Holly R. Valakresch @hollyvalakresch.bsky.social Author & Screenwriter | I 🩶 Arts & Sciences, Sculpting, Cartography, Cooking, Baking, Fashion, Fitness, Fairytales, & Historical Things.
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Laurie True Blue, PHR, SHRM-CP @laurietrueblue.bsky.social #ClimateCrisis #HR #ESL Bilingual Text Tamer. Optimist. Friend. Connector. ASU mom.🌵Wide AWoke. Into Travel, Education, Thrifting. #GoodTrouble #SaveOurDemocracy #90DayFiance
Karen Massey @karenemassey.bsky.social Poet & artisan. Lives in Ottawa, Canada on unceded Algonquin Anishinabe territory.
3 chapbooks from above/ground press Ottawa
2020 ARC Diana Brebner Award winner
2024 Finalist MIPP; Longlist 3-Day Novel Contest
karenmassey.wordpress.com
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.
Chris Pannell @musicallypoetry.bsky.social Poet, traveller, worry-wart, musically inclined, always ready for the exit.
Angel T. Dionne @woodenmormyrid.bsky.social Socially Awkward Surrealist Professor. I write weird stuff.
www.angeldionne4.weebly.com
Belle Bookmaxxer @bookmaxxer.bsky.social This is where I rant and repost about books. Mainly Canadian ones ...
Mark Coakley @markcoakley.bsky.social True crime books: FACES OF FRAUD (coming soon); Hidden Harvest (ECW); Tip & Trade (ECW)
Faces of Fraud shows the psychology & tactics of fraud, the effects of scams on survivors & 10 steps to protect yourself
markcoakleybooks.com
#HamOnt #Ontario #Canada
matchstick 🧶 Wishlist Meander @matchstick345.bsky.social Indie game dev, working on a cozy crochet-drawing, animating, and scrapbooking game. AuDHD. Cat-lover. 🚫no AI🚫.
Wishlist Meander (PC demo): https://store.steampowered.com/app/4714860/Meander/
Browser demo (old): https://matchstick345.itch.io/meander-demo
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social Writing about nature, science, history & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief.
Latest: TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems)
Next: LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir)
EiC Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table. Here for lit community & Caturday
She/They/Dr/Bruh
Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social (she/her) Poet, songwriter, finder of lost things. Lover of the amphibious. Endearingly uncool. Occasional open mic performer. Visit https://prairievixenpress.ca/about/ for a list of places to find my poems.
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
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nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
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
@sonjaruth.bsky.social @sonjaruth.bsky.social reader, writer, feminist progressive
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social Writer/Prof/Other. All pronouns. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
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c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social Un de ces féroces infirmes retour des pays chauds.
"My past is everything I failed to be."
– Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet.
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
https://www.rmfrt.com/
🇨🇦 Made in Canada 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP 💪🍁🦫🌈🦋 @canadianpride.bsky.social Proud, woke Liberal. If you dont like what is happening to this world stand up and say something. This passionate Canadian is here to speak my mind and fight the CONServative disinfomation machine in Canada! #elbowsup
Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca On a journey trying to find new worlds while sending joy into the ether.
Human 🎧 Shazam 🎧. Sports fan. Anti-racist. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️LGBTQ2S+ Supporter 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈. From Tkaronto.
She/her.
Co-curator of @womensart2.bsky.social.
Sean Paul Bedell @seanpaulbedell.bsky.social father, husband, fountain pen user, horibell spelar, retired paramedic, former firefighter, lover of Canadian Literature. My novel, Shoebox, is coming soon to your favourite bookseller. www.seanpaulbedell.ca
Laura Manuel 🇨🇦 @lauram1066.bsky.social Art, movement, and nature before dishes. Edmonton-based paddler, ultra trail runner, hiker, feminist, writer.
https://lauramanuelstudio.wordpress.com/
Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social Poet and medical writer. Poems in North American Review, The Southern Review, New Ohio Review, Tar River Poetry, South Carolina Review, Rhino, Louisville Review, Notre Dame Review, Sugar House Review, etc.
Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉 @erinvachon.bsky.social Senior Reviews Editor @smokelong.bsky.social | Multigenre & Chapbook Editor @splitlippress.com | Providence menace | I write weird shit. | Fuck ICE. | More of us than there are of them.
MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social Anti-Capitalist. He/Him. Pro-Science. Pro-Human Rights. 317ppm. Husband. Dog Dad. 6thExtinction. Retired/Senior. Lifter. LandBack. FreePalestine. Ally. Anti-Fascist. Anti-empire/Anti-NATO, He/him. 420. YEG. Pro-worker, non-theist, #UBI
phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social poet | phd | umichwriters alum | fiddlehead poetry editor | record collector | author of not even laughter | one-armed bandit | he/him
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
Al Rempel @alrempel.bsky.social Poetry, Physics, and Photography
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?
Amanda Lamarche @amiwarmer.bsky.social Human person and poet. Anti-shepherd's pie, pro-dogs in jackets. She/her. Living on unceded Coast Salish Territory in Vancouver, British Columbia 🏔️
Simon Brading author 🪐📚 @simonbrading.bsky.social #Steampunk / #scifi #🪐📚 author and occasional actor, born in England, raised in London, living in Barcelona, avoiding the 9 to 5.
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HoBoheme @hobohemia.bsky.social Bereaved Polymath Musician Writer. Former EIC of seminal Absinthe Literary Review. Former Exec Chef/CDC, mixologue, geek. Bleeding heart w common sense. Emerging from grief/forest hermitage to a national dumpster fire. Ars gratia artis and f#ck fascism.
I J Baker @ijbaker.bsky.social Author, lover, dad, rider, cook.
Mr O Winds Back the Clock is intoxicating, funny, and novel. More: https://ijbaker.com.au
@fraudesswrites AKA holly manno @fraudesswrites.bsky.social i was…now i am…
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#dailyegg
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Daniel Cottam @litbystraylight.bsky.social People who create are cool.
Carrie Gillon @carrieg.bsky.social linguist, cat lover, nerd
sigreign @sigreign.bsky.social An artist standing here with you watching them all fight over imaginary things.
Ted Edwards @teddyedwards.bsky.social Big reader; excels in climate anxiety
@Shamlet @shamlet.bsky.social HS English teacher in Canada.
Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social
"Are you okay?"
MN, January 2026
New book: “Killing Spree”,Carcanet (UK); FSG (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social Lives near that river, in Ottawa, Canada. Has been known to edit & work in arts orgs. Appreciates your book posts.
Bootsbooks @bootsbooks.bsky.social Author, hospice aide, mom.
Bootsbooks.net 
Basic Income Action ↗️ @basicincomeaction.org A global network of advocates organizing, mobilizing, and taking action to win universal basic income.
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Jane Samson @celticmonk.bsky.social Monk, mother, historian, gardener, reader and writer, zettelkasten enthusiast and teacher, and lover of all things steampunk and analogue. I'm a Voyager with the dispersed monastic Community of Aidan and Hilda, exploring and living a Celtic spirituality.
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer.
Ian LeTourneau @ianletourneau.bsky.social Poet (Metadata from a Changing Climate, Gaspereau Press, 2025). Managing Editor of The Fiddlehead and SCL. Publisher of poetry chapbooks at Emergency Flash Mob Press. Bibliographer. Fredericton, NB.
John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social Poet, birder. Used to bloviate at Isola di Rifiuti.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker): https://book-shelfie.com/postscript
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social The Anthropocene, multispecies studies, environmental literature, psychogeography, energy humanities, wildlife. See "Wild Faces," https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/issue/17/1
The Walrus @thewalrus.ca Award-winning independent journalism, fact checking, national ideas-focused events, and podcasts. Stay connected: http://thewalrus.ca/newsletters
Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social Poet & Teaching Artist
University Lecturer
UmichWriters MFA
book: A COMMON NAME FOR EVERYTHING
Montreal & Vermont | writing pedagogy | ferns 🌱
poems forthcoming in Yolk, Bennington Review & Best Canadian Poetry
www.sarahwolfsonwriter.com
Writers' Trust of Canada @writerstrust.bsky.social On a mission to support & celebrate Canadian writers. Discover our literary award-winning books at writerstrust.com
Writers' Guild of Alberta @writersguildab.bsky.social The Writers' Guild of Alberta is a provincial arts service organization that represents both professional and emerging writers in Alberta.
Richard @rwpickard.bsky.social Reader, tree-hugger, teacher, preserver of foodstuffs. Canadian.
Deleter of rwpickard from Twitter/X.
http://boughtbooks.blogspot.com
Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social Anthropologist; animal advocate; science writer, next book coming on cats; caretaker of aging cats. Books include How Animals Grieve; Animals' Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals; see www.barbarajking.com for more. 
Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social The Least Important Man (poems), Army of the Brave and Accidental (a novel), Take This for the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life.
https://boydwords.wordpress.com
Anastasia Katsoupa @siacreates.bsky.social Writer, artist, and nerd still figuring things out ✌🏻😌📚
she/her
MW @emdubbleu.bsky.social Two-time Trillium award finalist for poetry. Books: “these are not the potatoes of my youth” in 2019 and “terrarium” in 2024.
mole trapped in human body. writing, reading, doodles.
Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social 🇨🇦🍁 🇨🇦 I smiled and waved. Married Mom of two adults. Pro Vaccine, all of them. Anti Conservative, all of them. Anti Fascist. Cat lady. Canadian. Godless heathen.🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com Oatmeal socialist, pocketed dress enthusiast, chaos goblin, food stylist, insufferable dog mom, spoonie tattooed librarian. She/Her
https://www.feistywaters.com/
EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social bostony. vancouvery. poet laureate of Vancouver, Canada as of Jan ‘25 for 3yrs. eleekg.com It’s pronounced ELLY!
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.
The Rumpus @therumpus.net Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community.
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Readit Club @readit.club If you’re into books - welcome 🤗
Everything about books, writers, reviews, literature discussions.
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Octopus Books @octopusbooks.ca Woman owned, independent, and committed to making the world a better place.
116 Third Ave, Ottawa
Anishinaabe Territory
Canada
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The New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social Literary magazine that has been publishing Canadian Writers & Writing for over 40 years.
Proud presenter of the Wild Writers Literary Festival!
Adrian Markle @amarkle.bsky.social BA English/Creative Writing Course Leader at Falmouth University. Fiction editor for Aethlon journal. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧. Author of many stories and the novel BRUISE. Writing about class, gender, pedagogy, and sometimes sport.
https://linktr.ee/adrianmarkle
Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com ✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.
https://hararereview.com
📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com)
Andrea H. @andreahubley.bsky.social Poet - Mom - Reader - Tree Hugger - Bird Watcher - Mushroom Hunter.
Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social Author, punster, baseball fan, whisky lover, cocktail maker. Limericks happen here. Written on the Dark now released in paperback, Canada, U.S., U.K. Print, ebook, audiobook.
katcameron1.bsky.social @katcameron1.bsky.social Poet (Strange Labyrinth and Ghosts Still Linger). Short-story writer (The Eater of Dreams).
D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
Poetry, Sex, Cinema, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social Poet. Teacher. Editor. Interviewer. Festival Director. Plum memer. Not necessarily in that order. Usually found in Vancouver, Port Moody or Abbotsford. http://roblucastaylor.com/
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • Angeleno • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
Kim Mannix @kimmannix.bsky.social she/her
Listener. Watcher. Writer.
First poetry collection, Confirm Humanity, published Oct 2025
https://wildskiespress.com/our-books/#confirmhumanity
We're in a climate crisis & an empathy deficit. Be a good human.
🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸❤️☮️🐈⬛️🌎 #Treaty6 #YEG #ShPk #NoAI
Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social Canada's online magazine of book news and reviews. https://quillandquire.com/
Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social Award-winning independent literary press.
Read independently. https://linktr.ee/biblioasis_books
Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social Politics, author of Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed. Meidas Canada/ The Resistance Lead singer with Grievous Angels. Just a boy from Cobalt.
Not a space for the cynical and snide.
Richard Marcus @rbmarcus.bsky.social Writes about music and books - and sometimes works on a novel - for Blogcritics, Qantara.de and Rainbow Rodeo. Lives in Kingston Ontario Canada with my feral accomplices Frida and Alys.
Maria Dunn Music 🇨🇦 @mariadunnmusic.bsky.social #Junos2022 Winner for Joyful Banner Blazing! Storyteller through folk song; 2017 Juno-nominated Gathering. she/her #folkmusic #socialjustice
amiskwacîwâskahikan / Edmonton www.mariadunn.com
Maggie Field (she / her) @mwfield.bsky.social Poetry, screenwriting, videography
City of Edmonton on Treaty 6 land, Canada
Poems in Snapdragon, Blue Unicorn, Oberon, Canadian Literature, Months to Years, +, bp nichol chapbook award. Finalist Berlin Intl Screenwriting Festival
The Poet Laureate Podcast @poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social Hosted by Kyeren Regehr and featuring poets laureate from across the country and beyond.
www.thepoetlaureatepodcast.com
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social Crone, wastrel, lapsed (but twitching) novelist. Posts about art & lit.
Me: https://www.writersunion.ca/member/anne-denoon
I wrote a book: Back Flip, a novel about art & the 1960s: https://t.co/m7fQSOo6At or (with reviews) https://tinyurl.com/4dzwzpdp
Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social Historian, curator, heraldist, vexillologist, collector of arcane and eclectic Canadiana. All opinions my own. Likes, reskeets =/= endorsement.
Canadian Notes & Queries @cnandq.bsky.social Canada's oldest magazine of literary criticism. Books, culture, a Canadian perspective, a backward glance. Design by #Seth.
https://linktr.ee/cnandq
Christian Bauman @christianbauman.bsky.social
Writer you almost but don’t quite remember from 20 years ago.
New novel! Kosha (Blackstone, 2027)
Past novels: The Ice Beneath You, Voodoo Lounge, In Hoboken
Past lives: NPR commentaries; guitar; soldier
NewHope, PA & WestCapeMay, NJ
baumansbrain.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/
JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social A Reading Series
Sept 24 Insta Live w/ Jowita Bydlowska
Oct 4 TYPE Books Junction
Oct 8 Insta Live w/ Kim Fahner
Nov 8 On Zoom w/ Norma Dunning
Nov 22 TYPE Books Junction
Nov 26 Insta Live w/ Greg Rhyno
www.junctionreads.ca
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Christopher Pitts @christopherpitts.bsky.social "We're both clever and stupid in equal measure." -Brian Cox
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/20147661-christopher-pitts
www.climaterealityproject.org
www.worldwildlife.org
www.charitywater.org
booksbyjeffrey @booksbyjeffrey.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Canadian writer in #hamont
THE MANDALA (spec thriller)
VERTEBRAE: dark sci-fi comedy (in progress)
Querying for debut • #booksky
D&D teacher on Outschool
1300+ day Japanese streak
Read along:
https://booksbyjeffrey.substack.com
The Indignataries @wildergoose.bsky.social You don't have to look up the word "biome" to know we're all connected. Science, science fiction writer. Music and book reviews. Music on co-operatively owned Subvert and (for now) Bandcamp. Jazz guitarist in the trio Confluence.
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
Michelle Lobkowicz @mlobkowicz.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor @ualbertapress.bsky.social. (she/her/they)
Madhur Anand @globalecochange.bsky.social Scientist & Writer https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/259994/madhur-anand
Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com Poet, civil servant, music nerd | CV2, Malahat Review, QWERTY, ROOM, Crab Creek Review, The New Quarterly & others. jessicaleemcmillan.com
𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘯 (Pinhole Poetry)
https://pinholepoetry.ca/product/shine-like-a-dime/
Lorne Daniel @lornedaniel.bsky.social What is Broken Binds Us
new poetry
University of Calgary Press, Sept 2025
https://linktr.ee/lornedaniel