sarah berman @sarahberms.bsky.social author of don't call it a cult
podcast producer
sarah.berms@gmail.com
Michael Harris @michaeljohnharris.com Author of The End of Absence, Solitude, and All We Want
MichaelJohnHarris.com
Dylan Freeman-Grist 🍁 @freemangrist.bsky.social Freelance Journalist | (he/him) | Opinions my own | Toronto & Hamilton | Settler |
@dreid63 @dreid63.bsky.social She/her, settler. Writer @washingtonpost @Eater @GlobeandMail. Represented by Aevitas Creative Management.
Miranda Newman @mirandanewman.bsky.social Writer. Author of ROUGH MAGIC (2024).
Tyler Cheese @tyrcheese.bsky.social TV, radio, and web reporter at CBC Toronto.
Send story pitches to tyler.cheese@cbc.ca.
Bruce Gillespie (he/him) @brucegillespie.com Journalism, UX, Higher Ed
www.brucegillespie.com
Negro Frolics @desmondcole.bsky.social Senior writer @breachmedia.ca
Website: breachmedia.ca
Book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/536075/the-skin-were-in-by-desmond-cole/9780385686
Bookings: Scott Sellers
ssellers@penguinrandomhouse.com
Bee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app Multimedia storyteller | Duppy conqueror | A special occasion and a small axe 🇯🇲🇨🇦 | Book: THE BOOK OF POSSIBILITIES (Penguin Canada, 2025) | Newsletter: VIVRANT (via beequammie.com)
haley mlotek @haleymelodic.bsky.social it’s pronounced melodic
www.haleymlotek.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612168/no-fault-by-haley-mlotek/
Gabrielle Smith @bygabriellesmith.bsky.social ☀️ writer • non-monogamy educator
☀️ connecting the dots between our relationships & society
☀️ @bygabriellesmith on IG for words
☀️ @sweettalk.nyc on IG to meet sweet weirdos
Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social I write and yak for CBC in Calgary. DMs open, Signal, WhatsApp, and such
jason.markusoff@cbc.ca
The Internet's Hazlitt Magazine @hazlitt.bsky.social 
@maureenhalushak.bsky.social @maureenhalushak.bsky.social 
Chatelaine @chatelainemag.bsky.social Chatelaine celebrates, inspires, informs and empowers an often-overlooked demographic: women aged 35+. Full issues available on Apple News+.
Justin Ling @justinling.ca Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
Newsletter: www.bugeyedandshameless.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JustinLing
Signal: JustinLing.42
ishmael @ishmael.bsky.social Journalist in NYC: digital editor for @democracynow.org and engagement editor for northsouthnotes.org
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
Jonathan Goldsbie @goldsbie.bsky.social Mastodon didn't feel right, and hanging out on Twitter felt like trying to enjoy a beach vacation in a country with an increasingly spotty rights record.
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
H.G. Watson @hgwatsonwrites.bsky.social Writer. Sometimes teacher, sometimes audience development. Writing a book about the teen mags of the 1990s and 2000s. 👩💻💖
Emma McIntosh @emmamci.bsky.social Investigations @thestar.com. Formerly @thenarwhal.ca. Fan of FOI and lake swims. Hosted Paydirt, a podcast miniseries about the Greenbelt scandal. Signal: emmamci.76
Matt Galloway @mattgalloway.bsky.social I ask questions on the radio for a living. Also like running.
Theo Ward @theoward.bsky.social Writer. Fetal Irish emigrant. Looking beyond the peephole of rage. 🇮🇪 🇨🇦
http://instagram.com/londontheo
Christopher Karas @chriskaras.bsky.social eager donors—particularly queer men and trans women—remain unable to donate...
Christopher Karas' personal account. Email: karas@karasadvocacy.com
Website: www.karasadvocacy.com he/ him
Steve Fisher, BFA, CD (he/him) @gracingthestage.bsky.social A&E critic emeritus—Torontoist/AV Club/Now Magazine, etc.
Naval Reserve Instructor.
Canadian Theatre Critics Association board member, #TheaTO hashtag creator.
Burly #BikeTO boi, karaoke kid, LGBTQ+ Ally. BLM #Tkaronto
Brian Bradley @brianjbradley.bsky.social Toronto Star Journalist 📰 + Craig Russell, Lori Jenkins, Michael Oscars biographer (#Outrageous Misfits) + New Dad 🍼 Posts about 416 and 905. He/Him
kat @hi-kat.bsky.social music, books, baseball, women, witches, toast, the ocean, hats, cats, snacking, snarking. (she/her) 🍦
Alusulue'katik, NS
Dr. Liz Powell (they/them) @drlizpowell.bsky.social I'm a psychologist, speaker, author, & coach who believes that Great Sex can change the world! Bi, queer, polyam, kinky, genderqueer. Pronouns they/ them.
Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD PhD @nilikm.bsky.social #Canadian | Family doctor | Assistant Prof #UOttawa | mother | medical #anthropology | #McGill | #UCL | #Yale | writer | RxAdvocacy | Fulbright Scholar | Commonwealth Scholar | #Ottawa | #MedSky | nilikm.gander.social | personal account (she/her) 🇨🇦
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)
Grimbly 🇨🇦 @sgrimbly.bsky.social Queen's Park North -- revitalization plan
Kate Sloan (she/her) @katesloan.com 📚 Author/Journalist KateWritesAboutSex.com
🍆 Sex toy reviewer GirlyJuice.net
🎙️ Sex podcaster TheDildorks.com
🪄 Vibrator nerd MakingMagicSeries.com
🎶 Songwriter KateSloan.Bandcamp.com
📍 Brooklyn + sometimes Toronto
Chris Taylor @christaylornyc.bsky.social Award-winning personal finance journalist; Marathoner x13; Dad x2. Beagle x1.
Asher M. Roth @theasherroth.bsky.social Evening Traffic Reporter (and other things) at 680 NewsRadio. Contributor at Jays Journal. SCTV superfan. Serial Impressionist (sorry). Views are my own.
Martha Rivers Porado @marthaporado.bsky.social Editor of the independent, go-to news source for Canada’s doctors and pharmacists: CanadianHealthcareNetwork.ca, online home of the Medical Post and Pharmacy Practice + Business magazines #MedSky
I've seen more movies than you.
Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social Producer at COMMOTION (CBC Radio 1); writer for Pitchfork, Bandcamp Daily; author of THIS BOOK IS BROKEN: A Broken Social Scene Story + TOO MUCH TROUBLE: A Very Oral History of Danko Jones; publisher of stubermania.substack.com + hamontlive.substack.com
Tara-Michelle Ziniuk @tmziniuk.bsky.social Editor, writer, media-maker, parent.
Past lives in activism and community radio.
Likes: menus, comics, lists, farmers markets, good poetry, bad TV.
By day: managing editor @ Xtra Magazine
Tyler Hellard @tylerhellard.com Sensitive 90s’ male. “Searching For Terry Punchout" — part of Canada Reads 2026 — is probably available at your local bookstore.
http://tylerhellard.com/
🌈🥞ThePiPiper🐼🌈 @thepipiper.bsky.social Discovery Streamer | Any/All | Speedrunner | Kaizo/SMM | Charity Driven 🦄Narwhal Pod Leader 🐋 | Cosplayer | 💗💛💙 | ♎ | INTP | twitch.tv/ThePiPiper | Views expressed here are my own
ambrose albert @ambrosealbert.bsky.social he/him | il * transmasc poet & community organizer * bec & call w/ Nightwood Editions 2018 * former Fredericton poet laureate * 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social Writer, Toronto. Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker (Simon & Schuster, 2022) https://www.jason-mcbride.com/
Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social Editor. Word person. Bookstore aficionado and occasional bookseller. You say I’m a nerd like it’s a bad thing.
Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com Data & Storytelling Strategist. Views my own and subject to change, especially in light of new evidence. 🌐 robsonfletcher.com
andrea bennett (they/them) @akkabah.bsky.social Senior editor at The Tyee. Author of the essay collections Hearty: On Cooking, Eating and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence (ECW Press) & Like a Boy but Not a Boy (Arsenal Pulp). Co-editor of the BC bestselling Points of Interest.
Sarah Sweet @sarahsweet.bsky.social Journalist at TVO. Responsible cat owner. This article is a stub. 
Alex Tesar @alexdt.bsky.social 
Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social Executive editor @thenarwhal.ca. Still hate gum. The lakes, they are Great.
(Illo by Andrea Bell, from The Leak, a kid's graphic novel about a girl that does environmental journalism!)
Aimee @monamieaimee.bsky.social Just my Connections scores for now.
Nicole Rifkin @nicolerifkin.bsky.social World’s tallest living artist ✨
baltimore, md ✨
Canadian Poli @cdnpoli.bsky.social Canadian political news- D @daniellegroen.bsky.social @daniellegroen.bsky.social
Christine Varnado @eyweltschmerz.bsky.social Spread the Weltschmerz! Buffalo / The Shapes of Fancy (https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-shapes-of-fancy) 
Kelli María Korducki @kelkord.bsky.social Writing about the business of normal life. Formerly editing at The Atlantic, The Guardian, Medium. Another Canadian transplant in NY but I’m also from Milwaukee.
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Dev Ramsawakh @merkyywaters.bsky.social witness, aggregator, archive
indivisiblewriting.carrd.co
scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca Gay Irish-Canadian Buddhist journalist.
Chaotic good.
JEDI consultant with Breakfast Culture.
He/him.
Naomi Skwarna @naomisk.bsky.social 
Hamutal Dotan @hamutal.bsky.social editing (magazines, books) and teaching (UofT, TMU); mostly posting journalism longreads; hopefully outside | she/her- D @davidhains.bsky.social @davidhains.bsky.social
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social Author of How to Survive a Bear Attack, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award in Non-Fiction | I write about wild things, I run & I read
https://www.claire-cameron.com
Ama Scriver @amascriver.bsky.social 💅Fat, loud & shouty (she/they)
🎙️ High Low Brow, the podcast
🍩 Director of Snacks
❤️ River + Ocean
📌 Toronto, Canada
Veronica Simmonds @veesimmonds.bsky.social Senior Producer @cbcpodcasts & Lake Swimmer http://bodyofwater.ca 🏊🏻♀️ 
alex manley @alexicon.bsky.social non-binary word person. author of The New Masculinity (2023) and Post-Man (2025), translator of Made-Up (2021). alexmanley.com
Samantha eff Jones @sjonespoet.bsky.social Earth scientist. Poet. Editor. Arctic. Geohumanities. Black Canadian & white settler. Books: Attic Rain (NeWest) & I'll Get Right On It! (Roseway). Greyhound enthusiast. Speaks/Parle/Puhun English, mal français, vähän suomea. https://linktr.ee/JonesYYC
tannara @tyllnd.bsky.social big ups to people of all stars and stripes. editor, professional student
Bob Rose @thundergruntbob.bsky.social Schlock Filmmaker
Failed T-Shirt Author
Remorseful Podcaster
He/Him
https://linktr.ee/thundergruntbob
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Taylor Lambert @taylorlambert.ca Investigative journalist at CBC Edmonton • Author of Darwin's Moving & other fine-ish books • he/him • taylorlambert.ca
Tips welcome! Contact me securely on Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/uX+mBaJwF75zOw0nJ1vWbuHW4iZmjOPIWgaSTWlXkvIC05g03+hNyKap2dVjMcF7
elaine! @ourladyofcoffee.bsky.social || She/her, 29.||
Your patron saint of overcaffeination. My family's from Beausoleil FN; I'm Ottawa Valley trash. Fibro and FND, poetry, blunt-force enthusiasm. Zines, etc: https://thecryptidfiddle.square.site/shop/ourladyofcoffee/8
Michael John Lo @michaeljohnlo.bsky.social Skeetin' from Victoria, Canada. Reporter with the Times Colonist newspaper, prev. words in the Globe and Mail, The Tyee, Capital Daily & more. He/him. Allergic to eggplant, shrimp, lobster.
The New York Times @nytimes.com In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: http://nyti.ms/2FVHq9v
19thnews @19thnews.org The 19th is an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics, policy and power. https://19thnews.org/newsletters
Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social Yukon-based author, writer, editor
Western Canada Editor, Canadian Geographic
Contributing editor, High Country News
My books are NERVE and NO SLEEP 'TIL FAIRBANKS
Romance reader, slow but enthusiastic cyclist, wife guy
Stephanie @stephaniemp3.bsky.social 
Jessica Reed @iamjess.bsky.social Head of narrative, The Guardian. I edit US long form and essays. How to pitch me: see below. French. Based in Montana.
‘We can't stop here, this is bat country' - Hunter S Thompson.
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. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
Tori Marlan @torimarlan.bsky.social Journalist | Managing Editor Buffalo’s Fire | Bylines in the US and Canada | The Marshall Project, The Atavist Magazine, The Walrus Magazine, CBC, The Seattle Times, Buzzfeed News, and more. Chicago Reader alum. National Newspaper Award. torimarlan.com
sean s. n. murphy @seansnmurphy.ca (he/him) • editorial @ black press media
hello@seansnmurphy.ca • vancouver, bc
Justin Chandler @justinchandler.work He/Him | CBC News reporter in #HamOnt | @cmglaguilde.bsky.social / @cwacanada1.bsky.social union organizer | Comic-book enthusiast | Ex: @wearetvo.bsky.social, CBC Radio, Radio Free Krypton | DM for Signal | https://www.justinchandler.work/
Navneet Alang @navneetalang.com Editor on the Opinion team @ Toronto Star. Pitch me at nalang@thestar.ca.
Writer, columnist, bylines all over. PhD. Anglo-Indo-Canadian, each in equal measure. https://navneetalang.com/
Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social Writer of CNF/fiction, instructor at Emily Carr U and writing consultant. Recent bylines at The Walrus, University Affairs, etc. She/ her https://linktr.ee/ethorkel
Twelve Thirty Six @1236.bsky.social 
John Loeppky @jloeppky.com Disabled Freelance Journalist. Crippled & Creative. He/Him.
https://www.patreon.com/JLoeppky / https://www.jloeppky.com/crpl-media
Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social Journalist. Entrepreneur. Kwantlen FN, Nooksack Tribe. rjago.substack.com / knowledgekeepr.ca
Q. Anthony Ali @nobleqali.bsky.social I know a few things about a few things.
YYZ to PEK
https://substack.thekulture.org/
Madeline Smith @meksmith.bsky.social Justice reporter at CBC Edmonton, on maternity leave until Feb 2027. Past life in newspapers (Journal, Herald, StarMetro). Fighting for my life on uncomfortable courthouse gallery benches. she/her
madeline.smith@cbc.ca
Sam 🛸 @samnock.bsky.social @sammymarie from twitter.
writer, poet, apihtaw’kos’an iskwew.
loves reading, liberatory education, and making bad jokes. debut poetry book: A Family of Dreamers @talonbooks.
my opinions do not reflect the opinions of my employer.
yara el-soueidi @yaraelsoueidi.bsky.social Writer. Music Journalist. Montrealer. Millennial. Your favourite It-Girl. Always depressed, never bland.
www.yaraelsoueidi.com
Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com Cookbook CRIP UP THE KITCHEN out now. Disabled+autistic+gay+trans. Pro food photographer. Author. Natural bodybuilder back in school to become Registered Health & Nutrition Counsellor
Rep: Sarah N. Fisk
Out on sub with YA
julessherred.link
Duncan, B.C.
Peter Knegt @peterknegt.bsky.social www.peterknegt.com
Arshy Mann @arshy.bsky.social Journalist, displaced Vancouverite. Co-founder of The Hatchet, a podcast & newsletter dedicating to exposing power and money in Canada. Subscribe at hatchetmedia.substack.com.
Erin Pepler @erinpepler.bsky.social Freelance writer, book nerd, interested and sometimes interesting. Toronto gone suburbs. Author of Send Me Into The Woods Alone: Essays on Motherhood.
Jamie Bradburn @jbcurio.bsky.social Writer/researcher/public historian for hire, specializing in Toronto/Ontario history that ties into the current zeitgeist. Former Sunday Star quizmaster and Historicist. Crafts award-winning stories. Walks a lot. Has adventures with stuffed porcupines.
JP Larocque @jplarocque.bsky.social Screenwriter & Producer (Sort Of, Allegiance, North of North, Small Achievable Goals, SkyMed, Coroner, Slasher, Jann, Diggstown, Another Life, Popularity Papers, Home Sweet Rome). Sometimes journo. they/them
Dave Bidini @davebidini.bsky.social Publisher @westendphoenix Rheostatics. Author of 13 books. Hockey Nomad. Movies. Also: Ballpoint Agency.
Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social Editor. https://policyoptions.irpp.org/
Retired reporter. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/les-perreaux/
Elamin Abdelmahmoud @elamin.bsky.social I’m doing good, I’m on some new shit 
Supriya Dwivedi @supriya.bsky.social