Zoe Chong

Zoe Chong is a fourth-year student in the VIU creative writing program. In 2024–2025 she was the Portfolio Reading Series coordinator and a script editor for Portal magazine, and for their 2026 issue she is the features editor and the book review editor. She has published book reviews with Vancouver Island Bookcrate, published scripts in Portal 2024 and 2025, and was the map illustrator for Avianna Bishop’s debut fantasy novel “Sacrifice.” She has been published in The Navigator with a short story and a photograph in Vol. 57 Issue 4 and placed second in their 2026 Short Fiction Contest with her short story “Mouth Full of Sand” published in Vol. 57 Issue 6. She has won the Rick Davidson Memorial Bursary in 2024 and the Jason Mayes Memorial Award in 2025. She is currently at work on her own various projects, including novels, scripts, and short stories.