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Sarah Polley is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, director, actor, and author. After making short films, Polley made her feature-length directorial debut with the drama film Away from Her in 2006. Polley received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay, which she adapted from the Alice Munro story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.” Her other projects include the documentary […]
Rollie Pemberton is a writer, rapper, producer, poet and activist who performs under the name Cadence Weapon. He won the 2021 Polaris Music Prize for his album Parallel World. His writing has been published in Pitchfork, The Guardian, Wired and Hazlitt. Currently based in Toronto, Pemberton was a former Poet Laureate in his hometown of Edmonton.
Mary Ito is a Canadian broadcast journalist who has worked in radio and television. She’s currently the host of two podcasts: The CRAM Podcast which highlights innovative research and big ideas in Canada; and the literary podcast Passage to Wonderland which features excerpts from books that offer a sense of completion. Mary is also a […]
Eddie Lartey is a Hamiltonian wordsmith who blends creative wordplay and storytelling to create a heartfelt experience for his audience. He details stories of love, struggle and triumph within the black experience. He is the 2019 Toronto International Poet Slam Champion, the 2021 Human Rights Film Festival Poetry Slam Champion and the 2022 Canadian Individual […]
Donald S. Murray is a writer and poet who was awarded The UK Society of Authors’ Paul Torday Memorial Prize for his first novel and the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award at Scotland’s National Book Awards 2021. His critically acclaimed non-fiction books bring to life the culture and nature of the Scottish islands, and his literary […]
