Leonidis @leonidispoetry.bsky.social Royalty publisher of premium yet thrifty books of poetry which strive for literary excellence. Made in Canada 🇨🇦 est. 2026.
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Lyndon Radchenka @radchenka.bsky.social Writer & 2x award-winning comics letterer. He/Him.
Writer/letterer of The Laundrymen, Hero-Man, There Was Another Life, and more.
infinitestudio.ca
Steve Orlando (The) @thesteveorlando.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Marvel, DC, Image Comics, Gungnir Books and More. Ben 10. The Steve Orlando of Comics. Bíi yide holanemid wi.
Image Comics @imagecomics.com We publish the best comics.
Visit www.imagecomics.com. 
GMB Chomichuk @gmbchomichuk.bsky.social Writer, Illustrator (and Educator) of Books, Comics, Graphic Novels and Games (and a bit of Movies and TV) - from the heartwarming to the bloodcurdling.
@jonathanballcom.bsky.social @jonathanballcom.bsky.social 
Max Marioni @maxmarioni.bsky.social Writer of dark imaginative fiction: of the uncanny, memory, haunted borderlands, of cities and their secret histories. Stories in Illustrated Worlds, Shooter Literary Magazine, East of the Web, and others. More on maxmarioni.com.
salem paige @salempaige.bsky.social they/them. 25. author of books and a little zine. on my fruity bullshit. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇨🇦
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
Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social Ottawa's most beloved literary publisher (2006-2017): posting poems every April for National Poetry Month, and ongoing "six questions" interviews with current/former Ottawa-based writers,
https://chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/
Sneha Subramanian Kanta @snehaskanta.bsky.social Academician. Writer. Editor, Parentheses Journal. Redapples falling still (Harbor Editions, 2026). Every Elegy Is A Love Poem (Broken Sleep Books, 2026). Poet Laureate for the City of Mississauga (2026 - 2028).
@normanh1.bsky.social @normanh1.bsky.social 
GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social Independent Publisher of Diverse #CanLit: No Borders. No Limits.
www.guernicaeditions.com
@ontarioarts.bsky.social @ontarioarts.bsky.social 
Sonja Boon @storiedselves.bsky.social writer. researcher. flutist. teacher. stitcher of stories.
https://linktr.ee/sonjaboon
Fereshteh Molavi @fmolavi.bsky.social fiction writer, essayist, aficionado of literature & drawing, author of THIRTY SHADOW BIRDS/2019
English & Persian
www.fereshtehmolavi.com
http://www.youtube.com/@FereshtehMolaviAuthor
Ontario Library Association @onlibraryassoc.bsky.social With more than 4,000 members, we are proud to be the largest & longest-running library association in Canada.
Mawenzi House @mawenzihouse.bsky.social Mawenzi House is dedicated to bringing to the reading public fresh new writing from Canada and across the world that reflects the diversity of our rapidly globalizing world, particularly in Canada and the United States. 
Assembly Press @pressassembly.bsky.social Independent publisher of ambitious literature.
Lynn Hutchinson Lee @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social Ancient queen of tarts, queen of bone broth/Romany poshrat/ artist/writer/ gardener/ Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens, novella with Stelliform Press, 2025/ Nightshade, novel with Assembly Press, coming in 2026
(s)crawl literary magazine @scrawlmagazine.bsky.social » issue no. 02 coming 10.30.26
» horror focused lit mag amplifying voices marginalized within the genre
» we publish short fiction & poetry by LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, BIPOC, disabled, and gender-diverse writers
» subs currently closed
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Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz orbiting art and science | tall ish | they/them 🏳️🌈
imaginaryastronaut.xyz
Carrie Lee Connel @ccgwriter.bsky.social Canadian Poet and Fiction Writer
One-half of The Lovebird Poets.
🇨🇦✍️🎨🧵👗📚🏳️🌈
I follow writers and cats.
River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social A ragtag team of creatives celebrating amazing CanLit. Join the party, pals!
Est. 2010.
Koss (she/they/Aquarian) @kossworks.bsky.social Poet, artist, writer. Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect, Diode Editions. Lammy Poetry Finalist 25, BSF 20, Wigleaf Top 50 longlist. Granta Memoir Bursary
Website: https://koss-works.com
Book: https://koss-works.com/dancing-backwards-towards-pluperfect/
Christina Shah @christinashah.bsky.social Poet, videopoet, valve fairy. ⚙️⛓️🧚 1/5 of the Harbour Centre Five. Author of RIG VEDA (Anstruther Press), if: prey, then: huntress (Nightwood Editions) Fall 2025
https://nightwoodeditions.com/collections/forthcoming/products/9780889715028
Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Historian of global feminism & believer in 🏃💗 🦭🕊📚🏊♀️ 🌹 🍉
Author of The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared (April '26)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College.
PhD from Cambridge. Homesick Australian.
www.rosa-campbell.com
Natalie Rice @nataliericepoetry.bsky.social "Nightjar" Gaspereau Press, 2025
"Scorch" Gaspereau Press, 2023
natalierice.ca
dogyard @dogyardmag.com Just a mag chasin’ tales.
We accept all types of work from all (leashed) walks of life: poetry, fiction, essay, art, nonfiction, and more.
Read & Submit 👇
dogyardmag.com
Account ran by @edithkrone.bsky.social
melanie brannagan frederiksen @melanie-b-f.bsky.social poet, poetry columnist @winnipegfreepress
📚 the night, the knife, the river (forthcoming March 2027 with @atbaypress.bsky.social)
elsewhere: @melaniebf@mstdn.ca; @melanie.b.f on instagram; @melanie_b_f on hey.cafe
New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social The Academic Audio Library. 30,000+ interviews with experts and authors on new scholarly, non-fiction, and literary books. New episodes every day! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts
https://linktr.ee/newbooksnetwork
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social Writes. Mothers. Neurodiverges.
Poet Laureate of Scugog Township.
📚: Fuse (CNF), Rebellion Box (poems), Widow Fantasies (stories), The Unravelling of Ou (novel).
Co-host of HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM & host at The New Books Network.
www.hollayghadery.com
Jason E. Coombs @jasonecoombs.bsky.social Poet. Scratching Vinyl Change - Anstruther Press: https://www.anstrutherpress.com/new-products/scratching-vinyl-change-by-jason-e-coombs
Immersive experience on my Substack: https://jasonecoombs.substack.com/
www.jasonecoombs.ca
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
Spot of Poetry @spot-of-poetry.bsky.social ❤️ Poetry appreciation group for those who find joy in words
📚 Little Books Collective: a community-building micropress for collaborative publishing
linktr.ee/spotofpoetry
Salena Wiener @salenawiener.bsky.social poet & phd student in english literature at simon fraser university. romanticism & women's book history. bodies like gardens (cactus press 2023). RA women's print history project.
Yousef Allouzi @americanbedouin.bsky.social Words in Pidgeonholes, Atticus Review, Blue Cactus Press, Scintilla Magazine, others.
Chapbook: THE BEDOUIN [Blue Cactus Press]
Magna Cum Laude BS in Economics
Master of Public Policy (MPP)
Data Analyst
Rebecca Fishow @rebeccafishow.bsky.social writer | reader | artist | educator
The Trouble With Language (TRNSFR, 2020) | The Opposite of Entropy (Proper Tales Press, 2018)
Jennifer Baker @jenniferbaker.bsky.social Canadian lit and agriculture scholar; poetry editor, Arc Magazine; poet. Abject Lessons (above/ground press, 2014), Groundling (Trainwreck Press, 2021; above/ground press, 2023), Memento Mishka (Apt. 9 Press, 2023).
Vallum Society for Education in Arts & Letters @vallummag.bsky.social Poetry and poetry workshops. Based in Tio'htiá:ke/Montreal.
knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social Poetry. Well-served.
FLASH SUMMER SALE! EXTENDED NOW THRU 31 AUG! ALL KFB TITLES CURRENTLY IN STOCK $10 Exclusively at knifeforkbook.shop
Find us: asterismbooks.com/publisher/knife-fork-book
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Gaspereau Press @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers
¶ http://linktr.ee/gaspereaupress
Lex Orgera @crowandthepoet.bsky.social Poet, essayist, herbal history buff, animal friend, woods wanderer, editor, doodler. AGATHA poems out now. Exploring earth and ether at crowandthepoet.substack.com.
Lisa Baird @eramosageese.bsky.social Poet, essayist
www.lisabaird.ca
Paula Turcotte @pturc.bsky.social i believe that ghosts need to believe in themselves
Rob Madden @robmadden.bsky.social writer.
second hand smoke, 2024 Pinhole Poetry.
https://pinholepoetry.ca/shop-for-poetry-chapbooks/
Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social Writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Currently missing the ocean and being a voiceover artist. 🇨🇦
SHIFTINGS & OTHER COORDINATES OF DISORDER (Pinhole Poetry, 2024).
LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA (Bull City Press, 2026)
jenwithwords.opencorners.ca
Lana Crossman @lanacrossman.bsky.social Writing. Ideas. Culture
brandy ryan @brandyryan.bsky.social poet. avid pedestrian. collage artist. following the path of tiny cuts and misplaced adhesive.
Claire Sherwood @clairesherwood.bsky.social 
Vanessa McKiel @vanessamckiel.bsky.social Inspired by wildflowers
Printmaker & writer in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Artwork available locally at the Lunenburg Art Gallery and Jenny Jib
or contact me through my website vanessamckiel.com
Katherine J Barrett @kathj.bsky.social Writer-editor chick in rural Nova Scotia / Mi'kma'ki.
katherinejbarrett.com
Moez Surani @moezsurani.bsky.social Writer / Artist
Marjorie Poor @marjpoor.bsky.social 
Carlos A. Pittella @pittella.bsky.social latinx poet haunted by borders ⦁ he/him ⦁ researcher @assistedlab.bsky.social
linktr.ee/carlosapittella
Dante's Bureau (Anstruther, '26)
propersitions (Cactus, '25)
ALT pfp: buzzcut, polkadot, broken smile
ALT banner: blueskyed Shiva humming
Gil McElroy @gmcelroy.bsky.social Poet and visual artist currently living in northeastern Ontario
Drew Maisie McEwan @drewmcew.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow UB Communities of Care researching madness, disability, queer and trans, rhetoric
Ex-Puritan Poetry Editor
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
Bree Taylor 🍉 @breetaylor0.bsky.social settler in amiskwaciwâskahikan (yeg)
she/they | writer + poet | MFA @ UBC
https://linktr.ee/BreeTaylor0
Andrea Scott @andreascottwords.bsky.social Mom, poet, teacher. Fan of cats, collage, photography, forests, tulips, my pasta maker. Author of "In the Warm Shallows of What Remains" (Raven Chapbooks, Rainbow Publishers).
Stelliform Press @stelliform.press Award-winning SFFH & literary books engaging with environmental justice. Now: THE OTHER SHORE, THE WILDCRAFT DRONES. www.stelliform.press.
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
Off Topic Publishing @offtopicpublishing.bsky.social Publisher, writing workshops, Contest. Community of writers and readers. #WritingCommunity Founding Editor:
@marionlougheed.bsky.social
www.offtopicpublishing.com
JamesTheBalladeer @jamestheballadeer.bsky.social Writer across genres. Reviewer. Comic-book lover. Selenophile. Cryptid enthusiast. Librarian-adjacent.
Town & Train, Canuck horror novel & Fear Itself collection (Lethe Press).🩷💜💙🌈🍀
lethepressbooks.com/product-page/fear-itself
jameskmoran.blogspot.com
Chris Hutchinson @unfamiliarweather.bsky.social Poet, Educator, Human
https://chris-hutchinson.com/chris-hutchinsons-poetry-books/
Liz Worth @lizworth.bsky.social Poetry. Tarot. Oddities. Punk rock etc. My new book "INSIDE EVERY DREAM, A RAGING SEA" is out now through Book*hug Press: www.lizworthauthor.com | #hamont
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
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
linktr.ee/jenfalkner
Sal Randolph @salrandolph.bsky.social Artist & writer working between language & action. Art, attention, poetry, and Zen. My book is The Uses of Art. Co-founder of dispersed holdings, a publishing project. She/they.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/salrandolph
Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social Gulfport, FL poet laureate
I write poems about bodies - ours, animals, water, our collective nature
Here to connect with poets & poetry lovers
Author of Water Yoga (Singing Dragon 2022).
Lover of tea & avocados 🥑
https://christafairbrotherwrites.com/
Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor.
Chair, The Writers' Union of Canada
The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024)
The Pollination Field (Turnstone, 2025)
www.kimfahner.com
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
Lindsay (she/her) @topazlit.bsky.social www.topazliterary.com
Editor and writer, conscious language advocate, library assistant, cat valet, bookworm. 🌈📚
PEN Canada @pencanada.bsky.social We defend free expression, aid writers in peril, and celebrate literature.
pencanada.ca
Latitude 46 Publishing @latitude46pub.bsky.social Literary publisher based in Northern Ontario, Canada
Visit our website: https://latitude46publishing.com/
jade y. liu @jadeyuliu.bsky.social writer, dreamer | she/她 | articling student ⚖️ | poems @ jadeyliu.weebly.com | cognitive metaphor enthusiast!
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social Author of Skin: Stories, out in April 2025. The novel Blaze Island (2020), and other novels. Writer, professor, dog walker, nature lover. www.catherinebush.com
Kathy Friedman @kathyfriedman.bsky.social Author of ALL THE SHINING PEOPLE (House of Anansi, 2022). Disabled/Jewish/queer as in free Palesine. 🍉 http://www.kathyfriedman.com
Pup and Tiger @pupandtiger.bsky.social Queer art, culture, and exhibitions. If you're interested in getting involved, supporting, or creating a network for this vision, let’s connect.
Also: roll call of artists and people making amazing work. #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ArtCommunity #ArtForChange
Niagara Falls Poetry Project @niagarapoetry.bsky.social Poetry of & about Niagara Falls & Niagara River – the waterfalls, the city, the history, the stunters etc. Also poetry written by Niagara poets. Curated by retired librarian Andrew Porteus @acporteus.bsky.social . Website at niagarapoetry.ca
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.
League of Canadian Poets @canadianpoets.bsky.social The LCP supports poets & builds communities, supports inclusive and equitable free expression, & promotes Canadian poets and poetry. www.poets.ca
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)
Invisible Books @invisibooks.bsky.social We make books.
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
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. 
@thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social 
All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social An independent online bookstore and blog showcasing and selling Canada's best in indie books. Visit us at alllitup.ca
Rochelle Ellar @roeshells.bsky.social