Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social Celebrating 50 years of poetry in 2025 ✨
https://linktr.ee/cv2magazine
allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com ✂️ handy with a pair of scissors
📍 queer artist in mpls, mni sota makoce
💌 collage, design, mail art, publishing, mutual aid
♊️ they/them
🗃️ folio + monthly zines: allisonanne.com
🛑 no ai / nft / crypto
Alex Willis @alexjwillis.bsky.social The Once and Future Chicken à la King | East York | Toronto | Fan of Your Comedy (But Not Your New Stuff) | Ex-Pat New Brunswick | Falsely Accused of Supercilious Behaviour 
Under The Desk News @underthedesknews.bsky.social The Nice Side of News 🤓
Explainers and a look at the days events
Co-Host of American Fever Dream Pod
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social Forged in the flames of righteous truth and decolonization, we are Walking Eagle News: proud purveyors of only the finest Indigenous news.
https://walkingeaglenews.com/
Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social Author of 10 books.The latest: A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN. THE AMNESIAC out 2027. Newsletter here: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com #1000wordsofsummer
Nikki Grimes @poetnikki.bsky.social Poet, novelist, general word-nerd, gardener, photographer, foodie, film lover. My favorite people on the planet are children, which is why I write for them. Oh! And I'm a freak for roses, watercolor, and collage. Author of Ordinary Hazards, a memoir.
LifeWithArt @lifewithart.bsky.social Collage Artist • When in doubt…just cut stuff out. 
Cat @catrussell.bsky.social Collage artist. I cut the paper
Head of Community at Blockparty
Insert Lavish Title at Burritodao
d @doberes.bsky.social eclectic, inverted y-axis, collector, analog barbarian, collage artist
Kelly Lianne @kellylianne.bsky.social Cornish artist & illustrator! 🌸🌿✨
https://www.kellylianne.co.uk/links
Oscar Graves @oscarzamoragraves.com Hello! I'm Oscar. Im a gay collage artist and vintage physique magazine collector. I love meeting other collectors and artists. You can see more of my art at linktr.ee/physiqueandfantasy
Jen Sookfong Lee @jensookfonglee.bsky.social Still an author, still an editor, new book THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN out now, it might scare you
Zoe Whittall @zoewhittall.bsky.social TV writer/novelist. My latest books: No Credit River, Wild Failure, & The Fake. The Best Kind of People was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Canadian Screen Award winner. Available to staff on your TV show. https://linktr.ee/Zoewhittall
anne t. donahue @annetdonahue.bsky.social writer and yapper
she/her
Alicia Elliott @wordsandguitar.bsky.social Mohawk from Six Nations. Writer and Editor. Pro wrestling and makeup enthusiast. Horror and nail polish fanatic. She/her. Lit agent: Ron Eckel Speaking agent: rob AT transatlanticagency.com. AND THEN SHE FELL. A MIND SPREAD OUT ON THE GROUND. 
Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social Author of HENCH and VILLAIN. She/her. Spec fic, videogames, heavy metal, horror, MMA, comics, TTRPGs, LARP. CanLit Tank Girl. Extremely unlikely. Rep'd by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid.
Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social Author, freelance journalist, socialist. Kryptonite to a certain type of man.
http://www.noraloreto.ca
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social Culture Editor at Defector
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
She//Her
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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social slow-lane poet, insect- & fungi-portraitist Good Omens DT & MS fan, rabid reader & writer in Quebec Canada
www.pearlpirie.com
🏳️🌈 gender costume: she/they Alt image: white person in glasses. long wavy greying hair, wonder woman bracelet
祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social English and Cultural Studies prof; poet; editor of @ecfjournal.bsky.social. Thinking in semiotic squares and cosmological circles. she/they/we
@delbauchery.bsky.social @delbauchery.bsky.social Writer, poet, farter.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social Michi Saagiig Nishnaabe writer, musician, intellectual
www.leannesimpson.ca
scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social hater nation
www.scaachi.substack.com
scaachi.koul@slate.com
Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social she/her: sharing Ottawa -area sugar crone (tinyurl.com/ottawamandy) literary, spoken word, storytelling & nonfiction events daily ish. Out now!: Beast Body Epic, Autumn 2023. https://linktr.ee/amandaearl.
andrea bennett (they/them) @akkabah.bsky.social Senior editor at The Tyee. Author of the essay collections Hearty: On Cooking, Eating and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence (ECW Press) & Like a Boy but Not a Boy (Arsenal Pulp). Co-editor of the BC bestselling Points of Interest.
Casey Plett @caseyplett.com Publisher (LittlePuss Press)
Professor (Ohio University)
Writer (✨✨✨)
https://linktr.ee/caseyplett
Athens, OH / Windsor, ON (forever Winnipeg and Southern Manitoba)
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 🧡
Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her.
Author of MYTH. Editor of AS THE EARTH DREAMS (House of Anansi, 2025)
www.teresemasonpierre.com
Sean Cranbury @seancranbury.bsky.social 
R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • Lambda Literary Prize
www.ro-kwon.com
Danny Ramadan @dannyramadan.com 🏳️🌈 - Syrian-Canadian author
Crooked Teeth, The Foghorn Echoes, The Clothesline Swing, and The Salma Books.
Lambda winner 🏆. Governor General Finalist 🏆.
Former refugee.
I don’t bite, unless you ask nicely!
https://linktr.ee/dannyramadan
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social Assistant Professor Communication & Media Studies, Memorial University, Newfoundland | Feminist Archives & Tech | Artist Archives & Networks | Digital Archives | Critical DH | Curator-poet-critic | they/she
Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social Booklover, blathering at http://www.bookgaga.ca - literary news, reviews, discussion, poetry posted daily (aka #TodaysPoem http://bit.ly/2J4ym4C), member of a thriving silent book club group (aka #SilentBookClub http://bit.ly/2NSBVtw) ... oh, and I crochet
aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social mostly poet, preferably tree or rock
https://linktr.ee/aaronboothby
Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social Author of ENTERING SAPPHO, TRANSLINGUAL POETICS, DOWN, & SECURITY POSTURE.
My newest book is HERE IS A FIGURE: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147904/here-is-a-figure/
Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social Executive editor @thenarwhal.ca. Still hate gum. The lakes, they are Great.
(Illo by Andrea Bell, from The Leak, a kid's graphic novel about a girl that does environmental journalism!)
Hasan Namir @hasannamir.bsky.social Iraqi-Canadian Author & a very proud Baba . My latest book Banana Dream is out on a bookshelf near you !
EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social bostony. vancouvery. poet laureate of Vancouver, Canada as of Jan ‘25 for 3yrs. eleekg.com It’s pronounced ELLY!
Chief Lady Bird @chiefladybird.bsky.social Anishinaabe artist | Councillor | Rama First Nation
Dave Bidini @davebidini.bsky.social Publisher @westendphoenix Rheostatics. Author of 13 books. Hockey Nomad. Movies. Also: Ballpoint Agency.
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
soraya roberts @sorayaroberts.bsky.social culture writer. contributing @defector.bsky.social. in my humble opinion: my so-called life (ecw, 2016). new book in the works (liveright/norton). sorayaroberts.com
Nikki Reimer @nikkireimer.bsky.social Your favourite Baba Yaga's favourite Baba Yaga.
Digital comms in higher ed, MA in Comms student, grief writer, cat guardian. Latest book: No Town Called We (Talon Books, 2023)
Poet, artist, white queer non-binary disabled settler in Treaty 7.
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
Tolu Oloruntoba @tolu.ca Bumbler, quitter of things, poet, and project management person (in that order). My new Collection, UNRAVEL, was a National Book Critics Circle finalist.
Opinions mine. https://bio.site/tolu.ca he/him
Christine McNair @christinemcnair.bsky.social Book person — read them, bind them, fix them, write them. I like type. Author of Conflict (2012) and Charm (2016) & Toxemia (poetic non-fiction) from Book*hug (fall 2024). President of CBBAG. Former co-organizer of the Ottawa Promise Walk for Preeclampsia.
Xtra @xtramagazine.com Queering the conversation. Fierce, proud and independent LGBTQ2S+ journalism, since 1984. 🌈✨
Read more at xtramagazine.com 
Nancy Lee (she/her) @pantsmclee.bsky.social Co-editor of SHARP NOTIONS: ESSAYS FROM THE STITCHING LIFE
(2023). Author of WHAT HURTS GOING DOWN, THE AGE and DEAD GIRLS. Corgi fanatic. Always stitching.
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social Poet and cultural critic. I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World, The People’s Project.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
Tara-Michelle Ziniuk @tmziniuk.bsky.social Editor, writer, media-maker, parent.
Past lives in activism and community radio.
Likes: menus, comics, lists, farmers markets, good poetry, bad TV.
By day: managing editor @ Xtra Magazine
Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social “Orlando's Reigning Big Time Celebrity Author” - The Orlando Weekly
huuuuge lesbian. librarian. dad. floridian. beer drinker. NYT Bestselling author.
Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE
https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com
Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social 6x award-winning feminist buzzkill.
Franco-ontarienne du nord de l'Ontario.
🏳️🌈 Femme.
I teach community care for a living and wrote a book about why resilience is futile, babyyyy ✌🏻
Actually fun™️
📍Ottawa, Canada
YellowManteau.com
Waubgeshig Rice @waub.bsky.social Latest novel MOON OF THE TURNING LEAVES is available via Random House in Canada and William Morrow in the USA
Kai Cheng Thom @razorfemme.bsky.social Writer, performer, facilitator, somatic coach & dreamer. Author of FIERCE FEMMES & NOTORIOUS LIARS, I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE, FROM THE STARS IN THE SKY TO THE FISH IN THE SEA, and FALLING BACK IN LOVE WITH BEING HUMAN. https://linktr.ee/kaichengthom
John Elizabeth Stintzi @jestintzi.bsky.social Pre-eminent unknown trans writer and Grendel’s emergency contact. Call me Jes. [They/She]
📚: BAD HOUSES, MY VOLCANO, VANISHING MONUMENTS, JUNEBAT
Next: GUEST SERVICES AT THE MUSEUM OF SEXUAL DEVIANCE (novel, spring 2028).
linktr.ee/jestintzi
Isabella @isabellawangbc.bsky.social 
Eaton Hamilton @eatonhamilton.bsky.social Visual art, writing
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them ♿️ 😷🇨🇦 AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic, MG
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.
Conyer Clayton @conyerclayton.bsky.social Writer, Poet, and Editor from Louisville, KY in Canada | the lake-shaped excuse, Oct 2026 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social | 2025 MacDowell Fellow | conyerclayton.com | they/them
Rebecca Salazar Leon @rsalazar.bsky.social haunted swamp femme, PhD // author of sulphurtongue (2021) & antibody (2025) // (she/they) 🇨🇴🤎🇵🇸
poetry in canada @poetryincanada.bsky.social A space for writers, educators, visitors, and poetry enthusiasts alike to share, research, perform, and cultivate widespread appreciation for poetry. Coast Salish Territories. poetrycanada.org
Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Kitchen table conversations with poets. Hosted by Han VanderHart. Independent. No ads. For the community. www.OfPoetryPodcast.com 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
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.
Gaspereau Press @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers
¶ http://linktr.ee/gaspereaupress
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
West End Phoenix @westendphoenix.bsky.social A home-delivered, periodical local newspaper with city news + art featuring the finest writers and photographers from Toronto and beyond. Subscribe today!
www.westendphoenix.com
Bianca Spence @biancaspence.bsky.social Word nerd. Balletomane. Cat lady. Fashion plate. Bit of a foodie. Runner. Your close personal friend.
battleaxe press / natalie hanna @battleaxepress.bsky.social small press poetry / poet / editor / lawyer / feminist killjoy
Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social Canada's Poetry Magazine, founded in 1978. Arc Poetry #109 is available to order now. Subscribe today at arcpoetry.ca!
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social Writer/Prof/Other. All pronouns. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/jbattis
Light[er] @alightupon.bsky.social https://alightzachary.com/
Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social Poet, novelist, critic, leftist & co-founder of MA|DE. Poetry collection The Work Is Done When We Are Dead (Guernica 26), novel ANOMIA (Palimpsest 24), collaborative poetry collection ZZOO (Palimpsest 25). 🌈 https://jadewallace.a
Arielle Twist @arielletwist.bsky.social Emerging Aunty | Interdisciplinary Artist
Author of DISINTEGRATE/DISSOCIATE
Linktr.ee/ArielleTwist
JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social Toronto Reading Series
Have a great summer!!!
📚📇
www.junctionreads.ca
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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
Leigh Nash @nashls.bsky.social Publisher @pressassembly.bsky.social, lapsed poet, occasional tarot reader
filling Station @fillingstation.bsky.social Canada's experimental literary magazine. https://linktr.ee/fillingstation?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=42f26869-3a42-45a1-a3cc-034a1ec1d613
Spencer Gordon @spencergordon.bsky.social Sometimes author. Wrote A HORSE AT THE WINDOW (House of Anansi Press, coming June 2024), CRUISE MISSILE LIBERALS (Nightwood Editions) & COSMO (Coach House Books). Founded The Puritan (now Ex_Puritan). Former prof, now writer/editor in social policy. ☸️Ⓥ�
Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social Writer. Film: Framing Agnes (2022). Book: Boys Don’t Cry (2022). Podcast: One From the Vaults. Capricorn. UK.
Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social possibles, infinites, gaps, nothings, in-betweens
new book in fall 2025 (Coach House Book)
Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University
https://ericschmaltz.com/
Lisa Richter (she/her) @lisarichter.bsky.social Poet, writer, educator, coffee addict
Sublunary @ualbertapress in Spring 2026
https://lnk.bio/lisarpoet
Emily Pohl-Weary @kissmachine.bsky.social Author of books, comics, weirdness. Tiny Aussie Shepherd's devoted human. Toronto --> Vancouver. Teach creative writing at University of British Columbia (Canada)
https://emilypohlweary.com/
Latest novel: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/H/How-to-Be-Found
nisha @anothernisha.bsky.social I write stuff and draw stuff sometimes. fuck AI.
author of A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH and COCONUT. nishapatel.ca
Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social Digital journal and chapbook press. We love the upside-down view and the fact that some art can only happen in the dark. Journal submissions always open! pinholepoetry.ca
Julie Mannell @juliemannell.bsky.social Award-winning author of fiction/poetry/memoir/criticism. Editor. Journalist. Columnist. PhD Candidate. Forthcoming novel is titled little girls. Niagara child.
Jaclyn Desforges @jaclyndesforges.bsky.social Space poet, secret mermaid. Author of Weird Babies (forthcoming fall 2026), Danger Flower + Why Are You So Quiet? #hamont #audhd
Domenica Martinello @domenicahope.bsky.social Writer, loud talker, perky terror | Poetry: GOOD WANT (Coach House Books, 2024) ❤️🔥 + ALL DAY I DREAM ABOUT SIRENS (2019) 🌊
Ivan Coyote @ivancoyote.bsky.social Writer, storyteller, performer. Author of Care Of, Tomboy Survival Guide, Rebent Sinner and 10 other books. Kindling chopper, berry picker, snow shoveler, Yukoner. I like to build things. PLAYLIST is the name of my new show. www.ivancoyote.com
Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social Award-winning independent literary press.
Read independently. https://linktr.ee/biblioasis_books
Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social Canada's online magazine of book news and reviews. https://quillandquire.com/
Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social A charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Hamilton, Ontario. 
Invisible Books @invisibooks.bsky.social We make books.
Christi Belcourt @handle.invalid Artist. Metis. The earth is my government.
#antifascist #Landback
mânitow sâkahikanihk âpihtawikosisân.
She/her.
Limited editions: www.christibelcourt.ca
https://linktr.ee/christibelcourt
Gary Barwin @garybarwin.bsky.social writing, multimedia, music, art, Hamilton ON Canada
https://linktr.ee/garybarwin
“There’s a wisecrack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”