Alison Motluk @alisonmotluk.bsky.social Cranky freelance journalist
@johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Writer, photographer, flaneur, eco-conscious, advocate, doomer.
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
MarkZelinski.com @markzelinski-photo.bsky.social 🇨🇦Governor General's Medal, OCAD, RCGS, Explorers Club, Pro Photographer/Publisher/Speaker #MarkZelinski gifted 8K #BooksThatHeal to WW charities (fwds by HRH Philip, Justin Trudeau) MarkZelinski.com
Geoff Cain @geoffcain.bsky.social Geoffrey B. Cain is a writer, artist, bon vivant et flâneur.
Dare to be random!
https://linktr.ee/geoffcain
BC Studies @bcstudies.bsky.social The British Columbian Quarterly: a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to exploring BC's cultural, economic, and political life; past and present.
Female Feedback Film Festival @femalefilmfestival.bsky.social The FEEDBACK Female Film Festival (FFFF) was created for women filmmakers and screenwriters. The goal is to showcase the best of female talent from around the world.
https://femalefilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FEEDBACKFemaleFilmFestivalFFFF
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/
Brigitte | Web Designer 🌐 @manuellabrigitte.bsky.social Websites that turn attention into business. 🌐
I help founders, creators & growing businesses build high-converting websites and landing pages.
💻 Web Design | 🚀 Conversion | 📩 DM “SITE”
LGBTQ+ Toronto & LA Film Festival @lgbtlatoronto.bsky.social Monthly festival showcasing the best of LGBTQ+ films and screenplays from around the world, using the audience feedback format.
https://lgbttorontofilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/LGBTTorontoFilmFestival
Experimental/Dance/Music Festival @dancemusicexper.bsky.social Festivals take place in downtown Toronto, Canada, for the audience feedback video.
The festival has created 4 tiers to enhance your festival experience.
https://filmfreeway.com/ExperimentalFilmMusicVideoFestival
https://experimentalfilmfestival.com
Surazeus Simon Seamount @surazeus.bsky.social Surazeus Astarius Συράζευς Αστάριος.
Cartographer. Epic Poet. Author.
Hermead epic poem about Philosophers
in 126,680 lines of blank verse.
Historical Fiction.
http://tinyurl.com/AstarianScriptures
https://surazeus.blogspot.com
SpoFest (James Bryant) @spofest.bsky.social Disabled avant-garde writer & musician
Author of the Dark Haiku series
Championing writers and their original work through unique audio & video programming since 2011
SpoFest
From Their Lips To Your Ears
https://linktr.ee/SpoFest
Claris Lam @clarislamauthor.bsky.social Multi-genre author and poet writing to inspire readers with hope, perseverance, creativity, and happy endings.
All links: https://clarislam.carrd.co
Dave Gregory @courtlandavenue.bsky.social Retired sailor, writer, gardener.
Editor: Doric Literary
Fiction Editor: Exposition Review.
Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social An online journal publishing classically inspired short stories. Now open for submissions, 1000-8000 words. Edited by @CourtlandAvenue (Dave Gregory)
https://doric-literary.com/
Sarah Slack @sarahjslack.bsky.social Human rights & community care
Anti-genocide 🇵🇸 & everywhere
Still 😷 + to prevent COVID
& other airborne disease
Curiosity, connection, and community at our common table
@commontable.bsky.social
Daily FilmFreeway Festival Discount Codes @filmfreewaycodes.bsky.social Daily discount codes for various festivals to submit to on FilmFreeway
https://filmfreeway.com/festivals/discounts
Horror Underground Film Festival @horrorfilmfestival.bsky.social Various options to submit to the Festival. A HYBRID model. Cinema screenings for audience feedback video.Blog and podcast interviews. And bonus Virtual screening (optional!).
https://filmfreeway.com/horrorunderground
https://festivalforhorror.comi
Kate Foster @mkatef.bsky.social Nova Scotia
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
C. M. Christie @cmchristieauthor.bsky.social Writer, avid reader, she/her pronouns
Edmond Pang @edmond-pang.bsky.social Began writing in English, his second language, at fifty-one. Won The Malahat Review’s Novella Prize, earned an honorable mention for The Pinch Literary Award, and appeared in Kweli, BULL, and Flash Frontier. Lives between New York, Tokyo, and Vancouver.
Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social reader writer editor / linktr.ee/RahatKurd / THE BOOK OF Z: https://talonbooks.com/books/the-book-of-z / kashmīran / ahl-e-zubaan / she/they / free palestine
Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social
IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS 2nd edition (IceFloe Press 2026)
WHERE SANDS RUN FINEST (DarkWinter Press 2024)
Bridport Prize 2025 shortlist.
Pushcart, Forward Prize, BOTN, Best Spiritual Lit nominee
Guest Editor: IceFloe Press
linktr.ee/vikki_c._author
Josiah Nelson @josiahnelson.bsky.social I'm what you call shy - William Steig/me
Debut book forthcoming with @invisibooks.bsky.social
Words in Brick, CV2, Fractured Lit, Grain, and the Literary Review of Canada
Mark Coakley @markcoakley.bsky.social Book Writer
True crime - FACES OF FRAUD (coming soon!!!); Hidden Harvest; Tip & Trade
Romance/horror novel - Murder Bugs
Norse saga - The Saga of Halfdan the Black
History of psychedelics - Shroom Boom
markcoakleybooks.com
#HamOnt #Ontario #Canada
clubgeographic medium.com/@ilonarapin @clubgeographic.bsky.social I'm Ilona Rapin. I enjoy wandering the world, which inspires me to write stories about my impressions.
Flash fiction & travel stories have been published in Vine Leaves Press(GOT50), Fiftywordstories.com, Farewell Alarms, & Inspired 55+ Lifestyle Magazine.
Courtney Clute-Severn @courtneyclute.bsky.social Writer. Chapbook: ‘The Fermi Paradox’ (Alien Buddha Press). Alum: USF MFA. Coordinator: Read Herring. Creative Pinellas Grantee. www.courtneyclute.com
🇨🇦 My Tech Journey @rahman-m.bsky.social #100daysofcode
POLARiS @polaris-pens.bsky.social 23 - Xe/Xyr - Gendervoid - Pansexual - Greyromantic
Writes, Draws, makes things, mostly yaps. My employer would like you to know all opinions expressed here are soley my own.
Occasionally NSFW - Minors DNI please
Jacquie Pearce @jacquieink.bsky.social Writer of kids' books, poetry and nonfiction, lover of nature, history and art, living on Canada's west coast.
@margretbollerup.bsky.social @margretbollerup.bsky.social 
Barbara Stocker 💙📚 @bluebirdbhs.bsky.social Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social @melrea.bsky.social Team Site
Marlanator @marla.bsky.social I watch the sky over the mouth of the harbour in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sometimes it's blue!
Ashley Mangtani @writerash.bsky.social Slipstream Writer ✍️
Published or forthcoming in Strange Horizons | LITRO | Washington Square Review | Boudin | Neon Dystopia | Expat Press | HAWKEYE etc
Short story collection ⬇️
ashleymangtani.com
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
https://linktr.ee/kathrynmockler | https://www.kathrynmockler.com
@combatradio.bsky.social @combatradio.bsky.social Survived Warner Bros Studios/Now Exec Director of Combat Radio/Brigade-Radio-One based at NBC/Universal Studios. MMA practitioner. Terrorist attack survivor. Monk. https://linktr.ee/ethandettenmaier
TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social #Scientist, #advocate, and #educator in the field of #climatechange. #Author of uplifting #climatefiction novel "A New Faith." Read or download the novel for free at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#booksky #books #sciencefiction #solarpunk #hopepunk
Chris Banks @chrisbanks6625.bsky.social I’m a Canadian poet with eight collections of poems - Bureau of Useless Splendour forthcoming ECW press (Fall 2026). https://www.onlypoems.net/poets/chris-banks https://linktr.ee/royal.banksy
@thornton999.bsky.social @thornton999.bsky.social 
Reese @puppylove23.bsky.social 🐶 Woof! I'm Reese , a Boston Terrier with a black belt in snuggles. My human, BRETT CULBERT– you know, my actor papa who's on TV and all that? – thinks he's the star, but let's be real, I'm the real leading role here.
CosmoShidan @cosmoshidan.bsky.social I am a person with mild autism, with an interest in philosophy, poetry, anime, Space opera, Cosmic horror, sword-and-sorcery, and post-colonial libertarian socialism non-fiction and fiction. 
outrageouscreation.bsky.social @outrageouscreation.bsky.social American-Canadian Production Company based out of Kitsap County WA: Hidden Anecdotes & Other Tales
https://www.outrageouscreationsmedia.com
Michael Janairo @mjanairo.bsky.social Writer, reader, and I once jammed with The Washington Squares
🌿Aspen Harding | Author✨ @aspenharding.bsky.social 🌿WEEDIE WISDOM🌿
🔆Modern Philosophy | Spiritual Insights📿
I had a break-up.
I had a breakdown.
I had a breakthrough.
Crawling my way back up from rock bottom.
Sharing insights learned along the way.
Jon Lai @jonjlai.bsky.social Personal account
Progress over perfection
Pronouns are he / him
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | Treaty 6 (1876)
jade y. liu @jadeyuliu.bsky.social writer, dreamer | she/她 | articling student ⚖️ | poems @ jadeyliu.weebly.com | cognitive metaphor enthusiast!
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social Montréal
Writer, urban geographer.
Prose in The Common, PRISM international, Passages North, Hobart, The Ex-Puritan & more.
Ask me about skunks, I love them.
lysgranier.com
Fawn Parker @fparker.bsky.social Woman PhD
Susan Rudy @susanrudy.bsky.social Academic & Writer | London & Wivenhoe | QMUL researcher | former creative writing teacher at Birkbeck and English Professor at University of Calgary | queer feminist theory | experimental writing
OAT CUISINE @trotterjosh.bsky.social
https://chbooks.com/Books/M/Mission-Creep3
https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/poetry/all-this-could-be-yours-2/
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Will Richter @willrichter.bsky.social Debut story collection, JUST A HOWL, forthcoming 2027 from Rare Machines.
Stories at CBC, AQR, @fiddlehd.bsky.social, @subterrain.bsky.social, The Threepenny Review, Witness, elsewhere.
More self-promotion here: willrichter.ca
Prairie Fire Magazine @prairiefiremag.bsky.social Award-winning Canadian journal of innovative writing that has been publishing exceptional writing for over 45 years. One of Canada’s oldest literary magazines.
Geist Magazine @geistmag.bsky.social The weird and wonderful from the world of words.
geist.com
The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social We're an international literary magazine in Madrid. We connect English and Spanish speaking literary cultures through fiction, poetry, essays and interviews.
Subs Closed.
Monita Roy Mohan @monitamohan.bsky.social Bylines: @bamsmackpow.bsky.social, @geekgirlauthority.bsky.social, @wwacomics.bsky.social, @reactorsff.bsky.social, @huffpost.bsky.social, @soundspheremag.bsky.social, Collider.com, Show Snob, Vocal.
Co-host of @stereogeekspodcast.bsky.social
Elizabeth Smith @esmithfiction.bsky.social 
Esa Keltamäki @keltamakiesa.bsky.social 
@zzuum.bsky.social @zzuum.bsky.social 
Emilie K Adin @emiliekadin.bsky.social City-loving urban planning enthusiast, irl Leslie Knope.
My diet is strict urbanitarian.
Alter-ego as the caped crusader PlanGirl 🦹♀️ as with Planning West magazine’s "PlanGirl Travels" columns.
Author of the upcoming "The Urban Curious Guide to Europe"
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
Joe Couture @rjcouture.bsky.social I'm here for publications and political memes.
@ontassee.bsky.social @ontassee.bsky.social Settler researcher interested in the construction of health policy and health technology assessment. Views my own. He/him.
Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social #SciArt symptomatology and #anatomy #embroidery, writing, and #MECFS. A bit of music too. Canadian settler. she/her. https://linktr.ee/lia_pas
I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social Anti-Smoker My Website campralquitsmoking.net See How I Quit 20 Years Ago Fought Nicotine 35 Years Supporting others who Quit 🚭 STL MO ❤️To Promote Authors 📚 & Ozarks 🌄 Photographer 📷 Pez Add @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social 💙
Kevin Shaw @kevinshaw84.bsky.social Writer | Ottawa | www.kevinshaw.ca
The Malahat Review @malahatreview.bsky.social Canadian literary journal established in 1967 publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from emerging and established writers.
Anastasia Chipelski @anachips.bsky.social Editor and writer, often stuck under a napping cat. Managing editor @prairiebooksnow.bsky.social
@MisterJohnDoyle @misterjohndoyle.bsky.social Author, Playwright, Journalist. Was Columnist covering TV & Soccer for The Globe and Mail. Also wrote for NY Times, The Guardian. Now on Theatre projects. Books: A Great Feast of Light & bestseller The World is a Ball: The Joy, Madness & Meaning of Soccer.
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social Lives near that river, in Ottawa, Canada. Has been known to edit & work in arts orgs. Appreciates your book posts.
Vivek Sharma @sharmavivivek.bsky.social poet from two valleys, across two continents 🍃
@ducktd.bsky.social @ducktd.bsky.social 
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- L @leahsandals.bsky.social @leahsandals.bsky.social
Lea Love @lealovewriter.bsky.social Writer | Mystic |Mom
DV Advocate ♥️
Queer Feminist 🏳️🌈
♡Quotes to Laugh & Heal♡
Rep'd: @transatlantic_agency
https://linktr.ee/lealovewriter
Global Majority Press @globalmajoritypres.bsky.social Small indie lit press run by and for PoGM
Empowering marginalized creatives to tell their own stories
Editor: @mxchristalbot.bsky.social
Home of: thebkmagazine.bsky.social
bio.site/globalmajoritypress
Kath Healing @kathhealing.bsky.social queer, trans, disabled, multiple
poet & writer
what survives the paperwork
http://kathhealing.com
Molly Gunzinger Janz @mgjanz.bsky.social 
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,
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/
Edmonton Poetry Festival @edmpoetryfestival.bsky.social Edmonton's month-long poetry celebration every April!
#yeg #AB #poetry
Website: https://edmontonpoetryfestival.com
Newsletter: https://edmontonpoetryfestival.com/the-magpie/- A A. Daniyal @adaniyal.bsky.social I am no one.
m.j. clement | author @proseandpyre.bsky.social currently building a digital magazine called prose and pyre, dedicated to exploring self-sovereignty through fiction and personal development.
Kimberly Foulger @quillkim.bsky.social After a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, Kim turned to integrating the wisdom of 25yrs experience working with vulnerable families with her passion for writing. She writes nonfiction, fiction and poetry.
Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social indie poetry publisher based in Canada with an international focus. we publish books and we have an online website with series and blogs w/poets, fiction writers, visual artist, experimental projects www.icefloepress.net EIC/publisher Robert Frede Kenter
Azalea Dunn/A.Z. Dunsworth 🇯🇲 🇳🇬 🍉 @azaleadunn.bsky.social Island girl 🌺
African princess 👑
Queer & proud 🏳️🌈
Writer of interracial/multicultural romance (as Azalea) & sci fi/fantasy (as A.Z.) http://books2read.com/u/38MPwV
Currently based in Jamaica.
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!
https://sfu.ca/write
Crab Apple Literary @crabapplelit.bsky.social Montreal based Literary Magazine for the strange, deformed, and forgotten 🍎
✉: crabapplelit@gmail.com
Insta: @crabappleliterary
crabapplelit.wixsite.com/crab-apple-literary/issue-5
Talonbooks @talonbooks.bsky.social Publishing words that matter since 1967. www.talonbooks.com
Subscribe to our monthly newsletter: https://shorturl.at/xQc5I
Kegedonce Press @kegedoncepress.bsky.social All-Indigenous press on the territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (Neyaashiinigmiing and the land occupied by the city of Owen Sound, ON).
www.kegedonce.com
communications@kegedonce.com
Morgen Jahnke @morgenjahnke.bsky.social Writer, autistic mama, Saskatoon moon watcher. Nerd for nature, poetry, politics. Poetry: Grain, Prairie Fire
Hannah Eiserman @hannaheiserman.bsky.social Managing Editor of the Ex-Puritan. MA in English. Writer, forest dweller, part fish. Late Victorianist.