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Jesset Karlen, MFA 2025
Jesset Karlen’s thesis is a middle-grade fantasy novel entitled The Place Between Words.
Morgan Charles, MFA 2025
Morgan Charles’ thesis is a memoir entitled Grey Matter.
Wole Olayinka, MFA 2025
Wole Olayinka’s thesis is a novel entitled Fellowship of the Tree.
Raine Lee, MFA 2025
Raine Lee’s thesis is a musical entitled West Side Women.
Mark Leiren-Young: Greener Than Thou
Mark Leiren-Young, a lifelong environmentalist and Leacock Medal-winning humour writer, journeys to the heart of greenness to reveal the toxic sludge of Canadian eco-politics.
Billy-Ray Belcourt: The Idea of An Entire Life
In The Idea of An Entire Life, Belcourt delivers an intimate examination of twenty-first-century anguish, love, queerness, and political possibility.
Bree Taylor: Skin Jerky
Bree Taylor’s Skin Jerky was published in POLYMORPHIC magazine’s Summer 2025 issue.
Scotty Olsen: Waheela’s Whistle
Scotty Olsen’s Waheela’s Whistle was published in the in Pulp Literature’s Summer 2025 issue.
Benjamin Wood: Seascraper
Haunting and timeless, this is the story of a young man hemmed in by his circumstances, striving to achieve fulfilment far beyond the world he knows.
Sophie Crocker: Castor & Pollux
Sophie Crocker’s Castor & Pollux was published in Best Canadian Stories 2026. The story was originally published in The Malahat Review 228.