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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
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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social Axcan quema, tehuatl, nehautl…
Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch @elitareq.bsky.social they/them queer writer, author of knot body (2020) and The Good Arabs (2021) and editor of El Ghourabaa (2024)
ambrose albert @ambrosealbert.bsky.social he/him | il * transmasc poet & community organizer * bec & call w/ Nightwood Editions 2018 * former Fredericton poet laureate * 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
Wendy McGrath (she/her) @wendymcgrath.bsky.social Métis writer/artist in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Edmonton). Winner of the 1st Prairie Grindstone Prize. My book The Beauty of Vultures (poetry) w photography by Danny Miles out now. Board member NeWest Press. #prairiegothic #writerwholovesbirds
Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com Poet, civil servant, music nerd | CV2, Malahat Review, QWERTY, ROOM, Crab Creek Review, The New Quarterly & others. jessicaleemcmillan.com
𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘯 (Pinhole Poetry)
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Noor Hindi @noorhindi.bsky.social Poet Laureate of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos
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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
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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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VerseFest Ottawa @versefestottawa.bsky.social Poetry Festival in Ottawa since 2011. https://verseottawa.ca/en/versefest
JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social Toronto Reading Series
September 13: Dina Del Bucchia (virtual)
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Catherine Lewis 🏳️🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social Author of poetry chapbook ZIPLESS (845 Press), finalist for two Bisexual Book Awards. Chinese Canadian. Banff Centre and Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio alum. Tin House ‘25. she/her/hers
Vancouver, Canada
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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
Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social Poet. Teacher. Editor. Interviewer. Festival Director. Plum memer. Not necessarily in that order. Usually found in Vancouver, Port Moody or Abbotsford. http://roblucastaylor.com/
Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social He collected things, each of a holy intention in isolation, but pagan in the variety of his choice.
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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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Eric Yip @metapheric.bsky.social 葉晉瑋 (he/him) • poems 💌
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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of poetry and fiction because art and literature make life better!
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Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social Founded in 1986, HFR is an international semi-annual literary journal edited by graduate students in the MFA program at Arizona State University.
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Farah 🌿 @farahghafoor.bsky.social poet and author of Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025) 🌿 | she/her | Tkaronto | farahghafoor.com | farah.substack.com | IG @/shadowpricepoems
Tea Gerbeza @teagerbeza.bsky.social She/her. Disabled neuroqueer writer and artist. Author of How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2025).
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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.
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wawog_now @wawog.bsky.social Building a cultural front for a free Palestine.
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Addie Tsai (any/all) 🏳️🌈 @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social Writer & dance film scholar. 💃 phd. 📕: Dear Twin, Unwieldy Creatures, Straight White Men Can’t Dance (9/25, Bloomsbury): https://shorturl.at/yyHZP. Shirley Jackson finalist. Rev ed: Anomaly. EIC: just femme & dandy. http://www.addietsai.com
Another Story Bookshop @anotherstoryto.bsky.social Indie bookstore in Tkatoronto. Radically supporting 2SQTBIPOC writers since 1987
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social The Air Contains Honey
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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com Publisher (LittlePuss Press)
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Athens, OH / Windsor, ON (forever Winnipeg and Southern Manitoba)
rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press)
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Kai Cheng Thom @razorfemme.bsky.social Writer, performer, facilitator, somatic coach & dreamer. Author of FIERCE FEMMES & NOTORIOUS LIARS, I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE, FROM THE STARS IN THE SKY TO THE FISH IN THE SEA, and FALLING BACK IN LOVE WITH BEING HUMAN. https://linktr.ee/kaichengthom
Jen Sookfong Lee @jensookfonglee.bsky.social Still an author, still an editor, new book THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN out now, it might scare you
Casey @canlesbrarian.bsky.social Bisexual. Librarian. Parent. Reader. Writer.
Ivan Coyote @ivancoyote.bsky.social Writer, storyteller, performer. Author of Care Of, Tomboy Survival Guide, Rebent Sinner and 10 other books. Kindling chopper, berry picker, snow shoveler, Yukoner. I like to build things. PLAYLIST is the name of my new show. www.ivancoyote.com
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social Michi Saagiig Nishnaabe writer, musician, intellectual
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social narrator & protagonist of her own life | echolalia echolalia (Brick Books, 2024) | Crips for eSims for Gaza bit.ly/eSimsRUs
website: janeshi.org
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
Electric Literature @electricliterature.com Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive
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Massy Books @massybooks.bsky.social Nêhiyaw-Métis woman-owned bookstore on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ territory (YVR). BC Green Business Certified; Rick Hansen Certified; Voted 2023 & 2025 Best Bookstore (Georgia Straight)🥇
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Manahil @manahil.bsky.social Writer, artist, editor, etc.
Author of Heliotropia (Brick Books 2024)
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The Ex-Puritan @ex-puritan.bsky.social Publishing fiction, poetry, essays, interviews and reviews. Proudly awarding The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence.
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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!
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.
Carlos A. Pittella @pittella.bsky.social latinx poet haunted by borders ⦁ he/him ⦁ researcher @assistedlab.bsky.social
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project.
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49th Shelf @49thshelf.bsky.social Fuelled by the largest collection of Canadian books ever assembled, 49th Shelf makes it easier to find your next great Canadian read. 
League of Canadian Poets @canadianpoets.bsky.social The LCP supports poets & builds communities, supports inclusive and equitable free expression, & promotes Canadian poets and poetry. www.poets.ca
Wildfires Bookshop @wildfiresbookshop.bsky.social Wildfires Bookshop carries both new and used books with a curated selection of historically and presently excluded voices and stories. We are a queer and south asian owned bookshop, literary lounge, and community space.
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Metonymy Press @metonymypress.bsky.social Small queer press based in Tio’tià:ke. We publish literary works by emerging writers — books that reframe power and affirm life. We really want to keep gay book lovers satisfied. https://linktr.ee/metonymypress
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