Anicka Quin

Editorial Director, Canada Wide Media

Anicka Quin is an award-winning editor, writer and content strategist with a passion for building community while creating nimble, successful and dynamic media brands. As Editorial Director of Western Living magazine, she’s led her team to create a brand with a national reputation on a regional scale, securing its status as the most important design brand in Western Canada and winning Best Home Design and Décor magazine in Canada in 2017 at the Canadian Magazine Awards. Vancouver magazine has also thrived under her tenure, winning Magazine of the Year at the Canadian Editors’ Choice Awards in 2017, 2018 and 2019. In 2018, she delivered a TEDx talk on how magazines tell us who we are—and why that matters. Before joining Western Living and Vanmag, Anicka worked with Alternatives Journal and the alt-weekly id Magazine.