Jen DeLeskie (she/her) @jdlskie.bsky.social Writer of things, editor at Quist.
Debut novel Everclear out now @flamearrowpub.bsky.social
Current fiction in Suffering the Other and Unréal
I love children, spiders, snakes, and all things living
quietdomino.ca
Cat Rector @catrector.com She/Her | Bi | 🇨🇦 | Author of Horror and Dark Fantasy, often staring 30+ers who fk up consistently
WIP: A liminal space haunted house novel with daddy issues 🌈✨
Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social SF/F Writer | Aurora Award winner | World Fantasy & Locus Award finalist | Editor, Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, SFWA Nebula Award Showcase anthologies | Ansible Press | Tesla: The Life & Times Podcast | Bonsai enthusiast | 🇨🇦+🇺🇦+🌳
Ellie Ash @ellie-ash.bsky.social MM fantasy romance author. She/her. Happily ace. Canadian.
ellieashauthor.com
Alyssa K @alyssa.a-katai.com Learn more about A!Kats at https://a-katai.com 🩵🩷
Christy Climenhage @cclim.bsky.social SFF author. Muddling through the pre-apocalypse. CSFFA SFWA. She/her. 🐙🐾
Unceded Algonquin territory. 🇨🇦 Debut 2025: THE MIDNIGHT PROJECT with Poplar Press (Wolsak & Wynn). Rep’d by Sara Megibow. Views my own.
www.christyclimenhage.com
Erin Rockfort (they/she) @pineapplefury.bsky.social Writer, therapist, podcaster
Possible Programming Lead at Can*Con
Queer and neurodivergent
Beware of reptile
https://erinrockfort.com/
Marie Bilodeau @mariebilodeau.bsky.social SFFH Author. Professional storyteller. Can*Con Chair. D&D player. Caffeinated geek. Repped by Sara Megibow of Megibow Literary Agency. She/her.
SteveH @sghendricks.bsky.social Screenplay tips and comedy videos at: https://www.youtube.com/@ScreenwritingConfidential
The Word Psychic - "Your Fortune Is in the Words": https://wordpsychic.com/
Mahaila Smith (they/them) @mahailasmith.ca Co-Editor for The Sprawl Mag
Seed Beetle (2025) with Stelliform Press
Mahailasmith.ca
Tales From Between @talesfrombetween.bsky.social We publish strange stories.
Editor: @matthewstott.bsky.social
talesfrombetween.com
Academic Bullying @academicbullying.bsky.social I'm Baha Abu-Shaqra, PhD (DTI uOttawa), a Canadian‑Egyptian. I blog about how I was mobbed by my PhD thesis committee, how uOttawa is trying to silence me & about academic woes. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dti-techs | https://academicbullying.wordpress.com
Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social Kjipuktuk|Halifax. Inventor #DSPBposts. @tricon-hfx.bsky.social exec. Small press, 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 poli. Salty. I turn tea into words: steampunk Pride and Prejudice reimagining AETHER AND EGO, Sept 2026, Inanna. https://linktr.ee/joannemerriam
Carol Off @caroloff.bsky.social Author of True Patriot Love: Reporting from the Frontlines of Canadian Sovereignty.
It's a love letter to Canada, and a stern warning as to how easily we could lose this country. Be vigilant.
www.caroloff.ca
Substack.com/@caroloff
Carol Bruneau🇨🇦 @cbruneau83.bsky.social Proud Canadian. Author of 12 books, Inc THE LITTLE WAY. Mercy, compassion, justice. True North strong and free. We will not back down. NO to MAGA, NO to fascists, racists, bigots. No DMs. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Kurt Kirchmeier @kurtkirchmeier.bsky.social Canadian - fantasy/horror writer + nature photographer
Becky Masson @easyrecipesdash.com Easy, #healthy & delicious #recipes to inspire your daily #cooking! 🍜🍽️👨🍳📸
🌐 easyrecipesdash.com
#food #foodsky #foodie #diet #dinner #lunch #breakfast #drinks #wellness #fitness #lifestyle #cats #birds #gardening #nature #photography 🌿🌱🌾
Patti Poblete @voleuseck.bsky.social PhD, feminist, social justice warrior, rhetoric & writing program admin scholar, composition teacher, pop culture enthusiast, wanderer, using she/her pronouns. Mostly Filipina and an ex-pat Canadian.
pattipoblete.wordpress.com
wisdom-is.blogspot.com
Blue Guldal @fugazulero.bsky.social Writer
https://www.blueguldal.com/
Hana Das is writing & illustrating @hanawrites.bsky.social Indofuturist • Author • Illustrator • Sindhi-Bengali writing queer SFF set along the Silk Roads • 30 years in fandom, fashion designer/corsetier by trade • she/sir • 🏳️🌈 #DECOLONIZE #BIPOC #ActuallyAutistic #hEDS♿ #InvisibleDisability FKA Hana Soh
JoJoKC 💙🏳️🌈 | Queertauqua @jpe1974.bsky.social Senior Recruiter @ Tallgrass Freight | Apple geek | LEGO reseller | Politics, history & culture | Proud husband of Queertauqua’s creator—bringing overlooked queer history out of the archives and onto the stage. 🏳️🌈 queertauqua.org
SemiEmily @semiemily.bsky.social Westerner. Small town shit-talker, goat wrangler, art dabbler.
Boss mare at https://PaoniaBooks.com
IG: @SemiEmilyColorado and @PaoniaBooks
Robyn 🍁 @ladyoftheisle.bsky.social She/Her. Canadian. Anti-racist. Intersectional feminist. Vegan. Cat mum. VIU BA & RRU MA alum. Instructional Designer. Radio Host & Producer. Music, movie, and pop culture enthusiast. ‘80s nostalgic. Podcast connoisseur.
VIVE LE CANADA 🍁
Fred Stenson @ftstenson.bsky.social Author; SW Albertan; columnist at Alberta Views Magazine; novelist (The Trade, Who By Fire, The Great Karoo; Lightning)
Elliot Waters @eboxicus.bsky.social Narrative Designer at Ho! Games
Currently working on Am I Nima and working towards publishing my first novel.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3224600/Am_I_Nima/
Ann Cavlovic 🇨🇦 @anncavlovic.bsky.social Writer. Debut novel Count On Me (Guernica Editions 2025). Nonfiction in Globe and Mail, CBC, Event, Grain, etc. Into elder abuse prevention/sandwich generation, climate crisis, and environmental economcs. #QCwriters #booksky #greensky anncavlovic.com
Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social narrator & protagonist of her own life | echolalia echolalia (Brick Books, 2024) | Crips for eSims for Gaza bit.ly/eSimsRUs
website: janeshi.org
Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social mentally robust
https://adamsnotes.substack.com/
@melissa-mccabe.bsky.social @melissa-mccabe.bsky.social 
Leona Theis 📚 @leonajoan.bsky.social Swim at Your Own Risk forthcoming with Thistledown Press. If Sylvie Had Nine Lives on shelves now. Novels, stories, lyric essays. Walker, paddler, snow lover. Www.leonatheis.com
Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS 💙🦋
#Activist #HumanRights #AnimalRights #UBI #ClimateChange #Books #Tech #Poker #Chess
He/Him/His
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James Eaneman @eanemanjames.bsky.social Quiet Bibliophile and Pre-WGA Writer with a (mostly) mild coffee addiction (He/Him/His).
www.jameseaneman.wordpress.com
kt 📖💭 @ktsimpson.bsky.social Aimless wanderer by day. SFF writer by night. Neurodivergent extraordinare 24/7.
Occasional illustrator and benevolent #TTRPG DM.
32 🍁 queer 🍁 she/her
https://www.ktsimpson.com/
Silphium🌹 @infinitejeff.bsky.social Dad at the top of the Salish Sea on Vancouver Island. I work, volunteer, or otherwise am interested in permaculture, conservation, local foodways, municipal politics, ancient and natural history. Trying to find time to write an SF/fantasy novel.
Caroline Kind @carolinekind.bsky.social MG author, educator, researcher, reader, learner | She/Her | Halifax, NS |
Lilith❀🦋 @lilyweiss.bsky.social Transmasculin (il/elle) 🏳️⚧️ Bisexuel 🏳️🌈
½Nunavimmiut ❄️ ½Québécois ⚜️ Gémeaux ♊
Libérez la Palestine 🍉 Pro-choix ✂
À peine majeur 🔞 Femme fatale 💋
Maman musclée 💪🏻 Étrangleur 🫁
Païen ᛉ Communiste ☭ Weeaboo ⛩️- L lostreader23.bsky.social @lostreader23.bsky.social
priyaramsingh.bsky.social @priyaramsingh.bsky.social Canadian writer and photographer. Believer of karma. Progressive. You can call me woke if you like. www.priyaramsingh.ca
operation-endeavor.bsky.social @operation-endeavor.bsky.social She is a published author of nonfiction, both journalism and numerous peer-reviewed articles. Her fascination with space began with the first space flight, and although unable to become an astronaut, she channeled that passion into science fiction.
Kevin T. Davis @kevintdavis.bsky.social ✍️ Sci-fi author & graphic designer
🌀 Building bridges between worlds
🌿 THE DREAM CONTINUUM - PART ONE is out!
linktr.ee/kevintdavis.author
Apollo Papyrus @apollopapyrus.bsky.social A podcast and YouTube channel about books, writing, and literature hosted by @campaaronapollo.bsky.social!
Dr. Travis Langley @drtravislangley.bsky.social Batman & Psychology author, Popular Culture Psychology editor, psych professor/chair, social psychologist, Wheel of Fortune champ. Teach on media, crime, mental health.
16 books, most recently on Stranger Things, Spider-Man, The Handmaid's Tale.
#blue
Y.M. Pang @ympang.bsky.social Fantasy & science fiction writer. Part-time poet. Full-time alien. Stories in Magazine of F&SF, Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld. 2x Aurora Award winner. Author of ALL THE BROKEN BLADES.
Website: www.ympang.com
Carrd: ympang.carrd.co
hazey ⚸⚶⚳ @itslikeelectric.bsky.social mystery babe in a questionable world ❔
they them | fae faer | comrade
make tea | make music | make the world kinder
hazeyfae.cloud
subvert.fm/hazey
moondripcollective.bandcamp.com
Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Award-winning storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator. Taught 150+ workshops including Second City, Smokelong Quarterly, Clarion West. Stories published in Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, Apex, Fractured Lit etc. www.tyrtle.com. #HumanMade
Ashley Mangtani @writerash.bsky.social Slipstream Writer ✍️
Published or forthcoming in Strange Horizons | LITRO | Washington Square Review | Boudin | Neon Dystopia | Expat Press | HAWKEYE etc
Short story collection ⬇️
ashleymangtani.com
Sadie Hepworth @sadiehepworth.bsky.social 🌈 Queer writer of spicy and heartfelt MM romance, including:
🏖️ He’s Not for Me, available now
🎸 Take It From the Top, coming Aug 4
Website: http://sadiehepworth.com/links
Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social Author, artist, poet, & Indigiqueer swamp hag. Grew up on the land & off the grid. Writing in The Deadlands, Augur, Nightmare, Malahat Review, Fiddlehead, etc. Aurora finalist, optimistic nihilist & possible witch. No GenAI
shanmonster.dreamwidth.org
tonia laird @tonialaird.bsky.social Writer of novels and video games. Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Everlove: Rose. Novels: Seventhblade, Black Dog (book 1/3) (2027), Michif living in Treaty 6.
No kings, only kin.
www.tonialaird.com
Brandon Crilly (Announcements Only) @brandoncrilly.bsky.social he/him. Canadian SFF author: CATALYST (2022), CASTOFF (2025). Games writer: The Expanse RPG, ICONS. Vice chair of Can*Con. 2500-year-old Time Lord and snake parent. Repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social at DMLA.
linktr.ee/brandoncrilly
'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) @nathanburgoine.bsky.social #Queer #Canadian author; Most Recent: DOGS DON’T BREAK HEARTS (queer hi/lo ya), UPON THE MIDNIGHT QUEER (queer holiday collection), TRIAD MAGIC (queer contemp fantasy); He/him 🏳️🌈; Prepare for #Husky photos; 🦖 "Trans Rights or I Bites" 🚫 LLM/GenAI/Substack
Susan @violetephemera.bsky.social Teacher, ex-academic, avid reader, houseplant keeper, and cat person.
PhD in Victorian literature and science
📚 🐈🪴 🍉
Assembly Press @pressassembly.bsky.social Independent publisher of ambitious literature.
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
First Novel Prize @firstnovelprize.bsky.social Writing competition for unpublished and independently published novelists. Entries close on the 31st of May. Judged by Sally Williamson (Transworld) and Hayley Steed (Janklow & Nesbit). Organised by the Literary Studio. Bloomsbury, London
firstnovel.co.uk
CaffieneKitty @caffienekitty.bsky.social she/her/dude, ace/aro of some sort.
Wear a mask, get vaccinated, be kind, trans rights are human rights, Black lives matter, living on unceeded First Nations land, ban guns, LGBTQIA2+ positive.
https://ko-fi.com/caffienekitty
Alyc Helms @alychelms.bsky.social 1/2 of M.A. Carrick. Author, gamer, dreamstress, queer/genderqueer person in tech, they/them
Any Pascual | indie author & poet @anyespiritual.bsky.social My new book “Verses till midnight” out now!
I write cozy poetry books for deep feelers.
Indie Bestseller Author. Highly Sensitive Poet ✝️🌷🇪🇸
Autora, poeta Altamente Sensible.
Un abrazo de Luz ✨
Okay with DMs about writing.
https://linktr.ee/AnyPascual
Mia Love <3 @msustrai.bsky.social Queer|Lover|Dreamer|Activist|Artist
Fawn Parker @fparker.bsky.social Woman PhD
TVWritersVault @tvwritersvault.bsky.social Where TV/Film Producers & Execs Scout New Pitches for Film, TV & Digital. Shows Discovered & Broadcast Globally on Discovery Channel, A&E, Lifetime TV, SyFy, Velocity & Others... Visit https://www.tvwritersvault.com
@jaybirdfallow.bsky.social @jaybirdfallow.bsky.social 
Astrid Aillume @aillume.bsky.social A detective. Astrid Aillume's New Case: A Billionaire's Mystery
Cracking a case is like salty liquorice.
Surprising at first,but ultimately addictive.
James @jamescramer.bsky.social Dad and entrepreneur living in Helsinki. Formerly CEO and founder of Skunkworks Games. Now building a new community platform to help people build a healthy reading habit. 🇬🇧 🇫🇮
Side project: bizjam.xyz
Will Richter @willrichter.bsky.social Debut story collection, JUST A HOWL, forthcoming 2027 from Rare Machines.
Stories at CBC, AQR, @fiddlehd.bsky.social, @subterrain.bsky.social, The Threepenny Review, Witness, elsewhere.
More self-promotion here: willrichter.ca
Ross Trevelyan 🗻🌲🦪🦀🚵♂️ @jumpintraxjack.bsky.social Freelance Editor. Author. Realpolitiker. Diplomat.
2026-27 WIPs:
◆ Black as the Sea at Night, 1816 Irish picaresque
◆ Lakeshore Heights, psych noir thriller
Excerpts on #WIPSnips.
Слава Украïнi!
🚫AI, DM
#editors
https://www.trevelyanwrites.com
D'Arcy @darcyolivier.bsky.social 
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.
Sisters of Sci-Fi Podcast @sistersofscifi.bsky.social Podcast about female & non-binary sci-fi writers, STEM interviews, the Earth Crew 2042 radio play, the monthly micro-fiction series Sci-Fi Snack Stop, and more. 🚫AI🚫
Hosted & created by L. Stephanie Tait 🏳️🌈 🤖
http://www.sistersofscifi.com
Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me Writer, Colombo. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) https://vajra.me
Get Launched @getlaunched.bsky.social Make yourself the 'Go To' person in any industry and earn a side income from running small networking events.
Earn through entrance fees, membership fees, sponsorships & deals. GetLaunched.org
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
The Malahat Review @malahatreview.bsky.social Canadian literary journal established in 1967 publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from emerging and established writers.
D. W. Kimbro @dwkimbro.bsky.social “...is where voices weave the story — and we follow them to expose, uplift, and connect.”
Debra Brunner @debra-brunner.bsky.social Cancer survivor and heart transplant thriver 💪🏼❤️🩹
Author of nationally award-winning RUBY RAY MYSTERIES
BOOK 1: “Felony in Fullerton”
BOOK 2: “Lethal in Laguna”
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQJRQ3W2?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_dp_awt_sb_pc_tkin
Roy Sarkar @read-roy.bsky.social Mostly freelance ghostwriter (tech) & sometimes fiction writer (current WIP: a magical heist!). Always reading.
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🇨🇦 Canada 🖖🏽 Trekkie
roywrites.com
Ronan Sadler @ronansadler.bsky.social Editor, reader, pet parent, and eventual author of disabled trans futures, feuds, and fantasia. Lambda Literary Fellow 2024, Tin House workshop 2025. Work with me! ronansadler.com
@rebecca-writer.bsky.social @rebecca-writer.bsky.social 🇨🇦Writer: Fantasy,Speculative Fiction and YA
Lover of coffee, books and all things weird, dark and a bit magical ✨️
Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social Writer, editor, terrifying bog witch, werewolf of productivity 💀🍁 Ottawa, she/her
Three spooky YA books on shelves now!
Latest: THE ONES WHO COME BACK HUNGRY
Writing romantasy as Elise Saint-Séverin 💃
Rep: Jacqui Lipton
Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social Locus and Ignyte-nominated writer and narrative designer. life is strange | hiveswap | magic the gathering | pathologic | amplitudes anthology
formerly a narrative lead at deck nine games. co-host of Worker's Lit
EllieAboutTown @ellieabouttown.bsky.social Internationally acclaimed narrative improvisor, award-winning theatre designer, amateur musician, aspiring author, former Jeopardy! contestant.
Also, I read a lot. 🇺🇸 > 🇨🇦.
linktr.ee/ellieabouttown
Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social assoc agent, kt literary
co-Editor-in-Chief, Fantasy Magazine
Senior Editor, Locus Magazine
Do stuff @ Lightspeed/Nightmare, Clarkesworld, F&SF
2014 Odyssey Workshop Grad
He/Him or She/Her in queer contexts
Opinions my own
A!Kat ai @a-katai.com We make custom AI Assistants/Companions/Instructors/etc with heart! 🩷
https://a-katai.com
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Witch of November 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇨🇺🇺🇦🏳️🌈🇲🇽🏳️⚧️🇬🇱 🇪🇺🌍🐕🦺🐾🐈 @scotiasheppard.bsky.social Kjipuktuk Nova Scotian in Colchester Co. Feral mom to skin kids Heavy D (19) Big Al (15) fur kids Barnacle Bob, Snerf, Minnow & Day-Z. Co-Star to J. Perimenopausal, ADD, cancer & exhausted. Kept artificially upright and upbeat by medication. Solidarity ✊
Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social Literary Editor, Beta Reader, Plant Dad
& future writer for PBS Digital Studios 🤞
Hamilton Public Library @hamiltonlibrary.bsky.social Hamilton Public Library is a vibrant hub for information and culture, providing our diverse community the Freedom to Belong and Discover.