Atlantis Journal @atlantisjournal.bsky.social Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice. Open-access feminist journal publishing peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research on gender, culture, equity, and social justice. Publishing from Mi'kma'ki (Nova Scotia, Canada).
The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social “The Adroit Journal is where I go when I want to know what the kids are reading.”
—The Paris Review
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Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social WRJ is a community for visual & literary art. We're interested in creativity & nature & connections. Check out our website and open submissions / wildroofjournal.com / wildroofjournal.substack.com / EIC @aaronlelito.bsky.social
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
Liz LeClair (she/her) @lizleclairhfx.bsky.social “Problem Stretcher”
Feminist. Fundraiser. Advocate. Activist. Dog lover. People are ok.
Kjipuktuk (Dartmouth), Nova Scotia (Canada) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏴 #nspoli #canpoli
Érudit @erudit.org Engagé·e·s pour des savoirs libres
Dedicated to open knowledge
Open Journals Collective @ojcollective.bsky.social We are a not-for-profit collective of academics, libraries and university-based publishers changing the way that academic research is supported and disseminated. Launching in Jan. 2026.
Join the movement: https://www.openjournalscollective.org/
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 
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader-supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence.
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Canadian Arts Coalition canadienne des arts @artscoalitionca.bsky.social Working to strengthen Canadian arts & culture through policies, investment, sustainable practices, & public appreciation.
Renforcer les arts et la culture au Canada par des politiques, des investissements, des pratiques durables et l'appréciation du public
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Noelle Allen @noelleallen.bsky.social Editor, gardener, lots of opinions.
Ontario Book Publishers Organization @obpoofficial.bsky.social The OBPO is your connection to Ontario's vibrant literary scene. Posts via Holly and Sarah. Visit our website to learn more: https://obpo.ca
Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social A charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Hamilton, Ontario.
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
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
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
The Malahat Review @malahatreview.bsky.social Canadian literary journal established in 1967 publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from emerging and established writers.
Shannon Sanders @shanders.bsky.social THE GREAT WHEREVER (forthcoming from Holt, summer ‘26); COMPANY, 2024 winner of the L.A.Times Book Prizes Award for First Fiction: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/company. Mom, twin mom, lawyer, Silver Springer. She/her
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.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Mon-Sat 10-5 Sun 11-4
Co-owned by - author Jo Treggiari
125 Montague Street, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia B0J 2C0
www.blockshopbooks.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
Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social slow-lane poet, insect- & fungi-portraitist Good Omens DT & MS fan, rabid reader & writer in Quebec Canada
www.pearlpirie.com
🏳️🌈 gender costume: she/they Alt image: white person in glasses. long wavy greying hair, wonder woman bracelet
IMAA AAMI @imaa-aami.bsky.social The Independent Media Arts Alliance // Alliance des arts médiatiques indépendants
4580, avenue de Lorimier, Montreal, Quebec H2H 2B5
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Christy Kelly-Bisson @garlicbreath644.bsky.social Agrarian political economist (PhD)
Researcher at Dalhousie University
I study eastern-Canadian land grabs and land reform
Kespukwitk, Mi'kma'ki
https://christykellybisson.com/
Susan Haldane @shaldane.bsky.social Poet. Farmer. Etc. “Hard Bargain Road” out now with Gaspereau Press. 🇨🇦
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
Gaspereau Press @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers
¶ http://linktr.ee/gaspereaupress
Sue Goyette @suegoyette.bsky.social poet
League of Canadian Poets @canadianpoets.bsky.social The LCP supports poets & builds communities, supports inclusive and equitable free expression, & promotes Canadian poets and poetry. www.poets.ca
Spot of Poetry @spot-of-poetry.bsky.social ❤️ Poetry appreciation group for those who find joy in words
📚 Little Books Collective: a community-building micropress for collaborative publishing
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Ploughshares @ploughshares.bsky.social Building a future beyond nuclear fear. We aim to reduce and eventually eliminate #nuclearweapons & promote stability where they exist. 
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/
Logan Kennedy @augustawynde.bsky.social Translator, writer, editor, walker ...
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
Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social Independent academic, poet, editor, reviewer, writing and mindfulness mentor. 
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
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.
Tricia Snell @triciasnell.bsky.social Writer, musician, teacher, feminist! Nova Scotia, Canada.
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/
@westerntanager.bsky.social @westerntanager.bsky.social 
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.
Send music tips, recipes...
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
Bandcamp @bandcamp.com Bandcamp is an online record store and music community where passionate fans connect with and directly support the artists they love.
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.
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.
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
Fieldnotes @fieldnotes.co A new watchdog group investigating the oil & gas industry. Sign up for our newsletter: http://fieldnotes.substack.com
Lucky Jefferson (LJ) @luckyjefferson.com we're the sugar to publishing's kool-aid; publishing emerging writers & artists everywhere. follow our newsroom @15west.org.
SUBMIT 👉🏽 luckyjefferson.com
Octopus Books @octopusbooks.ca Woman owned, independent, and committed to making the world a better place.
116 Third Ave, Ottawa
Anishinaabe Territory
Canada
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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social celebrating, promoting, & nurturing mama writing & writers at https://literarymama.com/ since 2003
Podcast, This Mama Is Lit! at: https://literarymama.substack.com/s/this-mama-is-lit
Subscribe for our newsletter at: https://literarymama.substack.com
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
Granta @grantamag.bsky.social The Magazine of New Writing.
https://granta.com/
Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social Inviting readers into a community of caring for the planet—justly, sustainably, and joyously. orionmagazine.org
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Thistledown Press @thistledownpress.bsky.social A literary trade publisher, publishing poetry and fiction by Canadian authors since 1975.
LZ @lzine.bsky.social 🤫UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT🤫 
Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social Award-winning independent literary press.
Read independently. https://linktr.ee/biblioasis_books
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/
Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social Canada's online magazine of book news and reviews. https://quillandquire.com/
@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social Book*hug Press is a radically optimistic Canadian-owned publisher working at the forefront of contemporary book culture.🍁
Qwerty Magazine @qwertymagazine.bsky.social Qwerty publishes new poetry, fiction, and art, and is staffed by creative writing students based in the Poets' Corner of Canada
QWERTY CRYSTAL: THE BEST OF QWERTY MAGAZINE PART I
Now Available
www.qwertymagazine.ca
The Ex-Puritan @ex-puritan.bsky.social Publishing fiction, poetry, essays, interviews and reviews. Proudly awarding The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence.
https://linktr.ee/ex_puritan
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.
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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Mslexia @mslexia.bsky.social The UK's bestselling magazine for women who write.
The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing @theampersandreview.bsky.social 
Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social Terrain.org is the world's first online literary journal of place. An award-winning environmental magazine, we publish poetry, nonfiction, fiction, artwork, editorials, interviews, reviews, community case studies, and more, all free to access + ad-free.
Ecotone Magazine @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social A biannual magazine that seeks to reimagine place. Founded & made at UNCW. Winner, 2022 AWP Small Press Publisher Award & 2023 Firecracker Award
Natalie Corbett @ncorbett.bsky.social Momma, Author, Painter, SLP. Four almost flown, five published novels, tiny paintings everywhere.
Alison Smith @alisone.bsky.social Rural NS municipal councillor (MODL), poet, collagist.
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.
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 🌈 ♿️
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!
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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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!
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
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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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/
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
Shashi Bhat @shashibhat.bsky.social Fiction writer, editor of EVENT, CRWR faculty at Douglas College
www.shashibhat.com
Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social SFFH writer. L’nu’skw (Mi'kmaw). She/her. Bi cis anarchafeminist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Pessimism of intellect, optimism of will. Views mine, not employers. Fuck AI forever.
Books:
🩸Carnalis
🌿 Green Fuse Burning
💀 Elegies of Rotting Stars
📧 Rep by Jo Ramsay
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
hamrevofbooks.bsky.social @hamrevofbooks.bsky.social Online literary journal publishing great writing about books and book culture in Canada. Launched Fall 2016.
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Amanda Jaros Champion @amandakjaros.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Hiker. Treehugger.
www.amandakjaros.com
#Binders
Editor of Labor of Love: A #LiteraryMama Staff Anthology
Author of 100 Things to Do in #Ithaca Before You Die and In My Boots: A Memoir of Five Million Steps Along the #AppalachianTrail
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.
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.