second book of poetry was Full Magpie Dodge (Anvil Press, 2000). Born in Prince George in 1969, Neff lives in Vancouver with his wife and son.

Poetry: Ivanhoe Station, Full Magpie Dodge, Bizarre Winery Tragedy

Bud Osborn

Bud Osborn has been a poet and social activist for nearly 40 years. A former director of the Vancouver/Richmond Health Board, Bud Osborn was instrumental in founding such harm reduction organizations as VANDU (Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users), GTA (Grief to Action), and PRG (Political Response Group). Recently he has launched Creative Resistance, a group that advocates the repeal of drug prohibition and its "War on Drugs" strategy. Bud Osborn's poetry credo is "fidelity to lived experience." He has published five books of poetry which include Lonesome Monsters (Anvil, 1995), Hundred Block Rock (Arsenal Pulp, 1999), Oppenheimer Park (1998, in collaboration with artist Richard Tetrault), and Keys to Kingdoms (Get to the Point, 1999) which won the City of Vancouver Book Award.

Poetry: Lonesome Monsters, Signs of the Times

Tom Osborne

Tom Osborne was one of the founding editors of the notorious Pulp Press Publishing Co. (now Arsenal Pulp Press) in the '70s. He is the author of Under the Shadow of Thy Wings, 9 Love Poems, The Reamer's Car Club Blues Band Story and Please Wait for Attendant to Open Gate (the latter two of which are now "rare" finds). His work has appeared in Geist, subTerrain, and 3-Cent Pulp. He was born on Baffin Island, spent his youth in Kamloops, B.C. and later years in Vancouver. He currently resides in Maple Ridge, B.C. Foozlers is his first published novel.

Fiction: Foozlers, Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit

Catherine Owen

Catherine Owen is a Vancouver-based poet whose work has been published in national and international journals such as Queen's Quarterly and Poetry Salzburg. Her first book, Somatic: The Life and Work of Egon Schiele (Exile Editions), was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award while her second, The Wrecks of Eden (Wolsak and Wynn), was short-listed for the BC Book Prize. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies A Practice of Spirit (St Thomas Poetry Series) and a collection of tributes to Joe Rosenblatt (Guernica Editions).

Poetry: Cusp/Detritus

Stuart Ross

Stuart Ross is a prolific writer, performer, editor, and teacher. He has been active in the Toronto literary scene since the mid-1970s, selling 7,000 copies of his self-published poetry and fiction chapbooks in the streets of Toronto through the '80s. Ross co-founded the Toronto Small-Press Book Fair in 1987, and has performed at hundreds of venues in Canada and abroad. He has edited a number of literary magazines, the latest being Syd & Shirley. Ross's work has appeared in scores of Canadian and American literary journals, and his most recent book of poetry, Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Poems New and Selected (ECW) was published in 2003 to critical acclaim. He is currently the Fiction & Poetry Editor for This Magazine, and regularly gives talks to teachers, librarians, writers, students, and others on the small press movement, self-publishing, the writing life, nurturing creativity in non-writers, and other topics. Ross lives in Toronto.

Non-Fiction: Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer
Poetry: I Cut My Finger

Mari-Lou Rowley

Mari-Lou Rowley was born in Edmonton and raised in Saskatoon. She worked in advertising and marketing in Edmonton and Toronto before moving to Vancouver in 1993, where she completed an M.A. in SFU's Graduate Liberal Studies Program. Mari-Lou is principal of Pro-Textual Communications, and her clients include UBC, the City of Vancouver, Science World and others. Much of poetry is shaped by her work as a science and technology writer, as she incorporates the concepts of languge of science into her own writing. Previous books include Interference with the Hydrangea (Thistledown Press, 2003), and a Knife a Rope a Book (Underwhich Editions, 1990), and the chapbooks CatoptRomancer and Boreal Surreal.

Poetry: Viral Suite

Robert Strandquist

Robert Strandquist's work has appeared in subTerrain, The Capilano Review, Prairie Fire, Fiddlehead, Grain, Event, and Canadian Fiction Magazine. Mr. Strandquist has a MFA from the University of British Columbia and has received several writing awards, including a Canadian Authors' Association award for poetry. He grew up in Nelson, BC and now resides in Vancouver.

Fiction: The Inanimate World, The Dreamlife of Bridges, A Small Dog Barking

P.G. Tarr

P.G. Tarr was born in Vancouver. He currently lives in Toronto and is working on a collection of short stories.

Fiction: The Underwood

Richard Tetrault

Richard Tetrault has lived and worked in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver for more than 30 years. Tetrault studied drawing, printmaking and painting in Vancouver and New York, and his work has been exhibited and collected both locally and internationally. Twenty-five of Tetrault's murals and public works can be seen on streets, in community centres, public schools and other locations throughout the region. In 1998, he was a coordinator for Walls of Change, a large, community-based mural project in the Downtown Eastside community. More recently, he worked with a team of artists on Community Walls/ Community Voices (2002-2003), a three-block long mosaic and concrete mural on Vancouver's Commercial Drive. In 2005, he participated in a world symposium on mural painting in Tlaxcala, Mexico.

Non-fiction: Painted Lives and Shifting Landscapes, Signs of the Times

Charles Tidler

Charles Tidler was born in Ohio and grew up in Indiana. He studied literature with William Gass and completed a degree in English and Philosophy at Purdue University. Charles is the father of two sons and makes his home in Victoria. His jazz-inspired plays Straight Ahead and Blind Dancers were hits in Toronto, the Edinburgh Festival, London's West End and were awared the Chalmers Canadian Play Award.

Drama: Red Mango, Going to New Orleans

Hayden Trenholm

Hayden Trenholm is a native of Nova Scotia who has lived in various areas of Canada. He is best known in Alberta for his playwriting. A Circle of Birds is his first published novel.

Fiction: A Circle of Birds

Alan Twigg

Alan Twigg, born in West Vancouver in 1952, is the author of six books and has produced six television documentaries. Since 1988 he has been publisher/owner of BC Bookworld, Canada's largest circulation publication about books. He has contributed to many publications, including Quill & Quire, The Georgia Straight, The Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Maclean's, and has hosted a CBC television series.

Memoir/Poetry: Intensive Care

Bryan Wade

Bryan Wade is an Associate Professor and the acting Department Head of UBC's Creative Writing Department. He has had numerous productions of his stage plays in various theatres across the country, including Factory Theatre Lab (Toronto), Toronto Free Theatre, Playwrights Workshop (Montreal), Theatre Calgary, and Vancouver's New Play Centre. He has also been a Playwright-in-Residence at Factory Theatre and the Blyth Festival along with being an invited artist at the Playwright's Colony at the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Stratford Festival. Several of his plays have been published by Playwrights Press, including the anthology Blitzkrieg and Other Plays.

Drama: Brave New Play Rites

Tom Walmsley

Tom Walmsley wrote his first novel at age seventeen and his first poems a year later. Found a publisher for neither of them, but wrote new poems while withdrawing from heroin and they were accepted by what was then Pulp Press. Walmsley won the inaugural 3-Day Novel Writing Contest with his incendiary effort, Doctor Tin (now an underground classic). He was born in Liverpool, England, raised in Oshawa, Ontario and lived briefly in Quebec. He is the author of two previous collections of poetry, seven plays, three novels, and the screenplay for the controversial film, Paris, France. He lives in Toronto.

Poetry: Honeymoon in Berlin

David Zimmerman

David Zimmerman grew up in Atlanta,Georgia and later studied film at Emerson College in Boston.He studied Creative Writing for three years in Tuscaloosa,Alabama before heading for New York City,where he worked as a publicist for St.Martin ’s Press.He now divides his time between teaching abroad (Brazil and Ethiopia)and living and working in Savannah,Georgia.A later draft of an earlier 3-Day Novel submission won Mr.Zimmerman the 2001 Quarterly West novella contest.

Fiction: Socket

New & Forthcoming Titles | Poetry | Drama
Fiction | Non-Fiction | Order Form | Top of Page