@adrienneweiss.bsky.social @adrienneweiss.bsky.social Sometime writer. adrienneweiss.wordpress.com
Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social Reader, writer, editor, lonely wanderer. Based in Calgary, Canada. Write about books at www.roughghosts.com Essays Editor at Minor Literature[s].
MarkZelinski.com @markzelinski-photo.bsky.social 🇨🇦Governor General's Medal, OCAD, RCGS, Explorers Club, Pro Photographer/Publisher/Speaker #MarkZelinski gifted 8K #BooksThatHeal to WW charities (fwds by HRH Philip, Justin Trudeau) MarkZelinski.com
Nicola Vulpe @nicolavulpe.bsky.social Poet, writer, sometime thinker, indignado
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Royal City Literary Arts Society @rclas.bsky.social www.rclas.com
RCLAS’s mission is to maintain and build a welcoming community of writers and readers, to support the goals of writers at all stages of their development, and to promote an appreciation of all forms of literary arts.
@deaconsteve.bsky.social @deaconsteve.bsky.social Anglican Church minister who actually serves the marginalized, precariously-housed, hungry, hurting, and afraid. Loving husband, child-free, car-free, reader, writer, and friend to guinea pigs everywhere. Has actually punched a Nazi. Lives in Ottawa.
Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social I help ambitious people raise capital, get board seats, take companies public. Let's get more entrepreneurs and builders on bsky!
Author of 4 best selling business books
Rufus Books Publishing @rufusbooksca.bsky.social Publishers of quality books, chapbooks & broadsides by poets primarily from Canada, Ireland & the UK
Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social The Least Important Man (poems), Army of the Brave and Accidental (a novel), Take This for the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life.
https://boydwords.wordpress.com
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Festival for Poetry @poetryfestival.bsky.social Daily Poetry Deadlines
Submit for a free posting.
Submit for a poetry reading video.
Submit for your poetry to be made into a film.
https://festivalforpoetry.com
Jason E. Coombs @jasonecoombs.bsky.social Poet. Scratching Vinyl Change - Anstruther Press: https://www.anstrutherpress.com/new-products/scratching-vinyl-change-by-jason-e-coombs
Immersive experience on my Substack: https://jasonecoombs.substack.com/
www.jasonecoombs.ca
Melanie Siebert @melaniesiebert.bsky.social Poetry, adventure, swimming, planting, rewilding, decolonizing, therapy, heartbroken justice-doing as best one can, movement trying to know movement. She/Her
Jodie Young, verray jangleresse @jangleresse.bsky.social Poet (reading more than writing atm) in Naarm | Melbourne, Australia
Poetry, books, art, history.
Resisting the urge to despair.
@kyrielk.bsky.social @kyrielk.bsky.social 🍂Poet & teacher learning to dance more in Vancouver. She/her 🇨🇦
jade y. liu @jadeyuliu.bsky.social writer, dreamer | she/她 | articling student ⚖️ | poems @ jadeyliu.weebly.com | cognitive metaphor enthusiast!
Blair Trewartha @btrewart.bsky.social Poet with 3 chapbooks and one full-length book. Next full-length "Half-Earth" forthcoming in 2026 with Palimpsest Press. Chapbook editor at Anstruther Press. Learning Specialist & Instructional Designer at Western University. Father of two.
Marie 🇨🇦 @marie-papillion.bsky.social Francophone/anglophone ❤️ Wife, Mother ×2, step-mom ×2, grandmother ×2, dog mom ×1, cat mom ×1, soon 2B chicken mom! ... sensitive soul 🌱
salem paige @salempaige.bsky.social they/them. 25. author of books and a little zine. on my fruity bullshit. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇨🇦
rampancy @jancheta25.bsky.social He/They. Biromantic Demisexual. Ace. Queer. Asian-Canadian. Tarot/Crystal Nerd. Stutterer. Eclectic Christian. ADHD and Anxiety. Still trying my best. http://linktr.ee/rampancy | https://rampancy.carrd.co/ | justinanchetawriter.com
Carla Harris (they/she) @cdnshieldcarla.bsky.social Arts, culture, equity & inclusion. Disabled, queer enby, epilepsy, ABI, EDS & ADHD. Performance poet, writer, access analyst & nap champion.
https://linktr.ee/enbygeorge
Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social 🌙 Joel. Book reviewer, poet, artist, baker, herbalist, and naturopath from Wellington, NZ (he/him)
Nominated for Pushcart Prize and Best of Net.
Poetry Emma Meier @poetryemmameier.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Reader. Thinker. ✍️📖
Tara Lee @taralee3.bsky.social Toronto ex-pat now living in
Treaty 1 Territory 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🏳️⚧️💜
Settler under deconstruction.
Field Interviewer for Toronto-Centre and downtown with Statscan 2002-2005 and still alive to talk about those
peculiar demographics.
MK ULTRA/abuse
psychology
Music
Lindsay C @copperfire.bsky.social Fan of dogs. Animal welfare advocate. Poet.
Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Shortlisted by @bridportprize.bsky.social Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood
Alice Brockway @alicebrockway.bsky.social Creative type and mental health researcher. Founder of Playing Sane. Lived Experience work with NSPA, Rethink Mental Illness, & GMMH. Part way through a never ending PhD. Generally interested.
Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social Poet, gardener. Series editor, The Hilary Tham Capital Collection (The Word Works). My books include Motion Studies, Butcher's Sugar, Parasite Kingdom, and Turned Earth (Spring 2025, LSU Press). 
Jai Michelle Louissen @jaimichellepoet.bsky.social Scottish poet living in The Netherlands. Poetry Scotland, Dust Poetry, Acropolis, Crow and Cross Keys. Second chapbook ‘THE WEIGHT OF VAPOUR’ by Alien Buddha Press EIC of The Winged Moon 
Jaeyun Yoo @jaeyunwrites.bsky.social Poet, psychiatrist, psychotherapist. One-fifth of Harbour Centre 5. she/her.
Chapbook: when a country teaches you (Baseline Press, 2026)
https://harbourcentre5.wixsite.com/poetry/
Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social Poet/Writer. Proud mom and grandma to both humans and pets. Disabled. Recovering politician. Chocolate lover. Human rights friendly. Coeditor at @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social.
MicheleRule.ca for more.
Chris McKenzie @mckc1.bsky.social Coordinator of Educational Technology. Risk Manager. Learner. Teacher. Other things.
MA|DE @madeprojects.bsky.social MA|DE (est. 2018) is a collaborative writing entity, the joint authorship of Mark Laliberte + Jade Wallace —> Debut poetry collection, ZZOO, available to order now (5 covers to choose from!): https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/zzoo-made
Jane The Basic @janethebasic.bsky.social 🚴♀️ she/her 🚴♀️
dum vita est spes est
where there is life there is hope
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lolly whiskers @lollywhiskers.bsky.social Cringey middle aged white heathen on stolen Mi’kmaw land.
Land Back, Free Palestine, trans kids are the best, pigeons are beautiful. 🐿️
@msmyee.bsky.social @msmyee.bsky.social 
Shannon Smith @sksmithwrites.bsky.social 
John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social NBPF Beat Poet Laureate
Founding editor, Crisis Chronicles Press
Past Vice President, Ohio Poetry Association
Hillbuckeye. Skeptic. Creative. Better woke than asleep.
https://linktr.ee/johnburroughs 🏳️🌈
Ohio Poetry Association @ohiopoetry.bsky.social Hello #poets! We at the Ohio Poetry Association are thrilled to be joining you on Bluesky. We are an active group of poets and #poetry lovers who have a relationship with #Ohio. Join us at http://ohiopoetry.org.
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social Associate prof, biblical studies, but in a cool way. Author, dreamweaver etc.
Julian Day @julianday.ca Poet, gamedev (Shadow of the Wyrm), pixel artist, composer. Editor/publisher, null pointer press. Chapbooks: Late Summer Flowers (Anstruther Press), Orbits (Model Press). he/him
Website: julianday.ca
Fedi: @juliancday@writing.exchange
Mahaila Smith (they/them) @mahailasmith.ca Co-Editor for The Sprawl Mag
Seed Beetle (2025) with Stelliform Press
Mahailasmith.ca
Marnie Parsons @rtgbooks.bsky.social Publisher at @runningthegoat.bsky.social; printer; editor; bookseller; reader; companion to Millie the cat; Newfoundlander by choice.
maxine @deadlately.myatproto.social 30's something femme in mid-atlantic united states. shooting rubberbands at the stars.
🇵🇸🍉 bluesky moderation is abetting a genocide by blocking Palestinian accounts.
Tea Gerbeza @teagerbeza.bsky.social She/her. Disabled neuroqueer writer and artist. Author of How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2025).
teagerbeza.com
Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition hosted by the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
G What? @gwwest.bsky.social Interested human of Nature, Architecture, Science, Building, Passive House, Politics, Wisdom & Wow.
@domcapilongo.bsky.social @domcapilongo.bsky.social 
MariKula@bsky.social @marikula.bsky.social My home; the pale blue dot commune: Earth. Wretched refuse yearning to breathe feminist freedom fighter. Illinois Indivisible social justice blue worrier. Persister for universal self determination. Resister for Pax Americana, and against united abnormies.
Sam M @sammyjane.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Islander living on Epekwitk|PEI, spending time in the worlds of land use planning, community, violin, idle doodling and more. Mom to twins, surviving most days. Sometimes appearing as redsandsam. She/her
Maggie Field (she / her) @mwfield.bsky.social Poetry, screenwriting.
City of Edmonton on Treaty 6 land, Canada
Poems in Snapdragon, Blue Unicorn, Oberon, Canadian Literature, Months to Years, and others. bp nichol chapbook award winner. Finalist Berlin Intl Screenwriting Festival
Stephen Komarnyckyj @komarnyckyj.bsky.social PEN award winning poet and translator at Kalyna Language Press, who is trying to save every abandoned dog on earth and return lost Ukrainian authors to the world. #FBPE #Ukraine #Poetry
Robert Burns Poetry Bot @robertburnsbot.bsky.social A delightful bot sharing snippets of Rabbie’s classic works. Poems of romance and radical liberalism.
Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Xeric gardener. OPENING (Glass Poetry, 2026). REMAINDER (Bull City Press, 2025). FRUITFUL (Driftwood Press, 2024). Poems in Best of the Net, West Branch, phoebe, Cincinnati Review, etc. More poems at https://linktr.ee/stefaniekirbypoetry
Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social Poet. Yukoner. Knitter. Book hoarder. Author of Northerny (University of Alberta Press, 2024). Reviewing older books alongside new stuff at https://reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/
Diane Bovenkamp, PhD @dianebovenkamp.bsky.social VP Scientific Affairs www.BrightFocus.org, President of www.BaltimoreCameraClub.org, scientist (biochemistry, cancer, cardiovascular, Alzheimer’s, glaucoma, AMD), photographer, Canada, Queen’s U, Harvard/Boston Children’s Hospital, Johns Hopkins
@james-lindsay.bsky.social @james-lindsay.bsky.social Book publicist and writer in Toronto.
Michael Dechane @michaeldechane.bsky.social Poet. Jungian dream worker. Head Cook. Spoon carver. Author of The Long Invisible (2024, Wildhouse Publishing).
#poet #poetry #author #writer #jung #jungian #dream #woodcarving
Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social poet | Derelict Bicycles (Anvil Press, 2022) | creative humanities | environmental humanities | she/her
Marnie Grona 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🇲🇽 @serenevistas.bsky.social 🇨🇦 #MadeInCanada 🏙 Toronto 🌲ThunderBay
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Jen Eakins @jeneakins.bsky.social 
Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social Post-Canadian poet, Cavafy translator, author of Men of the Same Name (Carcanet 2025). I’ve published in the Guardian, TLS, Malahat Review and PN Review.
Scrivener Creative Review @scrivener1980.bsky.social Scrivener is a literary journal published at McGill University in Montreal, founded in 1980. https://scrivenerreview.com/
Submit to issue 48: http://tinyurl.com/scrivener48.
Rebecca Salazar Leon @rsalazar.bsky.social haunted swamp femme, PhD // author of sulphurtongue (2021) & antibody (2025) // (she/they) 🇨🇴🤎🇵🇸
Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social My novel, Skin Hunger, is coming in 2026. In the meantime, my latest poetry books are Openwork & Limestone (2022) & Light-carved Passages (2024). Prairie-raised author of Seeking Shade (stories 2020), Tower (novella 2018) etc.
www.francesboyle.com
Christine McNair @christinemcnair.bsky.social Book person — read them, bind them, fix them, write them. I like type. Author of Conflict (2012) and Charm (2016) & Toxemia (poetic non-fiction) from Book*hug (fall 2024). President of CBBAG. Former co-organizer of the Ottawa Promise Walk for Preeclampsia.
Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social The Air Contains Honey
Artistic Director of PME-ART
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Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Desire Without Expectation
Brenda Schmidt @brendaschmidtpoet.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Prairie writer. Birder. Gardener.
chris johnson @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social he/him : white settler : managing editor, @arcpoetry.bsky.social : editorial assistant, @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social : opinions are my own : say hi
Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social new poems at Discordia
new photo by Oscar the Grouse
Samantha eff Jones @sjonespoet.bsky.social Earth scientist. Poet. Editor. Arctic. Geohumanities. Black Canadian & white settler. Books: Attic Rain (NeWest) & I'll Get Right On It! (Roseway). Greyhound enthusiast. Speaks/Parle/Puhun English, mal français, vähän suomea. https://linktr.ee/JonesYYC
Nikki Reimer @nikkireimer.bsky.social Your favourite Baba Yaga's favourite Baba Yaga.
Digital comms in higher ed, MA in Comms student, grief writer, cat guardian. Latest book: No Town Called We (Talon Books, 2023)
Poet, artist, white queer non-binary disabled settler in Treaty 7.
Alicia Elliott @wordsandguitar.bsky.social Mohawk from Six Nations. Writer and Editor. Pro wrestling and makeup enthusiast. Horror and nail polish fanatic. She/her. Lit agent: Ron Eckel Speaking agent: rob AT transatlanticagency.com. AND THEN SHE FELL. A MIND SPREAD OUT ON THE GROUND. 
Erin Brown-John @eebeejay.bsky.social Writer, science communicator, maker/mender. I like to spin yarns.
Sharon Berg 🇨🇦 🇸🇪 @sharonberg.bsky.social Poetry: 3 books/ 4 chapbooks; Short Fiction: 1; CNF: 1 FN history
2020 IPPY Nonfiction Award/ Finalist: 2022 International Book Awards
Resident Interviewer at The Seaboard Review of Books
https://sharonbergauthor.wixsite.com/my-site #fiction #poet
Michel Basilieres @basilieres.bsky.social Novelist (Black Bird, A Free Man). Writing Instructor (SCS at U of T). Still learning to keep my mouth shut.
Jess Leigh @itsjessandart.bsky.social Gods bravest weirdo. Check my Linktree for more. 💋💋I love other writers/artists/creatives and will most likely follow back
https://linktr.ee/Itsjessandart
Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social Mostly teach college writing and herd teenager. Four long-forgotten books of poetry including Types of Canadian Women (Gaspereau) and Exquisite Monsters (Turnstone). Originally Albertan, long time in Winnipeg.
andrea bennett (they/them) @akkabah.bsky.social Senior editor at The Tyee. Author of the essay collections Hearty: On Cooking, Eating and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence (ECW Press) & Like a Boy but Not a Boy (Arsenal Pulp). Co-editor of the BC bestselling Points of Interest.
Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social Poet, critic, etc. Author of Ace Theory (2026), No Depression in Heaven (2025), Sunny Ways (2023), Coast Mountain Foot (2021), Fortified Castles (2014), Fake Math (2007/2022). Bluesky user #71209.
isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social making lives better, making better lives, for everyone. retired #mentalhealth professional #haiku #peace #writingcommunity #buddhism #pagan #longcovid. old. they/she.
unceded, traditional, ancestral musqueam, squamish & tsleil-waututh lands aka vancouver.
saltfog @saltfog.bsky.social 
Lisa Richter (she/her) @lisarichter.bsky.social Poet, writer, educator, coffee addict
Sublunary @ualbertapress in Spring 2026
https://lnk.bio/lisarpoet
Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social Pacific Northwest: Seattle, Portland, Eugene 🌲 | Working-class, poet, photographer, vegan 🌱 | Allium, The Branches, fourteen poems, New Ohio Review, Prairie Fire, Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology
https://stephen-jackson.com
Justin Hamm @mdwstscribbler.bsky.social Missouri Poet Laureate. Midwest is my forever home. Editor @ museum of americana. Creator of Poet Baseball Cards. Author, most recently, of O DEATH (Spartan Press 2024).
Hannah Poon @hannahthemouse.bsky.social Neurodivergent writer, poet, artist, Crohnie, etc 🦋 | she/her | host of the podcast Literary Lullabies | I wrote a book: https://www.amazon.ca/stores/Hannah-Poon/author/B09BP1ZRS7
Michael Winter @michaelwinternet.bsky.social I'm a writer from Newfoundland living in Toronto. I admire trees and like to feed people and overhear conversations; I note gestures and read books and draw pictures and listen to old music and there's a dog I walk.
Julie Mannell @juliemannell.bsky.social Award-winning author of fiction/poetry/memoir/criticism. Editor. Journalist. Columnist. PhD Candidate. Forthcoming novel is titled little girls. Niagara child.
Conyer Clayton @conyerclayton.bsky.social Writer, Poet, and Editor from Louisville, KY in Canada | the lake-shaped excuse, Oct 2026 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social | 2025 MacDowell Fellow | conyerclayton.com | they/them
Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social A charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Hamilton, Ontario. 
Stuart Ross (the Canadian one) @razovsky.bsky.social Writer, editor, publisher, writing instructor. 2023 Trillium Book Award winner. 2019 Harbourfront Festival Prize winner. Author of The Book of Grief and Hamburgers — and 21 other books of poetry, fiction, memoir, and essay.
Jacob McArthur Mooney @mcarthurmooney.bsky.social Poems, jokes, and fiction.
Recently: Frank's Wing (poems, 2023).
Next: The Northern (novel, 2025).
Occasionally: The Beaverton, others.
https://mcarthurmooney.carrd.co/
George Murray @bookninja.bsky.social Poet | 10 books | Neuromancer | Dog person | Habitual founder of things | Nerd | St. John's | http://newpoetry.ca | Other links: https://linktr.ee/georgemurray
ecw press @ecwpress.bsky.social We're an independent Canadian publisher of fiction, sports, poetry, pop culture, wrestling, business, science, and memoir. Certified B Corp.
https://ecwpress.com/
Evan Munday @idontlikemundays.bsky.social A guy who works in children’s publishing, author of The Dead Kid Detective Agency. Sometimes he draws. (he/him)
Chris Jennings @gigadibs.bsky.social Full of rational doubt. Poet. Reformed academic. 
Marina Endicott @marinaendicott.bsky.social Writer
Prairie Grindstone Prize 2026
THE OBSERVER, THE DIFFERENCE, a few others http://marinaendicott.com