Miriam Korner, Writer
January 2026
Miriam Körner is an award winning and critically acclaimed children’s book illustrator, writer, and environmental advocate who lives with her nine sled dogs in a small cabin in northern Saskatchewan. Her most recent picture book Fox and Bear is a “love letter to nature disguised as a modern fable of ecological grief and hope” (The Marginalian).
Ed Gregorich, Writer and Soil Scientist
March 2026
Ed Gregorich is an Emeritus Scientist at Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada’s Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa where he conducted research in soil science from 1989 to 2023. His research is aimed at understanding and illuminating the intricate connections between soils and environmental health, focusing on the influences of cropping systems and agricultural management practices on soil health across Canada.
Diana Hume, Print Maker and Visual Artist
April 2026
Diana Hume is a Saskatchewan watercolour artist whose paintings celebrate the humour, warmth, and everyday magic of prairie childhood. As a senior artist, she feels a deep responsibility to preserve and share a relatable vision of mid-century prairie life, ensuring these stories and memories are not lost. Her series, We Didn’t Know We Were Making Memories, humorously captures small-town moments from the 1960s–70s as vivid, story-filled images. She lives and creates in the village of Creelman, SK, where community and connection continue to inspire her work.
Chris Petrakos, Historian, Writer, Photographer
May 2026
Christopher Petrakos is a historian and Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, at the University of Toronto Mississauga whose research focuses on missionaries, Protestant theology, and empire in the late nineteenth-century Canadian and American far North. His forthcoming book, The Spiritual Borderlands at the Edge of Empire, examines William and Charlotte Bompas and their relationships with Northern Indigenous communities, the federal government, and the raucous mining population from the Alaska Purchase and Canadian Confederation (1867) to the Klondike Gold Rush (1896-1900). A Chicago native who became a Canadian citizen, Petrakos has conducted extensive archival research across Canada, Great Britain, and the United States to tell a fascinating story of the North American borderlands.
Katrina Goetjen, Artist and Writer
June 2026
Katrina Goetjen is an arts practitioner from Treaty 7 territory (ancestral land of the Blackfoot confederacy, including the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai, Iyarhe Stoney Nakoda, Tsuutina, and Otipemisiwak Métis).
They studied at Emily Carr University, receiving a BFA in Critical andCultural Practices in 2019, before serving in multiple artist-run centres both on Unceded Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver) and in Mohkinstsis (Calgary).
Goetjen’s creative practice focuses on utilizing photography and poetry to explore themes of contradiction, affect and environment,consciousness, and texture.
James Papoutsis, Writer
July 2026
James Papoutsis is a writer, researcher, and educator whose work focuses on the Greek diaspora. His work has been supported by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. In 2023 he became an Oxbelly Fellow and in 2025 he was a writing resident at Deer Lake in Burnaby, British Columbia. He teaches in the English Department at York University in Toronto and divides his time between Toronto and his ancestral home in Greece.
Corley Farlough, Artist
October 2026
Corley Farough is a multidisciplinary artist based in the Alberta Badlands.
She works with clay, paint, fibre and is never without a pen and paper.
She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Applied Arts & is always eagerly pursuing her next learning opportunity.
Heather Inglis, Multidisciplinary Artist and Director
November 2026
A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Heather is an award-winning director, producer, and dramaturg whose career has taken her across the country. Heather has directed and assistant directed over 40 productions, many of which have been new Canadian works