EANNA MORRISON BARRS
Teen Editor, Winter Special, Hardly Magazine: "Pump up the Volume" and "Tune Up"
Age: 16
City: Vancouver
Favourite holiday treat: Hot chocolate, of course.
On your wish list this year: DSLR Camera, silky pyjamas, and a renewed subscription to British Vogue!
Most looking forward to this holiday: Travelling to England, and visiting all of the galleries in London.
Movie reminiscent of your own holiday experiences: Elf. As a kid, I always put syrup on my spaghetti!
Teen Editor, Winter Special, Hardly Magazine: "Pump up the Volume" and "Tune Up"
Age: 16
City: Vancouver
Favourite holiday treat: Hot chocolate, of course.
On your wish list this year: DSLR Camera, silky pyjamas, and a renewed subscription to British Vogue!
Most looking forward to this holiday: Travelling to England, and visiting all of the galleries in London.
Movie reminiscent of your own holiday experiences: Elf. As a kid, I always put syrup on my spaghetti!
MEGAN WAPPEL
Guest Art Director, Winter Special, Hardly Magazine
City: From Regina, based in Toronto
Publications & projects: Most recently, graphic designer for Oxygen magazine, and I'm the current owner of Megan Wappel Designs.
Movie reminiscent of your own holiday experiences: Home Alone.
CARLY EKSTEIN
Associate Fashion Editor, Hardly Magazine
City: Toronto
Publications & projects: Hardly Magazine, ELLE Canada, and GAWK (my blog).
Movie reminiscent of your own holiday experiences: Eight Crazy Nights with Adam Sandler. I celebrate Hanukkah!
KAYLA CHOBOTIUK
Photographer, "Once Upon A Time"
City: Born in Sutton, Ont., based in Toronto
Publications & projects: Hardly Magazine, The Grid.
Movie reminiscent of your own holiday experiences: My nine-year-old self would have to go with A Christmas Story—anti-climatic, but rife with the usual family antics.
MONICA SMILEY
Illustrator, "Once Upon A Time"
City: Originally Thornhill, Ont., now based in Toronto
Publications & projects: My fashion-inspired greeting card company, Eighty Seventh St.
Movie reminiscent of your own holiday experiences: Eight Crazy Nights.
JAMES GRAINGER
Writer, "Hardly Reads"
City: Toronto
Publications & projects: I'm working on a novel and a play and recently contributed my Top 10 Books of 2011 list to the Toronto Star.
Movie reminiscent of your own holiday experiences: A Charlie Brown Christmas, but that may be just because I watched it so many times as a kid!
TOBIN DALRYMPLE
Writer, "My So-Called Adulthood"
City: Toronto
Publications & projects: Marketing director at Pressly.com.
Movie reminiscent of your own holiday experiences: At the risk of saying what at least three other contributors will say: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
EMILY ANNE BLAKE
Writer, "Post Emily Post"
City: Toronto
Publications & projects: Hardly Magazine, FILLER Magazine, and various projects including a full time PR job.
Movie reminiscent of your own holiday experiences: Growing up, my holidays occasionally resembled a Griswold family Christmas: a gathering of relatives that would become total chaos, especially during the annual cut-throat game of guys vs. girls Trivial Pursuit my family plays after X-mas dinner.
KATY HARPER ROMEO
Illustrator, "Post Emily Post"
City: Chapel Hill, N.C.
Publications & projects: Finishing my Ph.D.
Movie reminiscent of your own holiday experiences: National Lampoon's "the silent majesty of a winter's morn." br>
AVA BACCARI
Editorial Assistant, Hardly Magazine
City: Toronto
Publications & projects: ELLE Canada, Toronto Review of Books
Movie reminiscent of your own holiday experiences: I can't remember the first time I saw It's a Wonderful Life but it's an annual Christmas Eve tradition in my family. Those excitable Bailey children always reminded me of how my two brothers and I were around this time of year. So. Much. Chocolate.
