Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024,
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Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social poet and author of Spring Cleaning(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021)
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Alastair Morrison @alasmorrison.bsky.social Psychiatry resident, poet, tolerated parent. PhD English Lit, Columbia. MD McMaster. #medicalhumanities
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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social Writer, teacher, friend. Words in: The Sun, Orion, The Yale Review, Literary Hub, & more. Author of BREAKING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY, a memoir, and the essay collection RARE GOOD: ESSAYS ON ART, AUTISM, AND ASTONISHMENT. https://www.steveedwardswriter.com
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David Linebarger @tennis-art1.bsky.social Poet, prose writer, professor at davidlinebarger.com Latest book Tennis Players as Works of Art won many awards, including 2025 Book of the Year (Original Concept) at the 29th annual IPPY awards.
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca Professor, English/Gender & Women’s Studies Dalhousie. He/him. Speaking only for myself (sometimes not even!)
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca Leader of Canada’s NDP / Le chef du NPD fédéral
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social Writer
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Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Simon Thibault @simonthibault.bsky.social Journalist, editor, food writer, cookbook fan. Lover of pomology, grains, and archives. Author of "Pantry and Palate: Remembering and Rediscovering Acadian Food."
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Wendy McGrath (she/her) @wendymcgrath.bsky.social Métis writer/artist in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Edmonton). Winner of the 1st Prairie Grindstone Prize. My book The Beauty of Vultures (poetry) w photography by Danny Miles out now. Board member NeWest Press. #prairiegothic #writerwholovesbirds
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Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social Toronto writer. Words in Wigleaf Top 50, Cincinnati Review, Gone Lawn, Milk Candy, New Ohio Review, Pithead Chapel
Reader, Fractured Lit.
Noms Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, BOTN.
Award-winning chapbook, Good Mother Lizard.
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Bill Merklee @bmerklee.bsky.social Writer of very short things.
In Best Microfiction. Best Small Fictions noms. Highly commended for Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. Fractured Lit Chapbook Prize short list. Wigleaf Top 50 long list. BOTN nom. But enough about me. How are you?
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Will Richter @willrichter.bsky.social Debut story collection, JUST A HOWL, forthcoming 2027 from Rare Machines.
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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social Previously @eliot_north on Twitter/X. ND mum-doctor-writer of poetry & prose. Living in Valencian Country, working as NHS GP Weston-super-mare.
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