Sheila E. Murphy @shemurph.bsky.social Poet, organizational consultant, researcher, and author
Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social WRJ is a community for visual & literary art. We're interested in creativity & nature & connections. Check out our website and open submissions / wildroofjournal.com / wildroofjournal.substack.com / EIC @aaronlelito.bsky.social
Ann Cavlovic 🇨🇦 @anncavlovic.bsky.social Writer. Debut novel Count On Me (Guernica Editions 2025). Nonfiction in Globe and Mail, CBC, Event, Grain, etc. Into elder abuse prevention/sandwich generation, climate crisis, and environmental economcs. #QCwriters #booksky #greensky anncavlovic.com
Angel T. Dionne @woodenmormyrid.bsky.social Socially Awkward Surrealist Professor. I write weird stuff.
www.angeldionne4.weebly.com
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social Poets | Anniversaries | Poems
www.marcchamberlain.net
Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social Indie press showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better. https://asterismbooks.com/publisher/pizama-press | Editor: neonpajamas.bsky.social
Peter Margasak @pmargasak.bsky.social Listening, writing, and sharing—writing for Bandcamp Daily, the Wire, Chamber Music Magazine and petermargasak.substack.com. Sharing with frequencyfestival-chicago.com
poorly heir @poorlyheir.bsky.social Collective. Making stuff.
HAD @havehashad.com We had an idea that started as a joke. We had an affinity for that minimalist look and feel of early online journals. We had a couple drinks.
https://www.havehashad.com
The Wood Lot Canadian Poetry Reviews & Essays @the-wood-lot.bsky.social We are a small Canadian Poetry reviews site that also hosts poetry-related nonfiction essays by Canadian poets. https://the-wood-lot.ca/ Query us at: query@the-wood-lot.ca
Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social Writer. Philosopher. Sky-dancer. They/She. Codex. LCP. Author of A REFUGE OF TALES. Poetry Editor at Utopia Science Fiction.
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT REVOLUTION forthcoming from ECW Press.
https://linktr.ee/LynneSargent
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social THE FUTURE IS STUPID
Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social Author: Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (UNP, 2027), Larks (OUP, 2025), What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021).
Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC.
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Finbarre Snarey @finbarre.com Arts and culture journalist. Host of Tarot Interviews and Tarot DMs. Founder of the British Tarot Archive. Likes people with a sense of wonder. Nottinghamshire, UK.
Visit: https://finbar.re/bsky
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/
𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 @andrewstones.com UK-based multi-disciplinary artist.
Recent drawings, micro-poetry. Opinions scattered about.
@salmonsongs.com sound/music releases.
@mistersalmon.com performative alias.
No DMs: reachable via website/s.
Dan Fortin @danielrfortin.bsky.social Bassist.
New album CANNON out now on Elastic Recordings.
Hamilton/Toronto
https://linktr.ee/danfortin
ArtMouse @artmouse.bsky.social Artist, Reader, Biker (Bicycle), Retired Lawyer, Minnesotan By Choice, He/Him
KANSHIKETSU! @kanshiketsu.bsky.social A monk asked Yün-men, "What is Buddha?"
Yün-men said, "Dried shitstick."
https://endythekid.blogspot.com/
https://kanshiketsu.bandcamp.com/
https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/lunde
https://kanshiketsu.substack.com/
https://www.subvert.fm/kanshiketsu
Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social Irish poet, cricket fan, book reviews, Bob Dylan.
See my blog: https://ellipticalmovements
#speirgorm
"I give as examples Billy Mills, Susan Howe and J.H. Prynne, although the assumption that they write for themselves is entirely my own" J.C.C. Mays
Barry O'Halpin @barryohalpin.bsky.social Composer, Guitarist, Arranger in Dublin.
Member of @crashensemble.bsky.social
and @alarmistband.
Header image by @rouzbehrashidi. Headshot by @meghyland
https://barryohalpin.bandcamp.com/album/stonemired
www.barryohalpin.com
Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social NEW novel 'The Life Of Life' publishes March 2027
'The Good Immigrant - 10th Anniversary Edition' out this month, September 2026, Canongate Books
https://salenagodden.substack
https://www.salenagodden.co.uk
NAISASoundArt @naisasoundart.bsky.social Sound Art Gallery and Café in South River, Ontario, Canada active on YouTube, Soundcloud and other online locales.
On Humans Podcast @ilarimakela.bsky.social Human origins | Global history | Econ history | Anthropology | Archaeology
Covering the story of humanity, from the evolution of apes to the making of the modern economy.
Posting as Ilari Mäkelä, host of On Humans.
https://onhumans.substack.com/about
Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social St. Louis-based literary press distributed by New York Review Books. Publishes Renee Gladman, Leonora Carrington, Cristina Rivera Garza, Amina Cain, Giada Scodellaro, Kate Briggs, Brais Lamela, Denise Rose Hansen, etc. Est. 2009. dorothyproject.com
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
kyo maclear @kyomaclear.bsky.social writer
Bill Kennedy @stop14.bsky.social 
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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
Art Gallery of Hamilton @theagh.bsky.social Watch This Space!
Luciana Erregue @lucianaerregue.bsky.social Argentinian-Canadian writer/Poetry translator/ Chapbook OF MOTHERS AND MADONNAS (Polyglot, 2023) Memoir-novella DAUGHTERS OF THE CURRENT (In Progress) Award Winning indie publisher www.laberintopress.com
Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Alien Buddha Press has been publishing emerging writers and artists since 2017. Open for submissions at abuddhapress@yahoo.com
Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social Translator from Russian to English. Iliazd, _Rapture_. 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship for Iliazd, _PhiloSophia_ (excerpts from Rab-Rab Press). Iliazd's _Speechless Sentence_ and excerpts from _parisites_ and _dUnkee fərEnt_ in _TYPO_ #7.
Joanna Streetly @joannastreetly.bsky.social Lover of words, art, wild things
Best Canadian Essays, Best Canadian Poetry, 4 books incl Wild Fierce Life: Dangerous Moments on the Outer Coast
“All of Us Hidden” poetry, Caitlin Press, Oct 2025.
Tla-o-qui-aht territory
www.joannastreetly.com
Mark Goldstein @beautifuloutlaw.bsky.social Writing · Publishing · Design
"Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none."
—Jules Renard (Trans. Louise Bogan)
Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2027). Black. Still. Life. (2028) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
Anteroom (formerly The Winged Moon) @anteroompoetry.bsky.social Poetry through the cracks; we publish in print and online with amazing art and a vibrant weekly newsletter.
Poetry competition with a cash prize opens on 14 Sept '26
EIC @jaimichellepoet.bsky.social
Website: www.anteroompoetry.com
Oliver Fox @oliverfox.bsky.social Poems, mostly. Buy my pamphlet, Haptics, via Broken Sleep Books
sherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social vintage seller, art curator | @harpersbazaarus @nymag.com @wmagazine.com.web.brid.gy @interviewmag @marthaliving past Table of the Elements record label, Album 88, Criminal Records, Wuxtry Records, Deitch Projects. words: @burnaway.org nyc->athens ga
Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social BIG OTHER (www.bigother.com) is an online arts and culture magazine, featuring reviews, essays, fiction, poetry, hybrid works, art, a podcast, and more. Founded in 2009. Published by @johnmadera.bsky.social.
Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social Nebula, Aurora, WFA finalist, Ignyte Co Founder
"SKIN THIEF STORIES" Neon Hemlock. COUNTESS out now ECW Press. Goth, plant grower, music enthusiast. She/They, Queer, 🇹🇹 🇨🇦 rep by Michael Curry. Banner: Matt Griffin
suzanpalumbo.carrd.co
Eaton Hamilton @eatonhamilton.bsky.social Visual art, writing
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them ♿️ 😷🇨🇦 AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic, MG
UK Sunday Times bestseller, Guardian BOTY, Guernica, The Sun, NYT, Salon, Globe+Mail, Macleans, BAE Notables, BASS Notable, BAX, 10 books, won CBC fiction x2; on Patreon at HamiltonArt.
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
All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social An independent online bookstore and blog showcasing and selling Canada's best in indie books. Visit us at alllitup.ca
Writers In Trees @writersintrees.bsky.social Our goal is to support & empower emerging writers across Canada. Visit our website to learn more. https://writersintrees.com/
Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social 30+ years of fine books and endless love in Portland, Oregon. We publish daring literary books by writers you should get to know. Editors: Kevin Sampsell (PDX) and Emma Alden (Philadelphia).
Visit us at www.futuretensebooks.com
Paul Prudence @mrprudence.bsky.social Art, writing, walking, typing. . . ✩ˎˊ˗
Book: Figured Stones → https://www.corbelstonepress.com/books/figured-stones
RossBelot @rossbelot.bsky.social Poet photographer filmmaker French Surrealist poetry translator op-eds in Canada’s National Observer. Lives in Hamilton sometimes. 
@typophile.bsky.social @typophile.bsky.social A feed for typographic inspiration.
Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social Author of four books of poetry, most recently Reckon (2018). New chapbook with Baseline Press: https://www.baselinepress.ca/#/jacaranda-trees-mexico-city-steve-mcormond-2025
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
Linda Morra @gettinglitwithlind.bsky.social Host/writer of the award-winning literary podcast, Getting Lit With Linda. Chair of Canadian Studies, Canadian Literature Professor
Jamie Shea @sheamiej.bsky.social Singer-songwriter. Educator. Nature lover.
Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social Writer, teacher-librarian, ESL advocate & cycling ambassador. SSAC completist. ❤️ my Brompton.
https://barbaramcveigh.weebly.com/
Marsha Lederman @marshalederman.bsky.social Columnist, The Globe and Mail
Author, Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed
Vancouver, Canada
Supercrawl @supercrawl.ca Official account for #Supercrawl — an annual not-for-profit music & arts street festival • September 11+12+13, 2026 • James St. N., Hamilton, ON
supercrawl.ca
Lisa @big-red-rain-coat.bsky.social disappearing Ontario landscapes, cinq à sept, heritage, books, theatre, garden/flower report, kitchen chronicles, gallimaufry
Look for the big red raincoat.
Elsewhere: IG harmony_in_brown_and_grey
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
WAGERL GARAGE @wagerlgarage.sfizzz.de Provisorische Garage für Einkaufwagen aller art :)
indiebookspotlight.com - Discover Indie Books @indiebookspotlight.com Shining a light on indie authors.
List your book for just $8.99 – one-time fee, one year of exposure!
Readers discover. Authors grow.
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Kyeren Regehr @byallmeanswrite.bsky.social New to this platform!
Literary Poet (author of Cult Life)
www.kyerenregehr.ca
Artistic Director of Planet Earth Poetry
www.planetearthpoetry.com
Host of The Poet Laureate Podcast
@poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social
7th Poet Laureate of Victoria (2025-2027)
The Poet Laureate Podcast @poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social Hosted by Kyeren Regehr and featuring poets laureate from across the country and beyond.
www.thepoetlaureatepodcast.com
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Kathy Friedman @kathyfriedman.bsky.social Author of ALL THE SHINING PEOPLE (House of Anansi, 2022). Disabled/Jewish/queer as in free Palesine. 🍉 http://www.kathyfriedman.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.
Ann Y.K. Choi @annykchoi.bsky.social Author & Educator at Simon & Schuster Canada, Orca Book Publishers
& YRDSB, UofT SCS | Korean Canadian I coffee & fonts (garamond) | annykchoi.com
Carmen Wiigwaas Craig @carmunist.bsky.social Learning and teaching my language—Nishnaabemwin. Jijaak ndoodem. Consultant at Oodenaw.com. Award-winning short fiction author and poet. Developmental editor at DarlingAxe.com. Kidlit, YA, hist fic, women's lit. She/they
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
Dorothy Ellen Palmer @dorothyellenpalmer.bsky.social Writer, mom, grandma, retired improv coach, teacher, and union rep. Binge knitter and multiply disabled, award-winning writer and disability advocate. Grateful escapee from other social media sites that shall not be named. 
JPB @jpb.bsky.social Novelist (RELENTLESS MELT out now from Melville House) // likes books, colors, shapes, noise // takes notes, makes zines // aging gracefully // to be found in the Greater Boston/Chicago metro region- D OstrovIsland @dostrov.bsky.social Essays and opinion (Gazette, Geist, Tablet). Editing. Translating. Humour and satire in McSweeney's and Points in Case. Parfois en français. Sometimes likes and follows are bookmarks. Parfois aimer, ce n'est qu'un signet. 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
mike sloane (they/them) @mikesloane.bsky.social www.mikesloane.ca
Dan Balestrero @masteringvo.bsky.social Dan Balestrero's voiceover artists have worked for CBS, ABC, NBC, the WB, FOX, Dream- Works, Paramount, Disney, Tribune Broadcasting, Direct TV as well as virtually all the other major advertising agencies and Motion Picture Studios. Masteringvoiceover.com
Paul Barrett @paulbarrett1.bsky.social Associate Professor of English and DH at the University of Guelph
Mike Bagwell @lowghost.bsky.social Writer + software engineer in Philly. Host of Ghost Harmonics reading series. Writing a novel full of O's, other sun vowels and debris languages. Work in Action Spectacle, ITERANT, Sprung Formal, Heavy Feather, HAD, Okay Donkey, Annulet. mikebagwell.me
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
johnjgeddes @johnjgeddes.bsky.social writer, author of A Familiar Rain, Epiphany. Former Curriculum Dean and Department Head. Can be found on X, Goodreads and anywhere people use my quotes to hawk their wares
#writing #writers #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #art 
Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social Exploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives. A project of @divintelligence.bsky.social, @kensycoop.bsky.social, @laukas.bsky.social
www.disi.org/manyminds/
Kensy Cooperrider @kensycoop.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, writer, podcaster. Interested in the diversity of communication & cognition. Language, gesture, concepts, time, space, metaphor.
Host of Many Minds (@manymindspod.bsky.social)
www.kensycooperrider.com 
Julie Sedivy @juliesedivy.bsky.social Writer and language scientist, author of LINGUAPHILE: A LIFE OF LANGUAGE LOVE and MEMORY SPEAKS: ON LOSING AND RECLAIMING LANGUAGE AND SELF.
Latitude 46 Publishing @latitude46pub.bsky.social Literary publisher based in Northern Ontario, Canada
Visit our website: https://latitude46publishing.com/
Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor.
Chair, The Writers' Union of Canada
The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024)
The Pollination Field (Turnstone, 2025)
www.kimfahner.com
Jay @jayjag.bsky.social Critic, #sedserio 
Jared Pappas-Kelley @pappas-kelley.bsky.social Artist, lecturer, author - @manchester_university_press and @delere_press #Canterbury
Looking to build more queer spaces haha and also gigs
www.pappaskelley.com/author
https://pupandtiger.co.uk/donate
countmyvote @countmyvote.bsky.social Blue lifelong Democrat. Election tallys were tampered. They lied on the census. They staged fake assassination attempts. Save our democracy. #countmyvote
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here" (William Shakespeare, "The Tempest")
AsylumHouse @asylum.bsky.social Curmudgeon and political junkie; skeptic; photographer; musician; writer; suffering no fools; safe space for all humankind. Aka DamnThing on Twat before I left.
Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS 💙🦋
#Activist #HumanRights #AnimalRights #UBI #ClimateChange #Books #Tech #Poker #Chess
He/Him/His
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Deborah Kay @westernncgirl2024.bsky.social Twitter refugee/@naturelove4real.
Fight for Democracy!
GO VOLS 🧡
🇺🇲USA🇺🇲 .... NEVER TRUMP
NO DM'S
Lynda Williams (she/her) @lwilliams-author.bsky.social Writer of unlikeable female characters. The Beauty and The Hell of It and other stories, Guernica Editions 2025.
Joy (she/her) @joyhopefully.bsky.social Late in life clarinetist.
Bright spark of divinity, Daughter of Elysium, Fire-inspired.
https://www.joyhopefully.com
ecw press @ecwpress.bsky.social We're an independent Canadian publisher of fiction, sports, poetry, pop culture, wrestling, business, science, and memoir. Certified B Corp.
https://ecwpress.com/
Pierre The Artifex 🦋 @pierre-the-artifex.bsky.social Hello, my name is Pierre Paquette and I am the author of The Little Creep. This work of fiction is based on the experiences that I had as a child at the hands of bullies. The main protagonist named Pyaa is constantly in fear of being the target of bullies.
Vancouver Manuscript Intensive @vmiprogram.bsky.social Local. Global. One-on-one literary mentoring for emerging and established authors.
San Alland (they/San) @san-alland.bsky.social Writer, artist, curator. Latest publication: Sore Loser...on queer disabled grief. www.blissfultimes.ca
No DMs; locked out.
(Photo: me masked; white person, short hair, smiling. Banner: Free Falasteen sign on a bookshelf)
Cameron Murray @cameronmurray.bsky.social Anthropologist, design researcher, musician and dough enthusiast! I teach and do research via McMaster University and put out music and videos via Bandcamp and YouTube. Living the dream!
https://cameronmichaelmurray.bandcamp.com/
Moving Poems @movingpoems.bsky.social The best poetry videos on the web at https://www.movingpoems.com