Vancouver Queer Film Festival @queerfilmfestival.ca Illuminating, celebrating & transforming 2SLGTBQIA+ lives through film & dialogue since ‘89 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
September 11-21, 2025
In person & online #VQFF2025
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Funicular Magazine @funfunfunicular.bsky.social Short fiction • Flash • Poetry // Editor: @bellyofawhale.bsky.social
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Robin Gow (it/fae/he & él y elle) @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social Poet, Educator, & YA/MG Author🍉
Autistic ♾ trans 🏳️⚧️Disabled 🔥
🌈Gooseberry is out now!🌈🐶
Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publisher of poetry, fiction, drama & nonfiction. Good on paper since 1965. https://linktr.ee/chbooks
C. L. Polk @clpolk.com I write stuff. I knit stuff. I cook stuff. Ask me about my weird little books. https://www.clpolk.com/
Gaga Daily @gagadaily.com “When I go to see what my fans are saying, I go on Gaga Daily.” — Lady Gaga
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NeWest Press @newestpress.bsky.social Publishing Radically Rewarding Literature for Almost Fifty Years 
Matthew Sciarappa @sciarappa.bsky.social marketing and social media person. 🏳️🌈.
I do books.
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Amanda Leduc @amandaleduc.bsky.social Disabled writer, dreamer, dog mom. Space enthusiast. Lover of chocolate and stories, student of wonder and grief. New novel, WILD LIFE, out now.
Might say things here…might not. To be continued!
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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),’Tiger Girl’ shortlisted Forward Prize, ‘Mama Amazonica’ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel ‘My Hummingbird Father’ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
Xtra @xtramagazine.com Queering the conversation. Fierce, proud and independent LGBTQ2S+ journalism, since 1984. 🌈✨
Read more at xtramagazine.com 
Cross & Crows Books @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social That queerly friendly neighbourhood bookstore in the community of East Van on unceded and occupied MST land. Offering new and used books, small gifts, and Cozy Chairs™ for the queer soul and beloved community since 2023. www.crossandcrows.com 
The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing @theampersandreview.bsky.social 
Tea Gerbeza @teagerbeza.bsky.social She/her. Disabled neuroqueer writer and artist. Author of How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2025).
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Samantha Garner @samanthakgarner.bsky.social 🜃 Fantasy author drawing on Filipino & Finnish folklore, myth, and memory to explore belonging in the margins. ✎ Author of The Quiet is Loud. She/her. Neutral good 🇨🇦🇵🇭🇫🇮
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@jessicastellaa.bsky.social @jessicastellaa.bsky.social 
Read Local BC @readlocalbc.bsky.social Celebrating the vibrant community of authors, publishers, bookstores, and libraries in our province. Tag your posts with #ReadLocalBC and #BCBooks 📚
ReadLocalBC.ca
ambrose albert @ambrosealbert.bsky.social he/him | il * transmasc poet & community organizer * bec & call w/ Nightwood Editions 2018 * former Fredericton poet laureate * 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
The Ex-Puritan @ex-puritan.bsky.social Publishing fiction, poetry, essays, interviews and reviews. Proudly awarding The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence.
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@cynaragee.bsky.social @cynaragee.bsky.social 
Andrea MacPherson @andreammacpherson.bsky.social Writer, Editor. Most recent book forthcoming is RECKLESS.
Myriam Lacroix @myriamontheoutside.bsky.social Author of How It Works Out ✨️
John Wall Barger @johnwallbarger.bsky.social Poet, editor, translator. He/him. johnwallbarger.com
Resurrection Pie (LSU Press, 2026)
Contract editor, Frontenac House
Anvil Press @anvilpress.bsky.social Independent Vancouver book publisher. anvilpress.com
joy thee pony @roughclub.bsky.social multipotentialite✨ | 🇬🇭🏳️🌈 ”🇨🇦”
more than a woman (she/they/he)
roughclub.ca for my art
black, bisexual, & exhausted.
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social Writer/Prof/Other. All pronouns. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/jbattis
Rich @warer.bsky.social poet & writer | fourteen poems (issue 13)| Impossible Archetype (issue 16) | co-founder of Queer Poetry Collective
Tania De Rozario @taniaderozario.bsky.social Artist | Writer | Horror-nerd | Queer | DINNER ON MONSTER ISLAND: ESSAYS out with Harper Perennial (Harper Collins) | Repped by Amanda Orozco, Transatlantic | she/her | https://linktr.ee/TaniaDeRozario
Brian Lam @blam700.bsky.social Publishes stuff at Arsenal Pulp Press.
Barbara Tran @staranise99.bsky.social Poet, writer, K9 behaviour geek
Precedented Parroting 🦜 (poetry)
Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award
#anstrutherbooks | @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
barbaratran.com | https://linktr.ee/barbaratran
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
annickmacaskill.com
Leslie Hurtig @lesliehurtig.bsky.social Artistic Director Vancouver Writers Fest; New Yorker cartoon aficionado; fast walker. Views are my own but you could consider adopting them. Canadian made.
Rebecca Salazar Leon @rsalazar.bsky.social haunted swamp femme, PhD // author of sulphurtongue (2021) & antibody (2025) // (she/they) 🇨🇴🤎🇵🇸
Eddy Boudel Tan @eddyboudeltan.bsky.social I write books like THE TIGER THE COSMONAUT (coming April 2025 from Penguin Canada).
www.eddyboudeltan.com
Odera Igbokwe @odera.bsky.social 🧚🏿♂️ Painter / Illustrator / Movement Artist
🌻 Summer sketchbook sale 🎨
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Some posts are NSFW / queer & embodied / get me bodied/
Erica Leong @ericaleong.com Visual product designer, Illustrator, Cat Whisperer. (she/her 🏳️🌈🇨🇦) 💼 Currently at steamclock.com
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Ashley Hisson @ashhisson.bsky.social Reader, knitter, nerd. Managing editor of Wolsak & Wynn Publishers, co-editor of Poplar Press.
She/her
Rebeca Puig (She/Her) @becapuig.bsky.social Writer . Intersectional Feminist . Latina . Queer that likes to draw. She/Her.
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Andrew Truong, *PREC 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 | Gay dads @realtordads.bsky.social REALTOR®, Sales Excellence @oakwyn
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Jake Tobin @jaketobin.bsky.social Toronto-based illustrator, cartoonist & writer
Documenting people, places & parties
Probably reading
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Lea Taranto @leataranto.bsky.social she/her 1/2 Chinese 1/2 Jewish 100% neurodivergent writer with spunk. Loves dogs and spec fic. 
sarah berman @sarahberms.bsky.social author of don't call it a cult
podcast producer
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michael haack 🇨🇦 @mbhaack.bsky.social he/him. 🏳️🌈 progressive trying to change the 🌎. views are mine—all mine. RT≠endorsement
Georgia Straight @georgiastraight.bsky.social Vancouver's home for arts, events, entertainment, music, food, and culture. Established in 1967. straight.com 🔗
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@harpercollinsca.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social 
SFU Publishing @sfupublishing.bsky.social Home to Canada's only Master of Publishing program. A thriving network of industry experts, scholars and publishing creatives. #sfupublishing #learnpublishing 📚Discover more: https://www.sfu.ca/publishing.html
Harbour Publishing @harbourpublishing.bsky.social Books of the Pacific Northwest (and beyond). It's our 50th Anniversary and we published a collector's edition of Raincoast Chronicles - Fifth Five to celebrate. Distributor of Nightwood Editions.
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Random House Children's Books @randomhousekids.bsky.social 
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Penguin Books @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social We publish fiction and nonfiction adorned with the famous dignified but flippant logo.
House of Anansi Press @houseofanansi.bsky.social Anansi publishes very good books. 📖
Distributed by Jaguar in Canada and PGW in the U.S.
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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social The international source for book publishing and bookselling news, reviews, and information.
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
Talonbooks @talonbooks.bsky.social Publishing words that matter since 1967. www.talonbooks.com
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
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UBC Creative Writing @ubccrwr.bsky.social UBC's School of Creative Writing strives to create a dynamic and inclusive environment that encourages artistic experimentation and community building for our students and alumni.
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Vallum Society for Education in Arts & Letters @vallummag.bsky.social Poetry and poetry workshops. Based in Tio'htiá:ke/Montreal.
Museum of Vancouver @museumofvan.bsky.social Vancouver's story begins here. #AtMOV
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Astro Poets @astropirata.bsky.social not the official poetastrologers!!!! made it for my fellow former exiled brazilians
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Real Vancouver Writers' Series @realvancouver.bsky.social Literary reading series and writing school hosted on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations.
Supporting writers by any means necessary.
Curated. Inclusive. Independent.
Books BC @booksbc.bsky.social The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia (Books BC) works to support the long-term health and success of BC Book Publishers and book-related communities. www.books.bc.ca
Sean Cranbury @seancranbury.bsky.social 
The Writer's Studio at SFU @twssfu.bsky.social We offer creative writing courses, programs and events that centre mentorship, community and connection. Join our monthly chats and sprints!
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Cole Nowicki @colenowicki.com Wrote some books, publish others.
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A weekly newsletter about skateboarding, the internet, and other means of escape: https://simplemagic.ca/
Vancouver Aquarium @vancouveraquarium.bsky.social Connect with the incredible at Canada's largest aquarium! For ticket or membership inquiries, email guestexperience@vanaqua.org or call 778.655.9554.
League of Canadian Poets @canadianpoets.bsky.social The LCP supports poets & builds communities, supports inclusive and equitable free expression, & promotes Canadian poets and poetry. www.poets.ca
BC and Yukon Book Prizes @bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social Our mission is to recognize and promote the achievements of the book community in BC and Yukon through the BC and Yukon Book Prizes and related programs. The 10 Prizes are presented annually recognizing authors, illustrators, and publishers.
Daniel Cowper @danielcowper.bsky.social Writer, etc.
The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social The Fiddlehead is Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal.
Celebrating 80 years of literary foraging in 2025!
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Alfred A. Knopf @aaknopf.bsky.social #ABorzoiBook • Dedicated to publishing distinguished fiction and nonfiction since 1915.
An imprint of @penguinrandomhouse.
Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social Bright star! Would I were…
Kyle McKillop @kylemckillop.bsky.social He/him. Secondary literacy helping teacher, poet, sharer, decolonizer. Past president BCTELA, SETA, RCLAS. May contain gluten &/or joy.
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City of Vancouver @cityofvancouver.bsky.social Official #CityofVancouver account 🇨🇦
Dundurn Press @dundurnpress.bsky.social Books and news from leading Canadian independent publisher, Dundurn Press. Read with us. These are your stories.
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TransLink @translink.ca translink.ca
Pulp Literature Press @pulpliterature.bsky.social Genre-busting fiction. Short stories, poetry, comics, and novels you can't put down. Good books for the price of a beer!
Guillaume Morissette @anxietyissue.bsky.social pet frog
thatkevinchong @thatkevinchong.bsky.social A guy.
Massy Books @massybooks.bsky.social Nêhiyaw-Métis woman-owned bookstore on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ territory (YVR). BC Green Business Certified; Rick Hansen Certified; Voted 2023 & 2025 Best Bookstore (Georgia Straight)🥇
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Carte Blanche @carteblanche.co.za 📺 Watch #CarteBlanche every Sunday at 7pm on M-Net, DStv channel 101
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49th Shelf @49thshelf.bsky.social Fuelled by the largest collection of Canadian books ever assembled, 49th Shelf makes it easier to find your next great Canadian read. 
McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social We bring the best of Canadian scholarship to the world and the best of international scholarship to Canada.
Aaron Schneider @ucftke.bsky.social 
Literary Review of Canada @reviewcanada.bsky.social 
Kyle Kirkup @kylekirkup.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. Constitutional law, criminal law, gender and sexuality law. 
Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social Queer and neurodivergent poet. ANATOMICAL VENUS out now from Radiant Press. she/her
Peter Knegt @peterknegt.bsky.social www.peterknegt.com
@gritlitfestival.bsky.social @gritlitfestival.bsky.social 
The Malahat Review @malahatreview.bsky.social Canadian literary journal established in 1967 publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from emerging and established writers.
Mary Leong (she/they) @maryleong.bsky.social just holding this username. 
It Gets Better Canada @itgetsbettercanada.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 @itgetsbetter official affiliate. Our mission is to uplift, empower and connect 2SLGBTQ+ youth across Canada. Corporate name: IGB-CSA Canada
All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social An independent online bookstore and blog showcasing and selling Canada's best in indie books. Visit us at alllitup.ca