Ars Politico - ๐จโ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ @arspolitico.bsky.social Artist, writer, iconoclast, son of a bitch.
Hoping to be discovered before and not after I croak.
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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.
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John Richmond @johnprichmond.bsky.social Dad, Social worker, co-owner: food co-op, credit union, fc united football club 
Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social A charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Hamilton, Ontario.
Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social Still in that awkward pre-ghost phase
writer/editor at The Beaverton
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Serif @serif.inc Serif works with publishers, literary prizes, book festivals, industry associations, bookstores, media companies, authors and storytellers.
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DennineD @dennined.bsky.social Picking up the pieces yet again. Eclectic interests, strong opinions; mostly listening. 
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Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social Founder and mastermind, Talk Science to Me. Founder and publisher, Thornapple Press. Author, The New More Than Two. Dancer, climber, adventurer, cat servant. Lekwungen and WฬฑSรNEฤ territory. Book inquiries to press@thornapplepress.ca.
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Action/Crime/Mystery Film & Screenplay Festival @crimemystery.bsky.social This festival now takes place every single month, giving filmmakers 4 tiers to showcase and promote their film. In-person public events also take place.
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Ram Gulrajani Author ๐ @rockape65.bsky.social From suspense to soul-stirring stories I writes them all Love the arts, writing, painting, strumming my guitar & generally being creative. From Gibraltar originally Website: https://t.co/8gSEmJ7TCu Team Site @iquitcigs.bsky.social
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Fantasy/Sci-Fi Film & Screenplay Festival @scififantasyfest.bsky.social This is a HYBRID film festival with live screenings for the audience feedback video, optional virtual 2nd showcase, and blog & podcast interviews with filmmaker
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Alexis Hinde @alexishinde.bsky.social Well meaning nerd person, damn fine cook, sober, taking photos, soccer (Whitecaps/Arsenal/PSG/any team my kid plays on). I am 72% cheese. she/her
Melissa Rea Author ๐๐๐ @melrea.bsky.social Four novels written. Fun novels about strong women with a pinch of magic. https:// @iquitcigs.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social Team Site StL Mo ๐ญ- S @shemin.bsky.social @shemin.bsky.social
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com Poet, civil servant, music nerd | CV2, Malahat Review, QWERTY, ROOM, Crab Creek Review, The New Quarterly & others. jessicaleemcmillan.com
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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
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Renee Sarojini Saklikar @reneesarojini.bsky.social Author, Educator, Editor
Sarah Felkar @sfelkar.bsky.social Queer Canadian Librarian on the west coast. I work with technology and education. Otherwise I knit, sew, weave, read, and play D&D whenever I can.
Shona Cook @shonacookto.bsky.social Publishing publicist. ๐จ๐ฆ
Posts deleted regularly as I'm not making the same mistake I made at the other place.
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Laura Manuel ๐จ๐ฆ @lauram1066.bsky.social Art, movement, and nature before dishes. Edmonton-based paddler, ultra trail runner, hiker, feminist, writer.
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Saakshi Patel @saaker007.bsky.social Currently @twssfu.bsky.social | ๐MA in Poetry @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social | ๐BA in English Literature and Language @arts.ubc.ca | ๐2021 Student Award @chairofpoetry.bsky.social | ๐Poems in @arlenhouse.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social & more
Lo @blueturnstogrey.bsky.social Vancouver Island based history enthusiast with a love for art, antiques, & Bernese Mountain Dogs ๐จ๐ฆ
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Andrea Bishop @andreabishop.bsky.social Writer. Salt Spring Island & Vancouver, ๐จ๐ฆ. Stories in/coming: New Ohio Review, Malahat Review, Masters Review, Cleaver, Grain, BULL, PRISM...
Knows: healthcare, psych & change
Appreciates: dogs, quests, diversity & curiosity
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trace press @tracepress.bsky.social Literature from the global south & diasporas.
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Tkaronto/ elsewhere
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The British Columbia Review @thebcreview.bsky.social The British Columbia Review (formerly Ormsby Review) is BC's online book review journal, the go-to place for BC writers, readers, reviewers, and publishers.
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Cloudscape Comics Society @cloudscapecomics.com The official Bluesky account for the Cloudscape Comics Society. A Vancouver-based comic publisher and non-profit dedicated to supporting local comic artists and developing the BC comics community.
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Jenna Mann @jennamann.bsky.social Writer and sometimes artist based in Vancouver, Canada.
https://smudgesandstains.com | https://substack.com/@jennamann
Querying:
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*Hockey
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Deryk Houston - Canadian Artist for Peace @derykhouston.bsky.social One man exhibitions in the former Soviet Union, Scotland, Iraq, Canada & the USA. My work was featured in the NFB documentary "From Baghdad to Peace Country", & is in the permanent collection of the Canadian War museum in Ottawa.
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Aaron Chapman @theaaronchapman.bsky.social Vancouver BC Historian, Author, Musician, & even Voice Actor lately! 2 time BC Book Prize Winner. Elected to Royal Historical Society in 2020. Co-host of the Chat Room on Sportsnet 650am. Canadian/UK citizen .
Ask around, my story checks out.
Mason Wright @thismason.bsky.social New West dad who likes pro sports, journalism and great tunes. On the music nerd scale, I'm a tenor. I live on the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Halkomelem speaking peoples. He/him
andrรฉs ignacio torres @andresitorresm.com 29 ๐ณ๏ธโ๐. aka Andresito; en el laberinto como Asteriรณn.
software engineer ii @ microsoft vancouver.
computer science @colorado.edu | #USBve
computers, poetry & fiction.
YVR ๐จ๐ฆ / ๐ป๐ช
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Word Vancouver @wordvancouver.bsky.social Western Canada's largest free literary festival. 2026 Festival runs Sept 10-28, with main day Sat, Sept 19.
Athabasca University Press @aupress.ca Publishing open, original scholarship since 2007.
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The Writer's Studio at SFU @twssfu.bsky.social We offer creative writing courses, programs and events that centre mentorship, community and connection. Join our monthly chats and sprints!
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African princess ๐
Queer & proud ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Writer of interracial/multicultural romance (as Azalea) & sci fi/fantasy (as A.Z.) http://books2read.com/u/38MPwV
Currently based in Jamaica.
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Tracy D Smith @tracydsmith.bsky.social Educator โข Financial Literacy Advocate โข Helping people learn, play, and grow. Based in Vancouver.
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.
Womanatmile0 @womanatmile0.bsky.social Womanatmile0 ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | Christine Ambrose | Happily married | Works in pediatric healthcare, M.Ed (Special Ed) + Infant/Toddler ECE | She/her | HSABC Labour Council executive, chapter steward & long time union activist |Victoria, BC, Songhees/Lekwungen territory
Kegedonce Press @kegedoncepress.bsky.social All-Indigenous press on the territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (Neyaashiinigmiing and the land occupied by the city of Owen Sound, ON).
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hanne de jaegher @participha.bsky.social Philosopher, cognitive scientist, writer
Books:
Linguistic Bodies (shorturl.at/bd5NS)
Denken over Liefde (shorturl.at/dH5Qt)
Participatory sense-making
Loving and knowing
she/her
masking
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@guernica_ed @orcabook #Artist #Librarian on Stolen Indigenous land | BFA Emily Carr University | MFA University of Alberta | SFU Creative Writing | BCIT New Media | 
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CharityVillage @charityvillage.bsky.social Connecting professionals with meaningful nonprofit and charitable jobs since 1995. Check out Canadaโs top job board and resource hub for the nonprofit sector!
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Dr Walsh @laurelwalsh.bsky.social Composition professor, writer, editor, author and all around troublemaker. Ask me about my amazing stand-up show about grammar: Stammer! Conjugation celebration!
Starleigh Grass @twinkleshappyplace.bsky.social Books. Beads. Indigenous scholarship.
Main blog- https://twinkleshappyplace.blogspot.com/?m=1
PhD topic blog - https://indigenousfuturismsfan.blogspot.com/?m=1
Erin Brown-John @eebeejay.bsky.social Writer, science communicator, maker/mender. I like to spin yarns.
Sheridan @sheridangroup.bsky.social Sheridan is print at the core, but we are so much more. Our goal has always been to be more than a print provider to publishers of books and publications...
ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social ANU Press publishes scholarship across the disciplinary spectrum, with particular strengths in Australian Studies, Indigenous Studies and Knowledge, Asia and Pacific Studies, International Relations and Law.
@marijoerstad.bsky.social @marijoerstad.bsky.social 
J. Randy Taraborrelli @jrandyt.bsky.social Presidential historian - latest New York Times bestseller, "JFK - Public, Private, Secret" on sale now. TV writer, too. But more importantly - Dad to a very entitled dog named Axel.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=jfk+taraborrelli
ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social cultural & environmental historian. #bchist and #cdnhist and #envhist. landscape, mobilities, public pasts, fordism, tourism, parks, infrastructure, rowdies, fruit stands, seasonality, 1970+, etc.
Eaton Hamilton @eatonhamilton.bsky.social Visual art, writing
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UK Sunday Times bestseller, Guardian BOTY, Guernica, The Sun, NYT, Salon, Globe+Mail, Macleans, BAE Notables, BASS Notable, BAX, 10 books, won CBC fiction x2; on Patreon at HamiltonArt.
Heige S. Boehm @heigeboehm.bsky.social Author of 'Secrets in the Shadows,' https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/secrets-in-the-shadows/9781553805724.html?searchType=products&searchTerm=undefined host of the podcast "A WRITERโS LIFE," and writing instructor at Crow Story House.
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
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