Jade Wallace
Jade Wallace (they/them) is a queer poet, fiction writer, and critic. They are the author of two poetry collections LOVE IS A PLACE BUT YOU CANNOT LIVE THERE (2023) and THE WORK IS DONE WHEN WE ARE DEAD (2026), both from Guernica Editions. Wallace's debut novel ANOMIA is out with Palimpsest Press in June 2024. Wallace is also the co-founder of MA|DE, a collaborative writing entity whose first full-length collection ZZOO is forthcoming from Palimpsest Press in 2025. More: jadewallace.ca + ma-de.ca
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Danila Botha is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collections, Got No Secrets, For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I’ve Known, which was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, The Vine Awards and the ReLit Award and most recently, Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness. Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness won an Indie Reader Discovery Award for Women's Issues, Fiction, and was a finalist for the Canadian Book Club Awards, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the National Indie Excellence Book Awards. She is also the author of the award-winning novel Too Much On the Inside, which was optioned for film by Pelee Entertainment. Her new novel, A Place for People Like Us will be published in Sept 2025.
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His debut book, The Withdrawal Method, a collection of short stories, won the Trillium Book Award and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, as well as being shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. One of his short stories, "Filmsong", won an Arthur Ellis Award while another was published on Joyland, a hub for short fiction.
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