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      • Judges: Issue 3
      • Contributors: Issue 3
    • Issue 4 >
      • Judges: Issue 4
      • Contributors: Issue 4
      • Poetry: Krista Bell
      • Poetry: Josh Garrett
      • Poetry: Erica McKeen
      • Poetry: Katharine O'Reilly
      • Poetry: Victoria Wiebe
      • Poetry: Eric Zadrozny
      • Creative Nonfiction: Ryan Bates
      • Creative Nonfiction: Devin Golets
      • Creative Nonfiction: Jonas Trottier
      • Experimental Writing, Film Sound: Rachel Ganzewinkel
      • Creative Nonfiction: Victoria Wiebe
      • Fiction: Raquel Farrington
      • Fiction: Yulia Lobacheva
      • Fiction: Alexander Martin
      • Fiction: Tiffany Shepherd
      • Fiction: Jonas Trottier
      • On the Night Before Your Father's Funeral, By Katharine O'Reilly
      • Market Blooms By Robyn Obermeyer
      • All That Glitters By Julia Cutt
      • Mosaic By Evan Pebesma
      • love song 2 By Joy Zhiqian Xian
      • Student Writer in Residence: Steve Slowka
    • Issue 5 >
      • Judges: Issue 5
      • Contributors: Issue 5
      • Poetry: Rayna Abernethy
      • Poetry: Chelsea Brimstin
      • Poetry: Natalie Franke
      • Poetry: Kevin Heslop
      • Poetry: Katarina Huellemann
      • Poetry: Cara Leung
      • Poetry: Tamara Spencer
      • Poetry: Travis Welowsky
      • Poetry: Victoria Wiebe
      • Creative Nonfiction: Lyndsay Fearnall
      • Creative Nonfiction: Gary Jackson
      • Fiction: Patricia Arhinson
      • Fiction: Lyndsay Fearnall
      • Fiction: Levi Hord
      • Fiction: Richard Joseph
      • Fiction: Erica McKeen
      • Experimental Writing: Laura McKinstry
      • Experimental Writing: Brittany Renaud
      • Short Film: Ethan Radomski
      • ALFRED R. POYNT AWARD IN POETRY >
        • Poynt Award: Emma Croll-Baehre
        • Poynt Award: Robyn Obermeyer
        • Poynt Award: David Witmer
    • Issue 6 >
      • Judges: Issue 6
      • Contributors: Issue 6
      • Ficton: Sam Boer
      • Ficton: Sydney Brooman
      • Ficton: Erica McKeen
      • Ficton: Esther Van Galen
      • Creative Nonficton: Erica McKeen
      • Creative Nonficton: Brittany Tilstra
      • Creative Nonficton: Nathan Wright-Edwards
      • Poetry: Miriam Ahmed-Gawel
      • Poetry: Chelsea Brimstin
      • Poetry: Rachael Hofford
      • Poetry: Elana Katz
      • Poetry: Erica McKeen
      • Poetry: R. A. Robinson
      • Poetry: Elizabeth Sak
      • Experimental Writing: Sydney Brooman
      • Experimental Writing: Erica McKeen
      • Experimental Writing: Brittany Renaud
      • Experimental Writing: Brittany Renaud
      • Short Film: Dejvi Dashi
      • Short Film: Matthew Carr
    • Issue 7 >
      • Contributors: Issue 7
      • Judges: Issue 7
      • Poetry: Michelle Baleka
      • Poetry: Jenny Berkel
      • Poetry: Kevin Heslop
      • Poetry: Katarina Huellemann
      • Poetry: Nathan Little
      • Poetry: Erica McKeen
      • Poetry: Kaela Morin
      • Poetry: Elizabeth Sak
      • Poetry: Kate Zahnow
      • Experimental Writing and Film: Erica McKeen
      • Experimental Writing and Film: Shauna Ruby Valchuk
      • Fiction: James Gagnon
      • Fiction: Megan Levine
      • Fiction: Erica McKeen
      • Fiction: Cassia Pelton
      • Fiction: Julia Rooth
      • Creative NonFiction: Noa Rapaport
      • Screenplays: Sydney Brooman
      • Screenplays: Nathan Wright-Edwards
    • Issue 8 >
      • Judges: Issue 8
      • Contributors: Issue 8
      • Poetry 8: Danielle Bryl-Dam
      • Poetry 8: Leah Kuiack
      • Poetry 8: Jameson Lawson
      • Poetry 8: Maxwell Lucas
      • Poetry 8: Kaela Morin
      • Poetry 8: Joanna Shepherd
      • Fiction 8: Mason Frankel
      • Fiction 8: Rylee Loucks
      • Fiction 8: Celia Kate Shapcott
      • Fiction 8: Amy Wang
      • Fiction 8: Blake Zigrossi
      • Screenplays 8: Naomi Barghel
      • Screenplays 8: Amanda Inglese
      • Screenplays 8: Jeff Simpson
      • Creative Nonfiction 8: Tiffany Austin
      • Creative Nonfiction 8: Jenny Berkel
      • Creative Nonfiction 8: Carolina Jung
      • Creative Nonfiction 8: Leah Kuiack
      • Creative Nonfiction 8: Li-elle Rapaport
      • Creative Nonfiction 8: Amy Wang
      • Experimental 8: Lauren Lee
      • Experimental 8: Kirah Ougniwi
      • Experimental 8: Carlie Thompson-Bockus
      • Plays 8: Camille Inston
  • Issue 9
    • Contributors: Issue 9
    • Fiction 9: Chris Chang
    • Fiction 9: Tegan Wilder
    • Fiction 9: Hyacinth Zia
    • Creastive Nonfiction 9: Aidan Gugula
    • Poetry 9: Rachel Fawcett
    • Poetry 9: Matthew Simic
    • Experimental Writing 9: Shauna Ruby Valchuk
    • Screenplays 9: Naomi Barghiel
    • Screenplays 9: Alicia Johnson
    • Screenplays 9: Keaton Olsen
    • Screenplays 9: Rachel Yan
  • Issue 10
    • Contributors: Issue 10
    • Experimental Writing 10: Akshi Chadha
    • Experimental Writing 10: Adelphi Eden
    • Experimental Writing 10: Nicole Feutl
    • Experimental Writing 10: Isabella Kennedy
    • Experimental Writing 10: Christopher Paul
    • Poetry 10: Meaghan Furlano
    • Poetry 10: Li-elle Rapaport
    • Fiction 10: Meaghan Furlano
    • Fiction 10: Carly Pews
    • Creative Noniction 10: Nicole Feutl
    • Creative Noniction 10: Courtney WZ
    • Screenplay 10: Margaret Huntley
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Judges
Occasus would like to thank
 the Issue 2 judges:

Dr. Timothy Freeborn
Dr. Miranda Green-Barteet
Dr. Jamie Johnston
Dr. Selma Purac


Timothy Freeborn is an Assistant Professor at Western University who teaches in both the Department of English and the Program in Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication.

Miranda Green-Barteet is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Women’s Studies and the Program of Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication.  She teaches courses in visual rhetoric, argumentation, gender theory, and women’s literature.  Her research focuses on women writers of the 19th century and gender theory.

Jamie Johnston is an Assistant Professor at Western University who teaches in both the Department of English and the Program in Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication.  His current areas of academic interest include contemporary health and professional communication, as well as exploring the connection between writing instruction and confessional identity in early modern England.  He lives in St. Thomas, Ontario, with his wife and two children.

Selam Purac is an Assistant Professor at Western University who teaches in both the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, and the Program in Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication.



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