Liz
Stewart
Liz Stewart is a fiction writer from Minto, Manitoba. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in Writing at the University of Victoria and now lives in Vernon, British Columbia. She won the This Side of West 2021 Prose and Poetry Contest and has been published in anthologies and literary magazines, including Best Canadian Stories 2025, Plenitude Magazine, carte blanche, and Camas Magazine.
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“It’s not easy to be honest as a writer, it’s actually one of the hardest things. Liz Stewart’s work is honest and beautiful — real, singular, and urgent. Her writing is the kind that I could read idly at a noisy bar with a beer and suddenly be attention-vortexed into the story — like, listen to me, truly, I promise this is true. I can feel a voice speaking on the other end of what I’m reading. As a fellow queer woman from the rural Prairies, she makes me feel a way about the material, and that’s special. Stewart is making something intimate that anyone can believe and see.”—2025 WT Rising Stars selector Casey Plett