Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com Sometime poet, historian, software engineer, novelist, union man. https://www.benjaminharnett.com https://thehappyvalleynovel.com
jesslyn delia @jlyndelia.bsky.social writer • luddite • cut & paste
nanaimo BC 🪺
blog + stuff: jesslyndelia.com
poetry press + distro: @asquarehouse.bsky.social
bike @ka7raba.bsky.social 30, they he, 🇪🇬, DIY, ONT based, have some fun
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Henry Lien @henrylienauthor.bsky.social Author. henrylien.com
Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social Author, artist, poet, & Indigiqueer swamp hag. Grew up on the land & off the grid. Writing in The Deadlands, Augur, Nightmare, Malahat Review, Fiddlehead, etc. Aurora finalist, optimistic nihilist & possible witch. No GenAI
shanmonster.dreamwidth.org
Michael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social arts & culture journalist
co-founder @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social
writing a book about the history of electronic music in so-called canada for @invisibooks.bsky.social
VERSe Ottawa / VERSeFest (prior account lost, @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social Ottawa's International Festival of Poetry / le festival international de poésie d’Ottawa / administrator of the City of Ottawa's Poet Laureate Program / l’administration du Programme des poètes lauréats d’Ottawa / https://www.verseottawa.ca/
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social The Fiddlehead is Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal.
Celebrating 80 years of literary foraging in 2025!
https://thefiddlehead.ca
Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social new poems at Discordia and the Nu Review
new photo by Oscar the Grouse
Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror. The Guide to the World's Imagination.
https://locusmag.com
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@jgodley-doctorpoet.bsky.social @jgodley-doctorpoet.bsky.social 
russell carisse @russellcarisse.bsky.social poet. queer. dirt-farmer. trailer-trash. they/them
unceded Wolastoqiyik/Mi'gmaw territory
also publisher @sider0xylon.bsky.social
sider0xylon press @sider0xylon.bsky.social a mono-press of pithy handmade limited edition mini/micro chapbooks and broadsides.
launching june 20th @ the ottawa small press book fair!
eic: @russellcarisse.bsky.social
SUBMISSIONS OPEN, see sider0xylon.carrd.co for guidelines.
ViNa (she/they) @ambidextrouspencil.bsky.social people break in shoes like i break in coffee tables 🦵🏼😭
senior editor @augursociety.bsky.social
CNF editor @longconmagazine.bsky.social
creator & your editorial lance for hire: writerfluid.com 💌
Vera Hadzic @hadzicvera.bsky.social Writes poetry & fiction / MA Queen's University 2025 / BA uOttawa 2024 / she/her
Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social Queer and neurodivergent poet. ANATOMICAL VENUS out now from Radiant Press. she/her
Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social Writes. Mothers. Neurodiverges.
Poet Laureate of Scugog Township.
📚: Fuse (CNF), Rebellion Box (poems), Widow Fantasies (stories), The Unravelling of Ou (novel).
Co-host of HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM & host at The New Books Network.
www.hollayghadery.com
long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social longconmag.com: canadian magazine for art replying to art
ISSUE 2.6: submit by Sept 30
Montebank Prize: enter by Sept 30
Banner artist: Andrew James McKay (andrewjamesmckay.com)
longconmag.com/collusionbooks: canadian micro-press for collaborative poetry
PerfectWorld @perfectworldxxi.bsky.social 
Jessica Patterson @jessicapatterson.bsky.social Writer, communications professional, strangely knowledgeable about a particular giant egg.🥚She/her
sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social native (nanticoke) genderfuck crip neurodiva. autistic. trans. etc. editor type.
http://linktr.ee/sarah_clark
read stuff i edit (please):
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www.beestungmag.com
www.ALOCASIA.org
board: www.sundresspublications.com
Ohshi @ohshidash.bsky.social Professional Esports Commentator and Consultant |
20 years of FPS/BR/FGC/MOBA |
Husband | Father | He/Him | auDHD |
ohshidash@gmail.com | Ontario 🇨🇦
Nicola Vulpe @nicolavulpe.bsky.social Poet, writer, sometime thinker, indignado
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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social food columnist for CBC-KW | freelancer elsewhere | Canadian | promiscuous eater | effervescent | cat pillow | equal opportunity buttertartist and apple fritterian with an art history degree.
Views: mine. Yes, I'm greedy that way.
k niet @knishiniet.bsky.social he/they
kniet.carrd.co
Amit @chromaluma.bsky.social (He/Him) MASc in mashing 😈 OttawaFGC & DowntownRumble
also check out my music @ https://open.spotify.com/artist/7xoylHrgXDB5lNd2Sgo2Ql?si=zv65CLTXS6-tyRt4xOdTKw
Aliana @alianawong.bsky.social ･ﾟ✧ILLUSTRATOR ･ﾟ✧ Kidlit, Picture Books, MG, YA, Fantasy ･ﾟ✧
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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social A ragtag team of creatives celebrating amazing CanLit. Join the party, pals!
Est. 2010.
Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2027). Black. Still. Life. (2028) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
Casey Aimer @caseyaimer.bsky.social Nebula-nominated poet repped by Tasneem Motala – Debut scifi poetry collection on sub – Elder emo, SFWA Poetry Committee & SFPA – Radon Journal EIC – Publishing MPS & Poetry MFA – Poems in Penumbric, Trollbreath, and many more. CaseyAimer.com
lit agent tasneem motala @seraphecda.bsky.social chronically tired but determined
✒️ literary agent at belcastro agency
🎨 brand director at alpha publishing services
gen queries: CLOSED FOR 2026
bipoc queries: OPEN
find me everywhere: https://linktr.ee/seraphecda
Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
She//Her
linktr.ee/nikostratis
Dr. Lara El Mekaui @lelmek.bsky.social Research Fellow @cercmigration.bsky.social
Lead non-fiction editor
@thenewquarterly.bsky.social
Writing and Communications Instructor
@uwaterloo.ca
website: thehesitantlocal.ca
A.S. Hagi @hagiwrites.bsky.social Writer represented by Tasneem Motala at Belcastro Agency
@mingtiampo.bsky.social @mingtiampo.bsky.social 
Tea Gerbeza @teagerbeza.bsky.social She/her. Disabled neuroqueer writer and artist. Author of How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2025).
teagerbeza.com
Aaron Kreuter @aaronkreuter.bsky.social Rubble Children: Seven and a Half Short Stories, out now! Lake Burntshore, April 22 2025. Ludic Luddite. #BLM #FreePalestine #LandBack
The Rights Factory @therightsfactory.bsky.social Literary Agents, Book Lovers, Provocateurs.
https://www.therightsfactory.com
Nicole Haldoupis @nicolehaldoupis.bsky.social Writer of Tiny Ruins (Radiant Press)
Managing Editor, Paragon Press (MUNL)
Publishing Coordinator, At Bay Press
🎸 HAGS & True Trash
www.nicolehaldoupis.ca
Joshua Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social skitsau'si:mje / skit-so-SEM-EE-uh / writing on madness, mental illness, & culture • registered psychotherapist
Christina Wong @itscmwong.bsky.social Playwright | Writer | Audio Artist
PhD in Music
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Debut book DENISON AVENUE (ECW Press, 2023) by Daniel Innes and I out now!
Qurat Dar @quratdar.bsky.social "Non-Prophet" available now: https://gooselane.com/products/non-prophet
Qurat is pronounced "Qur-rut" with a soft "t."
Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social A charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Hamilton, Ontario.
Ashley Hisson @ashhisson.bsky.social Reader, knitter, nerd. Managing editor of Wolsak & Wynn Publishers, co-editor of Poplar Press.
She/her
Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi @dearkestrel.bsky.social Author of 4 Poetry collections.. A Translation of Ghazal Mosadeq's "Andarznama" forthcoming with @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social Late 2025. 5th Poetry Collection "A Book of Interruptions" forthcoming with @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social Fall 2025
Beeswax Smiling @beeswaxsmiling.bsky.social Nah.
grace kwan💌 @gracekwan.bsky.social sociologist • poet • author of THE SACRED HEART MOTEL🫀 • they/them
grckwn.com
sleepyfacegrace.substack.com
instagram.com/sleepyfacegrace
Christina Shah @christinashah.bsky.social Poet, videopoet, valve fairy. ⚙️⛓️🧚 1/5 of the Harbour Centre Five. Author of RIG VEDA (Anstruther Press), if: prey, then: huntress (Nightwood Editions) Fall 2025
https://nightwoodeditions.com/collections/forthcoming/products/9780889715028
Jaeyun Yoo @jaeyunwrites.bsky.social Poet, psychiatrist, psychotherapist. One-fifth of Harbour Centre 5. she/her.
Chapbook: when a country teaches you (Baseline Press, 2026)
https://harbourcentre5.wixsite.com/poetry/
@shymaladason.bsky.social @shymaladason.bsky.social 
Jai Michelle Louissen @jaimichellepoet.bsky.social Scottish poet living in The Netherlands. Poetry Scotland, Dust Poetry, Acropolis, Crow and Cross Keys. Second chapbook ‘THE WEIGHT OF VAPOUR’ by Alien Buddha Press EIC of The Winged Moon 
Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social My novel, Skin Hunger, is coming in 2026. In the meantime, my latest poetry books are Openwork & Limestone (2022) & Light-carved Passages (2024). Prairie-raised author of Seeking Shade (stories 2020), Tower (novella 2018) etc.
www.francesboyle.com
Farah 🌿 @farahghafoor.bsky.social poet and author of Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025) 🌿 | she/her | Tkaronto | farahghafoor.com | farah.substack.com | IG @/shadowpricepoems
g @thrillandgrace.bsky.social • Fruity poet. Probably on your left.
• Be Water 🌊
• Writing in: ROOM, Arc Poetry, Grain, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead + more…
🇭🇰 🍁
https://grace-writes.com
https://anvilpress.com/books/be-water
[somewhere on Georgian Bay, Ontario]
Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) @jcyliew.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/jcyliew | Prof | Lawyer | Novel DANDELION | wherever you find your books - out now - GHOST CITIZENS |Podcast Migration Conversations | 
Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social poetry, pottery, publishing
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)
These Days @thesedayszine.bsky.social avatar by Lil Drew / excerpt by Gwen Aube
It's Just Feminism @itsjustfeminism.bsky.social What is feminism? Who are feminists?
What do feminists do? Do we need feminism?
Find out directly from feminists around the world and get inspired by their incredible efforts to create positive change!
◇S2E2 AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE◇
m mick powell @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social poet professor poly princexx ✨DEAD GIRL CAMEO forthcoming from Penguin Random House, 2025 ✨ www.mickpowellpoet.com
Misha Solomon @mishasolomon.bsky.social 
Ottawa Transit Riders 🇨🇦🍁 @otttransitriders.bsky.social Hi! We're a group advocating for better public transit in the city of Ottawa. See details at our website: https://ottawatransitriders.substack.com/
Bike Ottawa @bikeottawa.bsky.social Supporting access for people who want to ride bikes and have safe streets
ottawa small press book fair @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social twice a year since 1994 : the best of the small press in Ottawa,
lovingly organized/curated by rob mclennan
https://bsky.app/profile/robmclennan.bsky.social
member of https://bsky.app/profile/smallpressalmanac.bsky.social
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.
Jinwoo Park @jinwoo-park.com Writer, Translator (Kr-En), Debut novel, Oxford Soju Club, coming in Sept 2025, 111k on TikTok
https://linktr.ee/jinwoopark0721
Amy LeBlanc @amyjleblanc.bsky.social Doctor of Words 🦊 “I used to live here” available now 🎓 Killam Laureate 2022-2024 📚Gothic studies 🕷️
Lawrence Stewen @strangeleaves.bsky.social Writer, reader, dreamer. He/him. Emerging SFF novelist 🦗🌱
Diana Dima @dianadima.com writes things | stories in Strange Horizons, khōréō, The Deadlands and others | she/her
www.dianadima.com
Deirdre Maultsaid @deirdmault.bsky.social Educator, Writer, Poet, Queer,
Nature lover, she/ her 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social @chowleen most elsewhere; my old tweets reappear here at odd times.
Duke prof, APSI Dir+DGS, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher
周成蔭 #everynightapoem
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app Check your vernacular & then I’ll get back to ya. Essayist poet philosopher & writer of the novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS & the novella FES IS A MIRROR. She/her
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676226/none-but-the-righteous-by-chantal-james/
Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social Canada's Poetry Magazine, founded in 1978. Arc Poetry #109 is available to order now. Subscribe today at arcpoetry.ca!
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/
Marisa Grizenko @marisagrizenko.bsky.social Reviews editor for EVENT magazine. Writer of Plain Pleasures, an occasional newsletter about books. She/her. Vancouver → Montreal 
Shashi Bhat @shashibhat.bsky.social Fiction writer, editor of EVENT, CRWR faculty at Douglas College
www.shashibhat.com
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/
Jen Falkner @jenfalkner.bsky.social she/her
Author of SUSANNA HALL, HER BOOK (Fish Gotta Swim Editions) and ABOVE DISCOVERY (Invisible Publishing)
Trying to learn Welsh, obsessed with standing stones
linktr.ee/jenfalkner
VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social Poetry Festival in Ottawa since 2011. https://verseottawa.ca/en/versefest- A @angeyeung.bsky.social @angeyeung.bsky.social
Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com I write novels, games and stories. Coming in 2026: MERCUTIO and THE SWORDMASTER. Writer at CHEO Foundation (my views are my own). Former journalist. From Manitoba, now in Ottawa. She/her. Trans rights are human rights 🏳️🌈
https://kateheartfield.com
'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) @nathanburgoine.bsky.social #Queer #Canadian author; Most Recent: DOGS DON’T BREAK HEARTS (queer hi/lo ya), UPON THE MIDNIGHT QUEER (queer holiday collection), TRIAD MAGIC (queer contemp fantasy); He/him 🏳️🌈; Prepare for #Husky photos; 🦖 "Trans Rights or I Bites" 🚫 LLM/GenAI/Substack
Faith Arkorful @faitharkorful.bsky.social writer of THE SEVENTH TOWN OF GHOSTS, out now on McClelland and Stewart 
Margo LaPierre @margolapierre.bsky.social Freelance literary editor, poet, writer. UBC MFA fiction grad. Editor @ Arc Poetry Magazine. Mad & queer. 🏳️🌈She/her. White settler living in Algonquin Anishinaabe territory. i of vii collective. margolapierreeditor.com.
🔗 Linktr.ee/margolapierre
Lina Lau @linalau.bsky.social writer—mostly flash. mother. owner of too many notebooks.
Flash reader at Hippocampus Literary Magazine
jade y. liu @jadeyuliu.bsky.social writer, dreamer | she/她 | articling student ⚖️ | poems @ jadeyliu.weebly.com | cognitive metaphor enthusiast!
vannessa @vannessa.bsky.social Toronto-based writer, organizer, collaborator. Long-term relationship, now divorced from the book publishing industry.
Now offering 1:1 Pottery Wheel Throwing Classes in Toronto:
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Tina Brobby @tbrobbs.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇬🇭🇬🇧 CNF Writer, photographer, lawyer, adoptee. Memoir in the making.
https://christinabrobby.com
Ming @szemingwu.bsky.social Photographer from Ottawa, Canada
http://photogmusic.com
Mahaila Smith (they/them) @mahailasmith.ca Co-Editor for The Sprawl Mag
Seed Beetle (2025) with Stelliform Press
Mahailasmith.ca
AJ Dolman @ajdolman.bsky.social They/she. Writer, editor, goldstar #bisexual. Shhh...I'm reading. Poetry collection Crazy / Mad: https://www.gordonhillpress.com/products/crazy-mad
A. L. Bishop @mandahnk.bsky.social Writer, etc. She/her.
PoetNotaRockStar @poetnotarockstar.bsky.social LA Poet/ Latinx Author of 6 books including La Belle Ajar with CLASHBooks, Speaking con su Sombra with Alegria Publishing and La Lengua Inside Me from FlowerSong Press
Kim Andrews @kqandrews.bsky.social “poetry person,” university of ottawa. displaced pennsylvanian. www.kqandrews.com.
battleaxe press / natalie hanna @battleaxepress.bsky.social small press poetry / poet / editor / lawyer / feminist killjoy
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
Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social narrator & protagonist of her own life | echolalia echolalia (Brick Books, 2024) | Crips for eSims for Gaza bit.ly/eSimsRUs
website: janeshi.org
Hasan Namir @hasannamir.bsky.social Iraqi-Canadian Author & a very proud Baba . My latest book Banana Dream is out on a bookshelf near you !