Season Ten Launch Party!
Our season ten queens are all over the country, so we’ve gathered them here so you can catch a glimpse of their awesomeness and the sheer beauty of their work!
Please check out the most excellent poets of our season ten chapbooks!!!
Charlotte Nip,
Acne Scars
Charlotte Nip is a SFU Master of Publishing graduate, digital marketer, writer, and poet. She has been published in SAD Mag, ThoughtCatalog, and Ricepaper Magazine. When she is not working, she likes taking the perfect Instagram shot and going through Vancouver to find it. Follow her daily adventures @charlottenip.
Kyle Flemmer,
Building Permit: Capitol Hill
Kyle Flemmer is a writer, publisher, and digital media artist from Calgary, Canada in Treaty 7 territory. In 2014, he founded The Blasted Tree Publishing Company and has been experimenting with poetry and visual art ever since. Kyle’s first book, Barcode Poetry, was published in 2021. His next book, Supergiants, is forthcoming from Buckrider Books in 2025.
rob mclennan,
: condition report
Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Award in 2014, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012 and 2017. In March, 2016, he was inducted into the VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour. His most recent titles include the poetry collection World’s End, (ARP Books, 2023), a suite of pandemic essays, essays in the face of uncertainties (Mansfield Press, 2022) and the anthology groundworks: the best of the third decade of above/ground press 2013-2023 (Invisible Publishing, 2023). His collection of short stories, On Beauty (University of Alberta Press) will appear in fall 2024. An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics and Touch the Donkey. He is editor of my (small press) writing day, and an editor/managing editor of many gendered mothers. He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com.
Annick MacAskill,
five from hem
Annick MacAskill is a poet based in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia), on the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq. She is the author of three full-length poetry collections, including Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022), winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, and a chapbook, Brotherly Love: Poems of Sappho and Charaxos (Frog Hollow Press, 2016). Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies across Canada and abroad and have recently been translated into French. MacAskill’s fourth full-length book of poetry, Votive, will be published by Gaspereau Press in 2024. She is a member of Room Magazine’s Growing Room Collective and the publisher of micropress Opaat Press. annickmacaskill.com
Conyer Clayton,
Kneeling in Our Name
Conyer Clayton is an award-winning writer and editor from Kentucky now living in Ottawa, whose multi-genre work often explores grief, disability, addiction, and gender-based violence through a surrealist lens. Their latest book is But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. (Winner of the Archibald Lampman Award, Anvil Press). They are a Senior Editor at Augur, Nonfiction Editor for untethered magazine, and guest edited issues of CV2 and Room Magazine. Their fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Best Canadian Poetry 2023, This Magazine, Room Magazine, filling station,The Ex-Puritan, Canthius, Arc Poetry Magazine, CV2, The Capilano Review, and others. Kneeling in Our Name (Gap Riot Press, 2024) is their seventh solo chapbook.
brandy ryan,
in the third person reluctant
brandy ryan is a queer poet who likes to slip between genre and form. she has published three chapbooks – full slip (Baseline Press, 2013), After Pulse (with Kerry Manders, kfb, 2019), and once/was (Empty Sink Publishing, 2014). other pieces appear in lockbox, long con magazine, CV2, Windsor Review, and MediaTropes, among others. brandy has become obsessed with collage over the last few years, leaving tiny bits of paper and sticky surfaces in her wake. two collage series appear in Contemporary Collage Magazine 31 and Beautiful Trash Vol. 3. in August 2024, brandy will be part of a group show on collage alongside Gap Riot’s Kate Siklosi and poets Brian Dedora and Kate Sutherland.
Chris Turnbull,
x°
Chris Turnbull is the author of cipher (Beautiful Outlaw Press 2024), [ untitled ] in own (CUE Books 2014) and Continua (Chaudiere Books 2015; Invisible Press 2019). Her poetry, collaborations, and installation pieces are in print, online, and within landscapes. She curates a footpress, rout/e, whereby poetry can be found on trails (www.etuor.wordpress.com).