Kevan Anthony Cameron

Kevan Anthony Cameron, also known as Scruffmouth is a scribe, spoken poet, performer and proud co-editor of The Great Black North. He is a veteran of the poetry slam scene in North America and aims to “edutain” with his work that focuses on knowledge of self, identity...

Valerie Mason-John

Dr. Valerie Mason-John is an award-winning writer. Her first novel, Borrowed Body  (later re-published as The Banana Kid) won the Mind Book of the Year Award, and was described as the “British Color Purple” by the UK media. She began her writing career as an...

Rosemary Griebel

Born in the farming community of Castor, Alberta, Rosemary Griebel grew up on the prairies. There she experienced nature as both immense and intimate. It’s common to say that there is little room to romanticize nature when the lives and deaths of animals are...

Adam Melnyk

Adam Melnyk is recognized as the leading authority on Canadian graffiti, having collected images on his site http://www.visualorgasm.com since 1998. By day, he works with low-income families and the homeless.

Aritha van Herk

Aritha van Herk is the author of five novels: Judith, The Tent Peg, No Fixed Address (nominated for the Governor General’s Award for fiction), Places Far From Ellesmere (a geografictione) and Restlessness. Her wide-ranging critical work is collected in A Frozen Tongue...