Authors

Originally from Montreal, Alex Viens is an author, journalist, and holder of a bachelor's degree in cinema from the University of Montreal. They are currently working on the film adaptation of their first novel, Les pénitences (2022), with Emmanuelle Gilbert and Rafaël Ouellet. They can be heard on ICI Première's Tout peut arriver, hosted by Marie-Louise Arsenault. In 2025, their second book, Combustion libre, was published and became a finalist for the 2026 Prix littéraire des collégien·ne·s.

Alexie Morin was born in 1984 in Windsor, in the Eastern Townships. She has published the poetry books Scénarios catastrophes (2024) and Chien de fusil (2013), the novel La maison du rang Lynch (2025), and the autobiographical account Ouvrir son cœur (2018, winner of the Prix des libraires du Québec and finalist for the Prix littéraire des collégien·nes), published in English in a translation by Aimee Wall from Véhicule Press under the title Open Your Heart (first selection for the Dublin Literary Award). She is co-editorial director of Le Quartanier. She lives in Montreal.

Author and comedian Amélie Prévost has created several performance poetry shows, including the duo Fol ouvrage - Torcher des paillettes with Queen Ka, and the solo show Kamikaze du vendredi. She has published six books, including the poetry collection Osti d'pain blanc (L’Hexagone, 2023), which was a finalist for the CoPo prize for high school students. She won the World Cup of Slam Poetry in Paris in 2016. More recently, La Belle-mère / The Stepmother written in French and English with Rachel McCrum, was published by Éditions de l’Hexagone in 2024.

Arianne Des Rochers is Professor of Translation at the Université de Moncton, in unceded Mi'kmaki. They have translated works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction into French, including books by Joshua Whitehead, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Kate Briggs. Photo credit: Annie France Noël

Benoit Doyon-Gosselin is a full professor at the University of Moncton. He is also the associate dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research. His areas of research are Acadian literature and Francophone literature in Canada. From 2014 to 2024, he held the Canada Research Chair in Acadian Studies and Minority Communities. In 2022, he published an essay entitled Moncton mentor. Géocritique d’une ville (Perce-Neige). In 2026, he co-edited an anthology entitled Théâtre de la renaissance acadienne (Perce-Neige) with Chantal Richard. He is interested in the sociology of literature and the links between space and literature.