arsenalpulp.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social Leading 🇨🇦 indie publisher of LGBTQ2S+ & BIPOC stories | Literary fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, poetry, and YA & children’s books 📚🏳️🌈
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RJT @lettersdirectory.bsky.social Independent researcher of various humanities writing poetry. Disabled. Johns Hopkins alum. Thinking about post-capitalism, post-violence, and etymology. https://www.tilley.earth/, https://www.letters.directory/, https://www.violencestudies.com
Annie Koyama @anniek.bsky.social Former publisher, Giver of grants via Koyama Provides 
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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.
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
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Experimental/Dance/Music Festival @dancemusicexper.bsky.social Festivals take place in downtown Toronto, Canada, for the audience feedback video.
The festival has created 4 tiers to enhance your festival experience.
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C. M. Christie @cmchristieauthor.bsky.social Writer, avid reader, she/her pronouns
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
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Julia Lin @juliaslin.bsky.social author: www.julialinbooks.com, #WritingCommunity #StopAsianHate #TransRightsAreHumanRights; #BLM; #Canada; She/her
Shona Cook @shonacookto.bsky.social Publishing publicist. 🇨🇦
Posts deleted regularly as I'm not making the same mistake I made at the other place.
august chun @augustchun.bsky.social writing, making comics, researching, organizing.
Mark Coakley @markcoakley.bsky.social #book #writer in #HamOnt #Ontario #Canada
True crime - Hidden Harvest; Tip & Trade; Faces of Fraud
Romance/horror novel - Murder Bugs
Norse epic - The Saga of Halfdan the Black
History of psychedelic therapy - Shroom Boom
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Anne de Haas 📷 @mbug.bsky.social Portrait photographer, artist, crow lover, fossil hunter, procrastination specialist. Canuck.
All photos are my work.
"Being human is harder than it looks."
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@adrienneweiss.bsky.social @adrienneweiss.bsky.social Sometime writer. adrienneweiss.wordpress.com
Adrian Markle @amarkle.bsky.social BA English/Creative Writing Course Leader at Falmouth University. Fiction editor for Aethlon journal. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧. Author of many stories and the novel BRUISE. Writing about class, gender, pedagogy, and sometimes sport.
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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social Poet, writer, maker of things. Seventeen collections of poetry and prose. Born and raised Vancouverite now living in Edmonton. ANTI-artificial thievery. Editor, reviewer, teacher of poetic forms. Loves: books, cats, gardening, family, real life. #canlit
Sunburst Award @sunburstaward.bsky.social The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an annual juried award that recognizes exceptional works of Canadian speculative literature. www.sunburstaward.org
CMU Press @cmupress-ca.bsky.social Publisher since 1974 of literary, scholarly, reference & general interest books at Canadian Mennonite University. Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg.
In Winnipeg shop at CommonWord.
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Donald Simmons @donaldfsimmons.bsky.social Resident of Toronto. Engineer, cyclist, helps to run Anime North. Loves history and science. Big lefty. 
David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
Nicola Vulpe @nicolavulpe.bsky.social Poet, writer, sometime thinker, indignado
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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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Dan O’Mahony @danoauthor.bsky.social I was raised in a library by a pack wild fantasy novels who brought me up as if I was one of their own.
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@jiaconoauthor.bsky.social @jiaconoauthor.bsky.social Canadian author/illustrator of "The Monsters No Grownup Sees"
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Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social Journalist, crosspatch, editor at the Toronto Star.
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
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/
Renee Sarojini Saklikar @reneesarojini.bsky.social Author, Educator, Editor
Lisa Timpf @lisatimpf.bsky.social Freelance writer, speculative fiction writer, book reviewer, pet lover, bird watcher, nature lover, PWHL fan, McMaster University grad (Bachelor of Physical Education). You can find out more about my writing at https://lisatimpf.blogspot.com/.
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
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Lorne Daniel @lornedaniel.bsky.social What is Broken Binds Us
new poetry
University of Calgary Press, Sept 2025
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Sheelagh Caygill 🇨🇦 @sheelaghcaygill.bsky.social Founder OnCreativeWriting.com - podcast and author interviews. Writer, reader, podcaster, journalist. 🍁 MA Contemporary Creative Writing, NN London | OnCreativeWriting.com | SheelaghCaygill.com | https://linktr.ee/Sheelagh_Caygill
Paula Hall 🇨🇦 @pjhall.bsky.social Writer, CNF and Fiction. Communications and Public Engagement Consultant @MagentaComs
River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social A ragtag team of creatives celebrating amazing CanLit. Join the party, pals!
Est. 2010.
Burned out crone @burnedoutcrone.bsky.social Just breathing my way through an anxiety attack over here. On Fridays you’ll find me softly crying in my local library. Let’s trade book recommendations.
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Toronto/LA Documentary Film Festival @docfestival.bsky.social 4 tiers to enhance your film.
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@whothefami.bsky.social @whothefami.bsky.social Hierarchy only exists in the minds of those who have not broken free of such illusions. https://whothefami.substack.com
Joy @thisisjoyyy.bsky.social she/her
Writer. Reader. Gardener. Anti-fascist.
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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
BigFishStone @bigfishstone.bsky.social Old progressive tattooed Canadian broad with kid and cat and opinions. A "poisonous machine gun spewing vitriol". There might be discussion of hockey.
Reese @puppylove23.bsky.social 🐶 Woof! I'm Reese , a Boston Terrier with a black belt in snuggles. My human, BRETT CULBERT– you know, my actor papa who's on TV and all that? – thinks he's the star, but let's be real, I'm the real leading role here.
Will Richter @willrichter.bsky.social Debut story collection, JUST A HOWL, forthcoming 2027 from Rare Machines.
Stories at CBC, AQR, @fiddlehd.bsky.social, @subterrain.bsky.social, The Threepenny Review, Witness, elsewhere.
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Quotes attributed to historical figures are often the work of the people who skeet them.
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Ian Roth @iandanielroth.bsky.social SLP, social communication prioritizer, cyclist
Hey it’s Darcy @heydarcy.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Creative director, video guy, almost got around to starting that novel. He/him.- J @jie32920.bsky.social @jie32920.bsky.social
darcy8647 @yukongold56.bsky.social Founder of Antifa, Frogs Together Strong.
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Tove Black @toveblack.bsky.social Gen X writer and sometimes musician based in Vancouver (Canada). Pen name, pronounced "tova." https://toveblack.ca/about/
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
Gaspereau Press @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers
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UniverSally🐾📸🎶🍪🖋️ @snickerspark.bsky.social She/her. I’m all about being human and treating others as such. Tolerance is key.
I’m also a total nut 🔩with a weird sense of humor. I love music, art, photography, haiku, baking, a few people and my dog Jazzy.
KarrieinGuelph 🇨🇦 🍁Part Owner of Canada @karrieinguelph.bsky.social Happily retired. Will speak up on issues I believe are important. Be kind and share. There’s enough to go around. Love my family friends, puppy, kitty, and this beautiful country. 🇨🇦Love is love. ❤️🇨🇦 forever!
Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social Jeff Cottrill is a novelist, Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, journalist and spoken-word artist based in Toronto.
June Lorraine Roberts @junelorrainer.bsky.social Reader . Reviewer . Flash Fiction Writer