Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social Punamu’kwati’jk|Dartmouth (formerly Tsalaguwetiyi|Nashville). Inventor #DSPBposts. Small press, 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 poli. I turn tea into words: novel AETHER AND EGO (Inanna, Sept 2026). https://linktr.ee/joannemerriam
Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com Magazine of speculative fiction; stories of horror, wonder, and the weird since 1999. https://3lobedmag.com
Adam @adamgryu.bsky.social 🎮 i make video games and stuff
🐦 created http://ashorthike.com
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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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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social Author: TACOMA; A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN; YEAR OF THE BUFFALO; STEPHEN KING'S THE BODY; BACKSWING
Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack)
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Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social Guy who likes books. Publisher at October Park Editions (a chapbook micropress). Toronto, ON
@adamsol.bsky.social @adamsol.bsky.social Poet, prof, point guard, pater, not necessarily in that order.
https://howapemmoves.wordpress.com
https://www.vic.utoronto.ca/about-victoria/centre-for-creativity/
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Farzana Doctor @farzanadoctor.bsky.social Author of 7 books: fiction, poetry, self-help
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John Degen 🍁 @jkdegen.bsky.social Sleeping dog. Novelist, poet, rock & bird nerd. He/him. CEO @twuc, Chair @IntAuthors - Opinions entirely my own, so don’t even. Bird and book content at my website— jkdegen.com — and substack https://substack.com/@johndegen
Noelle Allen @noelleallen.bsky.social Editor, gardener, lots of opinions.
University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social University of Alberta Press is a contemporary, award-winning publisher of scholarly and creative books distinguished by their editorial care, exceptional design, and global reach. https://ualbertapress.ca/
Jeff Dupuis @jeffdupuis.bsky.social Writer, editor, hiker. Author of the Creature X Mysteries from Dundurn Press.
Dundurn Press @dundurnpress.bsky.social Books and news from leading Canadian independent publisher, Dundurn Press. Read with us. These are your stories.
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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
David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com Nightmares for sale. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Stone Garden. The Butcher’s Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. No AI. https://daviddemchuk.com
Robin J @cozyrpgreviews.bsky.social ENNIE Award-winning (!!) Youtube TTRPG reviewer focusing on small, indie and solo games | (he/they)
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Filthy Loot @filthyloot.bsky.social Misfit Fictions
Ames, IA, EST. 2018
Ira Rat, Curator
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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social Galley Beggar Press is an independent publisher from Norwich. Citizens of the world. And foreign.
Casey Lawrence @myexplodingpen.bsky.social Novelist, poet, scholar. She/they. Lit PhD from Trinity College Dublin.
ratti incantati @ratti.bsky.social indie bookstore for tabletop role-playing games &other things that aim to inspire you to change worlds
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Brooklet Games @brookletgames.bsky.social Illustrator and TTRPG publisher. He/Him
Adventures, settings, and RPGs
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Creator of Beetle Knight RPG
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sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social My novel TERMINAL SOLSTICE (Turnstone Press) + play PRODIGALS (Latitude 46) are fun to buy.
Embarrassing dad, aspiring Gaeilgeoir, copy grunt. https://seanminogue.com
Brad Kerr @bradkerr.net RPG designer. Original soy boy. Writer of "Hideous Daylight", "Wyvern Songs", etc. Co-host of Between Two Cairns podcast. Writer at Necrotic Gnome. He/him
https://bradkerr.net/
https://betweentwocairns.com/
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Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social https://ghoulish.rip
Award-winning small press specializing in transgressive horror fiction for perverts. Based in Minneapolis.
ottawa small press book fair @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social twice a year since 1994 : the best of the small press in Ottawa,
lovingly organized/curated by rob mclennan
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member of https://bsky.app/profile/smallpressalmanac.bsky.social
Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social SF mag from Canada | 2007-2013, 2020- | Opening to submissions on November 1st.
Publisher of Saros SF
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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social World Fantasy, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus & Shirley Jackson Award-winning speculative publisher. Baffling Magazine & novellas & anthos & queer 📚. Editor: dave ring.
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.
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Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social All Kinds of Weird 👽 literary magazine and book company publishing strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful sff & horror. 100% organic, no AI 🚫
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🍄 https://violetlichen.com/
will jobst @willjobst.bsky.social interactive biofreak. ½ of @goodluckpress.co. award-winning game designer, editor, and publisher. going to make one of each game.
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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/
Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social Ottawa's most beloved literary publisher (2006-2017): posting poems every April for National Poetry Month, and ongoing "six questions" interviews with current/former Ottawa-based writers,
https://chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/
West End Phoenix @westendphoenix.bsky.social A home-delivered, periodical local newspaper with city news + art featuring the finest writers and photographers from Toronto and beyond. Subscribe today!
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social Hi! I’m Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Francie and Marcel. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908.
Not a bot. Not selling anything. Just a keeper of forgotten cats.
Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
Russell Hoban @russellhoban.bsky.social Official account for Russell Hoban (1925–2011), author of Riddley Walker, Turtle Diary, The Mouse and His Child, Frances the Badger, etc. https://russellhoban.org/
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Strange Studies of Strange Stories @strangestudies.bsky.social Home of Strange Studies of Strange Stories and The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast!
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http://StrangeStudies.com
http://HPPodcraft.com
hex @hexliterary.bsky.social hex publishes brief speculative texts on a weekly-ish basis. We're @WPI. Editors @katemcintyre.bsky.social @danielmiller.bsky.social @joeaguilar.bsky.social. Subs closed for now. Read hexliterary.com
Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social Booklover, blathering at http://www.bookgaga.ca - literary news, reviews, discussion, poetry posted daily (aka #TodaysPoem http://bit.ly/2J4ym4C), member of a thriving silent book club group (aka #SilentBookClub http://bit.ly/2NSBVtw) ... oh, and I crochet
Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Award-Winning Publisher of New Weird Horror + More, via Portland, OR & Transilvania, Romania.
@AlexWoodroe.com, Editor in Chief.
@MattBlairstone.bsky.social, Publisher.
SUPPORT INDIE. Hail the Tenebrous Cult🖤☠️
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Brendan Vidito @brendanvidito.bsky.social He/Him
Author of Nightmares in Ecstasy and Pornography for the End of the World
Wonderland Award winner
Worm Aficionado
Website: https://brendanvidito.com
Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publisher of poetry, fiction, drama & nonfiction. Good on paper since 1965. https://linktr.ee/chbooks
Flame Arrow Publishing @flamearrowpub.bsky.social 🚀 Canadian publisher of bold speculative fiction.
🔥 Stories of resilience, rebellion, and rebirth.
🇨🇦 English & French
📍 From Vancouver to Montreal — stories that ignite.
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. 
Thistledown Press @thistledownpress.bsky.social A literary trade publisher, publishing poetry and fiction by Canadian authors since 1975.
House of Anansi Press @houseofanansi.bsky.social Anansi publishes very good books. 📖
Distributed by Jaguar in Canada and PGW in the U.S.
Visit our website: https://houseofanansi.com/?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=bluesky_profile
Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social Human, author. Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living (@pressassembly.bsky.social). The Diapause (novel), McCurdle's Arm (novella) (@invisibooks.bsky.social). #SABR (Hanlan's Pt). He/him.
📍Peterborough, Ontario
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Jacob McArthur Mooney @mcarthurmooney.bsky.social Poems, jokes, and fiction.
Recently: Frank's Wing (poems, 2023).
Next: The Northern (novel, 2025).
Occasionally: The Beaverton, others.
https://mcarthurmooney.carrd.co/
Stelliform Press @stelliform.press Award-winning SFFH & literary books engaging with environmental justice. Now: THE OTHER SHORE, THE WILDCRAFT DRONES. www.stelliform.press.
Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social You can do a lot with a bad hand. We're bringing you the best horror, dark fantasy, & crime fiction. Owned & operated by Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award winner Doug Murano.
A.G. Pasquella @agpasquella.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor. Words in McSweeney’s, Utne Reader, Joyland, Broken Pencil & more. Author of the Jack Palace crime series. Most recent book: WELCOME TO THE WEIRD AMERICA. As co-editor: DEVOURING TOMORROW
Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social Shortwave is an indie horror/sci-fi press. Our books are distributed worldwide by Simon & Schuster. Founded and run by @alandistro.bsky.social (active HWA member, full SFWA member).
Our full catalog: https://shortwavepublishing.com/
River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social A ragtag team of creatives celebrating amazing CanLit. Join the party, pals!
Est. 2010.
The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com a journal of ends and beginnings
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/
published by @psychopomp.com, tweets by @feliciafm.bsky.social and @seanmarkey.bsky.social
Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social analog game maker and zine defiler (Lay On Hands, Thousand Empty Light, Cycles of the Eye, Brute Fort) - alfredvalley.itch.io
Amber Devereux | Tin Can Audio @tincanaudio.co.uk musician, sound designer, overall noisy gremlin | mondays & wednesdays on twitch 🐿
audio editor: @whatthetrans.com, @podsthething.bsky.social
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
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
Latitude 46 Publishing @latitude46pub.bsky.social Literary publisher based in Northern Ontario, Canada
Visit our website: https://latitude46publishing.com/
Brady McReynolds @bradymcagent.bsky.social COO & Literary Agent @awfulagent
Tarheel 🏀 Fanatic. Avid Board/Video Gamer
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Rebecca Salazar Leon @rsalazar.bsky.social haunted swamp femme, PhD // author of sulphurtongue (2021) & antibody (2025) // (she/they) 🇨🇴🤎🇵🇸
Leesa Dean @leesadean.bsky.social Poet and CWRT instructor, editor, community arts. Author of 2 books and some chapbooks; book 3 forthcoming from Gaspereau 2026. Lots of 📕ish tattoos. On Sinixt Territory in BC. www.leesadean.ca
Stoeten @stoeten.bsky.social Baseball and things. https://stoeten.substack.com
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
Triny Finlay @trinyfinlay.bsky.social Queer & genderfluid settler poet & writer 🏳️🌈 Prof at UNB Fredericton (English & Creative Writing)📚Author of Myself A Paperclip etc. she/they 🫖🧶🌊
Fred Stenson @ftstenson.bsky.social Author; SW Albertan; columnist at Alberta Views Magazine; novelist (The Trade, Who By Fire, The Great Karoo; Lightning)
Tammy Armstrong @tammyarmstrong.bsky.social Poems/fictions. * Currently busy with animals, forests, and folklore * Barnes and Noble Discover Prize Finalist * PEARLY EVERLASTING out with HarperCollins * Represented by Rachel Letofsky-CookeMcDermid
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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.
Philip Summers @heyphilsummers.bsky.social Retro game fan and artist. Creator of Hand-Drawn Game Guides. Making & sharing cool things.
The Secret Cabal Gaming Podcast @thesecretcabal.bsky.social Weekly audio podcasts about tabletop gaming of all kinds. Board games, card games, miniatures games, and role playing games. Posts are by Jamie.
Links to everything: https://linktr.ee/thesecretcabal
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).
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Droned Artworks & War Claw Games @dronedartworks.bsky.social Dark fantasy illustrator for hire, author of Grimdark board games.
Art: www.droned.eu
Board games: www.warclawgames.com
My best game: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/doom-pilgrim
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
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
Darren O'Donnell @whtclds.bsky.social Artistic Director: www.mammalian.ca
Writer: https://chbooks.com/Authors/O/O-Donnell-Darren
filling Station @fillingstation.bsky.social Canada's experimental literary magazine. https://linktr.ee/fillingstation?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=42f26869-3a42-45a1-a3cc-034a1ec1d613
Jack Illingworth @illingworth.bsky.social ED, Association of Canadian Publishers. Kayaker and general nature nerd. Neurodivergent cancer “survivor.” Tkaronto for my work and Niibing for my soul.
The New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social Literary magazine that has been publishing Canadian Writers & Writing for over 40 years.
Proud presenter of the Wild Writers Literary Festival!
Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social host of Bookends on CBC Radio/podcast platforms everywhere, former 23x Jeopardy champion, slowly also writing // everything that happens will happen today
Palimpsest Press @palimpsestpress.bsky.social Small independent publisher 📍Windsor ON CAN
Beautiful Poetry | Fresh, Innovative Literature
Lynn Coady @lynncoady.bsky.social Giller Prize winning fictioneer and screenwriter. Irony-poisoned. lynncoady.com
MÖRK BORG @morkborg.com Blackened doomsday rpg about miserable bastards and heretics enduring a bleak, dying world. Ockult Örtmästare Games & Stockholm Kartell. The end.
www.morkborg.com
Cobra Milk @cobramilk.bsky.social multimedia literary and arts journal
established in 2020
https://www.cobra-milk.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
Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social Quarterly print literary magazine & small book press in the Philly 'burbs. Founder & EIC Jeff Bogle. linktr.ee/StanchionZine
Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
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.
Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social Award-winning independent literary press.
Read independently. https://linktr.ee/biblioasis_books
@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social Book*hug Press is a radically optimistic Canadian-owned publisher working at the forefront of contemporary book culture.🍁
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/
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
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
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/
Andy W. Taylor @sooguy68.bsky.social Canadian writer of speculative fiction who buys more books & comics than he can ever hope to read. Viable Paradise (VP19), Codex, TWUOC, CSFFA, Playwright Junction. Cancer Survivor. He/Him
Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Your Queer Spooky Bookstore x Small Press.
“A Good Story Will Haunt You”
👻🖤📚
www.littleghostsbooks.com