Capital City Press
Capital City Press is a gathering place, both digitally and physically, for the exchange of ideas and education on the craft of writing. It gives EPL the opportunity to showcase and promote notable work from within our community, while also giving Edmontonians a chance to discover fantastic local writers and discuss their creations. Capital City Press aims to help support and grow writing in the community.
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Davis G. See is a gay Edmontonian and graduate of MacEwan University’s Bachelor of Communication Studies program. While a student, he co-founded the Bolo Tie Collective, a creative writing club at MacEwan that continues to publish an annual anthology. His prose has appeared in Vitality Magazine, Crab Fat Magazine, WestWord Magazine, and the Edmonton International Airport’s short story dispenser, while his poetry has found a home in Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman. He also writes video games and interactive fiction, including for the upcoming puzzle game OtherWordly. His other interactive work can be found at https://davisgsee.itch.io.
Be sure to read Davis' blog called Don't Write Alone and recommended reading Queer Across Age. His latest is a list of Video Games for Book Lovers.
Peter Midgley writes—poetry, fiction, nonfiction, plays, children’s literature, and anything in-between. His latest book, Past Featured Writers
For a while she entertained the idea of becoming an actress, then she worked in the music industry for five years. Finally, she realized it was the words behind the music, the story behind the movie star, that ultimately filled her with passion.
Tololwa M Mollel is a seeker, facilitator and animator, maker, and sharer of stories. He has published stories in English and Swahili in books, anthologies, and magazines, for children and for adults. Some of his stories have been translated into Korean, Serbian, and other languages. He is currently writing his life story, Why We Have Two Ears and Only One Mouth: A Tanzanian Memoir. Tololwa is also known for performing stories he writes, solo and/or with other performers, for his story workshops, and for his plays in which he sometimes acts. He has been an actor in his native Tanzania and in Canada.
Leif Gregersen was born in the early 70’s in St. Albert and developed a love of libraries and reading from an early age. Even in his elementary school years, Leif would walk to the St. Albert library after school almost each and every day to get a fresh book. Leif also began writing in elementary, trying to entertain his classmates with comic book stories he wrote and illustrated. Leif lived in St. Albert in the same house with his parents until he was 18 when he left for Vancouver to seek out new options and to try and escape his situation of being in poor mental health. After going to flying school for a while and hitch-hiking to California, Leif returned home to complete school and was accepted to a journalism program that was later cancelled. Leif spent a great deal of his time over the next years reading all the quality literature he could get his hands on and working on and off on his first book, 
SG Wong holds a B.A. (Honours) in English Literature from the University of Alberta. She speaks four languages—at varying degrees of proficiency—and usually only curses in one of them. She is a member of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, Crime Writers of Canada, and Sisters in Crime (National). She is currently the President of the Sisters in Crime—Canada West chapter.Featured writers will host a variety of programs that are free for the community throughout the year. Annual events include the Capital City Press Book Festival and the Young Writers Conference.
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