Poets

Doug Beardsley, poet and educator (b at Montréal 27 April 1941). Beardsley is a contemporary Canadian poet whose collections demonstrate his interest in poetic form, religious themes, and Canada’s emergent nationalist movement. A wide-ranging scholar and teacher, he has developed…

Jordan Abel is a queer Nisga’a writer from Vancouver. He is the author of The Place of Scraps (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), Un/inhabited, and Injun (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize). NISHGA won both the Hubert Evans…

Sean Horlor is filmmaker and writer based in Vancouver, Canada. His documentaries — SATAN WANTS YOU (SXSW) and SOMEONE LIKE ME (National Film Board of Canada) — have screened globally to (mostly) critical acclaim.He runs Nootka Street Film Company with…