The Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild is pleased to announce spring Volume 15’s editors: Ashleigh Mattern (Managing & Prose editor) and Kim Mannix (Associate Poetry editor).
Ashleigh Mattern has been working as a professional writer and editor since 2007. Born and raised in Saskatoon, she published her first novel Magicked Born in 2023, and she is the co-owner of Vireo Creative Website Design & Marketing. In her spare time, you’ll find her writing, reading, and riding her bicycle. Read more about Ashleigh at ashleighmattern.com.
Kim Mannix (she/her) is a journalist, poet and short fiction writer who lives and creates on Treaty Six territory near amiskwaciy-wâskahikan in Sherwood Park, Alberta. Born and raised in Saskatoon, she is a graduate of both the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina and has lived and worked across Canada. Her passion for climate justice issues, the importance of art, feminism and parenthood intersect in both her creative and professional pursuits. She is a contributing editor of Watch Your Head, a climate crisis anthology, a poetry reader for Ex-Puritan literary journal and currently serves as President of the Edmonton Poetry Festival. Her poetry and prose have appeared in numerous Canadian and American journals and her first book of poetry, Confirm Humanity will be published with Wild Skies Press in October.
Spring magazine is the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild’s bi-annual magazine that showcases poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction by emerging Saskatchewan writers. Submissions to spring vol. 15 open on September 24, 2025.