Daphné B. (1990 - ) is a poet and literary translator. Her published works include Maquillée, a poetic essay that won the Prix des libraires in 2022, as well as three collections of poetry. La pluie des autres (La courte échelle), Delete (L'Oie de Cravan) and Bluetiful (Éditions de l'Écrou). She is a web culture columnist at La Presse, collaborates with Radio-Canada, and hosts a podcast with Mounir Kaddouri called Café Snake, where she analyzes pop culture, techno, and web culture discourse. Her voice is singular, intimate, contemporary and clear-sighted. She lives in a world where social media is not a choice, but a fact.
As the 2023 World Poetry Slam Champion, I have carved a niche in the global literary landscape, beginning with my victories as the 2021 Colombian and 2018 Canadian Poetry Slam Champion. My journey as a poet has taken me across continents, where I've been invited to feature in literary events and conduct workshops, sharing the power of words in Canada, Colombia, Brazil, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Latvia, Estonia, Namibia, and Mexico.
I am the proud author of La Sangre Llama and its English version, The Blood Calls. My artistic talents extend beyond the written word into music as an artist and composer of the album SER. In the realm of film, I have directed award-winning short films Whiteface and Penumbra, currently working on the full-length documentary Kleños and full-length feature The Legend of Twin Lord.
A unique confluence of poetry, music, and gastronomy culminates in The Umami Project, a project I founded and direct, we explore the synergies between diverse art forms to create a holistic sensory experience.
Carol-Ann Hoyte writes poetry for young people. Some of her favourite ways of enjoying poetry are reading novels written in free verse, sharing riddle poems, and teaching kids how to write poems for two voices. Carol-Ann has featured the work of poets from around the world in two self-published collections: the award-winning And the Crowd Goes Wild!: A Global Gathering of Sports Poems and Dear Tomato: An International Crop of Food and Agriculture Poems. Scottish poets Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay, both whom she has had the opportunity to meet, are among her greatest poetic inspirations. One day, Carol-Ann hopes to realize her dream of publishing an international poetry magazine for children. From 2007 to 2022, she worked as a librarian at Selwyn House School. As of June 2022, Carol-Ann has served as the events and program manager for The Canadian Children's Book Centre. Beyond poetry, Carol-Ann is an avid crafter and mother to a delightful son who is quickly surpassing her in height.
David Ly is the author of Mythical Man (2020) and Dream of Me as Water (2022), both published under the Anstruther Books imprint of Palimpsest Press, and short-listed for the 2021 and 2023 ReLit Poetry Awards, respectively. He is also co-editor (with Daniel Zomparelli) of Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022). David’s poems have appeared in publications such as Pan MacMillan’s He, She, They, Us: Queer Poems anthology (2024), Arc Poetry Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry, PRISM International, and The Ex-Puritan, where he won the inaugural Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence. David is the Poetry Editor at This Magazine.
Writer and poet, Laure Morali lives in Montreal.
Her main poetry collections, published by Mémoire d'encrier, are titled, La terre cet animal (2003 and 2021), Orange sanguine (2014) and Personne seulement (2023). The breath of the elements, passing down ancient knowledge, the power of words, and the transformation of characters run through her work. These motifs are also found in her collection, En suivant Shimun (éditions du Boréal, 2021), translated into English by Howard Scott as Following Shimun (Mawenzi House Publishers, 2024). Her poems have been translated into Spanish, English, Slovene, Polish, Innu-Aimun and Mandarin.
Laura Morali has led writing workshops that have produced works such as the album Mingan mon village, poèmes d'écoliers innus, illustrated by Rogé (La Bagnole, 2012, Prix jeunesse des libraires 2013); and the anthology Nin auass/Moi l'enfant, co-edited with Joséphine Bacon (Mémoire d'encrier, 2021), which won the Quebec French Teachers' Poetry Prize in 2022.
Laure Morali's multiple roots are at the core of most of the literary projects she has undertaken, which aim to create bridges, and foster dialogue between cultures to enable a better understanding of each other, as witnessed by the anthology of literary correspondences Aimititau ! Parlons-nous ! (Mémoire d'encrier), which she initiated and directed in 2008 (republished in 2017).
Laure has also directed documentary films, such as L’ours et moi, after the author N. Scott Momaday. She is the author of the album and animated film La P'tite Ourse, illustrated by Fabienne Collet and set to music by Titi Robin.
Her website is: http://lauremorali.net
Born in Quebec City in 1968, Martin Pouliot is a street worker. He is the author of several collections of poetry, urban tales, plays and songs. He divides his time between creative work and community involvement. He was a finalist for the 1997 Émile-Nelligan prize with his collection, Poèmes de famille (Écrits des Forges, Québec, 1997 / Mantis Editores, Mexico, 2001) and won the 2005 Félix-Antoine-Savard poetry prize with his collection of poems, Rien n'est pur et cela me satisfait, published in Moebius QV 2004 review. In 2024, he published an album of visual poetry with Julien Dallaire Charest for children aged 3 to 7: Grand-Papa Punk à vélo. He is the founder of Éditions Docteur Sax, a small publishing house based in Quebec City.