Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada @abortionrightscan.bsky.social Canada's only national, political pro-choice group, advocating for reproductive justice for all 🦋
https://www.arcc-cdac.ca
Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Rep: Michael Curry 📚🪲 Tips for cat treats! https://ko-fi.com/premee
Gemma Marr @gemmamarr.bsky.social 
Palimpsest Press @palimpsestpress.bsky.social Small independent publisher 📍Windsor ON CAN
Beautiful Poetry | Fresh, Innovative Literature
Radiant Press @radiantpress.bsky.social An indie press on the prairies. Submissions open Sept. 1 to
July 1. We publish fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction.
Susan Mockler @susanmockler.bsky.social she/her
Writer
Disabled
Author of Fractured 
Anuja Varghese @anuja-v.bsky.social Author of CHRYSALIS (2023) and A KISS OF CRIMSON ASH (coming May 2026)
@casonsharpe.bsky.social @casonsharpe.bsky.social 
Shannon Whibbs @swhibbsy.bsky.social I edit many things, I teach some things, I want to write more things.
Copy editor at @Xtra Magazine
Pronouns: she/her
Kilby Smith-McGregor @kilbysm.bsky.social Designer, writer, dog person. Just here for hoops. 
Mark Laliberte @originobscure.bsky.social Artist/Author/Designer • Book Fiend • Clutter Cultist • Collaborationist • Curiosity Hunter • Gentle Extremist TM — Co-founder of MA|DE (debut collection ‘ZZOO’ out Feb ‘25) — http://ma-de.ca + @madeprojects.bsky.social
Elisabeth de Mariaffi @elisabethdem.bsky.social Writer and daredevil. (Mostly writer.)
I write scary stories and also other stories.
See more of what I’m talking about: https://elisabethdemariaffi.substack.com/
Martha Bátiz @mbatiz.bsky.social Mexican-Canadian writer, professor & translator based in the Greater Toronto Area. Book, music & animal lover. Mother of three. “A Daughter’s Place,” my first novel, is now available through your favourite bookseller! Published by House of Anansi Press
Kate Gies @kategies.bsky.social writer/educator/cat enthusiast
Author of IT MUST BE BEAUTIFUL TO BE FINISHED: A MEMOIR OF MY BODY
(Simon & Schuster)
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Stephanie Domet @stephaniedomet.bsky.social Writer, recovering journalist, co-founder of AfterWords Literary Festival. In Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki. I sew my wardrobe and will meet you at the farmers’ market if you’re lucky.
JF Quinn @jfquinnwrites.bsky.social Writer, horror, poetry, non-fiction
Mahak Jain @themahakjain.bsky.social Award-winning author of books for young people and adults. Debut short story collection coming soon.
www.mahakjain.com
Jael Richardson @jaelrichardson.bsky.social Author, Executive Director - The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD)
FOLD @thefoldcanada.bsky.social Updates on the Festival of Literary Diversity, FOLD Kids Book Fest, FOLD Academy, FOLD Reads and all year-round events supporting underrepresented Canadian authors.
Rhea Tregebov 🇨🇦 @rheatregebov.bsky.social Poet, novelist, children's picture book author. Associate Professor Emerita UBC School of Creative Writing. Canadian. www.rheatregebov.ca 🇨🇦
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
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.
Amy LeBlanc @amyjleblanc.bsky.social Doctor of Words 🦊 “I used to live here” available now 🎓 Killam Laureate 2022-2024 📚Gothic studies 🕷️
Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social Literary magazine publishing the best new poetry & prose for over 50 years. Details on subscriptions, submissions, contests and more at http://eventmagazine.ca
NeWest Press @newestpress.bsky.social Publishing Radically Rewarding Literature for Almost Fifty Years 
Writers' Trust of Canada @writerstrust.bsky.social On a mission to support & celebrate Canadian writers. Discover our literary award-winning books at writerstrust.com
Jennifer LoveGrove @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social Writer / Collager/ Novice Drummer / Reader / Music Nerd
Dave Mason Writes @davemasonwrites.bsky.social Author of historical fiction: Between the Clouds and the River (2024 / 14 literary awards) and EO-N (2020 / 20+ literary awards / film+TV rights acquired). Ex-design / SaaS guy. 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 CVT / YUL / YVR / ORD / YHZ / BZN davemasonwrites.com
Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social Author (Shelter for the Damned, Darkest Hours, Peel Back and See). Co-host of https://bsky.app/profile/craftworkpod.bsky.social.
Sherry Coffey @scoffeywrites.bsky.social Writer born in the Yukon. Married for decades. Parent of mostly grown young human. Backpacking, berry picking, local food, and the outdoors fill my bucket. PWHL fan. Current maritimer.
Farah 🌿 @farahghafoor.bsky.social poet and author of Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025) 🌿 | she/her | Tkaronto | farahghafoor.com | farah.substack.com | IG @/shadowpricepoems
Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social poetry, pottery, publishing
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
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/
@rodmoo.bsky.social @rodmoo.bsky.social Novel: Hides (Breakwater Books)
website: https://rodmoodycorbett.com/
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
Rebecca Morris @bexmorris.bsky.social Writer, editor & teacher in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal ✍️ Author of OTHER MAPS (@llpmtl 2024) 📖 Currently obsessed with trees 🌳
https://linktr.ee/rebeccamorriswriter
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
Shauna Deathe @shaunadeathe.bsky.social Writer, reader, rascal.
Board game enthusiast.
Publicity and Social Media Coordinator at Goose Lane Editions
Miriam Richer @miriamricher.bsky.social writer & cohost of @craftworkpod.bsky.social
Meghan Kemp-Gee, SPACE POET @meghankempgee.bsky.social Teacher | Writer (she/her)
NEBULAS ✨ https://chbooks.com/Books/T/The-Animal-in-the-Room
Come Out and Play 🌈
Passing in the Night 🐉
Contested Strip: ONE MORE YEAR 🥏
The Animal in the Room 🦌
Space Heroines of El Andoo 🤖
Zak Jones @zakjones.ca author of the novel, Fancy Gap (2026)/ phd candidate in toronto
Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social Visiting Scholar & Incoming Assistant Professor in Sociology (LTA) at UNBSJ | Studying Labour Organizing in the Cultural Industries | Eyeliner aficionado
https://www.madisontrusolino.com
Ziya Jones @ziyajones.bsky.social Managing Editor, @script.health, focussed on LGBTQ2S+ health II They/them 🇱🇧Send tips to ziya.jones@ptp.media II
Rob Taylor @robipcanuck.bsky.social 
The Fredericton Playhouse @fredplayhouse.bsky.social 🎭Performing arts venue in #DowntownFredericton
🤝Non-profit sharing the magic of performing arts
📸Tag us with #FredPlayhouse
Charlotte Street Arts Centre @charlottestreetart.bsky.social 
Chris Hutchinson @unfamiliarweather.bsky.social Poet, Educator, Human
https://chris-hutchinson.com/chris-hutchinsons-poetry-books/
Andrea Bishop @andreabishop.bsky.social Writer. Salt Spring Island & Vancouver, 🇨🇦. Stories in/coming: New Ohio Review, Malahat Review, Masters Review, Cleaver, Grain, BULL, PRISM...
Knows: healthcare, psych & change
Appreciates: dogs, quests, diversity & curiosity
linktr.ee/andreabishop
Natalie Rice @nataliericepoetry.bsky.social "Nightjar" Gaspereau Press, 2025
"Scorch" Gaspereau Press, 2023
natalierice.ca
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
George Murray @bookninja.bsky.social Poet | 10 books | Neuromancer | Dog person | Habitual founder of things | Nerd | St. John's | http://newpoetry.ca | Other links: https://linktr.ee/georgemurray
Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social gallows humorist
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,
Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social Writer, banjo player. Author of Ghost in the Club (Metatron, 2016), Chirp (Ursus Americanus, 2018) and How to Wear Makeup In A God Honoring Way (Pitymilk Press, 2025) https://zorknogg.tumblr.com/
Lisa Richter (she/her) @lisarichter.bsky.social Poet, writer, educator, coffee addict
Sublunary @ualbertapress in Spring 2026
https://lnk.bio/lisarpoet
Invisible Books @invisibooks.bsky.social We make books.
LZ @lzine.bsky.social 🤫UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT🤫 
@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social Book*hug Press is a radically optimistic Canadian-owned publisher working at the forefront of contemporary book culture.🍁
Rebecca Salazar Leon @rsalazar.bsky.social haunted swamp femme, PhD // author of sulphurtongue (2021) & antibody (2025) // (she/they) 🇨🇴🤎🇵🇸
Waubgeshig Rice @waub.bsky.social Latest novel MOON OF THE TURNING LEAVES is available via Random House in Canada and William Morrow in the USA
Manahil @manahil.bsky.social Writer, artist, editor, etc.
Author of Heliotropia (Brick Books 2024)
www.manahilbandukwala.com
Hasan Namir @hasannamir.bsky.social Iraqi-Canadian Author & a very proud Baba . My latest book Banana Dream is out on a bookshelf near you !
Casey Plett @caseyplett.com Publisher (LittlePuss Press)
Professor (Ohio University)
Writer (✨✨✨)
https://linktr.ee/caseyplett
Athens, OH / Windsor, ON (forever Winnipeg and Southern Manitoba)
Sean Cranbury @seancranbury.bsky.social 
@delbauchery.bsky.social @delbauchery.bsky.social Writer, poet, farter.
Martha Sharpe @marthasharpe.bsky.social Editor, publisher, bookseller
ambrose albert @ambrosealbert.bsky.social he/him | il * transmasc poet & community organizer * bec & call w/ Nightwood Editions 2018 * former Fredericton poet laureate * 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
Elamin Abdelmahmoud @elamin.bsky.social I’m doing good, I’m on some new shit 
Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca SSHRC funded PhD in at UCalgary.
THE LIBRARY COSMIC: Stories
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the-library-cosmic
THE YEARS SHALL RUN LIKE RABBITS
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/all/products/the-years-shall-run-like-rabbits
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.
Pulpfiction Books @pfbvan.bsky.social YVR's legendary independent bookstore. Est. 6/00. 'The pessimism of the intellect, the optimism of the will.' (Gramsci). 2026 Living Wage employer.
Lynn Coady @lynncoady.bsky.social Giller Prize winning fictioneer and screenwriter. Irony-poisoned. lynncoady.com
Theo Ward @theoward.bsky.social Writer. Fetal Irish emigrant. Looking beyond the peephole of rage. 🇮🇪 🇨🇦
http://instagram.com/londontheo
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
Ellen Chang-Richardson @ehjchang.bsky.social poet • hybrid genre writer • judicial assistant • editor • co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series
www.ehjchang.com
📚 Blood Belies (2024) • Through the Eyes of Another (2027)
Rep’d by @seraphecda.bsky.social
John Elizabeth Stintzi @jestintzi.bsky.social Pre-eminent unknown trans writer and Grendel’s emergency contact. Call me Jes. [They/She]
📚: BAD HOUSES, MY VOLCANO, VANISHING MONUMENTS, JUNEBAT
Next: GUEST SERVICES AT THE MUSEUM OF SEXUAL DEVIANCE (novel, spring 2028).
linktr.ee/jestintzi
Andrew Hood @andrewnhood.bsky.social Author of Pardon Our Monsters, The Cloaca, and Who Needs What. Signed, personalized copies available at the local Value Village 
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.
K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social The wart on the frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of Canadian Literature. www.krwilson.ca No A.I.
Stan On Guard now available.
Amy Jones @amylaurajones.bsky.social Writer, manatee enthusiast, keeper of the Great Potato 
Isabella @isabellawangbc.bsky.social 
Shashi Bhat @shashibhat.bsky.social Fiction writer, editor of EVENT, CRWR faculty at Douglas College
www.shashibhat.com
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
Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social The Air Contains Honey
Artistic Director of PME-ART
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Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Desire Without Expectation
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
Jason Purcell @jasonvpurcell.bsky.social SWOLLENING (2022, Arsenal Pulp Press) | Treaty 6. | they/them | http://jasonpurcell.ca
Adèle Barclay @adelebarclay.bsky.social writer, editor, creative writing instructor | she/they |
author of If I Were in a Cage I'd Reach Out for You (Nightwood, '16) & Renaissance Normcore (Nightwood '19)
working on: cnf, fiction, poetry
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
Joelle Kidd @joellekidd.bsky.social Writer and editor | Tkaronto | she/her
rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press)
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/
https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan
http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
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
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!
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)
Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social Human poet/artist. Latest book NMLCT: POEMS from ECW Press. Professor at Sheridan College. Senior editor at Wolsak and Wynn. Editor-in-chief at The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing. wererabbit on Bandcamp. https://linktr.ee/paulvermeersch
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.
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
Cam Scott @vanishingsigns.bsky.social 
Assembly Press @pressassembly.bsky.social Independent publisher of ambitious literature.