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Geoff Cain @geoffcain.bsky.social Geoffrey B. Cain is a writer, artist, bon vivant et flâneur.
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Chris Kenn @chriskennauthor.bsky.social Dark microfiction about the things we don’t say. But we carry. Stories that say less, so the reader can find more.
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Ella B. Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social Writer, research, social worker, lecturer, eternal student, working on my PhD.
Artemesia Arts shortlist; Forward prize nominated; Pushcart prizes nominated x2
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Scott Westcott @westcottwriter.bsky.social Poet & Ponderer
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Alison Colwell @alisoncolwell.bsky.social Writer, weaver of fairy tales and other creative non-fictions, food security activist, mom to two teens and a houseful of cats. Currently searching for a literary agent to represent my memoir.
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@craterwalker.bsky.social @craterwalker.bsky.social Former Alaska pastor writing a memoir that blends humor, miracles, wilderness life, and the devastating reality of spiritual abuse.
This is the journey from laughter to loss to the CraterWalker rising.
Hugh S. Cooper @hughscooper67.bsky.social Neurodivergent educator & poet. Gen X soul. ADHD & dyslexic mind threading memory, myth, classrooms, & the long echo of growing up differently. Weimaraner companion. Southern ghosts. New Zealand skies. Australian futures. Writing toward transcendence—
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Published or forthcoming in Strange Horizons | LITRO | Washington Square Review | Boudin | Neon Dystopia | Expat Press | HAWKEYE etc
Short story collection ⬇️
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Generation Gap, a literary magazine @generartiongap.bsky.social Generation Gap aims to publish writers of all ages in a bi-annual print magazine.
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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling. https://newedgeswordandsorcery.com/
Jen Falkner @jenfalkner.bsky.social she/her
Author of SUSANNA HALL, HER BOOK (Fish Gotta Swim Editions) and ABOVE DISCOVERY (Invisible Publishing)
Trying to learn Welsh, obsessed with standing stones
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sjbutler06.bsky.social @sjbutler06.bsky.social SJ Butler is an author and writer from Ireland. He has recently published with numerous online magazines. His style is quirky, funny, and self-deprecating. The stories are carefully crafted and flow naturally to a very human conclusion.
Red Ogre Review @ogre.red We're an indie arts press:
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Téa Sera @teasera.bsky.social Writer, artist, lover of animals, nature, the earth. True blue.
Karen Massey @karenemassey.bsky.social Poet & artisan. Lives in Ottawa, Canada on unceded Algonquin Anishinabe territory.
3 chapbooks from above/ground press Ottawa
2020 ARC Diana Brebner Award winner
2024 Finalist MIPP; Longlist 3-Day Novel Contest
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M.M. MacLeod @lenemacleod.bsky.social Quiet Horror/Dark Fiction author Lene MacLeod
ON THIS DARK OCCASION - collection Autumn, 2026
FRINGES of GREY-collection https://books2read.com/u/4NVxA9
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Griffin Poetry @griffinpoetryprize.bsky.social The world’s largest international poetry prize for a single book of poetry written in, or translated in English
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E. Boleyn @eboleyn.bsky.social My professional life is supported by intellect, degrees, letters after my name, accomplishments, networking, striving--"doing." My art is supported by love, observation and insight, soaking in the art of others, walking in nature, meditating--"being." 
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Mitske Magazine @mitskemag.bsky.social Lust for literature. Mitske is a literary magazine based in Tokyo. Our first print edition is slated for November 2026. https://mitskemag.com/
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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."
Acadien. Queer. Kjipuktuk/Halifax, NS
Deleted old account due to b*ts, starting fresh.
A.G. Pasquella @agpasquella.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor. Words in McSweeney’s, Utne Reader, Joyland, Broken Pencil & more. Author of the Jack Palace crime series. Most recent book: WELCOME TO THE WEIRD AMERICA. As co-editor: DEVOURING TOMORROW
@whothefami.bsky.social @whothefami.bsky.social Hierarchy only exists in the minds of those who have not broken free of such illusions. https://whothefami.substack.com
Michael Janairo @mjanairo.bsky.social Writer, reader, and I once jammed with The Washington Squares
Kath Healing @kathhealing.bsky.social queer, trans, disabled, multiple
poet & writer
what survives the paperwork
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Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social Novelist (Radioland, The Society of Experience) / short fiction / essays.
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Former film/TV post supervisor, currently Registered Psychotherapist in private practice
Haunting the margins
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Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
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The Malahat Review @malahatreview.bsky.social Canadian literary journal established in 1967 publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from emerging and established writers.
Temo @yellowsnark.bsky.social 
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Xavier Snelgrove @wxs.ca Creating Orbital Studies Magazine. Towards a more beautiful science.
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Silphium🌹 @infinitejeff.bsky.social Dad at the top of the Salish Sea on Vancouver Island. I work, volunteer, or otherwise am interested in permaculture, conservation, local foodways, municipal politics, ancient and natural history. Trying to find time to write an SF/fantasy novel.
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Empowering marginalized creatives to tell their own stories
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@myrahagan.bsky.social @myrahagan.bsky.social Artist. Writer. Human trying to make the best of every day.
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Cendrine Marrouat @cendrinemedia.bsky.social Poet - Author of 50+ books - Artist - Co-founder: Auroras & Blossoms / A Warm Mug of Cozy - Founding Editor: @haikushackmag.bsky.social
https://creativeramblings.com
Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social The latest writing on arts, culture and society from across Australia, along with resources and awards for writers. 
Joanna Lilley @joannalilley.bsky.social Author of books including the extinction poetry collection Endlings and the novel Worry Stones. From the UK, now living in Yukon, Canada. 
Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social indie poetry publisher based in Canada with an international focus. we publish books and we have an online website with series and blogs w/poets, fiction writers, visual artist, experimental projects www.icefloepress.net EIC/publisher Robert Frede Kenter
r. p. singletary @rpsingletary.bsky.social W(e)i(r)dely published in so-called 'underground publications,' or so they said. www.rpsingletary.com
Nix @caffeinatedbird.bsky.social he/him, mid-twenties. occasionally I write stuff. trans rights are human rights.
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
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@barbararobson.bsky.social @barbararobson.bsky.social 🇨🇦 • writer • teacher • daughter of displaced persons • believer in #naturetherapy
Writers' Guild of Alberta @writersguildab.bsky.social The Writers' Guild of Alberta is a provincial arts service organization that represents both professional and emerging writers in Alberta.
Crab Apple Literary @crabapplelit.bsky.social Montreal based Literary Magazine for the strange, deformed, and forgotten 🍎
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Chris Jennings @gigadibs.bsky.social Full of rational doubt. Poet. Reformed academic. 
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Krystale T.M. @krystaletm.bsky.social Writer, musician, and Comp Lit PhD candidate at the University of Toronto focusing on tourism in fiction, and Caribbean literature, particularly from the DR. 🇩🇴 🇨🇦 https://lavignetteblog.wordpress.com/
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BookishPerseus @bookish-perseus.bsky.social 22yrs
Book Count: 2060
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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).
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Hannah Eiserman @hannaheiserman.bsky.social Managing Editor of the Ex-Puritan. MA in English. Writer, forest dweller, part fish. Late Victorianist.
@nilaan.bsky.social @nilaan.bsky.social 
Ayesha C @profoundpapaya.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Cat lady
Light @lightworksofatlas.bsky.social my name is Light and i write poems.