Hana Mason is a fictionist & editor. She holds a BFA and MFA in writing from the University of Victoria. She has served as Editor-in-Chief at the literary magazines This Side of West and Over/Exposed Lit, and as a first reader at untethered magazine. She has appeared in Room, carte blanche, Minola Review, Carousel, and elsewhere, and she has been nominated for the Journey Prize, Pushcart Prize and a National Magazine Award. Her work centres on relationships, self-discovering, and desire. You can find her at hanamason.com.

Amber Nuyens lives on unceded Lək̓ʷəŋən and WSÁNEĆ territory with her elderly lizard. She is a member of the editorial collective for Watch Your Head, reads for Event Magazine and her work has appeared in PRISM international, HAD, and elsewhere. She has previously been shortlisted for the Okanagan Short Story Contest and the Bridge Prize. Amber is currently is writing her first collection of short fiction. Find her work here: https://linktr.ee/ambernuyens.

Emma de Blois (she/her) is a screenwriter, interactive storyteller, and graduate student at UVic. Born and raised in Northern BC in the unceded territory of the Lhtako Dené and Nazko First Nations, she graduated in 2022 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in writing at the University of Victoria. She produced her first short film, Bunk Beds, shortly after. During her undergraduate degree, Emma worked on This Side of West as a drama editor and at Her Campus UVic as its editor-in-chief.

Find her work here: https://bio.link/edeblois

Evelyn Ryan is a computer scientist and writer living in the unceded territory of the LEKWUNGEN people. She has years of experience in website design and software engineering. She is currently completing her undergraduate degree in computer science and writing with a special focus on writing for video games and film. She creates art meant to simultaneously disturb and comfort. She lives with her girlfriend by the water and likes watching the sun set over the harbor. 

Find her work here: https://evelynry.com/