Shelagh Rowan-Legg @shelaghrowanlegg.northsky.social Poet | Writer | Filmmaker | Scholar |
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OFCS, AQCC, Fipresci | Tiohtià:ke/Montréal |
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca Journalism to map a just future.
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Anne Bell @jangmajip.bsky.social Visual artist and lover of language.
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Sandhya Thakrar @sandhyathakrar.bsky.social PhD-Haver, Mother-Writer, Art-Monster. Words in Brick, The New Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review. Winner of Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award. She/her.
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.
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Andy Miller @jandrewm.bsky.social He/Him. Quaker. BSF '21, ANMLY, Hopkins R, SoFloPoJo, Harpur Palate, Heavy Feather R, Bending Genres, Jet Fuel R, Ilanot R, Sugar House R, Psaltery & Lyre, Kissing Dynamite, YIV, NDQ, Atlanta R, elsewhere.
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!)
Fawn Parker @fparker.bsky.social Woman PhD
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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
Courtney Bates-Hardy @poetcourtney.bsky.social Queer and neurodivergent poet. ANATOMICAL VENUS out now from Radiant Press. she/her
Twin Bird Review @twinbirdreview.bsky.social An online literary magazine for imaginative writing, art & comics⚡️twinbirdreview.com
Cam Scott @vanishingsigns.bsky.social 
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social Writer/Prof/Other. All pronouns. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
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Kay @ifyouseekay.bsky.social I'm a taurus, and my turn-offs are racism, capitalism, misogyny, and queerphobia. I make books with @psvancouver.bsky.social. Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish territory, in Vancouver BC. I block AI image posters, that stuff is just ugly.
Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social Writer. Traductora. Editor. Poet. Queer.
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Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca SSHRC funded PhD in at UCalgary.
THE LIBRARY COSMIC: Stories
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THE YEARS SHALL RUN LIKE RABBITS
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Taylor Lambert @taylorlambert.ca Investigative journalist at CBC Edmonton • Author of Darwin's Moving & other fine-ish books • he/him • taylorlambert.ca
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Karen Massey @karenemassey.bsky.social Poet & artisan. Lives in Ottawa, Canada on unceded Algonquin Anishinabe territory.
3 chapbooks from above/ground press Ottawa
2020 ARC Diana Brebner Award winner
2024 Finalist MIPP; Longlist 3-Day Novel Contest
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Claire Hadford @clairehadford.bsky.social sjw philosopher at UToronto (they/them) 🍉🏳️🌈⚧️
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social Writer/Poet. Editor & translator, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing 2024). Clarion West '21. ace 🏳️🌈. linktr.ee/yilinw
Deirdre Maultsaid @deirdmault.bsky.social Educator, Writer, Poet, Queer,
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shreeking violet press @shreekingviolet.bsky.social Poet moonlighting as a micropress.
Katja Rammer @katjarammer.bsky.social Writer. Gardener. Neurospicy Jacky-of-all-trades.
Shortlisted w/ Senex Born (Iaminprint 2025), Raven Short Story Contest longlistee. Stories: Hyphenpunk, Black Cat Weekly, Gavagai & more
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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place a creative space for the place (in) between.
quarterly online space for works by queer/trans/Mad/disabled creators.
ISSUE 13 OUT NOW!
submissions currently CLOSED
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Kyle McKillop @kylemckillop.bsky.social He/him. Secondary literacy helping teacher, poet, sharer, decolonizer. Past president BCTELA, SETA, RCLAS. May contain gluten &/or joy.
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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social artist, writer, researcher, fossil hunter, PLA licensed mudlarker, and lecturer in the School of English at University of Leeds https://luckysoap.com
Hana Carolina @hanacarolina.bsky.social Creative Writer & Academic Researcher | 30s | she/her | 🏴 🇪🇺 | Reviewer @ Strange Horizons | Fiction Editor @ Divinations Magazine | Debut Novella with Spaceboy Books, THE INESCAPABLE MARCH (2025)
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Publication Studio Vancouver @psvancouver.bsky.social A press and bookbinder that mainly makes artists' books, run by Kay Higgins and Kathy Slade. Both of us do other things, too. Part of the www.publicationstudio.biz network. Posts by Kay, also at @ifyouseekay.bsky.social
McNally Robinson Booksellers @mcnallyrobinson.com Canada's largest, most eventful independent bookstore.
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Triptyc @triptyc.bsky.social applying the scalpel & glue to #CanLit this summer
Emily Bednarz @emilybednarz.bsky.social Writer, editor, and graphic / web designer based in Kjipuktuk / Halifax.
Currently managing Business Voice magazine for the Halifax Chamber of Commerce. Former Managing Editor of The New Quarterly. Former jaded academic.
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Jane Cawthorne @other-jane.bsky.social Writer sometimes. Reader always. Recovery Queen. Knitter.
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Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com Poet, civil servant, music nerd | CV2, Malahat Review, QWERTY, ROOM, Crab Creek Review, The New Quarterly & others. jessicaleemcmillan.com
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Mark Truscott @marktruscott.bsky.social (He/him) Three poetry books. Winner of the inaugural Nelson Ball Prize. Recent poems in CAROUSEL, Dialogist, the Fiddlehead, Hampden-Sydney Review, etc. New chapbook, Rain. Hello. marktruscott.ca
Mahaila Smith (they/them) @mahailasmith.ca Co-Editor for The Sprawl Mag
Seed Beetle (2025) with Stelliform Press
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WrittenOnRocks @writtenonrocks.bsky.social Writing poetry, sometimes fiction.
Always reading. Ever curious.
Sometimes politics spills over, but I try to wipe it up quick!
These posts are here today, gone tomorrow. Delete-Delete-Delete.
Ryan Fitzpatrick @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social Poet, critic, etc. Author of Ace Theory (2026), No Depression in Heaven (2025), Sunny Ways (2023), Coast Mountain Foot (2021), Fortified Castles (2014), Fake Math (2007/2022). Bluesky user #71209.
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J-T Kelly @j-tkelly.bsky.social poet - Chapbooks: https://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/06/new-from-aboveground-press-more-of-how.html https://cccpchapbooks.bigcartel.com/product/like-now-by-j-t-kelly - Poems: http://www.ucityreview.com/30_Kelly_JT.html
MA|DE @madeprojects.bsky.social MA|DE (est. 2018) is a collaborative writing entity, the joint authorship of Mark Laliberte + Jade Wallace —> Debut poetry collection, ZZOO, available to order now (5 covers to choose from!): https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/zzoo-made
Jeremy Stewart @jeremystewart.bsky.social once dropped a piano off a building | https://linktr.ee/jeremystewart.ca
joni & @jonichrissy.bsky.social radio & art criticism & fiction. i'm a radical feminist, and you should be too.
éclair @plasticgemstone.bsky.social Emotional support lizard
Alberta Advantage Podcast @albertaadvantage.bsky.social Podcast. Fresh from the birthplace of the CCF.
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Bluestem @bluestemmag.bsky.social Bluestem is a national literary magazine, published continuously since 1966.
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Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social Mostly a poetry press • Home of the annual Summer Micro-Chapbook Series
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Stuart Ross (the Canadian one) @razovsky.bsky.social Writer, editor, publisher, writing instructor. 2023 Trillium Book Award winner. 2019 Harbourfront Festival Prize winner. Author of The Book of Grief and Hamburgers — and 21 other books of poetry, fiction, memoir, and essay.
Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.bsky.social.
nina jane drystek @textcurious.bsky.social poet & performer, author of chapbooks: missing matrilineal (above/ground, 2023), a:of:in (Gap Riot Press, 2021), knewro suite (2019)
Drawn & Quarterly @dandq.bsky.social Montreal-based publisher of the world's most brilliant cartoonists and their comics, graphic novels and art! https://linktr.ee/dandq
(ottawa) small press almanac @smallpressalmanac.bsky.social , a collective of Ottawa small and micro press literary publishers : https://smallpressalmanac.blogspot.com/
Jade Wallace (they/them) @nycterosea.bsky.social Poet, novelist, critic, leftist & co-founder of MA|DE. Poetry collection The Work Is Done When We Are Dead (Guernica 26), novel ANOMIA (Palimpsest 24), collaborative poetry collection ZZOO (Palimpsest 25). 🌈 https://jadewallace.a
David Harrison Horton @unionherald.bsky.social Artist, curator, editor, and writer based in Beijing. Author of Necessary (Downingfield, 2025), Model Answers (CCCP Chapbooks, 2024) and Maze Poems (Arteidolia, 2022). Edits poetry zine SAGINAW.
Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social Small independent press sponsored by the Department of English at Missouri State University in Springfield. Publisher of books and Moon City Review.
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social Poetry. Well-served.
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
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Chestnut Review @chestnutreview.bsky.social International litmag ALWAYS open for submissions. Pays $120/piece. Responds in 30 days. Free subs in most genres. Free issues online. Paid feedback options. If you don't submit, we can't pay you.
Home: chestnutreview.com
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social Publishing speculative fiction, poetry, reviews, essays & podcasts. Every Monday, free to read at http://strangehorizons.com. IGNYTE Community Award winner. Hugo Award winner 2024.
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Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social Slice of life fantasy. Pro-paying, open worldwide. @augursociety.bsky.social's little sibling.
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social
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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social Award-winning Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. Submissions CLOSED. Publisher + Executive Editor: @davaun.bsky.social #fiyahlitmag
chris johnson @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social he/him : white settler : managing editor, @arcpoetry.bsky.social : editorial assistant, @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social : opinions are my own : say hi
Gaspereau Press @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers
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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social Stories for the futures we need | SFF and dream realism | Canadian, Indigenous & worldwide creators | Pub @kercoby COO @suntorya CPO @teresempierre
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Sydney Hegele @sydhegele.bsky.social Author of The Pump (2021) Bird Suit (2024) Bad Kids (2026) @invisibooks.bsky.social
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
Julian Day @julianday.ca Poet, gamedev (Shadow of the Wyrm), pixel artist, composer. Editor/publisher, null pointer press. Chapbooks: Late Summer Flowers (Anstruther Press), Orbits (Model Press). he/him
Website: julianday.ca
Fedi: @juliancday@writing.exchange
Annick MacAskill @thisisannick.bsky.social Poet
Latest: Votive (Gaspereau Press, 2024)
Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022) #GGBooks2022
Murmurations, No Meeting Without Body, five from hem, Brotherly Love: Poems of Sappho and Charaxos
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Ellen Chang-Richardson @ehjchang.bsky.social poet • hybrid genre writer • judicial assistant • editor • co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series
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📚 Blood Belies (2024) • Through the Eyes of Another (2027)
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Tolu Oloruntoba @tolu.ca Bumbler, quitter of things, poet, and project management person (in that order). My new Collection, UNRAVEL, was a National Book Critics Circle finalist.
Opinions mine. https://bio.site/tolu.ca he/him
Casey Plett @caseyplett.com Publisher (LittlePuss Press)
Professor (Ohio University)
Writer (✨✨✨)
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Athens, OH / Windsor, ON (forever Winnipeg and Southern Manitoba)
Nikki Reimer @nikkireimer.bsky.social Your favourite Baba Yaga's favourite Baba Yaga.
Digital comms in higher ed, MA in Comms student, grief writer, cat guardian. Latest book: No Town Called We (Talon Books, 2023)
Poet, artist, white queer non-binary disabled settler in Treaty 7.
Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social slow-lane poet, insect- & fungi-portraitist Good Omens DT & MS fan, rabid reader & writer in Quebec Canada
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🏳️🌈 gender costume: she/they Alt image: white person in glasses. long wavy greying hair, wonder woman bracelet
Jerf Blerkman @jeffblackman.bsky.social new poems at Discordia and the Nu Review
new photo by Oscar the Grouse
Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social writer & PhD candidate at the University of Calgary | editor in chief @ex-puritan.bsky.social
Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social she/her: sharing Ottawa -area sugar crone (tinyurl.com/ottawamandy) literary, spoken word, storytelling & nonfiction events daily ish. Out now!: Beast Body Epic, Autumn 2023. https://linktr.ee/amandaearl.
Manahil @manahil.bsky.social Writer, artist, editor, etc.
Author of Heliotropia (Brick Books 2024)
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These Days @thesedayszine.bsky.social avatar by Lil Drew / excerpt by Gwen Aube
Invisible Books @invisibooks.bsky.social We make books.
Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social Digital journal and chapbook press. We love the upside-down view and the fact that some art can only happen in the dark. Journal submissions always open! pinholepoetry.ca
Ben Robinson @bengymen.bsky.social poet / musician / librarian
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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!
Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social Il/lui/him/he. Écrivain & writer (philosophy, poésie, sciences sociales). Translator. Prof @ University of Regina. Desires new forms and contents. Livres : Prairiales; En d'sous d'la langue (Prise de parole); La politique dans l'adversité (Metispresses).
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
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member of Literary Magazines Canada Collective,
rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press)
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