Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social Actor/comedian/writer in Toronto. Words in The Beaverton, CBC Comedy, The Toronto Star, McSweeney’s, etc. Pierre Poilievre's personal assistant Mandy. she/her clareblackwood@gmail.com https://www.patreon.com/cw/ClareBlackwoodComedy
MarkZelinski.com @markzelinski-photo.bsky.social 🇨🇦Governor General's Medal, OCAD, RCGS, Explorers Club, Pro Photographer/Publisher/Speaker #MarkZelinski gifted 8K #BooksThatHeal to WW charities (fwds by HRH Philip, Justin Trudeau) MarkZelinski.com
Jack Hauen @jackhauen.bsky.social Sleek, vigilant puma. Signal: jackhauen.33
Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca Leader of Canada’s NDP / Le chef du NPD fédéral
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Anita Li @neeeda.bsky.social EIC & CEO @TheGreenLineTO | Consult @TheOtherWave | Board @LIONPubs | Teach @NewmarkJSchool @JournalismTMU | Ethics
@CAJ | Cofounder #CJOC | Alum @Poynter @ONA
The Green Line @thegreenlineto.bsky.social Redefining #Toronto through the way we live and the stories we tell. Delivering information and community services that are actually useful. https://linkin.bio/tglhelps/
The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca Our pod of investigative journalists dives deep to tell stories about the natural world in Canada you can’t find anywhere else. Sign up for our newsletter: http://thenarwhal.ca/newsletter or become a member: https://thenarwhal.ca/bsky-member/
The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social Toronto's current affairs & culture print mag. FREE in 30 TTC subway stations, and 300 other GTA locations.
thegrindmag.ca
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Mike Wilner @wilnerness.bsky.social Former voice of the Toronto Blue Jays, current Toronto Star baseball columnist and host of the Deep Left Field podcast (you should subscribe). Loves stand-up comedy, ‘80s music and my two incredible kids! 
Michael A. Gonzales @magonzales.bsky.social Born and raised in Harlem, Michael A. Gonzales has been anointed "the hip-hop Chester Himes" by Miles Marshall Lewis. He's published true-crime essays at CrimeReads, and short stories in Ellery Queen and Rock & a Hard Place.
--art by Tony Stella
@thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social 
Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social Reader, cat lover, she/her. Canadian.
Matthew Heiti @harkback.bsky.social Writing wrongs.
www.harkback.org
IBPIR @ibpir.bsky.social International Bureau of Paranormal Investigation & Research. Since 1998 we have investigated various cases and over the years we have expanded into numerous areas.
#paranormal #ufology #cryptozoology #missingpersons #coldcases
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Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
Big [If True] @bigiftruetvo.bsky.social Exposing misinfo, disinfo & conspiracies.
📺 Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on TVO
⬇️ Anytime online 📲
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Dundurn Press @dundurnpress.bsky.social Books and news from leading Canadian independent publisher, Dundurn Press. Read with us. These are your stories.
Links: https://campsite.bio/dundurnpress
Hamilton Public Library @hamiltonlibrary.bsky.social Hamilton Public Library is a vibrant hub for information and culture, providing our diverse community the Freedom to Belong and Discover.
Heige S. Boehm @heigeboehm.bsky.social Author of 'Secrets in the Shadows,' https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/secrets-in-the-shadows/9781553805724.html?searchType=products&searchTerm=undefined host of the podcast "A WRITER’S LIFE," and writing instructor at Crow Story House.
TerraMysteria @terramysteria.bsky.social #Paranormal News - #UFOs #UAPs - #Ghosts - #Cryptids
Exploring UFOs/UAPs👽🛸, the Paranormal👻 and the Unknown. #Biologist & #Musician, Paranormal Investigator
My 'haunted' Photo-Art is on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terra_mysteria
𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘 𝕿𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖘 @superstitioustimes.bsky.social We report on the #paranormal in Canada with a healthy dose of skepticism, science & journalistic integrity. Explore the lore.
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Katie Welch @skatiewelch.bsky.social author, ecological thinker, duck whisperer 
DM De Alwis @dmdealwis.bsky.social Author 🇨🇦🇱🇰🍀 In this life or the next... blending mythology with fantasy. I also write Children's books.🦁👹 Myths& Samsara podcast. https://dmdealwis.com/quick-links/
2nd-generation Canadian; open-source circles know me as dcor.
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
Jason James Martin @jjmartin.bsky.social Biz guy, book guy, dog lover.
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)
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Hope Thompson @hopetwrites.bsky.social Writer, screenwriter, playwright
Hopethompson.net
Lisa Whittington-Hill @lisawhitt.bsky.social This Magazine Publisher. Words in Longreads, The Walrus, Catapult, Hazlitt and more. Author of Girls, Interrupted: How Pop Culture Is Failing Women and a 33 1/3 on Beauty and the Beat by The Go-Go's.
Sean Cranbury @seancranbury.bsky.social 
Bryan Crockett 🇨🇦 @bryancrockett.bsky.social He/him · Métis · @westcat.ca | Paralegal, ex–Parliament Hill staffer, other things too probably idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
✉️ bryan.crockett@westcat.ca
📍 BC, Canada
Howl @howl895fm.bsky.social Valentino Assenza, Alison Gadsby & Hollay Ghadery welcome Authors, poets, scriptwriters & songwriters Tuesdays 10pm-11pm on CIUT 89.5FM.
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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Mike Spry @mikespry.bsky.social Writer/Poet. Words in the Toronto Star, FLOOD, Indiewire, MTV CA, National Post, McSweeney’s IT, TSN, Washington Sq. Review, and elsewhere + a few books.
I write about TV/film/music/culture @ Narrative Electric Co.: https://mikespry.substack.com
Kwame Eff @kwame-eff.bsky.social Enfant terrible of Canadian publishing. Rabble rousing at the intersection of Canadian politics, economics, and culture.
Chris Benjamin Nova Scotia Writer @benjaminwrites.bsky.social Writer. My latest is The Art of Forgiveness, from @galleon-books.bsky.social, a collection of linked short stories about three boys growing up (roughly) in the suburbs outside Halifax. I also advocate for sustainable energy. https://chris-benjamin.ca
JustAnotherFinalGirlReview @finalgirlreview.bsky.social So I have a problem.
I may have an addiction to reading HORROR Books.
But Ive found a solution that helps me to justify my daily indulgences by reviewing and blogging about them.
Rev Michael Coren @revmichaelcoren.bsky.social Priest and author. 20 books - 12 languages, 7 bestsellers. Writes for Toronto Star, Globe & Mail, The Oldie, Daily Telegraph, Premier Magazine, ipaper, The Times, Church Times, The Spectator. www.michaelcoren.com
Christine McNair @christinemcnair.bsky.social Book person — read them, bind them, fix them, write them. I like type. Author of Conflict (2012) and Charm (2016) & Toxemia (poetic non-fiction) from Book*hug (fall 2024). President of CBBAG. Former co-organizer of the Ottawa Promise Walk for Preeclampsia.
Daniel Innes @danielinnes.bsky.social Making things in the countryside. Dreaming of the city.
DENISON AVENUE (ECW Press,2023) by Christina Wong and myself is available at your local bookstore.
Kamikawa, Hyōgo, Japan.
Danielinnes.com
Blair - Menace - Literary Villainess @blaireverywhere.bsky.social Author of Sci-fi/Fantasy/Horror
Out now: THE CRIMSON MOUSE
Find all my stuff ➡️ http://bit.ly/2LicQd7
HWA/JRW Member
She/Her
Steven B. Epstein @stevenbauthor.bsky.social Author of bestselling true crime books Deadly Heist, Murder on Birchleaf Drive, Evil at Lake Seminole, and Extreme Punishment StevenBEpstein.com #truecrime
Erin Pepler @erinpepler.bsky.social Freelance writer, book nerd, interested and sometimes interesting. Toronto gone suburbs. Author of Send Me Into The Woods Alone: Essays on Motherhood.
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Tara Lee @taralee3.bsky.social Toronto ex-pat now living in
Treaty 1 Territory 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🏳️⚧️💜
Settler under deconstruction.
Field Interviewer for Toronto-Centre and downtown with Statscan 2002-2005 and still alive to talk about those
peculiar demographics.
MK ULTRA/abuse
psychology
Music
Christine Estima @cestima.bsky.social Author of THE SYRIAN LADIES BENEVOLENT SOCIETY (2023) and LETTERS TO KAFKA (2025) Bylines: The New York Times, The Walrus, Observer, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Vice, Chatelaine, and more. Free Palestine🇵🇸 Free Lebanon🇱🇧
Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social 2024 Winner Toronto Star SS contest| @SmokeLong Fellow 2024|Best Microfiction 2024 2025|words:The Forge,The Cincinnati Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Room Magazine, Fractured Lit+| Pushcart, Best SF noms| rep:Joanna Rasheed, Ultra Literary
Au Pair of Dragons🇨🇦 @oldman-sac.bsky.social Square Peg/Round Hole
Aphantastic
SDAM
Keeping on being me until the world comes around.
Holly R. Valakresch @hollyvalakresch.bsky.social Author & Screenwriter | I 🩶 Arts & Sciences, Sculpting, Cartography, Cooking, Baking, Fashion, Fitness, Fairytales, & Historical Things.
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Jackie Araujo @jackiearaujo519.bsky.social Writer and Educator.- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
Ron Eckel @roneckel.bsky.social Literary agent and co-owner of CookeMcDermid Agency. MPub from SFU. Punk. Settler. He/Him.
Jes Trudel 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @jestrudel.bsky.social Literary agent with The Rights Factory. Founder of WritingCommunity.ca. CLOSED TO QUERIES.
JEFFREY ROBINSON @writingfactory.bsky.social Old fashioned storyteller, bestselling #author 30+books, keynote speaker, television, film, radio. #9/11 #MoneyLaundering #Fraud #Fiction #BookSky
WEBSITE: jeffreyrobinson.com
https://substack.com/@writingfactory
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Sarah Kernochan @sarahkernochan.bsky.social Two-time Oscar winning filmmaker, screenwriter of 7 films, author of #reincarnation thriller Jane Was Here & #paranormal memoir blog http://sarahkernochan.blogspot.com. Currently collaborating on Broadway musical #NancyDrew. Website sarahkernochan.com
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
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
Thomas West @thomaswest.bsky.social IBL Maple Leafs🎙Play by Play | OJHL Panthers🎙Play by Play | OHL Barrie Colts Rogers TV Intermission Host 🎙| RTA Sport Media 22
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 
Julie McArthur @diarydramatist.bsky.social Short Story Writer • Fiction Editor • Respite Caregiver • Cat Sitter
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Dawn 🇨🇦 (she/her) @dawnhinze.bsky.social Canadian. Writer. Incurable idealist. Advocate for education, kindness & sanity ❤️ Love is love 💙 🏳️🌈🌈 🇺🇦
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Mel 🍁 @midliferewrite.substack.com Writer exploring midlife reinvention through personal essays and speculative short fiction. Canadian living in beautiful British Columbia. Substack: midliferewrite.substack.com
J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca Toronto writer. yoga instructor. social media manager. vespa. tm practioner. cinephile. autism advocate.
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Mayor Bert Xanadu @moviemayor.bsky.social It's circa 1973. I am Mayor of Toronto and owner of the Imperial Six cinemas. Now on sale: I OWN THIS TOWN: THE MAYOR BERT XANADU XANTHOLOGY spacingstore.bsky.social
NorthbyNortheast @northby.bsky.social North by Northeast (NXNE) is Canada’s leading discovery festival of emerging music since 1995.
June 16-20, 2027
NXNE.com
Brent van Staalduinen | Writer, Resister, Human. @brentvans.com Canadian. Award-winning novelist. Husband. Dad. Son. Resister of GenAI and fascism. Deconstructed/Reconstructing Christian. Forge FC supporter. Human. He/Him.
David Clensy @davidclensy.bsky.social Writer. Working on a new five-book U-boat Aces naval adventure series for Sapere Books. Romulus Hutchinson Naval Adventure series out now. Non-fiction books include Walking the White Horses and Island Life: A History of Looe Island. www.davidclensy.com
Cindy House @cindyhouse.bsky.social Author of Mother Noise
J.R. Bale @jrbale.bsky.social Author, Father, Professor, MBA, Photographer, Concerned Human in NJ.
I support fellow writers.
www.JRBale.com
I do not respond to DMs.
Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social 6x award-winning feminist buzzkill.
Franco-ontarienne du nord de l'Ontario.
🏳️🌈 Femme.
I teach community care for a living and wrote a book about why resilience is futile, babyyyy ✌🏻
Actually fun™️
📍Ottawa, Canada
YellowManteau.com
@jkerry.bsky.social @jkerry.bsky.social Indigenous rights lawyer. Expos fan. 
Chelsea Wakelyn @chelseawakelyn.bsky.social Writer, parent, pinko, slob.
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Manuel Sousa Oliveira @msousaoliveira.bsky.social PhD candidate | lit | ethics | utopia | environment
he/they
https://up-pt.academia.edu/ManuelSOUSAOLIVEIRA
Michael Hollett @northbymichael.bsky.social Editor/publisher NEXT Magazine. President/CEO NXNE. Editor-in-Chief SPIN Canada. Founder of NXNE and NEXT Magazine, co-founder NOW Magazine nextmag.ca. NXNE 2027 June 16-20
Keith Burgoyne @keithburgoyne.bsky.social “You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.” —Kilgore Trout
Peggy A. Wheeler @pawheeler.bsky.social Writer of the fantastical, reader, world traveler, damned good cook, lover of good food and good wine, Bettie Page fan. Penning my 6th novel. Experiencing a massive, fun blast with this one!
Annie Trace @annetracy.bsky.social Indie author & writer. Debut novel “The Mourning Lights of Glory” to be released soon. Stay tuned… #ParanormalRomance
Sonja Boon @storiedselves.bsky.social writer. researcher. flutist. teacher. stitcher of stories.
https://linktr.ee/sonjaboon
Hank Moore @hankmoore.bsky.social Author 14 books: Pop Music Legends, Big Picture of Business, Classic TV Reference, Non-Profit Legends, Pop Icons & Business Legends. Nominated for 7 Pulitzer Prizes. 100+ awards. Speaker. Business guru. Corporate Strategist. Humanitarian. Pop Culture Maven
David McPherson @davidmcphersonca.bsky.social Author. 101 FASCINATING CANADIAN MUSIC FACTS; MASSEY HALL; THE LEGENDARY HORSESHOE TAVERN: A COMPLETE HISTORY. Journalist. Cyclist. Voracious reader. Sober. Music is the Elixir of Life.
Jinwoo Park @jinwoo-park.com Writer, Translator (Kr-En), Debut novel, Oxford Soju Club, coming in Sept 2025, 111k on TikTok
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Dylan Jacobson @brimstonestudios.bsky.social Illustrator, Comic Artist, Secular Podcaster!
Sometimes 18+
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Embrace your inner monster 😈
Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social Zoologist, author, natural historian Dr Darren Naish | Dinosaurs animals evolution | Books: DinosaursHTLE - DINOPEDIA - AncientSeaReptiles. PREHISTORIC PLANET lead consultant AppleTV | DINOCON leader | Mesozoic Art II out now
https://linktr.ee/tetzoo
Jessica Patterson @jesspatterson.bsky.social Writer & editor | Instructor @UofT | Passionate about media innovation & digital storytelling of all kinds. | Formerly @ TMU, CAJ, FIPP, News Media Canada, MagsCanada. 🌟