Poets

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…

Kayla Czaga holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and currently serves as the online poetry mentor for Simon Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio.  Her debut collection, For Your Safety Please Hold On (Nightwood Editions, 2014) won the Gerald Lampert Memorial…

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…