Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social Still in that awkward pre-ghost phase
writer/editor at The Beaverton
she/her | Vancouver B.C.
Articles: https://www.thebeaverton.com/author/mary-gillis/
If you wanna criticize me, pay here first: https://ko-fi.com/marygillis
Amanda Huynh | 黃珮詩 @amandahuynh.bsky.social BDes, MSc. | Product & food designer | she/her/hers | I have a hard time controlling my tone of voice.- D @dmh.bsky.social @dmh.bsky.social
@margretbollerup.bsky.social @margretbollerup.bsky.social 
Summit County Libraries @summitlibraries.bsky.social #1 Most Followed Library in the USA!
https://summitcountylibraries.org/
Located in beautiful Summit County, Colorado.
Dave Weasel @daveweasel.bsky.social Comedian, podcaster, etc. 5x billboard comedy chart topper
Anne Tenning @annetenning.bsky.social First Nations educator, writer, PhD student.
Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social Novelist (Radioland, The Society of Experience) / short fiction / essays.
Agent: Kelvin Kong, K2 Literary
Former film/TV post supervisor, currently Registered Psychotherapist in private practice
Haunting the margins
Merc with a 🫦 @mercuryal.bsky.social All aboard the #USSBIMBO 🚀 i’ll B ur Cap’n 💅🏻 your angle 😇… or yuor devil 😈
Neighborhood Space Ace in ✨BIMBO MODE✨
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🛍️ Bimbofleet Shop: https://ussbimbo-shop-fourthwall-com-shop.fourthwall.com/
tips 💸 v e n m o @Mercuryal 💖🖖🏻
Royal City Literary Arts Society @rclas.bsky.social www.rclas.com
RCLAS’s mission is to maintain and build a welcoming community of writers and readers, to support the goals of writers at all stages of their development, and to promote an appreciation of all forms of literary arts.
Y2K Quarterly @y2kq.com Literary chaos in 1999 words or less.
Y2K Themed Literary Magazine
EIC: @jetgirl.art
https://y2kq.com
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.
🍂 "Fall Sicko" Sophie 🦇 @frau-loren.bsky.social | german | star trek | catlady | fckafd | she/her | currently Pluribus-pilled and watching SG-1 for the first time through | 🚫 AI | UBI now |
L. A. Wibberley @lawibberley.bsky.social Canadian. She/her/physiotherapist/storyteller, lover of dogs, snow, coffee & magic in no particular order. Magical realism, WF, Horror & spec fiction. Work in Bram Stoker & Aurora nominated anthologies
Rep: @NaomisLitPix @Bookendslit
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
Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social Writer's writer's writer.
📚 STILL ALIVE (2024), longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. https://eveninghousebooks.com/product/still-alive/
Carla @carlaxs.bsky.social Sing a lot, read a lot, play a lot.
dinsdale press @dinsdalepress.bsky.social A brand-new Canadian indie micro press where the dream meets the page! Owned by award-nominated author @bgordonauthor.bsky.social and award-winning author and editor @caitgauthor.bsky.social.
Jen Stewart @jstewgie.bsky.social Riding bikes, reading books, petting dogs, trying to improve the world in Victoria, BC. Proofreader and editor. Past lives in law and QA. Swearmonger.
Dire Dire Docks @dirediredocks.bsky.social | Metis | Jewish | Queer |
| Vancouver Island based 📍|
| The nerdy bisexual your parents warned you about | 📷: Fujifilm X-T100, Canon Rebel T2i, and Pixel 10 Pro
Talk to me about baseball ⚾
Currently 🎮: Alan Wake II 🔦, Splatoon Raiders 🦑🐙
Daniel Rück @danrueck.bsky.social Historian of settler colonialism, sacred land and ruination, law and order, trees and rivers, theft and restitution. University of Ottawa, settler, he/him, www.danrueck.com
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Rob Mathison @robmwrites.bsky.social Writing & other content things. Writing instructor at University of British Columbia. Slowly writing #VWFC & #HMFC football books when not freelancing. linktr.ee/robmathison
Said, MD, PhD @saidze.bsky.social Dad
Doctor
Liberal
Entrepreneur
BJJ Blackbelt
COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social Join the movement to Evict Ken Sim and fight for housing, public services, climate action, and integrity at City Hall.
All power to the people.
https://www.votecope.ca/
Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social Social Psychologist | Likes Birds and Dogs and Books and Tennis | Eldest Millennial | Waterloo, Ontario 🍁
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Lisa Whittington-Hill @lisawhitt.bsky.social This Magazine Publisher. Words in Longreads, The Walrus, Catapult, Hazlitt and more. Author of Girls, Interrupted: How Pop Culture Is Failing Women and a 33 1/3 on Beauty and the Beat by The Go-Go's.
Max Robin @maxckz.bsky.social Storytelller on coast salish sea, focused on ecogothic possibilities - local witch, functioning redhead, probably currently up to something - They/Them - LET ME PLAY ROMEO
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Hanson Ho @bidetofevil.wtf Observability. Android Perf. Music. Sports Nerdery. 🇭🇰🇨🇦. Bringing OpenTelemetry to mobile and vice versa @ embrace.io
Long-form navel-gazing and thoughts about Watford FC: https://hanson.wtf. Laura Stevenson stan account.
Karen Quinn Fung 馮皓珍 @kqf.ca Co-ops, cycling and civictech in the streets; amateur making, disability justice and decolonization in the sheets. | she/her
w3w: wrong.thin.stencil
Janaya Fuller Evans @janayafe.bsky.social Canadian writer and witch. Pansexual and gender fluid. They/Them.
SEAN ORR @seanorr.bsky.social Vancouver city councillor
indiebookspotlight.com - Discover Indie Books @indiebookspotlight.com Shining a light on indie authors.
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Joanne Betzler (she/her) @jo-betzler.bsky.social I am a late-blooming
#writer , scrambling to sort the clutter of stories in my head.
m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere.
enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press
writing - https://oddletters.com/
stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch
i curse a lot
he/they
Mediagazer @mediagazer.com Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web.
This account shares top-level Mediagazer headlines. Visit https://mediagazer.com/ for full context.
42four @424.bsky.social 42four, a Vancouver Design Studio. J. Cassels, Lead Designer.
Set Design, Visualizations and Art Department Multi-Tool. IASTE 891✊🏼
Louise M. Aamodt @louisemaamodt.bsky.social Picture book author, SCBWI, educator, ant-watcher, defender of the underdogs. Rep’d by Emily S. Keyes @esc_key. www.LouiseAamodt.com
O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social It's pronounced like 'ossuary'. Neodecadentata pulp novelist + flame shirt revitalist
Local 210
Ksamkcab yub
Ofcieri.com
University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA @uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social The official page of the University of Guelph Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, located at the University of Guelph-Humber in Toronto, Canada.
Website: https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/cwmfa
Linktree: linktr.ee/uguelphcwmfa
Sveitalubbi @gangleri.bsky.social Some dude that lives in rural Iceland. Used to live in downtown Reykjavík, before it was cool.
Claire Phillips @clairephillips.bsky.social Author, A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother & Schizophrenia; Lecturer: CalArts, SCI-Arc
The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn Vol.1, Joyland, Los Angeles Review of Books & more
periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social est. March 2020 : editor/publisher rob mclennan https://bsky.app/profile/robmclennan.bsky.social
built as a curious extension of above/ground press (b. 1993
https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/
member of Literary Magazines Canada Collective,
Eleonore Schonmaier Author @eleonoreschonmaier.bsky.social Poetry, fiction, song lyrics, music-theater. Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete, Dustblown Side of the Journey, Wavelengths of Your Song and Rush of Wingspan (2026, MQUP).
https://eleonoreschonmaier.com
Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social Philosopher and applied mathematician at UC Irvine. Author of The Misinformation Age and Origins of Unfairness. Irish dancer. Mother. Mother of Chickens.
Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. Americanist. „Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/sabrinamittermeier
Steffi @larkistin89.bsky.social She/Her | 37 | Germany
🏳️🌈,🩷💜💙
Human, thus a Mystery
Elizabeth Ruth @elizabethruth.bsky.social Novelist & Poet. Author of (fiction) Semi-Detached, Matadora, Smoke, Ten Good Seconds of Silence (Poetry) This Report Is Strictly Confidential. Website: elizabethruth.com Insta: elizabethruthauthor Creative writing Instructor, U of Toronto. Lives in Canada
Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social Permafrost Research Scientist - PhD. Ground ice and effects of climate change. Also like bikes, EVs, and making cities better🌳 🚲. UVic and Carleton U Alum. Long Covid rebuilder 🤖👁️🧠🦾🦿. 0.25🇺🇦 слава україні !
Paula Wirth @paulawirth.bsky.social Creative artist & content/community/tech Swiss army knife, in Oakland, CA. Pro-DEI, libraries, democracy, LGBTQ+, immigrant rights, vaccines, human intelligence.
NO SPAM unless canned.
🖋️📸 🎨🐕🐈📚🌈🦄
Art @theplayfulbrush.com
linktr.ee/paulawirth
Vendettas only @venstl07.bsky.social Ambivert. Patriot. Boy Mom. Dog Mom. Cat Aunt. Mental Health Advocate. Ally. Feminist. Logophile. Bibliophile. Philomath.NPS junkie. My opinions are my own.
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art @billreidgallery.ca The only public gallery in Canada dedicated to the inspiring work of Bill Reid and the contemporary Indigenous art of the Northwest Coast.
www.billreidgallery.ca
📍 639 Hornby St. Vancouver, BC.
Haq Story School @haqstoryschool.bsky.social Storytelling school and studio helping nonfiction writers, journalists, podcasters and filmmakers build their craft and careers.
Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social Prof. Emeritus at Dalhousie/King's in Halifax, NS. Canadian history (with sources), public finance, pix of woodland and coast. Slow to anger. Stage IV MBC https://ukings.ca/people/shirley-tillotson/
Ian Hanomansing @ianhanomansing.bsky.social Canadian journalist based in Vancouver.
Vancouver Is Awesome @viawesome.bsky.social Keeping Vancouver in the know about news, food, Canucks hockey, and events since 2008. Miss us on Meta? Sign up for our newsletters: http://bit.ly/47G6jjw
Arno Kopecky @arnokopecky.bsky.social Writer at large (but mostly Vancouver).
Environment, culture, politics...
All too earnest.
KierenintheHammer @kierenwillhammer.bsky.social Queer, gender liminal adoptee. Writer. Former prof and retired community organizer. Sweet spots: in a tent in the woods or by the ocean.
Rachel Browne @rachelbrowne.ca investigative journalist & documentary producer | contributing writer @thewalrus.ca | former VICE News | LET US PLAY for @beaconpress.bsky.social, out now!
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/780979/let-us-play-by-harrison-browne-and-rachel-browne/
Carine Abouseif @carineabouseif.bsky.social Senior Editor at thewalrus.ca: carine@thewalrus.ca
Writer carineabouseif.com
Siddhesh Inamdar @i-siddhesh.bsky.social Features Editor @thewalrus.ca
Previously, Executive Editor at HarperCollins India
Carmine Starnino @cstarnino.bsky.social I edit for http://thewalrus.ca. Most recent book is Dirty Words: Selected Poems 1997-2016 http://bit.ly/3hZXOED
Harley Rustad @harleyrustad.com Senior editor @thewalrus.ca: harley@thewalrus.ca
Author of LOST IN THE VALLEY OF DEATH (2022) and BIG LONELY DOUG (2018)
Founder @portrenfrewwritersretreat.com
harleyrustad.com
The Walrus @thewalrus.ca Award-winning independent journalism, fact checking, national ideas-focused events, and podcasts. Stay connected: http://thewalrus.ca/newsletters
Damien C-C @dccc-phd.bsky.social Human geneticist 🧬, bioinformagician 🧙🏻♂️, choral musician 🎼, and unrepentant city slicker 🏙️. Amplifying interesting signals (like #ScienceWin)! [he/him]
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3466-1846
Sabra Boyd @sabraboyd.bsky.social journalist | screenwriter | comms strategist | child trafficking survivor | ex hospital admin | born on a Coen brothers movie | SabraBoyd.com
ECUAD Ceramics @ecu-cram.bsky.social The ceramic department in Canada’s No. 1 art school. Vancouver BC 🇨🇦https://www.ecuad.ca/academics/all-programs/undergraduate-programs/ceramics
WSFerrys @wsferrys.bsky.social The second best ferrys parody account...IN THE WORLD
“Parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer.” - Ernest Hemingway
"Satire is a sort of mirror glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." - Jonathan Swift
Tarô Mágico @taromagico.bsky.social Aplicativo oracular quântico raro que publica tarô e que IAs treinadas ajudam a interpretar. Comente "dica" ou acesse o site. Mais informações na postagem fixada https://terraprotege.com/apps/taro-magico @terraprotege.bsky.social
Red Ogre Review @ogre.red We're an indie arts press:
https://ogre.red
Submissions:
https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit
Books:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH3QKYKX?binding=paperback
Poetry readings and music:
https://www.youtube.com/@redogrereview
L I A N N E Z A N N I E R @liannezannier.bsky.social artist | experimental animator | notes on process | basement dweller | she/her 🌝
www.liannezannier.com
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Roberta Laurie @robertalaurie.bsky.social Writer, editor, teacher, artist living offgrid🌲in the Canadian Boreal🇨🇦Author Weaving a Malawi Sunrise📚Writing on sustainability, nature, adoption, mental health, eating disorders, LC, communication 🐝 Born 320ppm CO2 🌎 https://linktr.ee/robertalaurie
Flegg Creative @fleggcreative.ca Strategy | Design | Web Dev
In the age of digital overwhelm, we aim to simplify.
Designing beautiful, accessible brands at a more human pace.
@shanamyara.bsky.social @shanamyara.bsky.social 
Jenna Butler @jennabutler.bsky.social Author, writing mentor, editor, farmer. she/her
Revery, A Profession of Hope, Magnetic North, and more. GG finalist. Acquisitions Editor, Barbour Books at NeWest Press
www.jennabutler.com
Anne Golden @annegolden.bsky.social Retired employment lawyer (for employees only). Word lover. Lifelong hard-left Democrat. Atheist. Oxford comma lover. Loathe Trump and all his toadies. Antioch College in the ‘60s was amazing. NO DMs. #bluecrew #blueresisters #leguminati🫘
Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social Associate Professor @ UBC
computational sociology
machine learning is feminist
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing.
www.lauraknelson.com
Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com She/her, SFF writer, narrative video game designer/developer. Not AI.
📖 Querying my queer science fiction heist novel.
🎮 Making After Work, a game about rummaging around in your coworkers' desks: https://cornonthecob.games
https://catherinewinters.com
Fine Print Press @fineprintpaper.com An independent literary & visual arts magazine + small press.
Issue fifteen out now.
linktr.ee/fineprintpress
Jeannette Bedard @jeannettebedard.bsky.social Always writing, I have hard drives full with ones and zeros that occasionally coalesce into books. I live on a non-tropical island in the Pacific and loves a good math joke, especially if there is pi involved.
https://jeannettebedard.substack.com/
ColinRThomas @colinrthomas.bsky.social Theatre critic, formerly of The Georgia Straight, now posting on colinthomas.ca and producing Fresh Sheet, a weekly newsletter about the intersection between art and politics.
Dog lover. Vintage homosexual.
FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social FWC is a multi-state Indivisible Group and a grassroots operation providing messaging and social media content inspired by our progressive allies.
https://indivisible.org
Aimee Bender @aimee-bender.bsky.social writer, teacher, author of fiction including The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and Willful Creatures. Happy to be on here.
Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social Vancouver librarian, writer, music and radio type (etc.), often worrying about mis/disinformation and AI. I block profiles that give a weird vibe -- sorry if this leads to some errors. (Opinions are my own.)
Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition hosted by the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Tina Brobby @tbrobbs.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇬🇭🇬🇧 CNF Writer, photographer, lawyer, adoptee. Memoir in the making.
https://christinabrobby.com
Michelle Boone @michellejboone.bsky.social Lover of books, art, nature, cats. Short story, The Mathematician, in Existere Journal; Full Submission in the Danforth Review. Glimmer Train Finalist.