Meet Hana Mason! Our upcoming issue 6.1 will feature three of Hana’s pieces: two poems (“Sikome Lake” and “Still-life in the Diagnostic Imaging Wing”) and one short story (“Horse Politics”)!

How Hanna describes these pieces in 12 words or less:
“Sikome Lake”: Enjoy a swim and a popsicle while you ruminate on body image.
“Still-life in the Diagnostic Imaging Wing”: Lay still and breathe deep; brain scans reveal more than grey matter.
“Horse Politics”: Dispatches on grief, oatmeal, and horses’ social dramas from a lonely ranch.

Hana Mason is a Victoria-based writer from Calgary. Her work has appeared in Riddle Fence, The Minola Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, and elsewhere. This is her first poetry publication.

Meet Alyson Hoy! Alyson’s work of nonfiction, “A Queer Pandemic,” will be featured in our upcoming issue 6.1.

How Alyson describes this piece in 12 words or less:
In the pandemic, why research sourdough when you could be having sex?

Alyson Hoy (PhD, UBC) is a writer and scholar living in Vancouver, Canada. Her work intersects memoir writing with queer and feminist theories of feeling and embodiment and explores themes of sex, queer identity, illness, psychic life, and anorexia. She is a Vocational Rehabilitation Counsellor with the Canadian Mental Health Association.

Meet Sarah Hilton! Sarah’s poem, “coitophobia,” will be featured in our upcoming issue 6.1.

How Sarah describes this poem in 12 words or less:
Here, the body is a lung, an ocean, an opening.

Sarah Hilton is a queer poet from Scarborough, Ontario. Her writing is currently featured or forthcoming in CV2, Pink Plastic House, FEEL WAYS, IthacaLit, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the E. Nelson James Poetry Award, and was shortlisted for the Laura K. Alleyne Difficult Fruit Poetry Prize. Sarah is a Master of Information student at the University of Toronto.