Derek Hanebury is a Vancouver Island writer of fiction, poetry, and narrative non-fiction. His poems and stories have been published in many magazines and broadcasted on CBC radio; and his first novel, Ginger Goodwin: Beyond the Forbidden Plateau, (Arsenal Pulp) went to a second printing. His first book of poetry Nocturnal Tonglen (Ekstasis)was released in 2006. He has a Master's Degree in Creative Writing from UBC and taught writing at North Island College on Vancouver Island until his retirement into full-time writing in 2017.

Vicki Drybrough's work was first published in her local newspaper when she was fourteen. She didn't submit another piece until 2008, when "Shipwrecked" received an honourable mention from the Burnaby Writers' Society. Between 2010 and 2013 her poems and short stories were published in a variety of anthologies and literary journals. Stuart McLean read her short story "Macaroni and Cheese", on CBC Radio in October 2011 and published it in his book, Time Now for the Vinyl Café Story Exchange in 2013. In 2014, Mark Forsyth included two of her articles, "My Mother's War" and "A Boy Soldier's Diary" in his book, From the West Coast to the Western Front. She was a finalist in the 2016 Cedric Literary Awards for her story "Access Road". In 2018 "Mr. Wardrop" won second prize in the Victoria Writers' Society's short fiction contest and appeared in the winter edition of Island Writer Magazine. Vicki is a founding member of Words on Fire and has read at The Fat Oyster, Wordstorm and 15 Minutes of Infamy. She is currently working on her first novel.

Libbie Morin embarked on her creative writing path while a student at North Island College. She loves to write about her diverse life experiences: growing up in Toronto, living on an isolated island off the northern tip of Vancouver Island, hanging with the artist's community in Tofino and generally ferreting out the poignant and bizarre. She won the E. Bickle Award for Writing at NIC and has had work published in the premier issue of NIC Zeitgiest, the E-zine Pages of Stories, and most recently, in Living Artfully: Reflections from the Far West Coast. She continues her spoken-word involvement with Words on Fire.

Books

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The Courier

Bothers of the Heart

Coda

Both Sides Now: Special Edition

Responsive

Pulse

Rough Diamond

Afraid of Heights

Nature's Wisdom

Both Sides Now

Haven Hold

A Nickel a Bucket

King of Dhamma