Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Sonia Nicholson @nicholson-sonia.bsky.social Archivist/Author/Poet in #yyj. Own views. Using my words for good. Rep’d by @rachkmc.bsky.social. Web: sonianicholson.com
Jillian Wagner - Halifax @swifty448.bsky.social From Halifax, Nova Scotia. Community Builder & Event Planner. Cofounder of Atlantic Canada Swifties.
One of Eight Podcast: 30 years old, fighting breast cancer and advocating for Women’s Health
Jay Heisler @jayheisler.bsky.social Hey! I'm published in CNBC, Washington Examiner, Voice of America, US Naval Institute Proceedings and as a music journalist in Canadian newspapers. Here to check out the scene! Feel free to add me to LinkedIn or Facebook.
wild-life-ranger @wild-life-ranger.bsky.social All things Natural History Wild Flowers Plants Birds Butterflies Moths Insects and Photography
Faculty of Arts at Saint Mary's University @smuarts.bsky.social Explore your world of possibility in the Faculty of Arts, with more than 40 areas of study. www.smu.ca/arts #artswithimpact
Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social I write poems and I garden. *Becoming Altar*, new and selected poems, available from asterismbooks.com. *Mapless* available from SHINE Poetry. See https://kylahoubolt.us/ for all kinds of more. Oh, and NO AI at all.
@lorrainearyan.bsky.social @lorrainearyan.bsky.social 
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker): https://book-shelfie.com/postscript
Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie Author of Nature’s Acre. Founder, Gardeningwell.ie — wildlife gardening in Ireland (Stamullen, Co Meath).
Walled garden + school/community projects.
Peat-free, pesticide-free. Native plants, pollinators. Media: gardeningwell.ie/press/media
Heather J. “Lives in a city on Lake Ontario” Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social Author, Publicist, World Fantasy Award Nominee, Cat Lover, Feminist (she/her but they/their is good too!)
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
Mark Laliberte @originobscure.bsky.social Artist/Author/Designer • Book Fiend • Clutter Cultist • Collaborationist • Curiosity Hunter • Gentle Extremist TM — Co-founder of MA|DE (debut collection ‘ZZOO’ out Feb ‘25) — http://ma-de.ca + @madeprojects.bsky.social
MA|DE @madeprojects.bsky.social MA|DE (est. 2018) is a collaborative writing entity, the joint authorship of Mark Laliberte + Jade Wallace —> Debut poetry collection, ZZOO, available to order now (5 covers to choose from!): https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/zzoo-made
Kevin MacDonell (he/him) @kevinmacdonell.bsky.social Writer, essayist, lifelong diarist. Nova Scotia, Canada. Recent/forthcoming: Malahat Review, Queen’s Quarterly, Grain, Dalhousie Review, Camel, Riddle Fence, Antigonish Review, Globe & Mail. Site: kevinmacdonell.com
Jeanne-Marie Fleming @jeannemariefleming.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Editor. Mentor for incarcerated citizens. Here for all of it. www.jeannemariefleming.com
The Malahat Review @malahatreview.bsky.social Canadian literary journal established in 1967 publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from emerging and established writers.
Author Kay A. Oliver @kayaoliver2024.bsky.social Award-winning author | Hollywood insider | Professor | Acclaimed entertainment journalist | 30+ literary awards | Fiction Author of the Year 2025
@imaginaryqwerty.bsky.social @imaginaryqwerty.bsky.social 
Euan Taylor Author @euantaylorauthor.bsky.social The Hard Times: Prison Diaries: A book about crime, punishment, rehabilitation, greed, and putting a newspaper to bed before the editorial team gets locked up: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hard-Times-Prison-Diaries-ebook/dp/B0DPVH8HFF/
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
Katey Grant @kgrantwrites.bsky.social (she/her) I write romcoms about women with good intentions and noble ideas, who inevitably screw up before saving the day and getting the guy.
REP: Kiya Evans at Paper Literary
Reading and writing in Vancouver 🇨🇦
Follow me on Instagram @kgrantwrites
David kris @davidkris.bsky.social Calm , Gentle and loving
Dean Jobb - True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social Strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime.
A Gentleman and a Thief • The Case of the Murderous Dr Cream • Empire of Deception (Algonquin Books/HarperCollins Canada)
Website: www.deanjobb.com
Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y935u82h
Block Shop Books @blockshopbooks.bsky.social Women/Queer-owned curated bookstore connecting people with great new books. A safe space.
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125 Montague Street, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia B0J 2C0
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Annick MacAskill @thisisannick.bsky.social Poet
Latest: Votive (Gaspereau Press, 2024)
Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022) #GGBooks2022
Murmurations, No Meeting Without Body, five from hem, Brotherly Love: Poems of Sappho and Charaxos
annickmacaskill.com
Susan Haldane @shaldane.bsky.social Poet. Farmer. Etc. “Hard Bargain Road” out now with Gaspereau Press. 🇨🇦
Doug Merrett @colaeus.bsky.social Retired IT, photographer, writer, putterer.
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Logan Kennedy @augustawynde.bsky.social Translator, writer, editor, walker ...
Eleonore Schonmaier Author @eleonoreschonmaier.bsky.social Poetry, fiction, song lyrics, music-theater. Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete, Dustblown Side of the Journey, Wavelengths of Your Song and Rush of Wingspan (2026, MQUP).
https://eleonoreschonmaier.com
Go and Write! @goandwrite.ca Go and Write! Join Dr. Gerard Collins and Jane Simpson, professional, award-winning authors based in New Brunswick, Canada, on writing retreats in Canada and overseas. Visit www.goandwrite.ca to learn more.
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Janie Simpson @handle.invalid Author, co-owner/operator of Go and Write! retreats (https://bsky.app/profile/goandwrite.ca), lives in New Brunswick, Canada.
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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social singer of stories, swinger of scythes.
work & words: arielmarkenjack.com.
newsletter: https://buttondown.com/SongsFromaRiversEdge
Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social Independent academic, poet, editor, reviewer, writing and mindfulness mentor. 
Vanessa McKiel @vanessamckiel.bsky.social Inspired by wildflowers
Printmaker & writer in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Artwork available locally at the Lunenburg Art Gallery and Jenny Jib
or contact me through my website vanessamckiel.com
Lunenburg Bound Books @lunenburgbound.bsky.social We are a family owned and operated independent bookshop in E'se'katik (lunenburg) Mi'kma'ki (nova scotia) We are working towards social justice and inclusivity, and trying to make a positive contribution to our community.
Lorelei Saunders Smith @artbylorelei.bsky.social Photographer in Halifax NS/Kjipuktuk
NSCAD ‘27
Christy Kelly-Bisson @garlicbreath644.bsky.social Agrarian political economist (PhD)
Researcher at Dalhousie University
I study eastern-Canadian land grabs and land reform
Market Gardener
Kespukwitk, Mi'kma'ki
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Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social she/her: sharing Ottawa -area sugar crone (tinyurl.com/ottawamandy) literary, spoken word, storytelling & nonfiction events daily ish. Out now!: Beast Body Epic, Autumn 2023. https://linktr.ee/amandaearl.
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
National Media Awards Foundation @canadamediaawards.bsky.social Since 1977, Canada’s 🇨🇦 most prestigious awards programs for magazine and digital publishing communities.
Depuis 1977, les programmes de prix les plus prestigieux du Canada 🇨🇦 pour les communautés de l’édition magazine et numérique.
@ectoguise.bsky.social @ectoguise.bsky.social 
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Pete Hurd @thatpeteguy.bsky.social Post(?)-punk neuroscientist.
TF am I doing here? Social media is an oligarch propaganda tool posing as an inclusive mass delusion, a cure for loneliness. Inuring us to the inevitability of terminal ecological collapse.
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Typical Times 👣 x 👣 @musicisthekey.bsky.social On a journey to find 100k people who love music 🎶
Dr. Cornelia Schneider @drconnys.bsky.social Disability, Children’s Rights, Inclusive Practices, Professor in the Faculty of Education at MSVU Halifax, MountAbility, she/her, Kjipuktuk/Halifax
Indigo Dream @indigodreamband.bsky.social Dreamy & Distorted sounds from Helsinki, Finland. Our new single ‘Inverness’ is out now, click below✨
Listen & support us on Bandcamp! -> https://indigodream.bandcamp.com
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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social Author of Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness (Guernica 2024) A Place for People Like Us (Guernica 2025)
Vidal, At Bay Press, 2026
For All the Men... reissue (Guernica 2028)
Fiction and art enthusiast. Humber School for Writers faculty.
Literary Magazines Canada Collective @litmagscan.bsky.social LMCC is a collective organization run by magazine editors and staff. We work to highlight the vital role of literary magazines in the publishing landscape. https://litmags.ca/
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.
Octopus Books @octopusbooks.ca Woman owned, independent, and committed to making the world a better place.
116 Third Ave, Ottawa
Anishinaabe Territory
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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
Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social Writing, nature, people, climate, place.
New book: LIFELINES - Waterstones Book of the Month
Author of IRREPLACEABLE & THE SMALL HEART OF THINGS
Upcoming: THE LAST WILD RIVER
Prespa, Greece. Rep'd by @jmlockhart.bsky.social
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@janebuggle.bsky.social @janebuggle.bsky.social 
Shivabalan Nagakumaran🇨🇦🇺🇳 @snagakumaran.bsky.social Hi/Bonjour/Halu and welcome/bienvenue to my official Bluesky account! I live in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 , I am a Canadian Citizen and I also consider myself as a Citizen of Planet Earth as well 🇺🇳🌎🌍🌏 #Progressive #ClimateAction #ViveLeCanada #ElbowsUpCanada
BK Loren @bkloren.bsky.social I wrote Theft, a Novel; Animal, Mineral, Radical: Essays & other pages of words. But I've lost faith in the business of publishing, so now I ride a bike. I pedal in circles, hoping things come around again. They will. That's the meaning of Revolution.
Alison Smith @alisone.bsky.social Rural NS municipal councillor (MODL), poet, collagist.
Carol Bruneau🇨🇦 @cbruneau83.bsky.social Proud Canadian. Author of 12 books, Inc THE LITTLE WAY. Mercy, compassion, justice. True North strong and free. We will not back down. NO to MAGA, NO to fascists, racists, bigots. No DMs. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Tricia Snell @triciasnell.bsky.social Writer, musician, teacher, feminist! Nova Scotia, Canada.
Alice Burdick @aliceburdick.bsky.social Nova Scotian Poet & essayist & cookbook author. Out now: Ox Lost, Snow Deep, Fall 2024, a feed dog book/Anvil Press. Poetry lifer.
Juniper @juniperpoetry.bsky.social An online poetry journal, founded in 2017.
Have you read our current issue? Selected poems from Juniper have appeared in the Best Canadian Poetry anthology.
juniperpoetry.com
Laura Sergeant she/her @laurasergeant.bsky.social 🇨🇦Writer/Poet/Pushcart Prize Nom. Former kids mental health social worker. Exercise nerd. ‘90s indie rocker. WIP=midlife memoir. Carbon-conscious. Green thumb. Ally. Kindness matters website: laurasergeant.com 🌈 ♿️
Steve Chapman @elkhaircaddis.bsky.social Fly fishing, Atlantic Canada, science and history
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!
Laura Rock Gaughan @laurairock.bsky.social Reading, writing, walking in Ontar-i-air-i-air-io (Can-Am). Publishing advocate. Nonprofit consultant. Author of a short story collection (MOTHERISH), essays & more TK. She/her
hamrevofbooks.bsky.social @hamrevofbooks.bsky.social Online literary journal publishing great writing about books and book culture in Canada. Launched Fall 2016.
Lorri Neilsen Glenn 🇨🇦 @lorri.bsky.social writer (poetry/essays), editor, instructor, researcher, prof emerita, ex-poet laureate, RRMetis #womannotlady #NovaScotia #Ukings #MSVU #CanadaStrong 🇨🇦
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chris johnson @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social he/him : white settler : managing editor, @arcpoetry.bsky.social : editorial assistant, @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social : opinions are my own : say hi
JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social A Reading Series
Sept 24 Insta Live w/ Jowita Bydlowska
Oct 4 TYPE Books Junction
Oct 8 Insta Live w/ Kim Fahner
Nov 8 On Zoom w/ Norma Dunning
Nov 22 TYPE Books Junction
Nov 26 Insta Live w/ Greg Rhyno
www.junctionreads.ca
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Steve Song @manypossibilities.net Local hands building local networks.
Open Data in telecoms https://linktr.ee/opentelecomdata
Day job: https://isoc.org
Views my own.