Kirawords @kirawords1714.bsky.social Mad Canadian Poet
A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social I write stuff and I read stuff, not always in that order.
Some concerns about the way things are currently are going.
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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social Muñeca – queer gothic historical fiction – out 6/2/26: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211/muneca-by-cynthia-gomez/
2024 Ignyte nominee for "Lips Like Sugar." Member HWA. Rep @LaurenBajek.
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Paul Baldowski 🔜 Tabletop Scotland (Sept. 4–6) @paulbaldowski.bsky.social Freelance and Indie tabletop game Writer | Symbaroum | Rivers of London | Liminal | Trophy | Paranoia | Maelstrom | Terminator | Cthulhu Hack | (The Dee) Sanction | Cörk Børd | Elizabethan History and Lovecraftian Horror fan | Neurodivergent
Malcolm MacMahon @amacmahon.bsky.social Writer, public employee, cyclist
Jackie Lau @jackielaubooks.bsky.social Romance reader/writer. She/her. jackielaubooks.com
Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social Landscape photographer, opportunistic writer, geology enthusiast, ex-river guide, opera fan, omnivorous reader, living in the Inland Northwest.
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Jen Falkner @jenfalkner.bsky.social she/her
Author of SUSANNA HALL, HER BOOK (Fish Gotta Swim Editions) and ABOVE DISCOVERY (Invisible Publishing)
Trying to learn Welsh, obsessed with standing stones
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Michele Stuart @crystalbrier.bsky.social (She/her)
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Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social Professing literature in Philadelphia. Writing MIDDLEMEN: Literary Agents & the Making of American Fiction (April ‘26).
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Alethea Kontis 알리티아 @aletheakontis.com NYT Bestselling Author of Books for Smart People ⭐️ Storm Chaser 🌪️ Adventurer 🚀
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Eric Notaro @ericnotaro.bsky.social Occasionally published fiction writer. Avid reader. Long time D&D nerd.
Simon Petrie (he/him) @fomalhaut451.bsky.social Writer of short books w. long titles, eg 'I Have No Legs And I Must Manspread'. Hemulen. Titan tragic. Cisgender. Pakeha in Oz. He/him.
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Chris Slaby @cjslaby.bsky.social Scholar, teacher, writer, earth human person (he/him/his). Art + history: Native American and Indigenous Studies; the environmental humanities; media, culture, and representation. Food and music, too, though those are more passions than subjects of study.
Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social Academic knuckleballer.
Kate Cook @eskay8.bsky.social scientist, coder, public servant, gardener, potter, writer, parent, Canadian
emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social Doctor of food, writer of stories
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Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social Writer, cat dad, wife guy, cryptid. Author of DEAD GIRLS DON'T DREAM (2024), DEFEKT (2021), FINNA (2020), and HOMESICK (2019).
Andrew potter @jandrewpotter.bsky.social Failed journalist, former celebrity metaphysician, Hobbesian monist, authenticity monger, Gen X nostalgist.
Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social tv writer, actress, living in the city of angels, singing about leopards. shop.franchesca.net
Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com Shitposter with intermittent bursts of sincerity.
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Bruce Stirling @brucestirling.bsky.social Let the truth of love be lighted, let the love of truth shine clear - n.p.
TC Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social Neuroqueer Luddite. Angry intersectional feminist writer / Nefarious Bat Press 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social Baltimore-based indie bookstore. Currently online until we get a new space for the bookstore. Generally won't DM people, unless maybe you're a publisher and we need info to stock your books.
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Marnie @marnie-sensfan.bsky.social Ottawa senators fan, mental health advocate, social worker, fantasy books, transplanted x3 kidney, always tired. 🇨🇦😷💚🏳️🌈
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Will block random drops into my Dm. Like seriously STOP 🛑!
Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social Classical music and opera journalist. Blogs at irontongue.blogspot.com. Alto, martial artist. Former tech writer. Music, books, politics, food, public health. Cis, queer, Jewish. I instablock men who follow only women's accounts.
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Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social.
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Bert the Bookseller @booksellerbert.bsky.social Dad. Writer. Bookseller. Dork.
ABQ, NM
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Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
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GMT Games @gmtgames.bsky.social GMT Games is celebrating 35+ years of creating and publishing a broad line of Wargames, Strategy games, Eurogames, and Family games.
EMA @elizabethainslie.bsky.social 
pauline zed @paulinezed.bsky.social Writer, teacher, mom, watcher of film, reader of comics, player of hockey, connoisseur of pop culture, fan. Citizen, settler, socialist. LGBT+ and FN ally. BLM. Trans women are women. 🏳️⚧️ Free Palestine. She/her.
Emperor Abby (the first pope) @arobertswrites.com BSFA-nominated essayist. SFF author you’ve never heard of. SocDem. Tolkien nerd. Relapsed Catholic. Armchair medievalist. She/her. Header by chorischia.bsky.social.
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L. D. Colter - Author @ldcolter.com Writer of weird things. Award-winning author of The Perilous Gods set of myth-based dark fantasy from Profile Books/Solaris.
Disco Barrington 🏳️⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social Queer dystopian horror author
THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS (Sept ‘26)
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Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
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The Fantasy Hive @thefantasyhive.bsky.social Award-winning collaborative site
Celebrators of SFF reviewers of fantasy books.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com Senior Fellow, @councilonstrategicrisks.org working on nuclear weapons policy. Teaching and such at Harvard Extension. Views my own.
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elka 🌾 comms open! @saintsbeware.bsky.social fantasy writer & illustrator ✦ patron saint of soulmates ✦ medieval enthusiast ✦ he/they 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷
☾ writing dark & queer romantic fantasies while dreaming about knights 𖤓
🌱 current wip: #cursebreakerwip
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Jason Hutt @jthutt.bsky.social NASA Human Spaceflight for 25+ years. Displaced Philadelphian. Go Birds! Amateur photographer. Occasional sci-fi writer.
Sent people to the Moon!
Go then. There are other worlds than these.
https://otherworlds.picfair.com/
Jay Cockburn @jaycockburn.bsky.social I write and make podcasts about cities and sci-fi.
Producer of Pagenerd, a book club podcast for sci-fi fans who suck at book clubs.
Audio and bylines in Canada's National Observer, Globe and Mail, The Green Line, Toronto Star, Aftermath. He/him.
Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social Astronomer at UW, data pipeline wrangler for Rubin Observatory, satellite mitigation leader via IAU CPS SatHub, mom, violist, Ballardite (Seattle), family cargo e-bike evangelist, Episcopalian, etc. Opinions all mine
Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social Bad Astronomer (formerly @BadAstronomer), SciCommer, Dork. Crash Course Astronomy guy. He/him. Newsletter: badastronomy.beehiiv.com
I'm self-employed so my opinions do in fact represent my company's.
@edelsemple.bsky.social @edelsemple.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies @ UCC, Ireland • Shakespeare on screen • Women in early modern drama • Shakespearean biofiction • Cat-owner, cake-lover, books, plants • she/her
Dr. Benjamin Broadribb @benbroadribb.bsky.social Performance Reviews Editor for Shakespeare Bulletin | Shakespeare on screen(s) | Shakespop | metamodernism | performance | adaptation | cinema | theatre | he/him/his
Susana Mas (she/her) @susanamas.bsky.social Immigrant on unceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory • Learning, unlearning
Independent journalist, media literacy trainer • Founder of Verifiably • Past Canada Teen Fact-Checking Network Manager • Fmr. CBC, CTV • Français-Español #RepresentationMatters
Matthew Fox @mattfoxwriter.bsky.social Kirkus ★ THE LOVELY DARK out April '26 🇺🇸 | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | Rep'd: Bell Lomax Moreton | No AI |🌱
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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social Illustrator & Surface Pattern Designer in
Toronto. Mythology, folklore, occult history & lover of all things spooky
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org Professional labor photographer. Unions for all. Birds. Whales. Cats. Hydration. Maybe a dash of democratic socialism. Not necessarily in that order. Too much optimism for the current moment.
Cute content skeeted often, not with the news cycle
Canada Fiction Fest @canadafictionfest.bsky.social Like a great big online book fair, featuring Canadian fiction books and authors from all across the country. 🍁🦫🫎 | FictionFest.ca
(Also @nptwrites.bsky.social)
Bookstr @bookstr.bsky.social For book lovers, by book lovers. 📚
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social Trans woman, writer, mom in St. Paul, Minnesota. Author of OKPsyche (novel) and From the Yew (poetry chapbook).
Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social Author of peculiar novels (PROJECTIONS, VASSA IN THE NIGHT, etc.) Bram Stoker finalist. Spiritualism and creativity nerd. Also artist.
Simo @srinivassimo.bsky.social he/they 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Spec fic + all things weird & queer. Stories in Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Tales & Feathers, khoreo & more. Lambda '25! http://srinivassimo.com
Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com (he/him) tabletop gamer, game designer, superhero fan, anti-fascist, geek, witch, polyamorous, and queer 🏳️🌈 partners with @christopherpenczak.bsky.social and @adamsartwell.bsky.social 💖 stevekenson.com • patreon.com/stevekenson
Adib Khorram @adibkhorram.bsky.social Award-winning best selling author of books for all ages. Out now: ONE WORD, SIX LETTERS (YA). Up next: ISN'T HE ROMANTIC (adult)! bio.site/adibkhorram 🏳️🌈🇮🇷 he/him
Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social Queer Canadian romance author. Occasionally I make things that aren't books. she/her. Against generative AI for any reason.
csrosbak.com
Tordotcom Publishing @tordotcompub.bsky.social Publisher of cutting-edge SFF short fiction.
Becky, Writer of Sexy Bad Decisions @beckycunningham.bsky.social She/they. Game dev, singer, cat-loving Canuck. Personal account. No AI, yes sexy fan art. Tricksy_Hobbitses on AO3. Adults-only account.
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John W Egan @authorjwegan.bsky.social Author of alternative histories and an historical fiction duology. Historical board gamer. Family first. Veteran of the RUF War. A Canadian in the beautiful Ottawa Valley of the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation. http://historicalalternatives.blogspot.com.
PWHL @thepwhl.com The League Legends Call Home
John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social I write about books and edit others’ writing about books, previously for NY Times and Washington Post. Apollonian/Order Muppet. Highly sociable misanthrope. (Photo: Larry McMurtry's Booked Up, 2018.)
Natalie Zutter @zutsuit.bsky.social sff writer/playwright · pop culture critic at Reactor, Lit Hub, Den of Geek, NPR Books · stories at Adventitious, PodCastle, Icarus Writing Collective · Viable Paradise 2025 · PlayPenn Playwright Entrepreneur Program 25/26 · she/her
Heidi Shierholz @hshierholz.bsky.social President, @EPI-org. Board member, EPI Action. Former Chief Economist, US Dept of Labor. Bike commuter, backyard beekeeper. Tweets my own. She/her.
The Labor Radio Podcast Network @laborradionet.bsky.social Working People's Voices – Broadcasting and Podcasting Worldwide 24 Hours A Day. Find us at https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.
Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social Vancouver journalist. Strives to tell unique stories.
http://moremcbarges.ca
http://instagram.com/justindmcelroy
Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social A husband, father, actor, director, & a climate justice advocate with an eye out for a better, brighter, cleaner, & more hopeful future for all of us.
melanie brannagan frederiksen @melanie-b-f.bsky.social poet, poetry columnist @winnipegfreepress
📚 the night, the knife, the river (forthcoming March 2027 with @atbaypress.bsky.social)
elsewhere: @melaniebf@mstdn.ca; @melanie.b.f on instagram; @melanie_b_f on hey.cafe
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, container escape artist, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
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The 51st @51st.news Information with representation, by and for D.C. residents.
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Workers’ Lit Podcast @workerslit.bsky.social Workers' Lit is THE literature podcast for hot, cool, gay, and/or working class people. Hosted by Aysha, Jen, Lenore, and Jacob
Account run by Jacob. Others bear no responsibility for bad posts
www.workerslit.com
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Comix Action @comixaction.com NYC comics creatives against authoritarianism and for community action.
comixaction.com
buttondown.com/comixaction
Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social Personal account so expect eclecticism. Law, politics, SFF books, anime, gaming, music. Queer stuff.
Day job = Administrative law and public law theory.
Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca On a journey trying to find new worlds while sending joy into the ether.
Human 🎧 Shazam 🎧. Niche sports fan. Anti-racist. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️LGBTQ2S+ Supporter 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈. From Tkaronto.
She/her.
Co-curator of @womensart2.bsky.social with @tidbit.bsky.social.
Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com Culture critic in the horror space. Author of BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING (Invisible Publishing, 2020). HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE (House of Anansi, 2023). https://peterbcounter.com/
Mike McIntyre @mikemcintyrewpg.bsky.social #NHLJets beat writer who gets words deep for the Winnipeg Free Press; 6x author; Left life of crime (reporting) behind in 2016; Husband, Dad x2, Rescue Dog Owner x2.
Kady O'Malley @kadyo.bsky.social Chronicler of parliamentary antics, procedural shenanigans and associated other critical elements of Canadian democracy. Writer at iPolitics.ca, political musings on CBC and elsewhere. 
Sally Wiener Grotta @sallywienergrotta.bsky.social Award-winning writer, speaker, photographer. (It's all storytelling.) Member: The Authors Guild & SFWA.
SallyWienerGrotta.com
She/Her
Canadian Medical Association @cmadocs.bsky.social The CMA leads a national movement with physicians who believe in a better future of health.
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Pilsen Community Books @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social Established 2016, worker owned and operated since 2020. Always Carry A Book
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CWA Local 7901 @cwa7901.bsky.social Communications Workers of America Local 7901 represents workers in communications, tech, the nonprofit sector, and more.
C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social Writer of SFFH. Snarkwitch. Psych PhD. Approachable goth. Artomancer.
Words in Small Wonders, Penumbric, The Deadlands, Skull & Laurel
Member of HWA, SFWA, Codex
www.cjsubko.com
https://cjsubko.beehiiv.com
Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social Citizen scientist, Brit in Sweden, endless maker of soup for babies. Galaxy Zoo turned me into a penguin. Always looking for more galaxies.
Andrew Lodge @andrewwj.bsky.social Curious. Enjoys policy. And other subjects. Ex HMT, BoE, various other places. Based in Canada; but still close to UK
Marisa Grizenko @marisagrizenko.bsky.social Reviews editor for EVENT magazine. Writer of Plain Pleasures, an occasional newsletter about books. She/her. Vancouver → Montreal