Camille Perron-Cormier

Fais-moi peur … Are you afraid of the dark

Camille Perron-Cormier is from Dieppe, New Brunswick. She completed a Bachelor of Arts and Design degree with a concentration in comics at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) in 2018. Since graduating, she has returned to New Brunswick, where she creates comics, illustrations, graphic recordings, some graphic design, and leads creative workshops.

She has illustrated three children’s books published by Bouton d’or Acadie: Adieu, Jacoby!, written by Renée Guimond-Plourde, Danielle Guimond, and Mélanie Plourde, Sous mon bateau, written by Chantal Duguay-Maillet and very recently Dans ma boite à diner, written by Nicole Poirier. In 2023, she released her first comic book with Éditions Bouton d’or Acadie: SOS Sorcières, the first volume of the Crapaud et Romarin series. The sequel, Maude et le spectre, was published in January 2025. She is currently working on the third volume of this series.

Caroline Bélisle is an actress, playwright and very angry feminist working mainly in the Moncton area. A graduate of the playwriting program at the National Theatre School of Canada, she also completed training in acting at the Université de Moncton.

She won the prestigious Prix Gratien-Gélinas for her play Les remugles ou La danse nuptiale est une langue morte. The play went on to win nominations for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Prix Antonine-Maillet-Acadie-Vie, as well as the Éloize for Theatre Artist of the Year in 2024. Her other works include Camping sauvage et domestique, Dîner pour deux, Tuiles et Pépins – un parcours de petites détresses (Éloize for Artist of the Year in Theatre 2022).

Her work has been produced by Théâtre l’Escaouette, Satellite Théâtre, Théâtre Populaire d’Acadie and Théâtre des Béloufilles. She has also penned a host of texts for Le Pays de la Sagouine, including the entire Nounours series of puppet shows for young people.

She is published by Éditions Perce-Neige and Bouton d’or Acadie.

Jon Claytor is a graphic novelist, painter, and writer based in Sackville, New Brunswick.

After having established himself as an oil painter, Jon has recently found his passion and true calling in graphic storytelling. He has written many illustrated interviews for the CBC since 2021 and his memoir, Take The Long Way Home was published by Conundrum Press in 2022. His latest graphic novel, Nowhere, about growing up among monsters in a small maritime town, will be published by Goose Lane Editions in 2026. He is currently working on a book about the toxic drug supply affecting rural New Brunswick with harm reduction advocate, Ashley Legere. Jon has also run a number of creative workshops for a variety of audiences focusing on storytelling and comic memoirs.

Jon was born in San Francisco and has lived and worked in Moncton, Sackville, Halifax, Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto. He co-founded SappyFest independent music and arts festival in 2006 and opened Thunder & Lightning Ideas Ltd. in 2013. Jon holds an MFA from York University (2012), attended Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (1991), and holds a BFA Mount Allison University (1998). He was nominated for a Juno Award for the cover of Gord Downie’s “Battle Of The Nudes” in 2004. His memoir, Take the Long Way Home, was shortlisted for the New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2022. His new graphic novel Nowhere will be published by Goose Lane in March 2026.

Born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Sara Peters studied at Boston University and was a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. Her work has been published in The Walrus and Poetry, among many other literary magazines and journals, and her first book, 1996, was met with critical acclaim. She published her novel, Mother of God, in 2025. (Bio taken from the Poetry in Voice website)