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Editor in Chief: Ben Berman Ghan

Ben Berman Ghan is the author of The Library Cosmic (Buckrider Books 2026), Behold the Dead (Anstruther Press 2025), The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Buckrider Books 2024), Visitation Seeds (845 Press 2020), and What We See in the Smoke (Crowsnest Books 2019). His work has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, The Ex-Puritan, and The Ancillary Review of Books, and been reprinted in such anthologies as Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Years Best Science Fiction on Earth. He won the 2024 Foreword INDIES Award for Science Fiction and was longlisted for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Ben is a PhD candidate in English and Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. Find him at inkstainedwreck.ca and on bluesky @inkstainedwreck.ca, and on Instagram @ink.stained_wreck.

He would love to read works that fall between science fiction and horror, the weird and the speculative, and works that play with form, taking advantage of what a chapbook can allow, while paying attention to language and voice.

OPEN TO: Fiction, Poetry, Criticism

Co-Editor in Chief: Ryanne Cap
Ryanne is a Chinese Canadian writer and editor from Strathroy, Ontario. Their most recent chapbook is failed (after)lives (The Blasted Tree, 2024). Their work has appeared in Augur, Grain, Canthius, carte blanche, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Ryanne is a PhD candidate in English and creative writing at the University of Calgary and the Editor-in-Chief of The Ex-Puritan. You can find them online at ryannekap.com and X/Instagram @ryannekap.

They would love to read prose that has a surrealist twist (i.e. mundane surrealism), innovates with form and genre, and/or features characters with strong, idiosyncratic voices. 

OPEN TO: Fiction, Hybrid, CNF

Editor: Margaryta Golovchenko

Margaryta Golovchenko is a Ukrainian settler-immigrant, an art historian, poet, and critic based in Calgary, on the ancestral land of the Siksikaitsitapi – Blackfoot Confederacy. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks, most recently Daughterland (Anstruther Press, 2022). Her individual poems have appeared in publications such as Pinhole Poetry, Talking About Strawberries All of the Time, Channel Magazine, Prairie Fire, Long Con Magazine, and others. Her art and literary criticism has appeared in Canadian Art, C Magazine, Room Magazine, The Ex-Puritan, PRISM International, and The Capilano Review, among others. She is an associate reviews editor for Arc Poetry Magazine and an associate editor for Material Culture Review.

She is committed to growing literary and art criticism in Canada and is eager to read submissions that engage with contemporary Canadian texts, artworks, and hybrid creative endeavours that lie somewhere in-between these two categories. She is especially interested in criticism that is in conversation with the subject matter while also situating it in relation to the writer and to the larger socio-political context.

OPEN TO: Criticism, Poetry

Editor: Amy Leblanc
Amy LeBlanc is a fiction writer and poet based in Calgary. she is the author of two collections of poetry: I used to live here (Porcupine’s Quill, 2025) and I know something you don’t know (Gordon Hill Press, 2020). Her work has appeared in Room, Grain, the Literary Review of Canada, Canadian Literature, EVENT, and the Fiddlehead among others. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Calgary and is on the Board of Directors at Canthius. She is a recipient of the 2020 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award and the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal.

She would love to read work that has elements of the uncanny with tight language and vivid imagery. 

OPEN TO: Fiction, Poetry, Hybrid 

Editor: Ellen Chang-Richardson

Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet, hybrid genre writer, judicial assistant, and editor of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. They are the author of Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn), shortlisted for the 2025 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, five poetry chapbooks including the moleskin coat (above/ground press) and concussion, baby (Apt 9 Press), and the co-author of two with their creative poetry collective VII. Co-founder of the experimental Riverbed Reading Series, Ellen is also a creative nonfiction editor for long con magazine, and a member of Room’s editorial collective. Their second collection of poetry, Through the Eyes of Another: a Collection of Ekphrasis, is forthcoming with Buckrider Books in 2027.

Committed to platforming voices that are experimental in form and language, Ellen is seeking layered writing that pushes traditional genre expectations.

OPEN TO: Hybrid, Poetry, CNF