Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social Kjipuktuk|Halifax. Inventor #DSPBposts. @tricon-hfx.bsky.social exec. Small press, 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 poli. Salty. I turn tea into words: steampunk Pride and Prejudice reimagining AETHER AND EGO, Sept 2026, Inanna. https://linktr.ee/joannemerriam
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.
Chris Hutchinson @unfamiliarweather.bsky.social Poet, Educator, Human
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49th Shelf @49thshelf.bsky.social Fuelled by the largest collection of Canadian books ever assembled, 49th Shelf makes it easier to find your next great Canadian read. 
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Mike L Tilford 📚 😺 @thatwriterguy.com NYT Worstselling Author
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Dummest Person in the Room
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Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social Human, author. Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living (@pressassembly.bsky.social). The Diapause (novel), McCurdle's Arm (novella) (@invisibooks.bsky.social). #SABR (Hanlan's Pt). He/him.
📍Peterborough, Ontario
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@onionofopinion.bsky.social @onionofopinion.bsky.social Writer, editor, advocate, and generally hopeful human being! 
Samantha eff Jones @sjonespoet.bsky.social Earth scientist. Poet. Editor. Arctic. Geohumanities. Black Canadian & white settler. Books: Attic Rain (NeWest) & I'll Get Right On It! (Roseway). Greyhound enthusiast. Speaks/Parle/Puhun English, mal français, vähän suomea. https://linktr.ee/JonesYYC
mmarginet @mmarginet.bsky.social Publisher at Great Plains Press, sustainable transpo with Green Action Centre, creating theatre with TBTR. Strong Towns!
Patricia Paterson @patriciapaterson.bsky.social Writer, "Calgary Skyline" novella, writes Calgary history and dual narrative historical romance, 'Fires at the Edge of the World'. Looking for a literary agent.
Sheri Benning @sheribenning.bsky.social Writer | forthcoming Civil Twilight (Carcanet); Field Requiem (Carcanet); The Season's Vagrant Light: New & Selected (Carcanet); et al. | Poems in The Paris Review, The TLS, PN Review, Poetry Review, Brick, et al.
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Canadians Against Trump @canadiansagainstt.bsky.social A page where we can stand united against the bullying tactics of Donald Trump and Neo Nazi psychopaths. We are fighting disinformation and misinformation so remember to share posts to spread the news! Research the IDU!!!!
Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social ACTIVISM AGAINST FASCISM
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James Kennedy @jameskennedy.bsky.social Musician, author & podcaster
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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!)
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social Politics, author of Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed. Meidas Canada/ The Resistance Lead singer with Grievous Angels. Just a boy from Cobalt.
Not a space for the cynical and snide.
Aly @alydrummond.bsky.social Free Spirit / Nerd / Mum with a magic wand / Woke AF
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John Pearce @johnpearce650.bsky.social Writer and environmentalist. Find me on Medium: https://medium.com/@johnpearce650
Author of:
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“Gaia — A Faith for the Future”
“The Medium Story — The Ultimate Guide to Medium"
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Jill Thomson Art @jillthomsonart.bsky.social Artist/mother/grandmother creating urban garden and bicycle paintings.
jillthomson.ca
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
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
Patricia L Atchison, Author @patriciaatchison.bsky.social Canadian author sharing my musings writing Children's books, YA Fiction, & Inspirational stories. I love music, nature & animals (they love me too!)
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@jeanettelynes.bsky.social @jeanettelynes.bsky.social Writer, writing teacher. Upcoming novel on women codebreakers in WW Two. The Paper Birds. Summer 2025! Professor of Creative Writing, University of Saskatchewan
Shelley Youngblut @youngblut.bsky.social CEO & Creative Ringleader @wordfest.com
An exclamation point between the book being written and the book being read. Translation: I create special sauce. Side hustle: Teaching women to play poker.
Wordfest @wordfest.com Connecting readers with the world’s best authors through lively conversations & more. Check out wordfest.com to see who is coming to Calgary next!📚 🎤
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Jenna Butler @jennabutler.bsky.social Author, writing mentor, editor, farmer. she/her
Revery, A Profession of Hope, Magnetic North, and more. GG finalist. Acquisitions Editor, Barbour Books at NeWest Press
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Lisa C Reynolds @lisacreynolds.bsky.social Canadian Writer & Poet; Durham Region Branch Manager for The Ontario Poetry Society; Membership Chair, League of Canadian Poets; Poetry Liaison, Writers’ Community of Durham Region
Roberta Laurie @robertalaurie.bsky.social Writer, editor, teacher, artist living offgrid🌲in the Canadian Boreal🇨🇦Author Weaving a Malawi Sunrise📚Writing on sustainability, nature, adoption, mental health, eating disorders, LC, communication 🐝 Born 320ppm CO2 🌎 https://linktr.ee/robertalaurie
Ken Brydon @prison-stories.bsky.social Award-winning writer. 39 years incarcerated, 23 at San Quentin. PEN America recognized. Published by Joyce Carol Oates. I write about prison, redemption, loss, humor & hope—and the humanity found where most people never look.
Bruce @mac-thebruce.bsky.social Canadian living in Alberta. Family man & retired HCW. Union guy. Believe in Human Rights, Democracy and freedom. I know how to use the block button.
Richard Cumyn 🇨🇦 @richcumyn.bsky.social Writer married to a librarian, i.e., two endangered species. No oligarchs allowed in the clubhouse. Elbows up, Canada! Get well soon, America
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Ashley Mann (she/her) @ashleymarguerite.bsky.social Writer
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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.
Julie Sedivy @juliesedivy.bsky.social Writer and language scientist, author of LINGUAPHILE: A LIFE OF LANGUAGE LOVE and MEMORY SPEAKS: ON LOSING AND RECLAIMING LANGUAGE AND SELF.
Heidi Klaassen @heidiklaassen.bsky.social Writer
heidiklaassen.com
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creativenonfictioncollective.ca
@CNFC.bsky.social
Grad student, boy mom (4), dog mom (4), Calgarian. I probably take on too much.- C Carol Parchewsky @carolannparchewsky.bsky.social Writer, Instructor. Words in Stanchion, Flash Boulevard, On the Run, Drunk Monkeys, Burningword Literary.
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Robert Bose @robertbose.bsky.social 🇨🇦 | Storyteller | Scoundrel | Software Elder | Cocktails | Cosmic Horror - Prairie Gothic - Sword and Sorcery | Troublemaker at The Seventh Terrace http://the-seventh-terrace.com and www.robertbose.com
Lynn Coady @lynncoady.bsky.social Giller Prize winning fictioneer and screenwriter. Irony-poisoned. lynncoady.com
Zoe Whittall @zoewhittall.bsky.social TV writer/novelist. My latest books: No Credit River, Wild Failure, & The Fake. The Best Kind of People was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Canadian Screen Award winner. Available to staff on your TV show. https://linktr.ee/Zoewhittall
Jenny Q @jennyquist.bsky.social Novelist, creative non-fic, doctor of lit. HOH and stomach ache.
fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social very queer lit and art publishing space
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SG ☀️ @sgpoet.bsky.social they/he/el
tejano writer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
free Palestine from the river to the sea 🇵🇸
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Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social Wrote a novel about family, revenge, lemon meringue pie, & smooth jazz. Reviews Editor @thenewquarterly & @havanatimesorg. Rep’d @k2literary. University of Guelph MFA. 💞
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Writer/Artist#StopFemicide 🇨🇦📚🧑🏻🎨🇵🇸 @writerartisteh.bsky.social Visual art, writing
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Treena C @adogabroadayear.bsky.social I scream into the void and make institutions a little less colonial. Mostly surviving.
Shane Kroetsch @shanekroetsch.bsky.social Dark stories. Spooky vibes. Creative life. 🇨🇦
@poppubcreative.bsky.social
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Barbara Miller Biles @bmbiles.bsky.social Short Story Writer: 'Dear Hearts' ("unsentimental yet poignant", "a few touches of magic realism"). Canadian, Disgruntled Albertan.
'One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.' Plato
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Lori Hahnel @lorihahnel.bsky.social Writer. Latest novel Flicker, U of C Press Brave & Brilliant Series, 2023. Vermin, winner of 2022 Alberta Short Story Collection Award. At work on a novel based on the life of Clara Schumann. I block fools.
www.lorihahnel.ca
Dan St.Yves @thatdanguy1111.bsky.social Humorist. Columnist. Author.
20+ years writing for newspapers & magazines, and 15+ years interviewing creators in music, acting, writing, comedy and more.
Folk, Blues, Roots, Americana, Canadiana
Australiaa??
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Leona Theis 📚 @leonajoan.bsky.social Swim at Your Own Risk forthcoming with Thistledown Press. If Sylvie Had Nine Lives on shelves now. Novels, stories, lyric essays. Walker, paddler, snow lover. Www.leonatheis.com
Fran Kimmel @frankimmel.bsky.social Writer, dog lover, book club fan. Author of the novels The Shore Girl and No Good Asking, and Cattail Lane.
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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social Nonprofit literary press & writers residency. Also Best of the Net, Poets in Pajamas, and more. www.sundresspublications.com
Fractured Lit @fracturedlit.bsky.social Fractured Lit publishes flash fiction with emotional resonance. Open year-round and is available to all writers. https://fracturedlit.com/ Posts by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social
The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social The Shipman Agency offers complete literary services to writers at all stages of their careers: event booking, independent publicity, mss consultations, The Work Room. #KnicksinFive. she/her https://www.theshipmanagency.com/
Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Habs fan / Canadian in the South 🍁
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Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social Poet/Writer. Proud mom and grandma to both humans and pets. Disabled. Recovering politician. Chocolate lover. Human rights friendly. Coeditor at @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social.
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Carl Wiens @carlwiens.bsky.social Experimenting with pattern, colour, collage and science. Dedicated to working with different mediums, on a path of discovery. Anti AI.
Painter, illustrator, educator, citizen scientist, outdoor enthusiast
www.carlwiens.com
Robin @robinvaneck-writer.bsky.social 🇨🇦 (she/her) Writer, animal person, loves books and bad jokes, toques and warm things. First book, Rough, published in 2020 with Stonehouse Publishing. Almost finished edits for 2nd book. Rep’d by Stacey Kondla at The Rights Factory.
Connie Bonnie @pharmaconn.bsky.social Dedicated volunteer, health care professional, frustrated Albertan. 🇨🇦
Kirti Bhadresa @beingkirti.bsky.social she/her
Author of An Astonishment of Stars (ECW Press 2024)✨💕✨ Living and writing in Calgary - Treaty 7
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Lucia Ferrara @luciaferrara.bsky.social Freelance Editor | Editorial Project Manager | Production Editor
YA | Adult Fiction | K-12
Former editor at Scholastic Canada and Pearson Education
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Alberta Rose W./Ingniq @albertarose.bsky.social Artist, preparator, sometimes curator, often nap-taker. Dog mom of Neville
Lareina Abbott writer @boneblackstories.bsky.social Métis spec fiction + creative non-fiction writer - WGA 2023 Howard O’Hagan Short Story Award - Audible Indigenous Writers Circle - Editor On Spec mag. 2x Kemosa Scholarship 1st place. Loves dad jokes.
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X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social the best writers on earth
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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org Lambda Literary, celebrating LGBTQ+ storytellers since 1985. Home of the Lammy Awards, Writers in Schools, the Emerging Writers Retreat for LGBTQ Voices, and the Lambda Literary Review.
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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.bsky.social.
The Black List @theblcklst.bsky.social The Black List connects writers, filmmakers, and storytelling industry professionals around the globe.
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) is a labor union representing writers of motion pictures, television, radio, and internet programming.
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Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social Writer + Publisher. I once met Jimmy Carter on a flight from Miami to La Paz, Bolivia.
@loridroadhouse.bsky.social @loridroadhouse.bsky.social Mom. Poet.
Literacy Educator. Anti-bullying Instructor.
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She/her pronouns
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