Fiction

Natalie Mark 麥月明 is a local Winnipeg/Treaty 1 illustrator and cartoonist.

In 2023-4, Natalie received an award for emerging cartoonists and made a comic for CAKE Chicago. They have also facilitated various community and public art projects for Winnipeg’s Chinatown, and run many art and comics workshops in Winnipeg and beyond including the Snoopy and the Red Baron traveling exhibit from the Charles M. Schulz Museum, at VanCAF in Vancouver, and MICE in Boston.

Natalie’s comics are somewhere between a reflection of life and small curiosities. Their work plays with myth-making and whimsical fantasies projected onto social realism. Storytelling is Natalie's primary tool for understanding themselves and exploring the world around them.

When they are not drawing, Natalie loves going to their local library, playing TTRPGs, and going on picnics! Visit their site: https://nataliemark.ca or follow along with their art journey @floodkiss across the internet.

Nora Decter is a writer and educator who grew up on Treaty 1 Territory in the North End of Winnipeg. She is the author of two novels: How Far We Go and How Fast (Orca Book Publishers, 2018) and What's Not Mine (ECW Press, 2024). In 2019 she was the recipient of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in literary fiction.

Nora has been teaching writing at post-secondary institutions in the U.S. and Canada for the last ten years. She was honoured to serve as the 2024-2025 writer-in-residence at the Winnipeg Public Library, where she worked with a record number of writers from across Manitoba.

She lives in Winnipeg, near the foot of Garbage Hill.

Erica Wilson is a Saulteaux Artist on Treaty 1 Territory. Her art is rooted in Authenticity, Curiosity, Humor and Sacred Rage. Erica collaborates as an artist for community but is branching out into solo projects for 2026/27.

Her personal artistic style is a slower process to honor the bond between mind and hands in theatre that includes: mask making, costume building and puppetry. The balance for the body is tying it together with contemporary movements and burlesque.

Where she thrives is within community spaces and creating celebrations. Currently the Arts community director for medium-sized organizations and board member of the Winnipeg Arts Council. Past highlights: Creation advisory circle member with Indigenous Youth Roots and the National Screen Institute as co-manager for the TikTok Accelerator for Indigenous Creators.

The foundations of her skills are being a facilitator conducting theatre based workshops on topics of communication, public speaking and channeling group creativity strategies.

I have an eclectic mix of interests reflected both in my personality and work. From Japanese pop culture and history, folklore, gaming, to gothic/cute street fashion and more! If I find it engaging and fun, I want a piece of it; I want my creative practices to be centered on joy!

I was raised on books and visual arts in all their myriad forms. So, of course, that's where my creative outlets flourished! From as early as grade one I was writing and illustrating, surprisingly tragic and dramatic, stories to share with my classmates and teachers.

I have one novel self-published, with more on the way, and several small pieces published in local libraries and such. My inspiration derives from whatever emerges from my head, be it in the form of dreams, random thoughts, or unexpected eureka moments.

I am an author, illustrator, and sociologist inspired by the conditions of the world around me. I believe that art never exists as a standalone piece, but rather is informed by and reproduces the world around it. My work highlights the complexities of human interpretation of the world and how perspectives differ based on social conditions. As such, I strive to take big ideas and break them down into consumable forms of media to make them more accessible to a wider audience, such as working through the comic medium, which forces a concise breakdown of text, while adding a visual element which is both attention-drawing and a secondary text in itself.