Tamara Jong @bokchoygurltjong.bsky.social Tamara Jong (she/her) is a Montréal (Tiohtià:ke)-born writer/artist of Chinese and European ancestry. Debut memoir Worldly Girls published by Book*hug out September 9th 2025: https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/tamara-jong/worldly-girls-by-tamara-jong/
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Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor.
Chair, The Writers' Union of Canada
The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024)
The Pollination Field (Turnstone, 2025)
www.kimfahner.com
Leesa Dean @leesadean.bsky.social Poet and CWRT instructor, editor, community arts. Author of 2 books and some chapbooks; book 3 forthcoming from Gaspereau 2026. Lots of 📕ish tattoos. On Sinixt Territory in BC. www.leesadean.ca
Catherine Lewis 🏳️🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social Author of poetry chapbook ZIPLESS (845 Press), finalist for two Bisexual Book Awards. Chinese Canadian. Banff Centre and Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio alum. Tin House ‘25. she/her/hers
Vancouver, Canada
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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.
Dorothy Ellen Palmer @dorothyellenpalmer.bsky.social Writer, mom, grandma, retired improv coach, teacher, and union rep. Binge knitter and multiply disabled, award-winning writer and disability advocate. Grateful escapee from other social media sites that shall not be named. 
Kathy Friedman @kathyfriedman.bsky.social Author of ALL THE SHINING PEOPLE (House of Anansi, 2022). Disabled/Jewish/queer as in free Palesine. 🍉 http://www.kathyfriedman.com
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Heather J. “Lives in a city on Lake Ontario” Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social Author, Publicist, World Fantasy Award Nominee, Cat Lover, Feminist (she/her but they/their is good too!)
Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social Author of DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR, called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” by Shelf Awareness & DREAMS UNDER GLASS, called “a novel for our modern times” by Buzzfeed Books. ancawrites.com.
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FOLD @thefoldcanada.bsky.social Updates on the Festival of Literary Diversity, FOLD Kids Book Fest, FOLD Academy, FOLD Reads and all year-round events supporting underrepresented Canadian authors.
Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social Literary magazine publishing the best new poetry & prose for over 50 years. Details on subscriptions, submissions, contests and more at http://eventmagazine.ca
The Canadian Children's Book Centre @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social We support the reading, writing, illustrating and publishing of Canadian books for young readers. 🇨🇦🧒🏽📚 bookcentre.ca
Laura Rock Gaughan @laurairock.bsky.social Reading, writing, walking in Ontar-i-air-i-air-io (Can-Am). Publishing advocate. Nonprofit consultant. Author of a short story collection (MOTHERISH), essays & more TK. She/her
Kathryn Mockler @themockler.bsky.social fiction writer | experimental filmmaker | poet | Author of Anecdotes @bookhugpress.bsky.social
Send My Love to Anyone: http://sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com
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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. 
Conyer Clayton @conyerclayton.bsky.social Writer, Poet, and Editor from Louisville, KY in Canada | the lake-shaped excuse, Oct 2026 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social | 2025 MacDowell Fellow | conyerclayton.com | they/them
Another Story Bookshop @anotherstoryto.bsky.social Indie bookstore in Tkatoronto. Radically supporting 2SQTBIPOC writers since 1987
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Sydney Hegele @sydhegele.bsky.social Author of The Pump (2021) Bird Suit (2024) Bad Kids (2026) @invisibooks.bsky.social
Writer Maurice Jamal @authormauricet.bsky.social Self-Proclaimed Writer. Trying to finish a work. Stay blessed, not stressed!
D.A. Lockhart @dalockhart.bsky.social Writer. Lenape. Independent Indigenous Scholar. Moravian of the Thames First Nation. Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press, 2025). Leaf Counter (Frontenac House, 2025) he/him.
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.
Faith Arkorful @faitharkorful.bsky.social writer of THE SEVENTH TOWN OF GHOSTS, out now on McClelland and Stewart 
Aaron Chan @theaaronchan.bsky.social 🌈Pro in disappointing my Asian parents. Books: memoir: THIS CITY IS A MINEFIELD; picture book: THE BROKEN HEART | linktr.ee/theaaronchan
JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social Toronto Reading Series
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Chyx Xyng (they / them) @chyx-xyng.bsky.social A Toronto-based writer currently working on a genre-nonconforming novel about gender dysphoria, forbidden love, and acceptance over three generations of gender nonconformists.
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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
Charlie Petch @sawpoet.bsky.social They/he - Poet, playwright, librettist, founder of @queerslam & musical saw player. "Why I Was Late" with @BrickBooks ReLit award winner.
Mahak Jain @themahakjain.bsky.social Award-winning author of books for young people and adults. Debut short story collection coming soon.
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social The Air Contains Honey
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Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Desire Without Expectation
Kate Gies @kategies.bsky.social writer/educator/cat enthusiast
Author of IT MUST BE BEAUTIFUL TO BE FINISHED: A MEMOIR OF MY BODY
(Simon & Schuster)
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Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her.
Author of MYTH. Editor of AS THE EARTH DREAMS (House of Anansi, 2025)
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Richard Levangie @richardlevangie.bsky.social #Author. Environmentalist. Ally. Survivor. Warrior. Settler. Climate activist. Woke AF. MFA. Secrets of the Hotel Maisonneuve (Nevermore), 2020. Red Tiger, Winter, 2027 (Galleon). Kjipuktuk. Halifax, Nova Scotia. He/him. Be kind, be cool. 🇨🇦 315ppm
Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social Writer, reader, punk | MFA UBC | He/him
Novel: Temporary Palaces (House of Anansi, out now!) Non-fiction: Ghost Pine: All Stories True (Invisible)
Charlotte Wenger @charlottewenger.com she/her | 📚 literary agent with Prospect Agency repping kidlit authors and illustrators | toddler mom | Greater Boston Area | opinions mine
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