Montreal WorldCon 2027 @montrealworldcon27.bsky.social WorldCon in Montreal in 2027.
https://montreal2027.ca/en
Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com Writer of queer romance and sff. Half agony, half hope, bisexual. She/her. Romance fiction columnist for the NYTBR: #RomanceColumn OliviaWaite.com
Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social The 2026 Worldcon in Los Angeles, California
Visit LAcon.org for more details
📅 August 27-31, 2026
✨️ Adventure Awaits!
Grimoire Ink Reviews @grimoireinkreviews.bsky.social Grimoire Ink Reviews — We review from the heart and we are rabid about it.
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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
The Malahat Review @malahatreview.bsky.social Canadian literary journal established in 1967 publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from emerging and established writers.
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.
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
Tim Paul @tybber.bsky.social Maps! Get yer maps here!! Lovingly handcrafted!! 100% accurate! I also draw other things! I also make things. Bake things.
Recently my maps have been added to the Library of Congress collection.
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Davinia Evans (Dee) @cupiscent.bsky.social Author and avid reader of fantasy fiction. NOTORIOUS SORCERER ⚗⚔, SHADOW BARON 🎴🗡️ and REBEL BLADE💥🐉 out now from Orbit! (she/her - Australian - cupiscent on just about everything - website & newsletter at viscerate.com)
Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social World's leading SFF book community! Posts by 🏹 @kitvaria.bsky.social & 🐉 @jennieivins.bsky.social. Lover of books. Hater of trolls. No AI. Probably not a real dragon. ;)
http://fantasy-faction.com/
The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social The Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year.
clarkeaward.com
The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social The Fiddlehead is Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal.
Celebrating 80 years of literary foraging in 2025!
https://thefiddlehead.ca
ᗪᗩᑎ Ǥᗝᖇᗰᗩᑎ @yckmd.bsky.social what a wonderfully mediocre day to be half alive
🎶 the discover tab https://thediscovertab.substack.com/
📼 screenings https://timebandits.neocities.org/
📽️ letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/yckmd_/
🕹️ previously "play this shit" on chuhai labs' podcast
josh o'kane @joshokane.bsky.social I write about the people and institutions shaping Canadian arts + culture and also wrote a book called Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy that is mostly explained by its subtitle. Pls send tips to jokane@globeandmail.com
Emily Varga Books @emilyvargabooks.bsky.social ✨Bestselling author
🗡️FOR SHE IS WRATH out now
🌊 THE RIVER SHE BECAME - coming soon
Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi @dearkestrel.bsky.social Author of 4 Poetry collections.. A Translation of Ghazal Mosadeq's "Andarznama" forthcoming with @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social Late 2025. 5th Poetry Collection "A Book of Interruptions" forthcoming with @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social Fall 2025
Christina Wong @itscmwong.bsky.social Playwright | Writer | Audio Artist
PhD in Music
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Debut book DENISON AVENUE (ECW Press, 2023) by Daniel Innes and I out now!
Ben Robinson @bengymen.bsky.social poet / musician / librarian
benrobinson.work
Christine Estima @cestima.bsky.social Author of THE SYRIAN LADIES BENEVOLENT SOCIETY (2023) and LETTERS TO KAFKA (2025) Bylines: The New York Times, The Walrus, Observer, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Vice, Chatelaine, and more. Free Palestine🇵🇸 Free Lebanon🇱🇧
Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social 🏠 Founder & Agent at Neighborhood Literary.
📚 Award-winning Author.
👴🏽 Perpetually Tired Dad.
Latest book: With or Without You.
Next: The Adopted Kids’ Guide to Surviving Seventh Grade (Crown, Spring 2027)
🚪 https://www.neighborhoodliterary.com
Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing luxurious specialty, limited editions and groundbreaking original works in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. Dispatches from the warehouse and other news. http://linktr.ee/subterraneanpress
Quebec Writers' Federation @officialqwf.bsky.social Supporting, connecting, and inspiring Quebec writers
M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social MR, she/her. scholar, author, editor · poster of too many dog photos · Clarion West ‘25 · VP2024 · stories at BCS, Lightspeed, GigaNotoSaurus, elsewhere · co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social 🪐🗡️🌈
https://m-r-robinson.com
Rebecca Morris @bexmorris.bsky.social Writer, editor & teacher in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal ✍️ Author of OTHER MAPS (@llpmtl 2024) 📖 Currently obsessed with trees 🌳
https://linktr.ee/rebeccamorriswriter
Farah 🌿 @farahghafoor.bsky.social poet and author of Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025) 🌿 | she/her | Tkaronto | farahghafoor.com | farah.substack.com | IG @/shadowpricepoems
Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social poetry, pottery, publishing
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social Kitchen witch, sparkle mind & aging whore. Wrote SUB ROSA, SODOM ROAD EXIT and other queer weird books. New poetry collection BUZZKILL CLAMSHELL Spring 2025.
https://arsenalpulp.com/Contributors/D/Dawn-Amber
ambrose albert @ambrosealbert.bsky.social he/him | il * transmasc poet & community organizer * bec & call w/ Nightwood Editions 2018 * former Fredericton poet laureate * 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social Poet. Teacher. Editor. Interviewer. Festival Director. Plum memer. Not necessarily in that order. Usually found in Vancouver, Port Moody or Abbotsford. http://roblucastaylor.com/
Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca SSHRC funded PhD in at UCalgary.
THE LIBRARY COSMIC: Stories
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the-library-cosmic
THE YEARS SHALL RUN LIKE RABBITS
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/all/products/the-years-shall-run-like-rabbits
Charlie Petch @sawpoet.bsky.social They/he - Poet, playwright, librettist, founder of @queerslam & musical saw player. "Why I Was Late" with @BrickBooks ReLit award winner.
Margo LaPierre @margolapierre.bsky.social Freelance literary editor, poet, writer. UBC MFA fiction grad. Editor @ Arc Poetry Magazine. Mad & queer. 🏳️🌈She/her. White settler living in Algonquin Anishinaabe territory. i of vii collective. margolapierreeditor.com.
🔗 Linktr.ee/margolapierre
Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com Culture critic in the horror space. Author of BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING (Invisible Publishing, 2020). HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE (House of Anansi, 2023). Ace. https://peterbcounter.com/
The Hugo Awards @thehugoawards.bsky.social Science fiction’s most prestigious awards. TheHugoAwards.org
Sarah 🏳️🌈 Dreadfully Queer @dreadfullyqueer.bsky.social They/them 👻 Avid connoisseur of queer horror 🏳️⚧️ Organizer of the Dreadfully Queer Book Club in Salem, MA 📍 WIP: A weird, sapphic supernatural novella 👁️
Eden Boudreau @edenboudreau.bsky.social The queer, neurospicy bookworm of your dreams ✨
📖Author of Crying Wolf: A Memoir
🎤 Speaker
🖊️ Lit agent @samhaywood_litagent
Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social World Fantasy Award/Ignyte/Mythopoeic Award-nominated author of Audition For The Fox; author of Critical Role: Armory of Heroes. Repped by Hannah Bowman. Email: Martintcahill @ gmail
Black & Trans Lives Matter. He/Him.
https://www.martincahillwrites.com
Tobi Ogundiran @tobiogundiran.com Ignyte, British Fantasy award-winning author of GUARDIAN OF THE GODS duology (Tor) • JACKAL, JACKAL (Undertow) • BSFA, Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy award nominee• Rep: Alex Cochran
The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social King, Lovecraft, Koontz, Poe, Barker & others telling stories round the campfire. Header by David Mumford. Three (3) x Hugo Nominee. Posts by Bitter Karella. www.midnightpals.com
Writers' Trust of Canada @writerstrust.bsky.social On a mission to support & celebrate Canadian writers. Discover our literary award-winning books at writerstrust.com
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.com (He/They) Sunday Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Wretch
ericlarocca.com
Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social Leading independent publisher of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Crime, Pop Culture, Movie/TV tie-ins & much more 📚 Also, @hardcasecrime.bsky.social
Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social Writes SFF as Gareth L. Powell and horror and mystery as G.L. Powell. Occasional award winner. Repped by Lucienne Diver at The Knight Agency.
🔗 Mystery and Horror - https://www.glpowell.com
🔗 Science Fiction - https://www.garethlpowell.com
@gritlitfestival.bsky.social @gritlitfestival.bsky.social 
SJ Sindu @sjsindu.bsky.social author | professor | sjsindu.com | to be honest I’m not sure why I’m on social media but this seems like a nice place so hi
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
Carley Fortune @carleyfortune.bsky.social I’m the #1 NYT bestselling author of Every Summer After, Meet Me at the Lake, and This Summer Will Be Different.
My fourth novel is called One Golden Summer, and it comes out May 6, 2025.
www.carleyfortune.com
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
https://beacons.ai/reactormag
David Ly @davidlywrites.bsky.social dragon-hearted writer and poet • emotionally a cephalopod • “lee”
https://linktr.ee/davidlywrites
@kritikahrao.bsky.social @kritikahrao.bsky.social 
Theo Ward @theoward.bsky.social Writer. Fetal Irish emigrant. Looking beyond the peephole of rage. 🇮🇪 🇨🇦
http://instagram.com/londontheo
Nancy Jo Cullen @njcullen.bsky.social She/her. Writer of poetry & fiction. Sometimes a proofreader. Ridiculous about my dog. Most recent: NOTHING WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE, THE WESTERN ALIENATION MERIT BADGE, both with Wolsak & Wynn. 🏳️🌈
hana is CLOSED to queries until Nov. @hel-no-wai.bsky.social she/her.
works in 📚: literary agent and 🌍 rights manager
co-founder of BIPOC of Publishing in Canada.
views shared are mine alone, kthnxbyeeee!
https://linktr.ee/hel_no_wai
Joe ollmann @oldjoeollmann.bsky.social old boy cartoonist, loser of the governor general's award.
https://drawnandquarterly.com/event/joe-ollmann-tours-the-woodchipper
Brittni Brinn @brittnibrinn.bsky.social Writing sci-fi and horror in Mi'kma'ki/Nova Scotia.
Author of Misplaced (@littleghostsbooks.bsky.social)
She/they
brittnibrinn.com
Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning writer. Metalsmith.
Books: Coup de Grâce (Titan Books), Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror (Ghoulish)
www.sofiaajram.com
https://sofiaajram.substack.com
Jeff Dupuis @jeffdupuis.bsky.social Writer, editor, hiker. Author of the Creature X Mysteries from Dundurn Press.
Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social aka Vanessa Ricci-Thode. Nebula Award-winning trashbag & queer SFF writer. Chiefest and greatest of calamities. Dogs, gardening and Canadian rage. she/they 💙💜🩷
I'm only here for the food
thodestool.ca/links
Laury Silvers/Jayne Green @laurylsilvers.bsky.social Muslim Canadian author of mysteries and thrillers. #Toronto Thrillers by Jayne Green. Rat City, The #Sufi Mysteries Quartet and its spin-off, Ghazi Ammar (2025), by Laury Silvers. Fan of the IJC/ICC. Keeping my handles, but I'm not here
Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social reactor mag's resident book nerd. they/them 🇵🇷🏳️🌈 nyc
https://linktr.ee/christinaorlando
Paige Maylott @paigemaylott.bsky.social 🎮 Author who explores gender, glitches, and what happens when reality starts buffering. Collects bunnies (both pixel and real). Based in Hamilton, ON 🍁
Jen R. Albert @jenralbert.bsky.social Award-winning editor acquiring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and popular science at ECW Press. Former co-editor at PodCastle. Former entomologist. She/they
https://ecwpress.com/pages/jen-albert-editor
Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Your Queer Spooky Bookstore x Small Press.
“A Good Story Will Haunt You”
👻🖤📚
www.littleghostsbooks.com
Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social I write stories inspired by Palestinian folklore. Ignyte and Ember Award winning, Pushcart, Palestine Book, & Lammy noms. BNW and Locus finalist. (she/her) Clarion West '25
https://www.soniasulaiman.com
Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social Can*Con Virtual 2026 will be Can*Con: DISRUPTION!
We'll be hosting conversations on disrupting craft, narrative, and expectations, on and off the page!
Get tickets at www.can-con.org.
Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social host of Bookends on CBC Radio/podcast platforms everywhere, former 23x Jeopardy champion, slowly also writing // everything that happens will happen today
rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press)
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/
https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan
http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.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
Richie Assaly @rdassaly.bsky.social Writes about music, books and politics.
https://linktr.ee/richieassaly
Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social SFF writer—Year’s Best Canadian SFF, Fantasy Mag, THIS Mag. @SFWA. Banff Sci-fi ‘25. 6X Aurora Finalist. Ignyte Finalist. Loves fairy tales, comics, games, D&D.
Publisher @augursociety — Augur, Tales & Feathers, Augur Books.
Contact @ www.kerrycbyrne.com
Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social TT, LL. Writer, librarian, too many freckles, not enough sleep. Debut novel GREY DOG available now. She/her. https://linktr.ee/elliottgish
Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
Lori Sebastianutti @sebastianlwrites.bsky.social Writer, teacher, Thomas Merton stan. ✝️🇨🇦🇮🇹 #hamont
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
Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social Winner TWUC '26 Short Prose, CRAFT '24 Flash prizes • Shortlisted: SmokeLong '25 Flash Award, ROOM '22 Fiction Prize • Words: PRISM international, The New Quarterly, Moon City Review, TLR, FracturedLit, The Fiddlehead+ • Associate Flash Editor jmww
Ann Douglas @anndouglas.bsky.social Author of 26 non-fiction books, including NAVIGATING THE MESSY MIDDLE (a book about midlife). Trying to teach myself how to write my first novel. Passionate about democracy and social justice. http://anndouglas.ca
Kathryn Mockler @themockler.bsky.social fiction writer | experimental filmmaker | poet | Author of Anecdotes @bookhugpress.bsky.social
Send My Love to Anyone: http://sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com
https://linktr.ee/kathrynmockler | https://www.kathrynmockler.com
Dr. Kelly S. Thompson 📚📖🖌️ @kellysthompson.bsky.social Kellysthompson.com
Author of #memoirs STILL, I CANNOT SAVE YOU (2023) & GIRLS NEED NOT APPLY (2019). Instructor at King’s U nonfiction MFA. Canadian Forces Veteran. Bull terrier mom. Dreamer. Ally & safe space She/Her
Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social SFFH writer. L’nu’skw (Mi'kmaw). She/her. Bi cis anarchafeminist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Pessimism of intellect, optimism of will. Views mine, not employers. Fuck AI forever.
Books:
🩸Carnalis
🌿 Green Fuse Burning
💀 Elegies of Rotting Stars
📧 Rep by Jo Ramsay
Kate Gies @kategies.bsky.social writer/educator/cat enthusiast
Author of IT MUST BE BEAUTIFUL TO BE FINISHED: A MEMOIR OF MY BODY
(Simon & Schuster)
linktr.ee/kategies
Heather J. “Lives in a city on Lake Ontario” Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social Author, Publicist, World Fantasy Award Nominee, Cat Lover, Feminist (she/her but they/their is good too!)
AJ Dolman @ajdolman.bsky.social They/she. Writer, editor, goldstar #bisexual. Shhh...I'm reading. Poetry collection Crazy / Mad: https://www.gordonhillpress.com/products/crazy-mad
Nisha J Tuli @nishajtwrites.bsky.social 💕 Amazon Top 50 & International Bestselling Author
☀️ Trial of the Sun Queen, on KU
🌴 Not Safe for Work, May20 @readforeverpub
📧 nisha@nishajtuli.com
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social hater nation
www.scaachi.substack.com
scaachi.koul@slate.com
KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social from the author of POETRY IS QUEER, SHE, + THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF
FAIRY (OUT NOW) @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
palimpsestpress.ca/books/fairy-kirby/
kirbyfairy.ca
itsakirby.bandcamp.com
substack.com/@itsakirby
Publisher @knifeforkbook.bsky.social
jaye simpson @jayesimpson.bsky.social i’m like sorta a writer, sorta a dream girl (evil), i’m like kinda bisexual but like a whole lot crybaby. award winning writer + award losing writer // from SCN 🧡
Rebecca Salazar Leon @rsalazar.bsky.social haunted swamp femme, PhD // author of sulphurtongue (2021) & antibody (2025) // (she/they) 🇨🇴🤎🇵🇸
Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social That writer performer filmmaker radical faerie professor curator consummate host and adorable gender-radical queerdo guy.
Adèle Barclay @adelebarclay.bsky.social writer, editor, creative writing instructor | she/they |
author of If I Were in a Cage I'd Reach Out for You (Nightwood, '16) & Renaissance Normcore (Nightwood '19)
working on: cnf, fiction, poetry
Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social She/her. Erstwhile entertainment reporter (as Mala B.). Ribald romance writer (also writing as Kali Decker). Copy editor/Reviewer at Booklist. Occasionally serious person. https://linktr.ee/suleikhasnyder
https://ko-fi.com/suleikhasnyder
Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social Human poet/artist. Latest book NMLCT: POEMS from ECW Press. Professor at Sheridan College. Senior editor at Wolsak and Wynn. Editor-in-chief at The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing. wererabbit on Bandcamp. https://linktr.ee/paulvermeersch