Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social sff writer & dev editor, book designer, author-illustrator, lapsed podcaster, sculptor, fabricator, Viable Paradise alum, online community specialist, queer as in here, they as in them, kennywood enthusiast.
writes books as @mdmcd.com
Pamela Dean @pameladean.bsky.social Has-been fantasy writer trying to finish that one book. Fond of gardens, birds, dragonflies, very amateur astronomy, books, and cats. She/her
T Arnson @sirscribblesalot.bsky.social Writer-Producer ✍️
Here to check-out other creatives 🎭
Sharing my stories ✉️ Growing subscribers 📈
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Kathleen Westergaard 🇨🇦 MSW, RSW @kathleenwester.bsky.social I have a Masters degree in Leadership and like to cheer on the good guys. We need a court for crimes against the planet and a Professional College to regulate journalism.
I support a #BlueStateNation to end #USRussia.
Mackenzie, BC
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association @csffa.bsky.social We are a non-profit dedicated to celebrating the best in Canadian speculative fiction. Run by a volunteer board, CSFFA facilitates the annual Prix Aurora Awards & administers the Canadian SF Hall of Fame: www.csffa.ca
Managed by @kalinstacey.bsky.social
Kalin Stacey @kalinstacey.bsky.social Language nerd: translator, ESL teacher, language revitalizationist (Gaeilge), currently working in adult e-learning. SFF bookworm & collector. Dreaming of a more just and empathetic world. He/Him
Jason Hammond @headtale.bsky.social Yet another Blue Skyin’ librarian
More: www.headtale.com
Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com Part-time prevaricator.
He/him 🇨🇦
https://patrickjohanneson.com/
Avatar by @badguybirnie.bsky.social's kid
Ukrainian wheat field header by Alex @aplante.com Plante
I'm also on Mastodon — https://mstdn.ca/@pjohanneson
Riley 🍂🍁🍎🥧 @rileysdtr.bsky.social Beer, hockey and smart-ass remarks
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | Poetry Editor Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social
Fiasco the cat @fiascothecat.bsky.social Fiasco is BIG GENIUS can catch any kind of moth even MAMMOTH am still working on hims SCREENPLAY it is very good no u cannot read it (he/him).
Aaron V. Humphrey @alfvaen.bsky.social Pentagenarian who likes to read, listen to music, sing, play games, and watch TV, but doesn't have as much time as he'd like because he has to work as a software developer to support his wife and three kids. Pronouns he/him.
Vanessa Edwards, Writer @vanessaedwards56.bsky.social Lawyer turned crime writer. The Grass Widow and The Matchmakers (Amazon.com #1 Best Seller in Noir Crime) available on Amazon, including on KU; paperbacks also available from Gumshoe Books. Author photo © Nick Gregan.
http://www.vanessaedwardswriter.com
Shana Ross @shanaross.bsky.social Writer of poetry and more; facilitator/coach of leadership learning; recent transplant to Edmonton/Treaty Six lands. Yale Theater Studies and <checks notes> MBA?
Jennifer Kennedy @jytkennedy.bsky.social I live in Alberta, Canada, and write under the byline J.Y.T. Kennedy.
Christina Lara (she/her) @notacatacct.bsky.social Reader, writer, (ex)gravedigger
Queer, Neurodivergent
Living and working in treaty six territory
My webbed site: https://booksinthesilentforest.neocities.org/
Margaret should be writing @mldcurelas.bsky.social Writer, geek, former librarian, publisher, Canadian. Avatar art by Adriano Moraes from upcoming Brave New Girls: Tales of Girls Who Invent & Imagine.
Sara @sarasupernova.bsky.social Find me on IG: @realsarasupernova | Sara Campos-Silvius (she/her) is a QBIPOC poet, playwright & performer! www.saracs.art | amiskwacîwâskahican | Edmonton, AB, Canada
Fiona Moore (Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings) @drfionamoore.bsky.social BSFA Award winning SFF author represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency. Anthropologist who wandered into a business school. Author of Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings.
https://drfionamoore.com
https://www.fiona-moore.com
@empressofb.bsky.social @empressofb.bsky.social 
The Alberta Socialist @voxsocialism.bsky.social I am a Marxist-Leninist. This timeline will reflect that. Good faith discussions and debate are welcome. Disingenuous and bad-faith debates are not.
Twitch: twitch.tv/thealbertasocialist
Linkies: https://linktr.ee/thealbertasocialist
Bobbi Styles @bobbistyles.bsky.social girl nerd. chaotic neutral. expletives encouraged. sometimes editor, gamer. always: dog mom. 🏳️🌈🤍🖤💜she/her/they 🚫Ai
hell house 501(c)3 @hellhouse501c3.bsky.social elis | 38 | they/them | audhd
nonbinary lesbian anarchist
disabled stoner
boston writer
Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social associate prof. of Shakespeare | book: “queer pregnancy in Shakespeare’s plays” | proud CUNY alum | bylines: Chronicle, Boston Globe, LA Review of Books, Electric Lit, Catapult, American Theatre, LitHub, Huffington Post, etc
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com
The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com North America’s Trusted Source Of News
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thebeaverton
Merch: https://the-beaverton.myshopify.com/
R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social RB (they/them). Immigrant, SFF writer + academic. Neurodivergent. World Fantasy Award winner. Le Guin Prize, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus and Crawford finalist. Views always my own.
Mir veln zey iberlebn
http://rblemberg.net/
https://patreon.com/rblemberg
The Tyee @thetyee.ca Independent BC-based journalism swimming against the current. Paywall-free since 2003. support.thetyee.ca
The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca Our pod of investigative journalists dives deep to tell stories about the natural world in Canada you can’t find anywhere else. Sign up for our newsletter: http://thenarwhal.ca/newsletter or become a member: https://thenarwhal.ca/bsky-member/
PressProgress @pressprogress.ca Award-winning Canadian journalism that:
🔎 Holds the rich & powerful accountable
🔎 Exposes unsafe & unfair workplaces
🔎 Shines a light on hate & bigotry
Website: PressProgress.ca
Newsletter: PressProgress.ca/Newsletter
Tracy Cooper-Posey @tracycp.bsky.social Prolific author, editor, ghostwriter, blogger, procrastinator. SF&F, romance, thrillers, NF. W/a Cameron Cooper & Taylen Carver. SFWA. 200+ titles. Australian Canadian. INTJ. TracyCooperPosey.com, StoriesRulePress.com. Western Canada. (Go OIlers!). 
Jen R. Albert @jenralbert.bsky.social Award-winning editor acquiring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and popular science at ECW Press. Former co-editor at PodCastle. Former entomologist. She/they
https://ecwpress.com/pages/jen-albert-editor
Winston Pei (he/they/il/iel) @blackriders.com Book nerd, design fanatic, free range librarian, rookie book artist, musician, tech geek, bookseller, AFOL, professional generalist, and ridiculously proud parent.
More at https://butterfliesandaliens.com and https://blackriders.com
C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social World Fantasy Award-winning author of SAINT DEATH’S DAUGHTER & BONE SWANS. Audiobook narrator. Bandcamp: Brimstone Rhine. Repped by RHA Literary. https://linktr.ee/csecooney
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
Rebecca Roanhorse @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social Writer of speculative fictions. NYTimes Bestseller. Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Ignyte winner.
Novels: SIXTH WORLD series, BETWEEN EARTH & SKY trilogy, Lucasfilm.
Comics/games: Marvel
TV: A Murder at the End of the World, Echo, Netflix Series Animation.
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/
Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social I am an independent Senator, representing Alberta in the Senate of Canada. I live on Treaty Six Territory. Host of the podcast Alberta Unbound. She/her/elle Vive le Canada. Forever a Canadian. No to the Nine. senatorpaulasimons.ca
Brittlestar @brittlestar.com Social Media Darling. International Bestselling Author. Occasionally funny. Brittlestar.com
National Pride Service @prideservice.bsky.social Patriots fighting the government erasure of LGBTQ+ and other marginalized Americans since 2025. We preserve and celebrate their contributions to our country with PRIDE! nationalprideservice.org
NeWest Press @newestpress.bsky.social Publishing Radically Rewarding Literature for Almost Fifty Years 
Audreys Books 📚 Edmonton @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social 50-year-old indie bookstore in amiskwaciwâskahikan, Alberta. We sell new books, run a podcast called The Audpod, host author events, have a fabulous bunch of well-read booksellers, and are occasionally a bit snarky.
Dave Gross @davegross.bsky.social Semi-retired writer & editor. American-Canadian. Author of the Radovan & the Count novels. Cinema, theater, books, games. Avatar by Eric Belisle. Background by Mathias Kollros for Queen of Thorns.
https://boxd.it/SH5
Cath Rowan @cathrowan.bsky.social Civil servant by day, Renaissance dancer by night, and 24-hour bibliophile. Western Canadian, proud recipient of 1 and 1/8 Aurora Awards for fan organization, pretty much gafiated now. She/her.
@guysindisguise.bsky.social @guysindisguise.bsky.social 
Matthew Surridge @bookofdays.bsky.social Writer of short stories at the Book of Days project: https://www.patreon.com/BookOfDays
Writer of other things at other places, too, sometimes. He/him.
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social #Anonymous: Actions Not Nouns. All that exists is interaction. #BindingChaos #3E https://yacnews.com/
Maggie Priceless 🇨🇦 child sexual abuse survivor. @maggiepcanada.bsky.social 🇨🇦Meta refugee. Banned by X. ELBOWS UP & RESIST FASCISM.🇺🇦 PERSIST. 🐻 cultist. sweary. autodidactic. wise arse. dudeist. neurodivergent. cptsd depressed anxious. lgbtqia2+. NERD. No dms. Live in the YEG NDP zone.
Canadian Veterans 'Anyone But Conservative' (ABC) @canadianvetsabc.bsky.social We remember the 9 years of abuse under the Conservative government of Stephen Harper (With Poilievre beside him). We remember the skyrocketing suicide and homelessness rates under the Conservatives. We do not forgive & we do not forget. 
Lawrence Herzog 🇨🇦 @lawherz.bsky.social Curious Canadian wanderer, retired writer, journalist, broadcaster, photographer, constituency assistant and grocery clerk.
Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine @neoopsis.bsky.social Art, Opinion, Fact, and Fiction. A Canadian science fiction Magazine published in Victoria, BC. www.neo-opsis.ca
Howard Scott @hstrans.bsky.social literary translation, aikido
Karen (B) @bookishkb.bsky.social Mediocre photos of very fine creatures.
From Chicago; in Wisconsin. She/her. Reader. Science fiction fan. For human rights, books, art, health care for all, etc. Trans rights are human rights. Voting is a right.
Against fascism. 
Lioness @lionesss.bsky.social I am about the books. Books & Medieval History. Books, Medieval History & the Environment. Books, medieval History, the Environment and the ongoing pandemic. (she/her) I remain resolutely anonymous.
@fuzzygabby.bsky.social @fuzzygabby.bsky.social 
Kerry P (Author & Editor) @kerrypwrites.bsky.social 💻 Editor. CIEP professional member.
💞 Author of contemporary romance and romcoms with heart, heat & HEA.
💜 WIP: Hearts Adrift.
🧠 Neurodivergent.
Karl Johanson @karljohanson.bsky.social Editor Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine www.neo-opsis.ca/. Civilian Role-Play Actor at Calian / Canadian Armed Forces. Video Producer at the Town of View Royal and the City of Victoria.
This is me, not in the corner.
Lisa Carreiro 🇨🇦 @lisaldmcarreiro.bsky.social Science fiction and fantasy writer (she/her)
Foul-mouthed fallen mermaid often found wandering on beaches. Queer, feminist, pinko, atheist, weirdo, Canadian. Works at stringing words together so they occasionally make sense.
No haters! No AI!
MyPet Health by Vetcation @vetcation.com The mobile app that scores pet food. We decipher pet food labels and analyze the health impact of food products. An independent project by vets to help pet parents avoid toxic food for their pets.
App: vetcation.com/#/redirect
gcfchen@vetcation.com
Val McDermid @valmcdermid.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta
KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. USA Today bestselling author of How To Fake It In Society. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. Death to GenAI. http://kjcharleswriter.com
Ruthanna Emrys @r-emrys.bsky.social Author of A Half-Built Garden, Winter Tide, and Deep Roots. Freelance consultant on science policy, policy science, and the future of democracy, governance, and networks. Queer Jewish parent, foodie, cognitive science nerd, collective decision-making wonk.
Wendy Waring @wendywaring.bsky.social writer, editor, prof, traductrice
Queer ecofiction novel forthcoming @Stelliform.press: The Hunger of Those Who Built It
🌹 grew up in the Hammer, raising rabble world-wide 🌹
she | they | dr 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺 🇫🇷
Queen's | UofT | ISTI | Clarion
The Scamperbeasts @scamperbeasts.bsky.social Sugar, Spice, Smudge and Saja, and occasionally guest animals and humans.
Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social We're a grassroots organization of concerned citizens working to save an essential Canadian institution - join us ! 🇨🇦✌️
Check out our pages here! https://linktr.ee/save.thecbc
*Not affiliated with the CBC*
Dylan Haston @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social all pronouns . assistant to Cameron McClure . agent at Donald Maass Literary Agency . closed to unsolicited queries, but check back . if you really want to send something to me then submit to Cameron (I read her queries)
Ken @koolfonk.bsky.social Retired Firefighter, Dual Citizen - born Canadian - Raised in Southern California, USA - Back to Ontario, Canada, since 1971. Just in time! Whew! 😏
👍🫏 👎🐘
Do Not Obey In Advance!
Liberal 🍁🇨🇦🍁 Democrat 💙🇺🇸💙
No 🚫DM'S
Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social Retired settler in Treaty 6 area; love city life; walker and cyclist in a 1-car, 2-person house; it’s complicated. I don’t chat here.
paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social A human. Curator. Writer. Photographer. Researcher.
Derryl Murphy @derrylm.bsky.social Author, photographer, football/soccer fan. I've written some books, but good luck finding them.
Markham Hislop @markhamhislop.bsky.social Professional: energy transition journalist, expert. Publisher at Energi Media.
Personal: husband, father, grandfather. Dog daddy. Hockey and baseball fan. E-bike rider. Western Canadian (who loves the rest of the country, too).
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social librarian, archivist, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer, fuck genAI
words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere
bookjockeyalex.com
Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social Award winning science fiction author. Cat furniture. Horse patsy. Almost certainly two ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat.
🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈
https://buttondown.email/matociquala
THE FOLDED SKY https://books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ
ANGEL MAKER https://books2read.com/u/3kzy2W
Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Elgin, and Dwarf Stars Award-winning Horror/SF writer. Rhysling finalist, Pushcart nominee.
THE BUILD-A-MONSTER WORKSHOP (Out Now!)
ECHOES AND EMBERS (Out Now!)
THE FIB (Out Now!)
Repped by Peter Steinberg, UTA
www.pedroiniguez.com
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author, Good Things Are Coming Your Way (spring 2027) about a magical social worker and a time-traveling vampire who team up to save history from an evil cult... and fall in love!
Writer, Star Trek: Zero Point comic book
Tanya Huff @tanyahuff.bsky.social I make a living writing science fiction and fantasy. Mostly fantasy. It's been said I've never met a trope I didn't skewer. I'm good with that. Also, there's cats. And knitting. she/her
JOYFULLYBANANAS @joyfullybananas.bsky.social Canadian, northerner, Artist, Lyricist, Entrepreneur, life longer learner, arsewhole with a heart
Dr. Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran @csmaccath.com Folklore PhD, author, poet, musician.
Rep. Kelly Thomas at Serendipity Literary Agency (info@serendipitylit.com)
https://linktr.ee/csmaccath
jcblaineartist @jcblaineartist.bsky.social Artist, illustrator, book seller.
I tell stories, translating ideas into images.
janicecblaineartist.wordpress.com
The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social Democracy Drowns In Dankness
Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social Independent journalist.
Send tips via Signal: 202-510-1268.
Join my newsletter 👇👇👇
kenklippenstein.substack.com
Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social Author. Baker. Cheese lover. Late-diagnosed autistic. Writer of fantasy novels & cozy mysteries. Unrepentant poet. Hanford, CA native now in Red Wing, MN.
Nicholas Mather @adhdrus.bsky.social "Happiness is just around the corner...past the rabid wolves and bottomless pit. You can't miss it!"
I work to make the world a better place with over 15 years working in non-profit marketing and communications. I am also a rocking karaoke host.
Peter Darbyshire @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social I write books and stories. Sometimes I even publish them. peterdarbyshire.com
Michelle Morrell @vylotte.bsky.social Division Head - Exhibits, Seattle Worldcon 2025
I read, therefore, I am.
Marie Powell @mariepowell.bsky.social Author SF & historical fantasy & kidlit. Love travel, castle hopping, medieval cooking & cat whispering. 40+ books & more to come. (she/her) Treaty 4 Territory (Regina SK)
https://mariepowell.ca/
https://travelandculture.substack.com/
Krista is at Edm Expo! Booth A1018 (across celebrity autographs) @kristadb1.bsky.social Krista D. Ball is an award winning Canadian author who hasn't met a potato she didn't like.
Krista's motto: don't let the randos steal your joy. She posts on reddit: she's been called worse by better than you.
kristadball.com for books, contact, etc.
Jennifer Rahn 🇨🇦 @jennrahn.bsky.social SF and F enthusiast.
deadeyebooks.ca
Direct Sales
payhip.com/DeadeyeBookcraft
I generally don't reply to DMs. (No, I'm not hiring. Sorry.)
Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin) @caramartin.ca Canadian & Irish novelist of character-driven fiction from horror to sci-fi to contemp. Film school grad. Ottawa dweller. Humanist. Pro-human rights, pro-democracy, pro-science 😷 INFJ www.caramartin.ca | www.ckkellymartin.com
Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social Disabled, autistic, and queer. Award-winning author of the disability-hopepunk adventure, Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! Award-winning co-editor of the disability fiction anthology, Nothing Without Us Too. I also like cake. (She/her) 🇨🇦
Fennell Fiction @fennellfiction.bsky.social Author, painter, actor, drummer, and co-wrangler of the World's Greatest Chaos Hound. The pun-slinging half of the writing duo V.F. LeSann. (she/they) 🏳️🌈
Steph Chan 🩵💛🧡Jimin is my MUSE 💜💙💚 @btsypher7.bsky.social Baby maple army 🇨🇦 BTS Cosplayer. I am the Suchwita sugar cube cosplayer seen at D-Day! BTS fanart, social comms, anti-racist, woodworker, maker 🇨🇦
James Bow @bowjamesbow.ca Father, Author, #sff, #yalit, #canlit, Transit Enthusiast, Communications Officer (he/him)
Learn more about me at https://bowjamesbow.ca/