LONGLISTED FOR THE GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD

Deer with binoculars, wolves with resumes: bioengineered poetry that unsettles truth, fact, and history.

Animals are strange testing grounds for thinking ...

Will Rees is a writer and editor living in London. He is a director of Peninsula Press, which he co-founded in 2018. His essays and reviews have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian ...

Born in Montreal to Egyptian parents, Éric Chacour has shared his life between France and Quebec. A graduate in applied economics and international relations, he now works in the financial sector in ...

Pasha Malla is the author of seven books. His writing has won or been listed for the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Prize, the Dublin IMPAC, the Trillium Book Award, an Arthur Ellis Award, the Journey ...

Jenny Hiseler is an accessibility professional who started her career as a wheelchair technician. Since then, she has worked with architects and designers, arts groups, universities, and more to make ...

Emily Macrae is a disabled writer, organizer, and twin. Having lived and worked in Toronto, Halifax, Vancouver, and rural Quebec, her work combines policy analysis and lived experience to build accessible ...

Gregory Betts is the author of ten books of poetry, two monographs on the Canadian avant-garde (including Finding Nothing: The Vangardes 1959–1975) and editor of ten collections of, or on, Canadian ...

Stuart Ross is the author of 25 books of fiction, poetry, and personal essays, as well as scores of chapbooks. His most recent books are the memoir The Book of Grief and Hamburgers, winner of the 2023 ...

Rosanna Deerchild has been storytelling for more than twenty years, currently as host of CBC Radio One's Unreserved, a show that shares Indigenous community, culture, and conversation. Rosanna has also ...

Noemi Kiss-Deaki was born in Finland and lives on the Aland Islands – a devolved and autonomous region of Finland with its own laws and a population of 30,000. Noemi speaks Hungarian, Swedish, and English ...