EH! @eh-now.bsky.social Canada’s Social Network
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Amanda the trash queen @trashypriestess.bsky.social Xennial ♀️ who likes anime, South Park/Matt & Trey, Disney's Frozen and foreign food. DiC Sailor Moon dub fan. Childfree and pagan. The anime convention is my natural habitat. No minors! 🇨🇦🇵🇹
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social Author of Skin: Stories, out in April 2025. The novel Blaze Island (2020), and other novels. Writer, professor, dog walker, nature lover. www.catherinebush.com
Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social Screenwriter and Emmy nominee. Author of LA Times bestseller & Thurber Prize for American Humor finalist “AMP'D." Smartest of pants. Repped @ WME
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European Network of Short Fiction Research @ensfr.bsky.social We aim to provide a forum and resources for European-based researchers into the practice, criticism and transmission of short fiction in its diversity of forms and to facilitate collaboration in both critical and practice-led research.
Olivia Quinn @oliviaquinn.bsky.social former starving actor/writer, now work in tech, film & tv nerd + grump.🖖🏻
📍London, UK
New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social The Academic Audio Library. 30,000+ interviews with experts and authors on new scholarly, non-fiction, and literary books. New episodes every day! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts
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Jago 🍂 @jagodesu.bsky.social Interested in Books, mostly literary fiction, and Movies 📚 🎥
Feeder of Three Cats, Lazy gardening and some low-level cooking.
Death to AI
Switzerland
Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca On a journey trying to find new worlds while sending joy into the ether.
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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.c.im.ap.brid.gy Elder goth/swamp hag in Kitchener. Aurora finalist. Brave New Weird winner. Work in Augur, The Deadlands, On Spec, Prairie Fire, ALOCASIA, Nightmare, Feminist Studies […]
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trampset @trampset.bsky.social A literary journal for the tramps in all of us. We accept poetry, CNF, flash, micro, and short fiction on a rolling basis.
All posts by @lmariharris.bsky.social
www.trampset.org
Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social Writer + Publisher. I once met Jimmy Carter on a flight from Miami to La Paz, Bolivia.
Medusa Salt Poet @medusa-salt-poet.bsky.social Envisioning and writing liberation and meaningful healing from modern Empire. 🇨🇦
Jason James Martin @jjmartin.bsky.social Biz guy, book guy, dog lover.
JR Fenn @jrfenn.bsky.social Writer, teacher, parent, dreamer | TINY VESSELS out from Red Mare Press | Words in or forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Orion's Belt, DIAGRAM, Split Lip, Witness, Boston Review, Gulf Coast | Ucross Fellow | Syracuse MFA | Prof at SUNY ESF | www.jrfenn.com
Catherine 🇨🇦 🌎 @capeacadia.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Fighting the good fight to #KeepCanadaCanadian 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social Canada's first word in fiction.
Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social Canada's online magazine of book news and reviews. https://quillandquire.com/
Eden Mills Writers' Festival @emwf.bsky.social Celebrating diverse voices & the transformative power of story.
The Eden Mills Writers’ Festival brings readers and writers together in community and conversation. linktr.ee/emwf
Angel T. Dionne @woodenmormyrid.bsky.social Socially Awkward Surrealist Professor. I write weird stuff.
www.angeldionne4.weebly.com
Dadair @dadair1.bsky.social Canadian 🇨🇦. Reading 📚and movies📽️ and all thing Aquaman
Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social poet and author of Spring Cleaning(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021)
Order here:
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Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social The place for writers
jessi @jessisays.bsky.social Poet, teacher, scholar in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Cut Side Down (2025) and A Number of Stunning Attacks (2021) available from the small, scrappy, Canadian press Invisible Publishing. https://linktr.ee/jessisays
Sheelagh Caygill 🇨🇦 @sheelaghcaygill.bsky.social Founder OnCreativeWriting.com - podcast and author interviews. Writer, reader, podcaster, journalist. 🍁 MA Contemporary Creative Writing, NN London | OnCreativeWriting.com | SheelaghCaygill.com | https://linktr.ee/Sheelagh_Caygill
Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social
Dark politics, Political communication & psychology, Negative campaigns, Leader personality
Editor-in-Chief at EJPR @ejprjournal.bsky.social
http://www.alessandro-nai.com
Scratch Books @scratchbooks.bsky.social A small press dedicated to the short story. Claustrophiles…
Bookworm2333 @onmymindagain.bsky.social Book reviewer and teacher. Raising kittens. Hiding out in my house with the cat fam, a cup of coffee/tea and a good book. This is my cat and book account. All cats, the occasional sunset or food pic.
Lisa Timpf @lisatimpf.bsky.social Freelance writer, speculative fiction writer, book reviewer, pet lover, bird watcher, nature lover, PWHL fan, McMaster University grad (Bachelor of Physical Education). You can find out more about my writing at https://lisatimpf.blogspot.com/.
Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social Author of four books of poetry, most recently Reckon (2018). New chapbook with Baseline Press: https://www.baselinepress.ca/#/jacaranda-trees-mexico-city-steve-mcormond-2025
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@b00klife.bsky.social @b00klife.bsky.social Books and music all day, every day
Literally the Void @literallythevoid.bsky.social I am both smarter and dumber than you could imagine.
Do not estimate me.
E. A. Fredericks @efredericks.bsky.social West Coaster in exile, pining for sunshine & teaching literature to college kids in the Midwest. Books, baking, baseball (3rd generation Dodgers fan), film, #toastie.
Book of the Day @bookofthe.day A new Book of the Day, every day. One book worth your evening, from thrillers to memoirs. Follow and tomorrow's pick lands in your feed. As an Amazon associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
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Simone @frauchen.bsky.social 🇨🇦 (🇩🇪🇺🇦) She/her; decidedly liberal and socialist. I work in an independent bookshop, so I like offering up reading suggestions based on books I’ve enjoyed.
River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social A ragtag team of creatives celebrating amazing CanLit. Join the party, pals!
Est. 2010.
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social Canadian author of magical middle grade books. Probably in the garden.
On social media break; return date unknown. Books news on author site.
books2read.com/NPTwrites | shop.nptwrites.com | nptwrites.com/links
(Also: @CanadaFictionFest.bsky.social)
Emmanuel Dubois @manuphoto.com History, science-fiction, literature, comics, photography, F1, technology, sciences and movies. Host of @lafayettepodcast.com
Photography on @pixmanuphoto.bsky.social
Francophone en Amérique du Nord.
🎙💙📚🏎️ 🚀 🎥 📷🇨🇦🇫🇷
https://linktr.ee/manuphoto
Brent van Staalduinen | Writer, Resister, Human. @brentvans.com Canadian. Award-winning novelist. Husband. Dad. Son. Resister of GenAI and fascism. Deconstructed/Reconstructing Christian. Forge FC supporter. Human. He/Him.
KJM-M ❤️🇨🇦🍁 @kjmm9.bsky.social ❤️ Photography (especially birds)
All photos are my own unless reposted.
Gail Anderson-Dargatz @anderson-dargatz.bsky.social Canadian. Mentor. Editor. Author of The Cure for Death by Lightning, The Almost Wife, The Almost Widow and many other books. Her latest novel, The Atlas Keeper, hits the shelves Aug. 26, 2026. Visit Gail at https://linktr.ee/Gail_AndersonDargatz
Canadian Authors Association @canadianauthors.bsky.social Writers helping writers since 1921! Are you a Canadian writer looking for support and community? You can join now at https://canadianauthors.org/national/join-renew/.
Colin Duggan 🇨🇦 @bailefios.ca Canadian digital sovereignty for the rest of us.
Powered by poutine and replicator coffee.
He/him. AuDHD. Téigh go dána.
https://bailefios.ca/digital-independence
Dave C @duckpondsreview.bsky.social Retired and reading quite a lot in a quiet corner of Australia.
Notes on Books @notesonbooks.net Reading for structure, pressure and consequence.
https://www.notesonbooks.net
Ronnica Fatt @ronnicareads.bsky.social Ravenous reader. Opinionated woman. Diverse book recs. 💙📚 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/ronnica
Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social Independent researcher (Butor/Sebald). Chair @underthestarssheff.bsky.social. Blogger/feminist/humanist. Music, books, films. NFFC. BLM. Woke as owt. Sheffielder. Widow 
Independent Lit @independentlit.bsky.social Celebrating the UK's independent literature. For those who read adventurously.
https://substack.com/@independentlit
@royakhatiblou.bsky.social et al.
Independentlituk@gmail.com
Jack Hill @jackhill.bsky.social “For a nod to the nabir is better than a wink to the wabsanti.”
James Joyce, ‘Finnegans Wake’.
“Agenbite of inwit”
https://substack.com/@jackehill
Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social Writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Currently missing the ocean and being a voiceover artist. 🇨🇦
SHIFTINGS & OTHER COORDINATES OF DISORDER (Pinhole Poetry, 2024).
LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA (Bull City Press, 2026)
jenwithwords.opencorners.ca
Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social Writer, wanderer. Finding quiet beauty in life✨Creative nonfiction, photography, poetry and haiku • Just being human here.🇨🇦
agoldenhour.com
Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social Poet, writer, maker of things. Seventeen collections of poetry and prose. Born and raised Vancouverite now living in Edmonton. ANTI-artificial thievery. Editor, reviewer, teacher of poetic forms. Loves: books, cats, gardening, family, real life. #canlit
Ellie Ash @ellie-ash.bsky.social MM fantasy romance author. She/her. Happily ace. Canadian.
ellieashauthor.com
Gary Budden @gary-budden.bsky.social Acquisitions editor @influxpress.bsky.social. (imprint of @diversionbooks.bsky.social)
Writer. London Incognita + Hollow Shores published by @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
From UK | Living in Brisbane Meanjin 🇦🇺
Joanna Lilley @joannalilley.bsky.social Author of books including the extinction poetry collection Endlings and the novel Worry Stones. From the UK, now living in Yukon, Canada. 
🇨🇦 @stewiespeeks.bsky.social Canadian always and forever
Kevin Shaw @kevinshaw84.bsky.social Writer | Ottawa | www.kevinshaw.ca
Tay @taytayokbaybay.bsky.social New to bluesky, escaping threads. Chronic illness book baddie
shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social Author of The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), and most recently, Cajun South Brown Folk (Belle Point Press). Represented by Teffanie Thompson of Falkin Literary. 2019-2025 Series Editor of The Wigleaf Top 50. Lafayette, LA. shomedome.com
Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the next generation of writers & translators. Shares do not equal endorsements.
Find us at: https://commapress.co.uk/
UWinnipeg @uwinnipeg.bsky.social #UWinnipeg is noted for academic excellence, Indigenous inclusion, environmental commitment, smaller class sizes, and campus diversity. Learn more: linktr.ee/uwinnipeg
Canada Fiction Fest @canadafictionfest.bsky.social Like a great big online book fair, featuring Canadian fiction books and authors from all across the country. 🍁🦫🫎 | FictionFest.ca
(Also @nptwrites.bsky.social)
Jagmeet Singh @jagmeetsingh.ca Pronounced Jug(rhymes with hug)-MEET! | Former Leader of Canada's New Democratic Party | Le chef du NPD du Canada | Text me 👉🏽 613-801-8210
Anne Burbidge @anneburbidge.bsky.social gardener, sketcher out of @humberpoly.bsky.social hort program *she/her
Jennifer Rahn 🇨🇦 @jennrahn.bsky.social SF and F enthusiast.
deadeyebooks.ca
Direct Sales
payhip.com/DeadeyeBookcraft
I generally don't reply to DMs. (No, I'm not hiring. Sorry.)
David Jón Fuller 🇨🇦 @davidjonfuller.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Author of VENUE 13, out now from Ravenstone. Interested in history, knitting, baking, cycling infrastructure, not necessarily in that order. Talar smá íslensku. He/him.
Jason Pchajek @jasonpchajek.bsky.social | He/him | Canadian Cli-Fi Author | Co-Host of The Hockey Show | Winnipegger | Author of “BOUNTY” available now from Turnstone Press | 🇨🇦📚
Website: https://www.jasonpchajekwriting.com/
Ian Robert Ross @ianrobertross.com Writer and artist from the Miramichi, now living in Ottawa, Canada.
Maritimer by blood, Upper Canadian by postal code.
Author of the epic fantasy 'Crown of Caphedra'.
Website: https://www.ianrobertross.com/
Odette Auger @odetteauger.bsky.social storyteller | journalist
Anishinaabekwe in the Salish Sea
Represented by Cody Caetano, CookeMcDermid
Porfolio/website here: authory.com/OdetteAuger
Faye Lilley @fayelilley.bsky.social Writer, book nerd, TV connoisseur, tree enthusiast, aspiring polyglot, proud Canadian. 📚 Blog: WorldLiteraTour.com
Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social Host of the podcast\radio show Canadian History Ehx. Author of "Canada's Main Street: The Epic Story of The Trans-Canada Highway" Sharing Canada's history daily!
M.J. @sportsandplants.bsky.social 🌈🏈⚾️🪴📚 (she/her)
CFL: #TiCats but also all of the #CFL
Baseball: #BlueJays
Basketball: #CEBL
Books: In my Rachel Reid era
Fav season: Fall of the Patriarchy
MJ Beauchamp @mjnicefield.bsky.social Montréal, QC
📖☕️🪶
https://linktr.ee/mjnicefield
Bobbi French @bobbifrench.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Author
THE GOOD WOMEN OF SAFE HARBOUR & THE BRINK OF SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL coming 04/21 from HarperCollinsCanada. #pwd
bobbifrench.com
Rep: Hilary McMahon WCA
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Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social Writes. Mothers. Neurodiverges.
Poet Laureate of Scugog Township.
📚: Fuse (CNF), Rebellion Box (poems), Widow Fantasies (stories), The Unravelling of Ou (novel).
Co-host of HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM & host at The New Books Network.
www.hollayghadery.com
hamartiaandi.bsky.social @hamartiaandi.bsky.social Managing Editor for @greatlakesrev, Book Reviewer for @cloudlakelit,
@coffeeandthorn & @riverstwriting, Debut novel with @runwildbooks
www.SaraHailstone.com
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.
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social writer/blogger, formerly journalist at WSJ, Dow Jones, Reuters, others. #economics #markets, #music, #philosophy, #books, #technology, #photos, etc. (ie hopelessly eclectic) Toronto. May not respond to DMs. Blog at: https://doncurren.blogspot.com
JoshFry.Art @joshfry.art #ANTIFA
Art. Flowers. Vegetables. Plants.
Web 🌐 JoshFry.Art
He/him/they. 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
I grow plants 🌱 and take photos 📷.
Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social I'm an eco-fiction author, limnologist/aquatic ecologist, photographer, instructor at UofT. I explore and celebrate the fractal Natural World from microscopic diatoms and miniature lichens and fungi to the giant cedars and pines of old-growth forests
Nancy Holmes @nancyholmes.bsky.social 
James M Fisher @miramichijim.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Seaboard Review of Books.
https://www.theseaboardreview.ca Retired MRI Technologist. #Miramichi #NB.
Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social Reader, cat lover, she/her. Canadian.
K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social The wart on the frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of Canadian Literature. www.krwilson.ca No A.I.
Stan On Guard now available.
49th Shelf @49thshelf.bsky.social Fuelled by the largest collection of Canadian books ever assembled, 49th Shelf makes it easier to find your next great Canadian read. 
All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social An independent online bookstore and blog showcasing and selling Canada's best in indie books. Visit us at alllitup.ca
Glenna Turnbull @writebrain.bsky.social I'm an award winning Canadian short fiction writer and author. My debut novel is forthcoming (Breakwater Books). I'm also a photographer & stained glass artist. I prefer to be outdoors hiking, skiing, snowshoeing & camping. I have two dogs and love to knit
Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social The magazine of international literature since 1984. Order our latest issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities
https://linktr.ee/wasafiri
Andrew Gallix @andrewgallix.bsky.social New novel, Loren Ipsum (Dodo Ink), available now. Editor-in-Chief, 3:AM Magazine. Represented by @sarahsuch.bsky.social at the Sarah Such Literary Agency
Website: https://andrewgallix.com/
booksbyjeffrey @booksbyjeffrey.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Canadian writer in #hamont
THE MANDALA (spec thriller)
VERTEBRAE: dark sci-fi comedy (in progress)
Querying for debut • #booksky
D&D teacher on Outschool
1300+ day Japanese streak
Read along:
https://booksbyjeffrey.substack.com
Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com Editor in Tokyo posting Japan-related stuff, articles, essays, photos, and fiction.
記事やフィクション、気になる映画の解説など投稿しています。
Web: https://www.danielwarriner.com/
Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social Author/editor of dreampunk and weird SFFH fiction: DRECK (2023), MIRRORMAZE (2020), SOMNISCOPE (2024), THE LASTING LANDS (2027). Watty winner, Imadjinn finalist, linguist, artist, coder, neurodivergent, INFP-T, 4w5, Scorpio, he/him. CliffJonesJr.com
JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social A Reading Series
Sept 24 Insta Live w/ Jowita Bydlowska
Oct 4 TYPE Books Junction
Oct 8 Insta Live w/ Kim Fahner
Nov 8 On Zoom w/ Norma Dunning
Nov 22 TYPE Books Junction
Nov 26 Insta Live w/ Greg Rhyno
www.junctionreads.ca
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Brian Busby 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰 @brianbusby.bsky.social Writer, écrivain public, anthologist, literary historian, bibliophile, and three-time winner of the Ice Capades Colouring Contest.
Author of Character Parts (Knopf), A Gentleman of Pleasure (McGill-Queen's UP), and The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis).
@chadganske.bsky.social @chadganske.bsky.social Author of science fiction novels, Idyllic Avenue and Salus. Oilers fan. Elks fan. Owned by two cats.