Co-Editor in Chief: Ben Berman Ghan
Ben Berman Ghan is the author of The Library Cosmic (Buckrider books 2026), The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Buckrider Books 2024), and more. His work has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons Magazine, The Ex-Puritan, and The Ancillary Review of Books. Ben is a PhD Candidate at the University of Calgary, and lives in Calgary with his partner and his cats. Find him at inkstainedwreck.ca or @inkstainedwreck.ca on Bluesky
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, editor, judicial assistant, and community organizer of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. The author of Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn) and five solo poetry chapbooks, their work has appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, Augur, Grain, Plenitude Magazine, Room, Watch Your Head, and more. Ellen is also the co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series and a creative nonfiction editor for long con magazine. Their second collection, Through the Eyes of Another: a collection of ekphrasis, is forthcoming with Buckrider Books in Spring 2027. www.ehjchang.com
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