Dominika Prejdova
January 2025
Czech writer and screenwriter, film critic and journalist, festival curator, author of the novel Marijin dvor (2009), her second novel Z čeho je den (2021) won the Czech Book Club 2021 Literary Award. She co-authored the concept and screenplay of the TV series Black Daisies (2024) for CANAL+ .
Born in Prague, she has been living in Warsaw since 2011.
Hannah Davis
February 2025
Hannah Bel Davis is a writer and visual artist working and creating on the traditional and unceded land of the Halkomelem-speaking peoples, also known as New Westminster. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Concordia University and a BFA in Film and English from Simon Fraser University. Her work has been published in People Department Magazine and Font.
Kelly Cooper
March 2025
Kelly Cooper teaches art and writes poetry, short fiction, and most recently, books for children (If a Horse Had Words, 2018 and Midnight and Moon, 2022). Kelly grew up on the Saskatchewan prairie and now lives on a dairy farm in New Brunswick with her husband, her daughters, a hundred cows, a silly dog and a six-toed cat. She started her relationship with horses at age two, when she fed a pail of oats to a large horse named King.
Cori Brewster
April 2025
Cori Brewster is a singer songwriter. She has released five CD’s, performed across Canada, Germany, and New Zealand, taught songwriting workshops, and co-wrote songs with some masterful songwriters. She is currently polishing a project called 55 ~ 5 Songs 5 Stories (memoir essay collection)to be released in 2025.
Cori’s intention while at the Wallace Stegner House is to begin a new project. The re-storying of her family’s history. The Brewster’s first arrived in Banff in 1881. They were white colonial settlers who displaced indigenous peoples when they arrived. Peoples who have inhabited the area in and around present-day Banff for more than 10,000 years.
Memet Burnett
May 2025
Memet Burnett is a sculptor, potter, painter, printmaker, photographer, poet, storywriter, and fiddler, and also a life-long naturalist, cold water swimmer and a retired veterinarian.
Michael Kenyon
June 2025
Michael Kenyon was born in Sale, England, and has lived on the West Coast since 1967. He’s the author of five books of poetry and eight of fiction and four chapbooks. He has been employed as a seaman, a diver and a taxidriver. Presently he works as a freelance editor and a therapist and lives in Victoria.
Robert Leblanc
November 2025
Dr. Robert Jean LeBlanc is Associate Professor of ELA/Literacy and Board of Governors Research Chair in Literacy Studies at the University of Lethbridge. He holds a PhD in Reading/Writing/Literacy from the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the 2017 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the AERA Catholic Education SIG. A former high school English teacher, he conducts research on literacy, classroom discourse, and secondary ELA.