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Alan Humm @alanhumm.bsky.social Editor of the online arts journal One Hand Clapping. Novelist, poet, teacher and father but not necessarily in that order. You can find my writing here: https://www.alanhummswriting.com/
R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social an online literary magazine publishing new poetry and fiction every Tuesday: https://www.relegationbooks.com/journal/
Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.
Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs. https://sandymcintosh.info
Cathie B. @cjbcat.bsky.social Poetry writer, book artist, letter-writing, collaborative art projects, mail art. Grimm Brothers: ongoing poetic reimagination of the original tales.
James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
LGBTQ+ Toronto & LA Film Festival @lgbtlatoronto.bsky.social Monthly festival showcasing the best of LGBTQ+ films and screenplays from around the world, using the audience feedback format. https://lgbttorontofilmfestival.com/ https://filmfreeway.com/LGBTTorontoFilmFestival
South Broadway Press @southbroadwaypress.bsky.social South Broadway Press is a publisher of weird, gorgeous, and revolutionary poetry. www.southbroadwaypress.org
Sally Rudolf @wildsustenance.bsky.social writing | walks | justice | foraging The Writer's Studio, SFU 2025 YVR, unceded Coast Salish territory
Dithering Chaps - submissions open @ditheringchaps.bsky.social I'm David Herring, Lead Editor of indie poetry press, Dithering Chaps, based in Dorset, UK. We publish thematically-linked sequences of poems: works that riff on a core conceit, event or narrative voice. He/him. https://www.ditheringchaps.com
Steven D. Goff @stove-g-art-poetry.bsky.social Poet, hobbyist, leisure advocate. Check out links to my book here: https://linktr.ee/stoveg
Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social Poet (Brussels Review, Merion West, Pictura, Poets.ca & more), community acupuncturist in #YYJ. Add alt-text to images if you want me to follow you. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Canada
J.M. Summers @jon-summers.bsky.social Poet and blogger. Author of Niamh, out now in paperback and ebook: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/1794627286
Kristin Knowles @kzknowles.bsky.social Reader of books, wanderer/wonderer, footy fan & frisbee thrower. Music lover/listener, far left leaner, urban/nature lover. Podcast wrangler, occasional writer of words. Optimist. She/her. Treaty 13 - Toronto. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social longconmag.com: canadian magazine for art replying to art ISSUE 2.6: submit by Sept 30 Montebank Prize: enter by Sept 30 Banner artist: Andrew James McKay (andrewjamesmckay.com) longconmag.com/collusionbooks: canadian micro-press for collaborative poetry
FOLD @thefoldcanada.bsky.social Updates on the Festival of Literary Diversity, FOLD Kids Book Fest, FOLD Academy, FOLD Reads and all year-round events supporting underrepresented Canadian authors.
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.
Meet The Presses @meetthepresses.bsky.social A collective dedicated to creating and promoting indie literary press events in Toronto, and administering the bpNichol Chapbook Award. https://linktr.ee/meetthepresses
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.
Montreal International Poetry Prize @montrealprize.bsky.social The Montreal Poetry Prize is committed to poetry and poets around the world. For our 2024 winner and finalists, visit us at: https://www.montrealpoetryprize.com/ Submit to the 2026 competition at https://montrealpoetryprize.awardsplatform.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
University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA @uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social The official page of the University of Guelph Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, located at the University of Guelph-Humber in Toronto, Canada. Website: https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/cwmfa Linktree: linktr.ee/uguelphcwmfa
Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social Political science professor at McGill 🇨🇦⚜️Hiram Mills Chair; Co-Director, Jean Monnet Centre Montreal; Russo-Ukrainian war; Rule of law, (anti)corruption; European politics 🇺🇦 🇧🇬 🇪🇺. Opinions mine. https://linktr.ee/popovaprof
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
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.
The Argyle Literary Magazine @theargylelitmag.bsky.social The Argyle is BACK with our 9th & final issue on 9/25!!! NEW POETRY, FICTION, CNF, and DIGITAL ART!!! CLOSING on 12/15/26! EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social www.theargylelitmag.com
jade y. liu @jadeyuliu.bsky.social writer, dreamer | she/她 | articling student ⚖️ | poems @ jadeyliu.weebly.com | cognitive metaphor enthusiast!
Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor. Chair, The Writers' Union of Canada The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024) The Pollination Field (Turnstone, 2025) www.kimfahner.com
Claire Lacey (they/them) @poetactics.bsky.social poet. nerd. performer. educator. critic. phd in poetry and brain injury. general enthusiast. located in Ōtepoti Dunedin. from Canada.
Elizabeth Ruth @elizabethruth.bsky.social Novelist & Poet. Author of (fiction) Semi-Detached, Matadora, Smoke, Ten Good Seconds of Silence (Poetry) This Report Is Strictly Confidential. Website: elizabethruth.com Insta: elizabethruthauthor Creative writing Instructor, U of Toronto. Lives in Canada
Cormorant Books @cormorantbooks.bsky.social Cormorant books is a Canadian independent book publisher of fiction and nonfiction. We’ve been publishing diverse Canadian voices since 1986.
Salena Wiener @salenawiener.bsky.social poet & phd student in english literature at simon fraser university. romanticism & women's book history. bodies like gardens (cactus press 2023). RA women's print history project.
Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social Poet | Prof | Author: Wound Archive (2026); Bonememory; Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis; Sew with Butterflies https://utpdistribution.com/9781773856117/bonememory/ https://theporcupinesquill.com/collections/new-titles/products/wound-archive
David Estringel @davidestringel.bsky.social Writer+EIC @The Argyle @Blood+Honey🖊The Opiate, Punk Noir, The Gorko Gazette, BULL, Mythic Picnic, Citywide Lunch, Street Cake, Cowboy Jamboree, Fevers of the Mind, Apocalypse Confidential, Literary Heist, and The Daily Drunk. www.davidestringel.com
Patrick Connors @81912con.bsky.social Author of The Other Life and The Long Defeat: https://mosaicpress.ca/products/the-long-defeat
Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publisher of poetry, ﬁction, drama & nonfiction. Good on paper since 1965. https://linktr.ee/chbooks
Charlotte Jung @jungcharlotte.bsky.social concrete poet and playwright www.charlottejungwriter.com
Judith Nangala Crispin @judithnangala.bsky.social Poet & visual artist on unceded Yuin Walbunga Country in Australia. Afterlife portraits of animals & birds. Alternative darkroom with drawing & painting. Grainger Gallery and Anima Mundi. Poetry collections with Puncher & Wattmann. Member of FNAWN & Oculi.
BCTELA BC Teachers of English Language Arts @bctela.bsky.social BC teachers supporting BC teachers with conferences, a student writing contest, an educational journal for sharing reflections & practices, and through our media accounts. Share helpful practices, resources, reflections, ask questions.
Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social poet | Derelict Bicycles (Anvil Press, 2022) | creative humanities | environmental humanities | she/her
Sara Tilley 🫐 @saratilley.bsky.social Multidisciplinary artist: writing, puppetry, clown, theatre. From St. John’s NL, currently based in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador. Keen about plants, cats, queers and doing better for our sweet lil planet.
Greg Santos @gspoet.bsky.social Poet/Editor/Educator | Ghost Face 2020 & more | Editor in Chief of carte blanche | Adoptee 🇰🇭🇵🇹🇪🇸🇨🇦 | Lives with GAD/asthma/prediabetes| He/Him | Tiohtià:ke/Montréal
Nadine Lucas @nadinelucas3892.bsky.social Essayist, cultural critic, former film festival curator for Metro Cinema, Edmonton. Teaching myself to draw and paint in my dotage. Music, art, film, literature. West coast aficionado. City slicker turned country bumpkin
@chrisdevlinmusic.bsky.social @chrisdevlinmusic.bsky.social Musician, Storyteller, Pirate. Proud Canadian.
Maggie Field (she / her) @mwfield.bsky.social Poetry, screenwriting, videography City of Edmonton on Treaty 6 land, Canada Poems in Snapdragon, Blue Unicorn, Oberon, Canadian Literature, Months to Years, +, bp nichol chapbook award. Finalist Berlin Intl Screenwriting Festival
VERSe Ottawa / VERSeFest (prior account lost, @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social Ottawa's International Festival of Poetry / le festival international de poésie d’Ottawa / administrator of the City of Ottawa's Poet Laureate Program / l’administration du Programme des poètes lauréats d’Ottawa / https://www.verseottawa.ca/
Lisa Whittington-Hill @lisawhitt.bsky.social This Magazine Publisher. Words in Longreads, The Walrus, Catapult, Hazlitt and more. Author of Girls, Interrupted: How Pop Culture Is Failing Women and a 33 1/3 on Beauty and the Beat by The Go-Go's.
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm @kateriakiwenzied.bsky.social Anishinaabekwe. Writer. Spoken Word Artist. Publisher at Kegedonce Press. Editor. Assistant Professor at UofT Scarborough. Proud mom of 2.
Leesa Dean @leesadean.bsky.social Poet and CWRT instructor, editor, community arts. Author of 2 books and some chapbooks; book 3 forthcoming from Gaspereau 2026. Lots of 📕ish tattoos. On Sinixt Territory in BC. www.leesadean.ca
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
brandy ryan @brandyryan.bsky.social poet. avid pedestrian. collage artist. following the path of tiny cuts and misplaced adhesive.
Jaime Forsythe @jaimeforsythe.bsky.social writer & reader
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
Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social poetry, pottery, publishing
Barbara Tran @staranise99.bsky.social Poet, writer, K9 behaviour geek Precedented Parroting 🦜 (poetry) Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award #anstrutherbooks | @palimpsestpress.bsky.social barbaratran.com | https://linktr.ee/barbaratran
KT Herr @ktherr.bsky.social Poet / Musician / Educator / Curious Person PhD / University of Houston Poetry Editor / Gulf Coast Journal Board member / Four Way Books Words in Foglifter, Grist, ALR, Mass Rev, Black Warrior Rev, Frontier, etc.... https://linktr.ee/kt_herr
Olga Nenazhivina Art 👩‍🎨 @nenazhivina.com 👩‍🎨 Artist📍Based in Florida 🐊 Freehand dip pen сontemporary ink on paper 🖋️ Mostly drawings ✍️ Vegan 🌱🫶 nenazhivina.com/hi No DMs. Any enquirers: olga@nenazhivina.com
Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social writer & scientist 😷 🩷💜💙 🍉 berkeley, california hoperhenderson.com writing in river teeth, electric lit, passages north, rumpus, hobart, phoebe, & more scicomm for @innovativegenomics, views my own
Derek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social • Helping writers get into print since 1991. • Poets on Poetry Series Editor (Univ. of Michigan Press): https://poets-on-poetry.carrd.co • Author of ‘On the Verge of Something Bright and Good’ (Barrow Street) & ‘Inconsequentia’ (BlazeVOX).
Dr Rachel Smith @rachelartsmith.bsky.social Artist | Poet | Lecturer Producing Vispo and Artists books using Drawing, Photography, and Writing. Co-Editor of intergraphia books www.rachelartsmith.com
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.
jörg piringer @jpiringer.bsky.social sound visual interactive electronic poet, performance, electronic music, sound installation, generative art, vegetable music... https://joerg.piringer.net i made the "all possible poems"-bot: https://bsky.app/profile/allpossiblepoems.bsky.social
Caitlin Annette Johnson @caitlinannette.bsky.social poet | novelist | orb fiction editor for Tendon Magazine production editor for MAYDAY www.caitlinannettejohnson.com
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 🏳️‍🌈
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
National Media Awards Foundation @canadamediaawards.bsky.social Since 1977, Canada’s 🇨🇦 most prestigious awards programs for magazine and digital publishing communities. Depuis 1977, les programmes de prix les plus prestigieux du Canada 🇨🇦 pour les communautés de l’édition magazine et numérique.
JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social Writer across genres. Reviewer. Comic-book lover. Selenophile. Cryptid enthusiast. Librarian-adjacent. Town & Train, Canuck horror novel & Fear Itself collection (Lethe Press).🩷💜💙🌈🍀 lethepressbooks.com/product-page/fear-itself jameskmoran.blogspot.com
What’snextffs? 🇨🇦 @lindacrosfield.bsky.social Just another person tossing about in a sea of social media looking for a safe-ish place to land. Hit me up if you think the planet is a bit of a dumpster fire at the moment but still and always worth fighting for. Life. What a ride.
Andy Weaver @weaverandy.bsky.social Poet, professor of English and Creative Writing. Latest book, The Loom https://press.ucalgary.ca/books/9781773855837/.
Renee Agatep @goingbyrenee.bsky.social #poet #writer #kidlit #2e #2eMom 📚 OHIO RADIO (Wolfson / Indiana University Press) 💀 THE ICEMAN'S PURSE 🖊 GoingbyRenee.com Repped by @awfulagent.bsky.social
James Elkins @purelyfiction.bsky.social I teach at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Here for writing: experimental, fictional, constrained, with images, with music. My book reviews are on Goodreads. All the art stuff is over on Academia.
Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social Politics, author of Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed. Meidas Canada/ The Resistance Lead singer with Grievous Angels. Just a boy from Cobalt. Not a space for the cynical and snide.
Jackie Araujo @jackiearaujo519.bsky.social Writer and Educator.
Molly Wadzeck @mwadzeckkraus.bsky.social Journalist & essayist. Co-host of The Women’s Current pod. https://linktr.ee/mollywadzeck
Shane Joseph @writershane.bsky.social Novelist, blogger, book reviewer, short story writer, and publisher.
@adamsol.bsky.social @adamsol.bsky.social Poet, prof, point guard, pater, not necessarily in that order. https://howapemmoves.wordpress.com https://www.vic.utoronto.ca/about-victoria/centre-for-creativity/ http://adamsol.com
Tess Taylor @tessathon.bsky.social Poet. Gardener. Writer. https://www.tess-taylor.com/
Jennifer LoveGrove @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social Writer / Collager/ Novice Drummer / Reader / Music Nerd
Gaia Jane @gaiajane.bsky.social Disabled poet and artist. American roots music enthusiast. Revolucionísta del corazón. Poetry Foundation bit.ly/3BydKOn Every Place on the Map tinyurl.com/yvkjezzm
Ursula Pflug @pflugu.bsky.social Author, editor, collaborator, coach. 11 books, authored or edited, in Canada, the US and the UK with Edge, Tightrope, Blue Denim, PS, Snuggly, Inanna. 100ish stories in Strange Horizons, Fantasy, Lightspeed, Leviathan, LCRW, litmags. https:/ursulapflug.ca
simon brown @simonbeige.bsky.social poésie, traduction, anomalies artistiques et musicales / poetry, translation, performance art, weird music / New Brunswick / Quebec City / he-they-il-iel / https://linktr.ee/simonbeige
ottawa small press book fair @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social twice a year since 1994 : the best of the small press in Ottawa, lovingly organized/curated by rob mclennan https://bsky.app/profile/robmclennan.bsky.social member of https://bsky.app/profile/smallpressalmanac.bsky.social
The Pi Review @thepireview.bsky.social An endless conversation on form. Poetry, prose and interviews. Curated by John Whittaker. https://thepireview.blogspot.com/
many gendered mothers @mgenderedmums.bsky.social a project on literary influence: http://themanygenderedmothers.blogspot.ca
Wayde Compton @waydecompton.bsky.social Author of Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics (U of Alberta P). Assistant Professor of Writing at the University of Victoria.
Genrepunk Magazine @genrepunkmag.bsky.social Literary magazine for weird little experiments. 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ 🇵🇸 🤘🏻 Run by Audrey T. Carroll (https://bsky.app/profile/audreytcarroll.bsky.social). Genrepunkmag.wordpress.com Submissions will be closed starting April 1st.
Jim Shedden @jimshedden.bsky.social These things matter to me: recovery, family, friends, music, film, theatre, books, art, Toronto, other cities, peace, justice, food, podcasts, public radio, Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, ubu.com, DIY culture.
Richard-Yves Sitoski @rsitoski.bsky.social Poet (day job). Songwriter (other day job). Artistic Director of the Words Aloud Poetry Series (other other day job). Marketing and Publications Coordinator of Kegedonce Press (other other other day job). rsitoski.com
David Ly @davidlywrites.bsky.social dragon-hearted writer and poet • emotionally a cephalopod • “lee” https://linktr.ee/davidlywrites
ACQL-ALCQ @acql-alcq.bsky.social Association des littératures du Canada et du Québec Association for Canada's and Quebec's literatures https://alcq-acql.ca/ https://www.facebook.com/acql.alcq
Anvil Press @anvilpress.bsky.social Independent Vancouver book publisher. anvilpress.com
Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks https://inkfishmag.com
Sandra Simonds @sandmansimonds.bsky.social Poet and Trail 🏃🏻‍♀️ Runner, Magician Vermont Book Award in Fiction 2023 for Assia. 9 books of poetry Burning Oracle (poetry-ish) coming 2026 Wesleyan University Press Arctic Circle Residency, May 25 ❄️
Carolyn Forché @carolynforche.bsky.social Poet, memoirist
Electric Literature @electricliterature.com Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive electricliterature.com
Rebecca Fishow @rebeccafishow.bsky.social writer | reader | artist | educator The Trouble With Language (TRNSFR, 2020) | The Opposite of Entropy (Proper Tales Press, 2018)