Melanie Marttila

Melanie Marttila (Member-at-Large) is pleased to announce the publication of three of her poems in The /tεmz/ Review, Issue 28, Summer 2024. She is also honoured to be part of the literary lineup for Wordstock 2024 Festival. Melanie and Kelsey Borgford will be in the “Poetry Primer”, moderated by Sudbury’s current poet laureate, Alex Tétreault,…

Carol L. MacKay

Carol L. MacKay (Metro Vancouver) has been announced the winner of the 2020 SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for Poetry for her poem, “Moving Day Villanelle,” which was published in the summer 2019 issue of the Irish children’s magazine The Caterpillar. Vancouver Island Regional Library also selected Carol’s poem, “A Tailor Visits Englishman River”, as one of ten…