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Jessica Bebenek Discovery Night Winner! Jessica Bebenek is currently studying Creative Writing and English at York University. She has featured at the Art Bar previously on Valentines Day and was elated to find out that people would give her money to read the words she writes. Her work has appeared in The Flying Walrus and Uncharted Sounds magazines, and she is currently the assistant editor of The Flying Walrus. You can find more of her work at jessicabebenek.blogspot.com, as well as her current experiment in writing, Life Written, at lifewrittenproject.blogspot.com. She hopes, one day, to be a real writer. Sara-Jane Gloutnez Discovery Night Winner! Sara-Jane Gloutnez is an undergraduate student studying English and Creative Writing at York University. She is currently working on a new collection of poems and a short story cycle. E. Russell Smith E. Russell Smith was born in Toronto, educated in Montreal and Cambridge, and has lived in Ottawa since 1960. He has published in litmags, chapbooks and anthologies in Canada and abroad, and has three volumes of poetry - Why We Stand Facing South (1998), Spring Garland (2005, with engravings by Gerard Brender ˆ Brandis), and Petroglyph Beach (2012.) He has also published two novels and a collection of short stories. Once a teacher, he now travels the world, writes, and enjoys his grandchildren. Visit him at http://web.ncf.ca/ab297.
Jonathan Eskedjian Jonathan Eskedjian is an emerging Canadian poet who's first chapbook (Bouncing For Idiots: A guide to hired goonery in Ontario's nightlife) was released in October of 2011 by Lyrical Myrical Press. His work has been featured in several different publications, most recently, Black Moss Press' online magazine OffSIDE, and the Exile Literary Quarterly. He is also the founder and organizer of the Society of the Spoken Word, a literary group committed to strengthening Barrie's burgeoning arts scene that holds (and has been holding) monthly open-mic poetry and prose events in Barrie, Ontario's downtown core for almost three years. Sam Turner A professional gardener, married with two children, Sam Turner has won theBronx Council on the Arts BRIO Poetry Award (1998, 2000, 2003 and 2010), the William C. Woolfson Award for Literary Excellence, and the SUNY McIllwain Award for Poetry. Sam has led workshops at the New York Public Library and the Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music. Published in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Little Magazine, Nadir. Allison LaSorda Allison LaSorda is a Toronto poet who spent the last two years living in Fredericton, New Brunswick completing her Master's degree at UNB. She was co-managing editor of Qwerty magazine and had the pleasure of working at The Fiddlehead. Her work has been published in journals like CV2, The Antigonish Review, PRISM international, and The Malahat Review.
Edward Baranosky Resident of Toronto since 1972, originated in Needham, Massachusetts. BFA in Painting from the Rhodes Island School of Design, (with intensive poetry tutorials at neighboring Brown University). Member of the Canadian Authors Association from 1992-2002; conducted seminars on Renga and symbiotic, linked verse for six years; and has edited two anthologies of poetry for the Canadian Authors Association, Legacy 1, and Legacy 2 (2000 and 2001). Published in many literary journals and anthologies since 1964; first haiku published in 1964; has since published 30 different chapbooks of poetry, including Windbirds (2001), The Outer Coast (2002), and Wazowski Himself (2006); first chapbook Presence, published with a solo exhibition of paintings in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1971. Two newest chapbooks Piccolino Fagiolino, and CarmenÕs World, (2012). Exhibited with the Canadian Society of Marine Artists, 2007. Liz Howard Liz Howard, a native varietal of northern Ontario, has taken root in Toronto where she engages in cognition research and poetics. She is a member of the Influency Salon editorial group and co-cultivates the AvantGarden reading series. Her work has appeared in The Capilano Review, ditch, Matrix, and Misunderstandings Magazine. Skullambient, her first chapbook, was published by Ferno House Press in 2011. In 2009 she was shortlisted for the LitPop Award for poetry. Cathy Petch Cathy Petch (www.cathypetch.com) is a playwrite, spoken word artist, performer, musician and lighting designer. She hosts the Plasticine Poetry Series, which turned 5 this year. Petch was recently published in Toronto Quarterly Magazine, and her book "Late Night Knife Fights" was launched in February by Lyricalmyrical press. She is a member of the 2011 Toronto Poetry Slam Team and of the Collaborative group PENTA. Petch is happiest onstage.
joanne light Joanne Light, poet, writer and painter from Halifax has psychology, education and fine art degrees from Acadia and NSCAD so she got to travel and teach art, music, creative writing and English in five provinces and five countries--Abu Dhabi, South Korea, Brunei Darussalam, Martinique and Hong Kong. She published Meeting the North, (book and music cd) about living in aboriginal communities. Arc Magazine, Grain, Pottersfield Portfolio, Pierian Spring, Briarpatch, Bluegrass Magazine, Potato Eyes, Lancelot Press, Ontario Poetry Society, Audio by Artists Festival, and This Magazine, etc. have published her work. Irving Layton, Sid Marty, Barbara Klar and Alison Pick at The Banff Centre and Daphne Marlatt at Sage Hill mentored her. She has performed at the Banff Centre; in Halifax and Saskatchewan schools; at cafes and readings in Wolfville, Halifax, Saint John, Toronto and Brunei. Kimberley Dawkins Kimberley Dawkins is a writer, musician, and visual artist from Scarborough. Her work has appeared in a number of places, from national newspapers in Jamaica to small Toronto zines. She is an avid chess and Scrabble player. When not doing problem sets, singing the blues, or attacking her sewing machine, she works at a variety of (increasingly) odd jobs. Her first chapbook, 'neurotica' was completed in 2010 and she's hard at work on a second. She divides her time between Ottawa and Toronto. Dawna Rae Hicks Dawna Rae Hicks is a native to Scarberia, and still ducks when she hears a car backfire. She has been out of the writing circuit for some time due to impatience and being a single mom. She lives in Oshawa now and is an insurance broker. A long time ago she was published in about three anthologies but that's neither here nor there. She believes that sometimes, life itself is enough and doesn't need translation, but there are rare moments that require it.
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