The Haysom Review @thehaysomreview.bsky.social Book reviewer and aspiring literary editor. Reading Elizabeth Haysomโs essays. https://substack.com/@thehaysomreview
Serif @serif.inc Serif works with publishers, literary prizes, book festivals, industry associations, bookstores, media companies, authors and storytellers.
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026). https://geni.us/TMtMT | ๐ Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
MzLove420 @mzlove420.bsky.social NOT YOUR AVERAGE OLD LADY! BLAST LOUD BASS TUNES IN MY CAR AND I RACE IT. COLOR MY HAIR IN CRAZY COOL COLORS, HAVE A SMILE OR WILLINGNESS TO HELP MOST PEOPLE, HATE trump AND THE REST OF MAGA WITH ALL MY BEING! HAVE BEEN IN SEVERAL MOVIES AND Z NATION
๐Matt Brittonโทโถ #GoHabsGo ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ @mattsbritton.bsky.social Twitter.com/Matt_S_Britton << follow me there if you still tweet.
Father of 5 Grandfather of 5, Happily Married Chef, and @CanadiensMTL fan for life. #FreePalestine ๐ต๐ธ
Premarcu @premarcu.bsky.social Helping small business owners actually use AI. Not theory. Not hype. Real automation that saves real time.
Validating my idea: 1000 builder conversations.
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Tracking publicly.
Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social Author of Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness (Guernica 2024) A Place for People Like Us (Guernica 2025)
Vidal, At Bay Press, 2026
For All the Men... reissue (Guernica 2028)
Fiction and art enthusiast. Humber School for Writers faculty.
Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social Poet, editor, art lover. Fire and water, earth and air. Tending life in the Frontenac Arch. Yellow Crane, The Rapids, and more www.susangillis.ca
Meghan Kemp-Gee, SPACE POET @meghankempgee.bsky.social Teacher | Writer (she/her)
NEBULAS โจ https://chbooks.com/Books/T/The-Animal-in-the-Room
Come Out and Play ๐
Passing in the Night ๐
Contested Strip: ONE MORE YEAR ๐ฅ
The Animal in the Room ๐ฆ
Space Heroines of El Andoo ๐ค
Tyler Pennock @pennockty.bsky.social Poet, OCD, former teen-ish sex worker, Queerdo gaymer NDN,
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Al Rempel @alrempel.bsky.social Poetry, Physics, and Photography
ibearmeow @ibearmeow.bsky.social Gaymer ๐ป from Toronto, Canada. Twitch Affiliate. I play a lot of Fortnite. The Bearโs Den Discord: https://discord.gg/ARsBBHwzUg | Email: ibearmeow@gmail.com | https://linktr.ee/ibearmeow
Keili Bartlett @keilibartlett.bsky.social Journalist / writer / part-time bookseller interested in where culture, history and nature meet. Always looking for good stories and my next coffee! Based on the Sunshine Coast of B.C.
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Camille @nikkirl.bsky.social Life will not let down those who work hard, I will prove myself with my actions.
Talonbooks @talonbooks.bsky.social Publishing words that matter since 1967. www.talonbooks.com
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Nancy Huggett @nancyhuggett.bsky.social Writer, caregiver, crone, that kinda gal. Work @ Event, The New Quarterly, Rust & Moth, American Lit Review, anti-heroin chic, Gone Lawn, Full Mood &&&
Sally Rudolf @wildsustenance.bsky.social writing | walks | justice | foraging
The Writer's Studio, SFU 2025
YVR, unceded Coast Salish territory
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:
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Submit to the 2026 competition at https://montrealpoetryprize.awardsplatform.com/
Patricia Caspers @patricia-caspers.bsky.social Writer, reader, eic @ West Trestle Review, librarian, UU, mama, rider of bicycles. ๐ฒ ๐ฒ
Jess Hฬaฬustฬi @jesshausti.bsky.social Parent; poet; herbalist; Indigenous; AuDHD; queer.
Author, Crushed Wild Mint (2023) and How to Nourish a Cannibal (Fall 2026).
Executive Director, www.qqsprojects.org
Lead, www.coastalfoodways.ca
Co-Lead, www.rightrelationscollaborative.ca
They/them.
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poetโlatest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. HerbalistโGreen Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
Jeff Pearson @legoverleg.bsky.social Poet, educator, bipolar disorder/mental health advocate, MtG player, Ex-Mormon, member of AFL-CIO
CALL ME OUT FOR MISINFORMATION
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Previous editor to Blood Orange Review, fugue and 5x5 Litmag
A commonplace book
Fuck Doug Wilson
River Wilde @river-07.bsky.social She/They. ๐ต๐น ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐ช๐บ
Drinker of coffee, reader of stories, writer of words, reviewer of books.
LGBTQ+ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ AuDHD ๐ฆ Disabled ๐ป Witchy๐ฎ Sciencey๐ฌ Dreamer ๐ Partial to all sorts of debauchery ๐
P.S. No AI, if you please. Only artificial stupidity is welcome here
The Ubergroup @theubergroup.bsky.social a 501(c)3 nonprofit providing low cost education for writers. Prose, poetry, stage, screen, nonfiction, journalism, comics, animation, podcasts, you name it. If it has a writer at any stage, we teach it.
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Barbara Stocker ๐๐ @bluebirdbhs.bsky.social Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social Team Site
Word Vancouver @wordvancouver.bsky.social Western Canada's largest free literary festival. 2026 Festival runs Sept 10-28, with main day Sat, Sept 19.
Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social Writer. Philosopher. Sky-dancer. They/She. Codex. LCP. Author of A REFUGE OF TALES. Poetry Editor at Utopia Science Fiction.
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT REVOLUTION forthcoming from ECW Press.
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Sarah Ens @sarahens.bsky.social Writer, editor, & book publicist. She/her. The World Is Mostly Sky & Flyway (Turnstone Press)
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Royal City Literary Arts Society @rclas.bsky.social www.rclas.com
RCLASโs 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.
Renee Sarojini Saklikar @reneesarojini.bsky.social Author, Educator, Editor
Tom Jokinen @jokinen.bsky.social Radio documentaries, writer, labour activism, birding, cycling. Climate crisis shouter-abouter. On the Canadian prairie.
RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social Writer visual artist publisher. Now Available IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS (Ice Floe Press, 2025), FATHER TECTONIC (ETHELZINE Press,2025). In tons of journals incl Winged Moon, Otoliths, Storms Journal, Pissoir, Cable Street, ballast, Acropolis, Grain, ARC
sider0xylon press @sider0xylon.bsky.social a mono-press of pithy handmade limited edition mini/micro chapbooks and broadsides.
launching june 20th @ the ottawa small press book fair!
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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
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Elena Johnson @elenajohnson.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor. Probably outside. My book is Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra. Unceded Coast Salish territory, Vancouver, BC.
Matt Laczko @laczkoart.bsky.social Award-Winning Photographer ๐ป
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Charlotte, NC ๐
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Morgan L Ventura (they/she) @morganvl.bsky.social Writer of odd things | In Al Jazeera, Poetry Ireland Review, Strange Horizons, Banshee, F&SF, Best Canadian Essays 21' | Codex | MA Seamus Heaney Centre, QUB, PhD UChi | They/She ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Sicilian-Irish-Egyptian
Arts Council of NI 2025
Bianca Spence @biancaspence.bsky.social Word nerd. Balletomane. Cat lady. Fashion plate. Bit of a foodie. Runner. Your close personal friend.
Kevin Shaw @kevinshaw84.bsky.social Writer | Ottawa | www.kevinshaw.ca
@goethean.bsky.social @goethean.bsky.social Chicagoan. Raised as a fundamentalist Christian. BA in philosophy. Book hoarder. Interest in 19th cent. German lit & phil. Had a paper published in an academic journal. Traveled to India > ten times. Moderate Democrat. Enjoys board games. Writing a book.
Anna Swanson @annajswan.bsky.social Writer + Librarian + Wild Swimming | The Garbage Poems (Brick 2025) | The Nights Also (Tightrope 2010) | annaswanson.ca | garbagepoems.com | she/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | no one is free until we all are free
Andy Weaver @weaverandy.bsky.social Poet, professor of English and Creative Writing. Latest book, The Loom https://press.ucalgary.ca/books/9781773855837/. 
The Dead Poets Reading Series @deadpoetsreading.bsky.social A reading series/literary seance that takes place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations, colonially known as Vancouver, BC. Poets present the work of dead poets they admire. http://www.deadpoetslive.com/
University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social University of Alberta Press is a contemporary, award-winning publisher of scholarly and creative books distinguished by their editorial care, exceptional design, and global reach. https://ualbertapress.ca/
Lisa C Reynolds @lisacreynolds.bsky.social Canadian Writer & Poet; Durham Region Branch Manager for The Ontario Poetry Society; Membership Chair, League of Canadian Poets; Poetry Liaison, Writersโ Community of Durham Region
Joanna Lilley @joannalilley.bsky.social Author of books including the extinction poetry collection Endlings and the novel Worry Stones. From the UK, now living in Yukon, Canada. 
John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social Poet, editor, translator. He/him. johnwallbarger.com
Resurrection Pie (LSU Press, 2026)
Contract editor, Frontenac House
@paulspoems.bsky.social @paulspoems.bsky.social 
Aidan Chafe @allegorically.bsky.social Teacher & poet. Author of the collections GOSPEL DRUNK (University of Alberta Press) and SHORT HISTORIES OF LIGHT (McGill-Queen's University Press).
Vera Hadzic @hadzicvera.bsky.social Writes poetry & fiction / MA Queen's University 2025 / BA uOttawa 2024 / she/her
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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Ariel Gordon @ariel-gordon.bsky.social Winnipeg/Treaty 1-based writer, editor & enthusiast. Recently - Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest w/W&W. Now - Blood Letters w/GPP. WiR at Winnipeg Public Library.
Dr. Kelly S. Thompson ๐๐๐๏ธ @kellysthompson.bsky.social Kellysthompson.com
Author of #memoirs STILL, I CANNOT SAVE YOU (2023) & GIRLS NEED NOT APPLY (2019). Instructor at Kingโs U nonfiction MFA. Canadian Forces Veteran. Bull terrier mom. Dreamer. Ally & safe space She/Her
Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social Writes. Mothers. Neurodiverges.
Poet Laureate of Scugog Township.
๐: 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
River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social A ragtag team of creatives celebrating amazing CanLit. Join the party, pals!
Est. 2010.
Jennifer Bowering Delisle @jenbdelisle.bsky.social New collection of poems, Stock, out now with Coach House Press
Matthew Hollett @matthewhollett.bsky.social โ๏ธ Writer, photographer, walker
๐๏ธ Optic Nerve (poems) published by Brick Books
๐ฆ Newfoundland / Ktaqmkuk
Radiant Press @radiantpress.bsky.social An indie press on the prairies. Submissions open Sept. 1 to
July 1. We publish fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction.
Anvil Press @anvilpress.bsky.social Independent Vancouver book publisher. anvilpress.com
Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social associate prof. of Shakespeare | book: โqueer pregnancy in Shakespeareโs playsโ | proud CUNY alum | bylines: Chronicle, Boston Globe, LA Review of Books, Electric Lit, Catapult, American Theatre, LitHub, Huffington Post, etc
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com
Edmonton Poetry Festival @edmpoetryfestival.bsky.social Edmonton's month-long poetry celebration every April!
#yeg #AB #poetry
Website: https://edmontonpoetryfestival.com
Newsletter: https://edmontonpoetryfestival.com/the-magpie/
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
Main site: www.book-shelfie.com/submissions
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Alastair Morrison @alasmorrison.bsky.social Psychiatry resident, poet/poetry bore, tolerated parent. PhD English Lit, Columbia. MD McMaster. #medicalhumanities
Louise Koren @loukoren.bsky.social Linguist, editor, and avid crafter.
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@perpetualpest.bsky.social @perpetualpest.bsky.social 
@myrahagan.bsky.social @myrahagan.bsky.social Artist. Writer. Human trying to make the best of every day.
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@johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social Flaneur, eco-conscious, photographer, advocate, writer, doomer.
Film Milf ๐๐Blue Dem. Resister. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ LGBTQ+ ๐ @filmilf.bsky.social Work @ TrixStarT Film Productions.
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Fully Full Frontal 4 Film. Crazy Cool Comics.
South Broadway Press @southbroadwaypress.bsky.social South Broadway Press is a publisher of weird, gorgeous, and revolutionary poetry.
www.southbroadwaypress.org
Kirsh (she/her) @kirshwords.bsky.social Writer, bookseller, publishing professional, former young.
A co-host of Wax Poetic on CFRO 100.5.
Thirteen Bridges Review @thirteenbridges.bsky.social Thirteen Bridges Review is a Literary Arts Journal produced by the Department of English and Philosophy at Auburn University at Montgomery. Our mission is to publish work that is as exciting as it is groundbreaking.
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Get Launched @getlaunched.bsky.social Make yourself the 'Go To' person in any industry and earn a side income from running small networking events.
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