Staff

Julien Johnston-Brew,
Fiction Board Intern

Julien Johnston-BrewJulien Johnston-Brew is a Queer writer and editor who grew up in Tk’emlúps (Kamloops), located on the traditional unceded territory of the Secwépemc people. Julien’s work has been longlisted for Room Magazine’s Poetry Contest (2023) and Pulp Literature’s Magpie Award for Poetry (2024), and appears in two Poetry Institute of Canada anthologies: The River’s Song (2014) and Summer Mornings (2016).

Julien studies poetry and journalism at the University of Victoria while occasionally writing and editing for the campus newspaper, The Martlet. Much of Julien’s work focuses on intimacy and vulnerability, his own adolescence, and the human body.