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The article presents a discussion between South Asian Canadian women writers Sharanpal Ruprai and Sheniz Janmohamed who are both passionate about mentoring the next wave of writers. Topics discussed include the reflections on reading literature by South Asian writers, the structural impediments of mentorship, and the need of literary representations of themselves and their lives as a way of mentorship and as a way of leadership.

The article presents the discussion on methods of literary biodiversity studies. Topics include relevance of literary studies to environmental and social justice, the relation of criticism to scientific inquiry; and examination of writing about, or that depicts, ecological variation, literature about life in its astonishing variousness.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including the ethics of knowledge production; the intersection of literary value, privilege and critical inquiry; and maintaining ethical practices.

A literary criticism of the book “A Tale for the Time Being" by Ruth Ozeki is presented. It outlines the connection Ozeki makes between several political issues and ecological concerns. The novel pays more attention to coastal British Columbia and its literature, while reminding the reader that social and environmental injustice go beyond national borders.

Discusses the historical and cultural context of black prairie cultural production in Canada. Information on several regional anthologies and histories of prairie literature produced in the country; History of the migration of black Oklahoman and other black settlers to the Canadian prairies in the early part of twentieth century; Information on the unpublished one-act play by Addena Sumter Freitag entitled "Stay Black and Die."

Highlights the poems created by world-travelling poet Lorna Goodison. Influence of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis on Goodison's lyric invocations; Discussion on the vocabulary of homing and displacement; Concept that Goodison wanted to emphasize about poems.