Writers' Trust of Canada @writerstrust.bsky.social On a mission to support & celebrate Canadian writers. Discover our literary award-winning books at writerstrust.com
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social Author, freelance journalist, socialist. Kryptonite to a certain type of man.
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social Turing Institute Research Fellow. PhD critical of targeting processes, intelligence production and the software they rely on from Sussex University. Bowel cancer survivor. All views my own.
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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.
Annick MacAskill @thisisannick.bsky.social Poet
Latest: Votive (Gaspereau Press, 2024)
Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022) #GGBooks2022
Murmurations, No Meeting Without Body, five from hem, Brotherly Love: Poems of Sappho and Charaxos
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@biffbufflington.bsky.social @biffbufflington.bsky.social Voice Actor, independent wrestling commentator, and maker of delicious pancakes.
Terry O’Reilly @terryoinfluence.bsky.social Host of Under The Influence radio show on CBC, SiriusXM, WBEZ Chicago, KRPS Kansas. Host of the Beatlology Interviews podcast. Co-founder Apostrophe Podcast Network.
Anna Fitzpatrick @bananafitz.bsky.social It’s me, Anna. Not for everyone. Read Good Girl (Flying Books), or don’t.
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
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H.G. Watson @hgwatsonwrites.bsky.social Writer. Sometimes teacher, sometimes audience development. Writing a book about the teen mags of the 1990s and 2000s. 👩💻💖
Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social Legendary newsman and beer league hockey player.*
Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social College professor; feminist dad; he/him; @professorneil on TikTok; @professor_neil on Instagram
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Rachel Browne @rachelbrowne.ca investigative journalist & documentary producer | contributing writer @thewalrus.ca | former VICE News | LET US PLAY for @beaconpress.bsky.social, out now!
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Iryn Tushabe (she/her) @wordsweaver.bsky.social EVERYTHING IS FINE HERE (House of Anansi, 2025) available now from your favourite indie bookstore.
Native of Uganda transplanted to the Canadian Praries on Treaty 4 (Regina, Saskatchewan)
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Deborah Dundas @debdundas.bsky.social Toronto Star Opinion Editor, former Books Editor; author "On Class"; Book #2 "Relative Truths: Stories of Adopton, families, and belonging" out February 2027. Interests: books, social justice, class, politics. Make me laugh! Pitch me ddundas@thestar.ca.
steph percival @stephpercival.bsky.social Mom, poet, sheepadoodle walker 🐾, heart health advocate. Always reading, often writing, otherwise faffing about. @thismanywords on IG.
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Carrianne Leung @cleung.bsky.social "Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight"
Writer. Educator. Wondrous Woo (2013) That Time I Loved you (2019) The After (Forthcoming)
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
Anuja Varghese @anuja-v.bsky.social Author of CHRYSALIS (2023) and A KISS OF CRIMSON ASH (coming May 2026)
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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
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social Author of How to Survive a Bear Attack, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award in Non-Fiction | I write about wild things, I run & I read
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Brigitte Noël @brigitte.bsky.social Journaliste d’enquête / Investigative reporter @ Radio-Canada / CBC
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social Toronto Star columnist, nice guy, jump shooter. 
Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social Emmy-winning journalist and
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Amy Jones @amylaurajones.bsky.social Writer, manatee enthusiast, keeper of the Great Potato 
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
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Brandon Streussnig 📽️ @brndnstrssng.bsky.social Bylines: Vulture, The Ringer, GQ, Inverse, Men's & Women's Health, Letterboxd Journal, The Playlist, Polygon, Fangoria, Paste, The Film Stage, AwardsWatch
Booklet essays: Vinegar Syndrome, Radiance, Arrow
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Mike Spry @mikespry.bsky.social Writer/Poet. Words in the Toronto Star, FLOOD, Indiewire, MTV CA, National Post, McSweeney’s IT, TSN, Washington Sq. Review, and elsewhere + a few books.
I write about TV/film/music/culture @ Narrative Electric Co.: https://mikespry.substack.com
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
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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
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
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Monica Lewinsky @monicalewinsky.bsky.social yeah, that one.
Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone NYT-bestselling, US-born immigrant living in Portugal. Books: RINGMASTER; TRUE BELIEVER; and on Oct. 6, @beckbook.com. Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social. Co-hostess of @herecomestomorrow.net. PFP is Nomi Sunrider as drawn by David Roach.
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social Music critic for Slate, freelance writer/editor/etc in Toronto (and available for work!), author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, founding associate of Trampoline Hall.
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
Peter Knegt @peterknegt.bsky.social www.peterknegt.com
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.
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.
Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social Writer of CNF/fiction, instructor at Emily Carr U and writing consultant. Recent bylines at The Walrus, University Affairs, etc. She/ her https://linktr.ee/ethorkel
Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social I’m that guy that looks just like this that did that tweet that made you laugh that one time. UK based.
JP Larocque @jplarocque.bsky.social Screenwriter & Producer (Sort Of, Allegiance, North of North, Small Achievable Goals, SkyMed, Coroner, Slasher, Jann, Diggstown, Another Life, Popularity Papers, Home Sweet Rome). Sometimes journo. they/them
Erin Pepler @erinpepler.bsky.social Freelance writer, book nerd, interested and sometimes interesting. Toronto gone suburbs. Author of Send Me Into The Woods Alone: Essays on Motherhood.
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and the national bestseller ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW • words in NYT Magazine, Time, Esquire, Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
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
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social Comedian and writer, year-round iced coffee drinker.
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
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My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Esmé Weijun Wang @esmewang.com 📚The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise
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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social Literary Agent at Morhaim Literary 📚 Newsletter: Agents & Books at agentsandbooks.com. 📚 WRITE THROUGH IT out June ‘25 📚📚 picture book called PAY ATTENTION TO ME out in ‘26!
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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • Lambda Literary Prize
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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social Affable podcast guy! Two-sport athlete (softball, pub trivia).
Today: Senior Producer at 99% Invisible.
Previously: Slate, CBC, did work on The Dropout + 30 for 30
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Sari Botton @saribotton.bsky.social Bestselling Author/Editor/Teacher/Oldster Memoir: And You May Find Yourself… Anthologies: Goodbye to All That and Never Can Say Goodbye Newsletters: @oldstermag.bsky.social, @memoirland.bsky.social, Adventures in *Journalism* http://saribotton.com
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Gaussianblur @gaussianblur.bsky.social Educator, Artist, Book Lover, Respecting all creatures.
Matt Sadorf @mattydorf.bsky.social Liberal AF in a red state. Anthropologist by design. Raconteur in training. Sometimes quiet, but never silent. Childhood shaped by Henson then Batman. All opinions and such are my own and reflect no entities connected with me.
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NOIR @noir.bsky.social attempting my 1st comic book.
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. 
Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social Author of SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS (2022) and TOUGH LOVE (March 2027) / tajjaisen.com
David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com Nightmares for sale. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Stone Garden. The Butcher’s Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. No AI. https://daviddemchuk.com
sarah macdonald @sarahsmacdonald.bsky.social professionally: editor of WORDS & MUSIC @ socan, culture writer. personally: basketball sicko. past: vice, cbc. writing a novel. 🪐
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Chantal Braganza @chantalbraganza.bsky.social STORY OF YOUR MOTHER, 2025
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مریم @maryamshah.bsky.social newsletter editor at the Toronto Star. really smart muslim woman, according to multiple media reports.
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