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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
Judy Ann Davis @judyanndavisauthor.bsky.social Multi-Award-Winning Author and Writer : "Writing romance with a touch of mystery." https://judyanndavis.blogspot.com/ and https://www.judyanndavis.com
Koffiart37 @koffiimageworks.bsky.social Visdev / BG painter/Concept art/ comic book artist with decade of working in animation and game industry https://linktr.ee/koffiart37 https://koffiart37.gumroad.com/l/hpignh #NoAi
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Laurie D. Graham @lauriedgraham.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/lauriedgraham
Toronto/LA Documentary Film Festival @docfestival.bsky.social 4 tiers to enhance your film. - in person fest - audience feedback video - podcast interview - virtual showcase https://documentaryshortfilmfestival.com/toronto-festival/ https://filmfreeway.com/TorontoDocumentaryFilmFestival
sider0xylon press @sider0xylon.bsky.social a mono-press of pithy handmade limited edition mini/micro chapbooks and broadsides. launching june 20th @ the ottawa small press book fair! eic: @russellcarisse.bsky.social SUBMISSIONS OPEN, see sider0xylon.carrd.co for guidelines.
Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham. Latest novel BLACK BAG out March 12th 2026. https://linktr.ee/lukekennard
These Days @thesedayszine.bsky.social farming every day. Send us your handmade slop as pdf, jpeg or by mail (DM for address). Banner by Minah Lee
Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social Resident of Vancouver, writer, translator, explorer and connector of ideas.
The Happy Duck Bookshop & Readery @thehappyduckbooks.bsky.social New and used books and local art 📚 Open Tues & Wed 10-4, Thurs & Fri 10-6, and Sat 10-5 🦆 586 Prince Street, Truro, Nova Scotia
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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social longconmag.com: canadian magazine for art replying to art ISSUE 2.6: submit by Sept 30 Montebank Prize: enter by Sept 30 Banner artist: Andrew James McKay (andrewjamesmckay.com) longconmag.com/collusionbooks: canadian micro-press for collaborative poetry
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Shana Ross @shanaross.bsky.social Writer of poetry and more; facilitator/coach of leadership learning; recent transplant to Edmonton/Treaty Six lands. Yale Theater Studies and <checks notes> MBA?
Kegedonce Press @kegedoncepress.bsky.social All-Indigenous press on the territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (Neyaashiinigmiing and the land occupied by the city of Owen Sound, ON). www.kegedonce.com communications@kegedonce.com
THE ANOINTED ATHEIST @theanointedatheist.bsky.social Welcome to my little corner of heaven. This is where I write about religion with a serious dose of humor. But if you find my posts offensive, just turn the other cheek. Have a blessed day!
Pippa @pippaesque.bsky.social Prune Juice Editor. I write short things and long things. Zines, poems, art. I like birds. Buy me a ko-fi: Ko-fi.com/pippaesque. 🏳️‍🌈
James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
Moj Mortazavi @mojmrtzvi.bsky.social Filmmaker / Writer / Visual Poet Capturing what moves me, breaks me, remakes me. Posting thoughts, films, dreams, and whatever won’t leave me alone. 🎞️ mojmrtzvi.com ✍️ Essays on Substack https://substack.com/@mojmrtzvi?r=22uyqp&utm_medium=ios
Poet Miranda @poet-miranda.bsky.social I write poetry. I read poetry. I share poetry. I talk about poetry. I think about poetry. It's all about poetry.
Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social 🐺 Wolf Twin Author 📖 Author of VANISHED ROADS 104 haiku on grief, renewal, and attention. Available now: https://www.wolftwin.com/product-page/vanished-roads
Steven B. Epstein @stevenbauthor.bsky.social Author of bestselling true crime books Deadly Heist, Murder on Birchleaf Drive, Evil at Lake Seminole, and Extreme Punishment StevenBEpstein.com #truecrime
Majda Gama @majda.bsky.social Debut poetry book “In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls” Wandering Aengus Book Award (April 2025). Two Sylvia’s chapbook prize winner for The Call of Paradise (‘23). Graybeal-Gowen prize. ‘24 Gregory Djanikian Scholar. https://www.majdagama.com
𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iamb.uk Poetry. Seen and heard. Four times a year. Enjoy new and previously published work from established and emerging talent. Every poem read by its author. iamb.uk iamb.uk/index/wave/25
Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social 2024 Winner Toronto Star SS contest| @SmokeLong Fellow 2024|Best Microfiction 2024 2025|words:The Forge,The Cincinnati Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Room Magazine, Fractured Lit+| Pushcart, Best SF noms| rep:Joanna Rasheed, Ultra Literary
Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social Author of four books of poetry, most recently Reckon (2018). New chapbook with Baseline Press: https://www.baselinepress.ca/#/jacaranda-trees-mexico-city-steve-mcormond-2025
Christina Cooke @christinajcooke.bsky.social I wrote BROUGHTUPSY, yr next fav novel | Winner, Journey Prize | Finalist, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize | “Best of”—Elle, CBC Books, others | https://linktr.ee/christinajcooke | lemme at yr snacks
Elamin Abdelmahmoud @elamin.bsky.social I’m doing good, I’m on some new shit
Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
Nic Brewer 🌈 @notnicolebrewer.bsky.social Author of Suture (Book*hug Press 2021) notnicolebrewer.com
Shelf Life Books @shelflifebooks.bsky.social Independent bookstore in Calgary [Moh’kinstsis]. Open 7 days a week. Free local delivery. Dog friendliest. Find good books here. www.shelflifebooks.ca
TouchWood Editions @touchwooded.bsky.social An indie 🇨🇦 book publisher with a big love of eating, drinking, and diving into 📚 stories that expand and deepen our worldview.
Thistledown Press @thistledownpress.bsky.social A literary trade publisher, publishing poetry and fiction by Canadian authors since 1975.
Palabra Flamenco @palabraflamenco.bsky.social Traditional flamenco meets English-language poetry. Members include dancer Denise Yeo, guitarist Gareth Owen, and poets Garth Martens and Jan Zwicky. Ongoing performances on Vancouver Island. Upcoming performance in Vancouver.
Sally Rudolf @wildsustenance.bsky.social writing | walks | justice | foraging The Writer's Studio, SFU 2025 YVR, unceded Coast Salish territory
LotsaCopper @lotsacopper.bsky.social Maker of copper and silver jewelry. Haiku writer. Love great lyrics, dog, cars, guitars. Genealogy: Bernat, Krupar, Illyas, Stueckler, Hug, Kempf.
Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social Poet, wannabe artist, and zinester from WV. Married, mother of two. Definately a cryptid in disguise. Poetry found in Broken Spines, Penstricken, and SixtyOddPoets, among others. Zines in kofi below. Enjoy 🤗 https://ko-fi.com/poetrywithhart
sherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social vintage seller, art curator | @harpersbazaarus @nymag.com @wmagazine.com.web.brid.gy @interviewmag @marthaliving past Table of the Elements record label, Album 88, Criminal Records, Wuxtry Records, Deitch Projects. words: @burnaway.org nyc->athens ga
BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social 📚📝🔁 Work: Chicago and LA Reviews of Books, EVENT, Literary Ladies, prism international, The Temz Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn and World Literature Today. Member: @bookcritics
Kaihen @notyourprotag.bsky.social Resident anime boy reporting for duty. Writer, occasional artist, finger gun expert. https://linktr.ee/chalewhale
Malachy Moran @malformed-poetry.bsky.social Poet. 🇺🇸 immigrant in 🇳🇴 Writing something every day, even if it’s bad. My work is available in Rattle: Poetry, The Brussels Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, and others. My poetry has also been featured on Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
@adamsol.bsky.social @adamsol.bsky.social Poet, prof, point guard, pater, not necessarily in that order. https://howapemmoves.wordpress.com https://www.vic.utoronto.ca/about-victoria/centre-for-creativity/ http://adamsol.com
Ashley Hisson @ashhisson.bsky.social Reader, knitter, nerd. Managing editor of Wolsak & Wynn Publishers, co-editor of Poplar Press. She/her
luna rey hall @lunareyhall.com i write queer and spooky stuff 🍉 NO MATTER THE DIAGNOSIS out now minneapolis lunareyhall.com #whereisBellaRiley
just happy to be here @gingermophobia.bsky.social mallory. poet and prose writer covering transfeminine art and other things at malloryelliott.ghost.io
Jaime Forsythe @jaimeforsythe.bsky.social writer & reader
Tanya Talaga @tanyatalaga.bsky.social Journalist, author, filmmaker.
David A. Robertson @davidarobertson.bsky.social 2-time Governor General’s Literary Award winner, podcaster, public speaker, Editorial Director at Tundra Books.
Sue Carter @scartercash.bsky.social Literary Officer, Ontario Art Council. Former Inuit Art Quarterly, Quill & Quire, Centennial College. Freelance culture writer. Barracuda. (she/her) https://babyfishmouthed.substack.com
Lisa Whittington-Hill @lisawhitt.bsky.social This Magazine Publisher. Words in Longreads, The Walrus, Catapult, Hazlitt and more. Author of Girls, Interrupted: How Pop Culture Is Failing Women and a 33 1/3 on Beauty and the Beat by The Go-Go's.
Michaela Stephen @michaelastephen.bsky.social Writer • Sales Manager at Second Story Press • Human pterodactyl • (she/her) 📚✒️🐈🌈
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.
Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
c22 @c22press.bsky.social An experimental publishing collective focusing on Dada, Surrealism, and the avant-garde. Nathan Anderson, Lachlan J McDougall, Vernon Frazer, Joshua Martin https://c22press.wordpress.com/
Karen Walton @karenwalton.bsky.social Screen and television writer-CoEP (Netflix Canada’s BELOW created by Jesse McKeown, ORPHAN BLACK, QAF, GINGER SNAPS). Human rights & clean water fan. Made in Canada. https://inkent.ca
Natalie @nashijane.bsky.social Read write repeat.
Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social Trade unionist on unceded Coast Salish territory Queer & AuDHD Educate. Agitate. Organize.
Sonido Reyes @sonidoreyes.bsky.social So-NEE-doh he/they Base form known as Sonora Reyes bestselling and award-winning author https://sonidoreyes.carrd.co/
Nigel Hakeem @nigelhakeem.bsky.social Writer, Marxist, Reality TV enthusiast.
Danica @danicalorer.bsky.social Storyteller, visual artist, writer, poet...
Aimée Dunn @aimeeddunn.bsky.social Publisher, Palimpsest Press 📍Windsor, ON, CAN
Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social Author of ABBREVIATE, NERVE, HALFWAY FROM HOME, QUITE MAD, and three poetry chaps. FATHOM forthcoming. Editor Nerve to Write. Associate Prof. ♿🏳️‍🌈
Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social Queer disabled writer, artist, & scholar aka Dr. Heffers. Lover of nature, sitcoms, libraries, & coffee. EIC, Genrepunk Magazine (@genrepunkmag.bsky.social) 📚 What Blooms in the Dark (2024) She/they https://linktr.ee/audreytcarroll
O.L. McAnord @olmcanord.bsky.social Canadian 🇨🇦 Author 📖 Revisionist Work in Progress / Second Draft Writing on Treaty Land
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat. Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026). Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists. he/him • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net
Emma Miller 😁📚🍁 @emmadmiller.bsky.social Canadian Author & Creator of "The Doonies" children's book series! 📚🍁 https://thedoonies.ca - Follow on: Bluesky, LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Threads, Spotify - Find our podcast on YouTube and Buzzsprout 📱✨️📚😁❤️🍁
Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social Novelist interested in arts, sciences, curiosities.
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor® author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his benjamindreyer.com
CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social Canadian Association of University Teachers // Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d'université
Roz @rozmilner.bsky.social Transfemme Guy Davenport // As seen in the Toronto Star, Lambda Literary, Broken Pencil, Full Stop, The Bulwark, the Ex-Puritan, Liberal Currents, and elsewhere // your dad’s fave books/jazz writer
Doldine @doldine.bsky.social Liberal, BLM, LGBTQ, Slava Ukraine, Feminist 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇨🇦 ND Football 🏈 ☘️, Missy my pit. Want an America that everyone is accepted. Blessed with a great Son & two beautiful granddaughters. Working on watercolors, oil painting. Working flower & vegetable gardens🫘
Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social Prizewinning poet Harlow Stanza founder Judge Harlow Open🏆 5 books published/forthcoming|Hedgehog Press|Alien Buddha Press|Parlyaree Press|Seventh Quarry Widely published inc by Macmillan Beatles|90s nostalgia https://www.carmella-de-keyser.com/about
Jodie Young, verray jangleresse @jangleresse.bsky.social Poet (reading more than writing atm) in Naarm | Melbourne, Australia Poetry, books, art, history. Resisting the urge to despair.
your weird aunt @novelproblems.bsky.social trust me, I'm an unprofessional
Elizabeth Ruth @elizabethruth.bsky.social Novelist & Poet. Author of (fiction) Semi-Detached, Matadora, Smoke, Ten Good Seconds of Silence (Poetry) This Report Is Strictly Confidential. Website: elizabethruth.com Insta: elizabethruthauthor Creative writing Instructor, U of Toronto. Lives in Canada
Creative Nonfiction Collective @cnfc.bsky.social Canadian non-profit and registered charity for nonfiction writers. creativenonfictioncollective.ca
@thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social
Jules Wilson @juleswilson.bsky.social Bookseller by trade | Bylines: The Atlantic, Joyland Magazine, Maisonneuve & others | Seen Reading: Freehand Books, HarperCollins | Formerly: Invisible Publishing, Anansi, CBC
CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social Celebrating 50 years of poetry in 2025 ✨ https://linktr.ee/cv2magazine
Michelle Spencer @writingranchette.bsky.social Southern Alberta transplant. Never say no to tea and a walk. Long-listed CBC NonFiction Prize and TNQ Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Prize. Recent ✍️ The Guardian, The Fiddlehead
David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social Teacher and Poet. Pamphlets - Walrussey (The Black Cat Poetry Press, 2023) and Circulaire (Written off Publishing, 2025). Circulaire available to purchase here: https://writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/circulaire-bex-hainsworth
Danny Leeming @dleeming2.bsky.social 🧑🏻‍🏫Teacher in SD8 Kootenay Lake Library, Tech integration, Social Studies UBC MET 🎓 Adjunct Prof. in Teacher Ed Exploring AI, Media, PBL, Inquiry Academy of Performance and Media Check out Students work 🎥 https://youtube.com/@mssacademypm
Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social Canada's foremost publisher of theatre books since 1984 playwrightscanada.com
acousmatic_ @aaacousmatic.bsky.social lil alien music 🫳🏼 🎧 🔗 ffm.to/ugh 📺 🔗 youtube.com/@acousmatic_
Kyle McKillop @kylemckillop.bsky.social He/him. Secondary literacy helping teacher, poet, sharer, decolonizer. Past president BCTELA, SETA, RCLAS. May contain gluten &/or joy. https://linktr.ee/kylemckillop
Jason Conway @daydreamacademy.bsky.social Professional daydreamer & award-winning creative - designer, poet, writer, artist & mentor - MA Creative Writing Bath Spa - AuDHD - forest bather Editor Steel Jackdaw Magazine Director Gloucestershire Poetry Society https://bio.site/jasonleeconway
Liz Beth Turner @lbtpoet.bsky.social Reader and writer of poetry, follows poets, writers, lit mags, blocks boob-bots and silver-fox-bots. Poetry featured in Guts Publishing's Transformative Power of Tattoo and Gingko Prize AONB Best Poem of Landscape Anthology @poetsofbluesky
Poet and fiction writer David Holper @davidholper.bsky.social Inaugural Poet Laureate for Eureka, CA, 2019-2021. Author of the novel The Church of the Very Last Chance. Poetry: Language Lessons: A Linguistic Hejira; The Bridge; 64 Questions. https://www.davidholper.com
Kyeren Regehr @byallmeanswrite.bsky.social New to this platform! Literary Poet (author of Cult Life) www.kyerenregehr.ca Artistic Director of Planet Earth Poetry www.planetearthpoetry.com Host of The Poet Laureate Podcast @poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social 7th Poet Laureate of Victoria (2025-2027)
The Poet Laureate Podcast @poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social Hosted by Kyeren Regehr and featuring poets laureate from across the country and beyond. www.thepoetlaureatepodcast.com We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.