jessi @jessisays.bsky.social Poet, teacher, scholar in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Cut Side Down (2025) and A Number of Stunning Attacks (2021) available from the small, scrappy, Canadian press Invisible Publishing. https://linktr.ee/jessisays
Nancy Huggett @nancyhuggett.bsky.social Writer, caregiver, crone, that kinda gal. Work @ Event, The New Quarterly, Rust & Moth, American Lit Review, anti-heroin chic, Gone Lawn, Full Mood &&&
kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social literary home of the trans, queer, Crip, and sick
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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social Poet, teacher, editor. Author of Siren (Signal Editions, Vehicule Press, 2017) and Reporting from Night (Iguana, 2011).
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
bonny CD @bonnycd.bsky.social 
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
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Mahaila Smith (they/them) @mahailasmith.ca Co-Editor for The Sprawl Mag
Seed Beetle (2025) with Stelliform Press
Mahailasmith.ca
MW @emdubbleu.bsky.social Two-time Trillium award finalist for poetry. Books: “these are not the potatoes of my youth” in 2019 and “terrarium” in 2024.
mole trapped in human body. writing, reading, doodles.
Weirdre Lee 🌙💞✨️🍂 @deirdrelee.bsky.social poet & performer
neurodivergent baddie
cat parent
exists in Mi'kma'ki
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Transphobes, AI shills & fascists are cordially invited to be punched in the neck
These Days @thesedayszine.bsky.social farming every day. Send us your handmade slop as pdf, jpeg or by mail (DM for address).
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University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA @uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social The official page of the University of Guelph Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, located at the University of Guelph-Humber in Toronto, Canada.
Website: https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/cwmfa
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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.
Gaspereau Press @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers
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mreid@bsky.social @mreid.bsky.social poet, gardener, intelligence expert
former Managing Editor at Arc poetry Magazine
former Director at VerseFest
books with Brick, Chaudiere, Anansi, rdc, etc
new book coming from University of Calgary Press
Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social THE FUTURE IS STUPID
josh o'kane @joshokane.bsky.social I write about the people and institutions shaping Canadian arts + culture and also wrote a book called Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy that is mostly explained by its subtitle. Pls send tips to jokane@globeandmail.com
beestung @beestung.bsky.social a quarterly mag of non-binary & genderqueer & two-spirit writers that’s sweet & stings | imprint of
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http://www.beestungmag.com
https://beestungmag.com/newsletter
Helen Robertson @helendestroy.bsky.social Witch, bitch, and full-time disaster. Trans, genderqueer, bisexual, dyke poet.
Member of the poetry collective VII
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@rbmertz.bsky.social @rbmertz.bsky.social 
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal / Montreal Museum of Fine Arts @mbamtl.bsky.social Bienvenue sur le compte officiel du MBAM 👋
➡️ mbam.qc.ca/fr/
Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social a small, “boundary defying” publishing collective based in Chicago
Jennifer O'Connor @jennifer-oconnor.bsky.social Writer, reader, doctoral student studying social & political thought and comparative literature
Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social Poet. Teacher. Editor. Interviewer. Festival Director. Plum memer. Not necessarily in that order. Usually found in Vancouver, Port Moody or Abbotsford. http://roblucastaylor.com/
Press of the Varying Hare @varyinghare.bsky.social Andrew Steeves is a writer, editor, typographer and letterpress printer based in Black River Lake, Nova Scotia. He is the sole proprietor of the Press of the Varying Hare.
Ben Robinson @bengymen.bsky.social poet / musician / librarian
benrobinson.work
Arquipélago Press @arquipelagopress.bsky.social Dedicated to publishing Luso North American authors and Portuguese literature in translation
Paul Cunningham @p-cunning.bsky.social Co-Managing Editor @actionbooks.bsky.social | Author of SOCIOCIDE AT THE 24/7 (@eldiagram.bsky.social, 2025); FALL GARMENT (Schism, 2022); THE HOUSE OF THE TREE OF SORES (Schism, 2020)
Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social My novel, Skin Hunger, is coming in 2026. In the meantime, my latest poetry books are Openwork & Limestone (2022) & Light-carved Passages (2024). Prairie-raised author of Seeking Shade (stories 2020), Tower (novella 2018) etc.
www.francesboyle.com
Ronna Bloom @ronnabloom.bsky.social Writer of poems and essays. Taker of photographs.
IN A RIPTIDE is out now! Published by Brick Books.
ronnabloom.com
Garth Martens @garthmartens.bsky.social Poet. Palmero. Member of Palabra Flamenco. Producer of Dark Sounds. Author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence (Anansi, 2014) and Who Else in the Dark Headed There (Biblioasis, 2026). Pronouns: he / him. 🇵🇸 🌈 🍉
Liz Johnston @lizjohnston.bsky.social She/her. Writer, book nerd & editor. https://liz-johnston.ca. THE FALL-DOWN EFFECT out now from @bookhugpress.bsky.social. Order here: https://shoplocal.bookmanager.com/isbn/9781771669627
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English (modernism/poetry) at ULethbridge, critic (often in The Nation), ghostwriter of Tár On Tár
Nathan Whitlock @nathanwhitlock.bsky.social Author, professor, podcaster, drummer, dad.
www.nathanwhitlock.ca/
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social Author of ENTERING SAPPHO, TRANSLINGUAL POETICS, DOWN, & SECURITY POSTURE.
My newest book is HERE IS A FIGURE: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147904/here-is-a-figure/
Hoa Nguyen @peacehearty.bsky.social Poet. Educator. Aquarius stellium. Not really here.
Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social Canada's online magazine of book news and reviews. https://quillandquire.com/
Midnight Mass Books @midnightmassbooks.bsky.social Bookstore / Publisher
London, ON
Paragon Press @paragonpress.bsky.social Paragon is Memorial University’s student-run literary press and magazine based in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Access Copyright @accesscopyright.bsky.social We make it easy for users to share content responsibly, collect payment for this use, and distribute the royalties we generate to creators and publishers.
Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social Borderline Luddite. Sometimes writes.
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
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!)
Department of English, Dalhousie U @dal-english.bsky.social Founded in 1865, Dalhousie’s Department of English offers undergraduate programs in English Studies and Creative Writing, as well as MA and PhD degrees. https://www.dal.ca/faculty/arts/english.html
Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social Poet | Prof | Author: Wound Archive (2026); Bonememory; Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis; Sew with Butterflies
https://utpdistribution.com/9781773856117/bonememory/
https://theporcupinesquill.com/collections/new-titles/products/wound-archive
P. Scott Cunningham @cunningpscott.bsky.social Poet/Essayist. Winner, 2025 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. Founder: O, Miami - omiami.org #COYS About me: pscottcunningham.com
Latitude 46 Publishing @latitude46pub.bsky.social Literary publisher based in Northern Ontario, Canada
Visit our website: https://latitude46publishing.com/
Kathryn Mockler @themockler.bsky.social fiction writer | experimental filmmaker | poet | Author of Anecdotes @bookhugpress.bsky.social
Send My Love to Anyone: http://sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com
https://linktr.ee/kathrynmockler | https://www.kathrynmockler.com
Sue Goyette @suegoyette.bsky.social poet
@alvaradopoetry.bsky.social @alvaradopoetry.bsky.social 
Claire Lacey (they/them) @poetactics.bsky.social poet. nerd. performer. educator. critic. phd in poetry and brain injury. general enthusiast.
located in Ōtepoti Dunedin. from Canada.
@james-lindsay.bsky.social @james-lindsay.bsky.social Book publicist and writer in Toronto.
Paula Parris Eisenstein @pparriseisenstein.bsky.social Flight Problems: Amelia Earhart Poems (Pinhole Poetry)
Flip Turn (Mansfield Press)
Vedic Astrologer
New New Brunswick person 
LibraryRat @libraryrat.bsky.social Horror fan (all formats), library worker, book guy
Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social Part Gucci part intestinal parasite, Ethel publishes handmade chapbooks, sewn with sword and talon since 2018.
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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com Publisher (LittlePuss Press)
Professor (Ohio University)
Writer (✨✨✨)
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Athens, OH / Windsor, ON (forever Winnipeg and Southern Manitoba)
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
Blair Trewartha @btrewart.bsky.social Poet with 3 chapbooks and one full-length book. Next full-length "Half-Earth" forthcoming in 2026 with Palimpsest Press. Chapbook editor at Anstruther Press. Learning Specialist & Instructional Designer at Western University. Father of two.
Barbara Tran @staranise99.bsky.social Poet, writer, K9 behaviour geek
Precedented Parroting 🦜 (poetry)
Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award
#anstrutherbooks | @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
barbaratran.com | https://linktr.ee/barbaratran
Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018
Website: brokensleepbooks.com
Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social Post-Canadian poet, Cavafy translator, author of Men of the Same Name (Carcanet 2025). I’ve published in the Guardian, TLS, Malahat Review and PN Review.
Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social Poetry collection New Famous Phrases @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award, Ilkley New Northern Poet, New Writing North North East Poet, BBC New Creative
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/daniel-hinds-new-famous-phrases
Gary Barwin @garybarwin.bsky.social writing, multimedia, music, art, Hamilton ON Canada https://linktr.ee/garybarwin
“There’s a wisecrack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
Kevin Ashton 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇬🇱🇩🇰🇵🇸 @kevinashton.bsky.social Called a thing the Internet of Things—Wrote HOW TO FLY A HORSE and THE STORY OF STORIES—https://storyofstori.es/buy—He/Him—Agents: Richard/Inkwell (Literary)—Mary Ellen/Leigh Bureau (Talks). Austin, TX—I don't argue or debate.
Jennifer LoveGrove @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social Writer / Collager/ Novice Drummer / Reader / Music Nerd
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
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
Rhea Tregebov 🇨🇦 @rheatregebov.bsky.social Poet, novelist, children's picture book author. Associate Professor Emerita UBC School of Creative Writing. Canadian. www.rheatregebov.ca 🇨🇦
Jenn Houle @jennhoule.bsky.social Award-winning, Maritime Canadian author (poetry, children's lit, nonfic), feminist, mother, skygazer, amateur nature photographer. Books. Myth. Symbolism. Joy in spite and joy because.
jenniferhoule.com
https://substack.com/@jenniferhoule
KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social from the author of POETRY IS QUEER, SHE, + THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF
FAIRY (OUT NOW) @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
palimpsestpress.ca/books/fairy-kirby/
kirbyfairy.ca
itsakirby.bandcamp.com
substack.com/@itsakirby
Publisher @knifeforkbook.bsky.social
Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social Poet, editor, author of DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY; Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre; Poet Laureate of Calgary (2014-2016) and Banff (2022-2024) -- located in Banff, Alberta, Canada. He/him.
online at: www.derekbeaulieu.ca
Ted Landrum @tedlandrum.bsky.social Teacher Critic Artist Archi-Poet |
UbuLoca | Midway Radicals | Human Earthling | Into Ideas Art Film Theatre Poetry Architecture & Peace for All
(living and learning in Tkaronto) #verify this https://www.ubuloca.com/2022/05/poetry-is-in-everything.html
Kyle Flemmer @kyleflemmer.com writer, publisher, digital media artist
www.kyleflemmer.com
OBJKT: objkt.com/profile/kflemmer
Supergiants coming 2025 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
Neil Surkan @neilsurkan.bsky.social Latest: Empties (McGill-Queen's UP)
Die Workbook | Ruin | Unbecoming | Their Queer Tenderness | On High | Super, Natural
Poet Laureate of Nanaimo :)
neilsurkan.com
Triny Finlay @trinyfinlay.bsky.social Queer & genderfluid settler poet & writer 🏳️🌈 Prof at UNB Fredericton (English & Creative Writing)📚Author of Myself A Paperclip etc. she/they 🫖🧶🌊
Wilfrid Laurier University Press @wlupress.bsky.social WLU Press publishes books in the humanities and social sciences in Waterloo, Ontario. Member of the Association of University Presses. www.wlupress.wlu.ca
Ingrid Dandelion @ingridmiriam.bsky.social She/Her. Via Activa, Vía Passiva. Giving into the mystery of it all.
Daniel Innes @danielinnes.bsky.social Making things in the countryside. Dreaming of the city.
DENISON AVENUE (ECW Press,2023) by Christina Wong and myself is available at your local bookstore.
Kamikawa, Hyōgo, Japan.
Danielinnes.com
Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social Guy who likes books. Publisher at October Park Editions (a chapbook micropress). Toronto, ON
Aimée Dunn @aimeeddunn.bsky.social Publisher, Palimpsest Press
📍Windsor, ON, CAN
Another Story Bookshop @anotherstoryto.bsky.social Indie bookstore in Tkatoronto. Radically supporting 2SQTBIPOC writers since 1987
#ownvoices kidlit and YA experts/ founder: Sheila Koffman
315 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto, Ontario M6R 2M6
hosting events throughout GTA
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social The Air Contains Honey
Artistic Director of PME-ART
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Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Desire Without Expectation
Jamie Tennant @jtennant.bsky.social Writer, editor, broadcaster, pop culture enthusiast. Host of the GET LIT SHOW and author of The Captain of Kinnoull Hill and River, Diverted https://tinyurl.com/2vydhc3p
Julie Mannell @juliemannell.bsky.social Award-winning author of fiction/poetry/memoir/criticism. Editor. Journalist. Columnist. PhD Candidate. Forthcoming novel is titled little girls. Niagara child.
JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social Toronto Reading Series
September 13: Dina Del Bucchia (virtual)
📚📇
www.junctionreads.ca
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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
K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social The wart on the frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of Canadian Literature. www.krwilson.ca No A.I.
Stan On Guard now available.