Diana Manole (PhD) is a Romanian-Canadian scholar, writer, translator, and dramaturg. She has published extensively in in Canada, the US, and the UK, on Canadian and Romanian theatre, exilic theatre, and intercultural performance, as well as co-edited a collection of essays about

David Demchuk has been writing for print, stage, digital and other media for nearly 40 years. His debut horror novel The Bone Mother, published in 2017 by ChiZine Publications, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award and

Claudiu Murgan was born in Romania and has called Canada his home since 1997. He started writing Science Fiction when he was 11-years old. Since then he met remarkable writers that helped him improved his own trade. Claudiu’s experience in various industries

Costi’s fiction has appeared in Canada, the United States, and Europe. He has sold 3 books and over 50 stories in US, Canada, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Denmark and England for which he has won 24 awards, including the Alexandru Odobescu Award given

Nina Munteanu is a Canadian ecologist / limnologist and internationally published author of award-nominated speculative and eco-fiction novels, short stories and non-fiction. She is co-editor of Europa SF and currently teaches writing courses at George Brown College and the University of Toronto.

Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu (b. Bucharest, 1956; Ph.D. Toronto, 1992) is a Romanian-Canadian Professor of literature and philosophy, and a writer (of academic writings spanning a number of disciplines, of prose, poetry, essay, children stories, etc). His recent volumes include Happy New Fear! (in

“I am a dreamer. I think the world we live in needs stories that heal. I “see” stories that can help children, not only entertain them, but also help them get over their fears and uncertainties. I create worlds in which there

Born in Romania, Felicia Mihali has lived in Montreal since 2000. She has published seven books in French since 2002 and two in English. The Darling of Kandahar, her first novel written and published in English (LLP 2012) was nominated for Canada

Max Fraser is an independent Yukon filmmaker who is developing a documentary feature called “Finding Joe Boyle,” the epic story of a Canadian mining mogul in service to the Queen of Romania during WW1, for international release. The project took Max through

Crina Bud, BSc (North University, Baia Mare), PhD (Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca), Postdoc (Romanian Academy, Bucuresti), Associate Professor. In her three books and more than ninety scholarly studies and cultural articles, she addresses themes, such as language and totalitarianism, the relationship between