Festival for Poetry @poetryfestival.bsky.social Daily Poetry Deadlines
Submit for a free posting.
Submit for a poetry reading video.
Submit for your poetry to be made into a film.
https://festivalforpoetry.com
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.
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
Sascha Akhtar @akhtarsascha.bsky.social Writer migrated from twitter. Sort of too over social media to really put time in ..but trying! I promise!
Scrivener Creative Review @scrivener1980.bsky.social Scrivener is a literary journal published at McGill University in Montreal, founded in 1980. https://scrivenerreview.com/
Submit to issue 48: http://tinyurl.com/scrivener48.
Latitude 46 Publishing @latitude46pub.bsky.social Literary publisher based in Northern Ontario, Canada
Visit our website: https://latitude46publishing.com/
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
Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social A literary journal presenting four pieces in each issue, a sampling of the best writing out there. EICs: @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social
https://flight-literary.ghost.io/
Sarah Rosenthal @weagreeonthesun.bsky.social Poet, essayist, filmmaker
Latest book: One Thing Follows Another: Experiments in Dance, Art, and Life through the Lens of Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer (Punctum Books; collaboration with Valerie Witte)
Latest film: Lizard Song
sarahrosenthal.net
Ann Cavlovic 🇨🇦 @anncavlovic.bsky.social Writer. Debut novel Count On Me (Guernica Editions 2025). Nonfiction in Globe and Mail, CBC, Event, Grain, etc. Into elder abuse prevention/sandwich generation, climate crisis, and environmental economcs. #QCwriters #booksky #greensky anncavlovic.com
Cheryl Cook @eriewilds.bsky.social 
Rebecca Hart Olander @rholanderpoet.bsky.social Poet: Singing from the Deep End (2026) & Uncertain Acrobats (2021) @cavankerrypress.bsky.social * Editor/Director: @perugiapress.bsky.social * writing teacher * mother * adorer of the Atlantic 🌊 * she/her
https://linktr.ee/rholanderpoet
Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social Poet & Scholar | Trans & Queer Academic | Books: The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep (Saturnalia 2025), Since I Moved In (Chax 2019), Arrive on Wave (Chax 2016), Troubling the Line (Nightboat 2013) | Editor of @eoagh.bsky.social | She/her
tracepeterson.com
Wendy McGrath (she/her) @wendymcgrath.bsky.social Métis writer/artist in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Edmonton). Winner of the 1st Prairie Grindstone Prize. My book The Beauty of Vultures (poetry) w photography by Danny Miles out now. Board member NeWest Press. #prairiegothic #writerwholovesbirds
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
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.
Jenn (fka McCreary) DiGuglielmo @jenndig.bsky.social Philly poet // aging against the machine 
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
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
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.
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)
Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social Founded in 1997, Perugia is a nonprofit feminist press celebrating & supporting women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, in print & beyond.
https://linktr.ee/perugiapress
Raena Shirali @raenainthemorning.bsky.social philly based poet // author of GILT & summonings // gujju beti // i will ask to pet your dog
Paula Parris Eisenstein @pparriseisenstein.bsky.social Flight Problems: Amelia Earhart Poems (Pinhole Poetry)
Flip Turn (Mansfield Press)
Vedic Astrologer
New New Brunswick person 
EOAGH @eoagh.bsky.social Small Press and Literary Journal. Winner of 2 Lambda Literary Awards and a National Jewish Book Award.
eoagh.com
VERSe Ottawa / VERSeFest (prior account lost, @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social Ottawa's International Festival of Poetry / le festival international de poésie d’Ottawa / administrator of the City of Ottawa's Poet Laureate Program / l’administration du Programme des poètes lauréats d’Ottawa / https://www.verseottawa.ca/
Octopus Books @octopusbooks.ca Woman owned, independent, and committed to making the world a better place.
116 Third Ave, Ottawa
Anishinaabe Territory
Canada
octopusbooks.ca
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Leesa Dean @leesadean.bsky.social Poet and CWRT instructor, editor, community arts. Author of 2 books and some chapbooks; book 3 forthcoming from Gaspereau 2026. Lots of 📕ish tattoos. On Sinixt Territory in BC. www.leesadean.ca
brandy ryan @brandyryan.bsky.social poet. avid pedestrian. collage artist. following the path of tiny cuts and misplaced adhesive.
Brandel France de Bravo @brandelfrance.bsky.social Poet. Essayist. Teacher of Compassion Cultivation Training. Newest book of poems, Locomotive Cathedral, Backwaters Press/University of Nebraska Press, 2025.
bedfellows @bedfellowsmag.bsky.social 💦 desire/sex/intimacy-themed literary magazine & small press | est. 2013 in Philly | bedfellowsmagazine.com | bedfellows.substack.com 🦴
Emily Perkovich @undermeyou.bsky.social Otomí & learning. SG. Poet. EIC - Querencia Press. Poetry Reader- SplitLip ✨ big heart, sore back
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20176647.Emily_Perkovich?from_search=true&from_srp=true
Eva Langston @evalangston.bsky.social *author (repped by Ali Lake of O'Conner Literary)
*writing instructor at The Writer's Center
*creator/host of the podcast The Long Road to Publishing
*DC area
(she/her)
Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social Poet, parent, professor.
Editor-in-Chief of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
https://www.katiemanningpoet.com/
National Media Awards Foundation @canadamediaawards.bsky.social Since 1977, Canada’s 🇨🇦 most prestigious awards programs for magazine and digital publishing communities.
Depuis 1977, les programmes de prix les plus prestigieux du Canada 🇨🇦 pour les communautés de l’édition magazine et numérique.
hannah brown @hannahbrown.bsky.social The Screenplays, that Novel, those Short Stories
Sacha Archer @sachaarcher.bsky.social 
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social Virginian living in Texas. Poet, project wrangler, weight lifter, mom. She/her, bi, inevitably tired.
Avatar created here: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/137904
haleycampbell.net
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Poetry Emma Meier @poetryemmameier.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Reader. Thinker. ✍️📖
Carla Harris (they/she) @cdnshieldcarla.bsky.social Arts, culture, equity & inclusion. Disabled, queer enby, epilepsy, ABI, EDS & ADHD. Performance poet, writer, access analyst & nap champion.
https://linktr.ee/enbygeorge
Ohio Poetry Association @ohiopoetry.bsky.social Hello #poets! We at the Ohio Poetry Association are thrilled to be joining you on Bluesky. We are an active group of poets and #poetry lovers who have a relationship with #Ohio. Join us at http://ohiopoetry.org.
Heather Benning @hbenning.bsky.social Aritist, educator, consultant
Gil McElroy @gmcelroy.bsky.social Poet and visual artist currently living in northeastern Ontario
Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social Part Gucci part intestinal parasite, Ethel publishes handmade chapbooks, sewn with sword and talon since 2018.
www.ethelzine.com
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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
Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social Judged this year by Jonathan Lethem. Anthology series edited by Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, published by Pelekinesis
Rhianna Levi-Burton @rhiannalevi98.bsky.social Former Worcestershire Poet Laureate. Cover teacher. Youth worker. Social media manager. Published writer. Mental health advocate.
Coffee, cats, tattoos, movie fanatic. Tolkien enthusiast. 🖤
Worcester, UK
Marie-louise McGuinness @mlmcguinness.bsky.social Words @ Fictive Dream, Banshee, Splonk, Bending Genres, Flash Frog, The Forge, Milk Candy Review, Gone Lawn, 2x Pushcart nominated, LL Bath Short Story Award, Best Microfictions 2025, BBC Radio 4, Co.Founder: The Pride Roars, Editor Raw Lit
Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos @delgeo14.bsky.social Breton writer
Runner-up Novel Fair / 2X Pushcart nom / Wigleaf LL
EIC: Raw Lit Mag / Co-Founder @theprideroars.bsky.social /Contributor: Poverty House
https://delphinegg.weebly.com
https://rawlit.weebly.com
https://theprideroars.blogspot.com/
The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social A collective of women's voices -2025 social media posts by @mlmcguinness.bsky.social
https://theprideroars.blogspot.com- E Ecotopian @ecotopian.bsky.social
Melanie Siebert @melaniesiebert.bsky.social Poetry, adventure, swimming, planting, rewilding, decolonizing, therapy, heartbroken justice-doing as best one can, movement trying to know movement. She/Her
Mia You @miayou.bsky.social New book: Festival (Belladonna 2025). Current research project: Poetry in the Age of Global English (NWO Veni).
Feminist Collages NYC @feministcollagenyc.bsky.social Intersectional feminist collective - part of a global movement Join us! DM to get involved Insta: feminist_collages_nyc
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
Carrianne Leung @cleung.bsky.social "Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight"
Writer. Educator. Wondrous Woo (2013) That Time I Loved you (2019) The After (Forthcoming)
Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social He/him. PhD. Activist. Assistant Professor. Co-founder of Black Lives Matter-Canada and Wildseed Centre for Arts & Activism. 🌈💕🌱
George Murray @bookninja.bsky.social Poet | 10 books | Neuromancer | Dog person | Habitual founder of things | Nerd | St. John's | http://newpoetry.ca | Other links: https://linktr.ee/georgemurray
Ingrid Paulson @ingridpaulson.bsky.social Book design and AD, instructor at The Chang School, TMU, and middle manager of expectations. Anti-Wednesdays, pro-theatre. 🇨🇦 She/her.
https://ingridpaulson.com
Stephen Cain @cainstephen.bsky.social Poet & academic in Tkaronto. Most recent: Walking & Stealing (book*hug)
The Ex-Puritan @ex-puritan.bsky.social Publishing fiction, poetry, essays, interviews and reviews. Proudly awarding The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence.
https://linktr.ee/ex_puritan
The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing @theampersandreview.bsky.social 
Sue Goyette @suegoyette.bsky.social poet
The Walrus @thewalrus.ca Award-winning independent journalism, fact checking, national ideas-focused events, and podcasts. Stay connected: http://thewalrus.ca/newsletters
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Julia Tausch @juliatausch.bsky.social Fiction & food writer. Cat lover. Friendly mold enthusiast. Here is my newsletter about some of that stuff: tausch.substack.com
paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social A human. Curator. Writer. Photographer. Researcher.
Dave Bidini @davebidini.bsky.social Publisher @westendphoenix Rheostatics. Author of 13 books. Hockey Nomad. Movies. Also: Ballpoint Agency.
Spencer Gordon @spencergordon.bsky.social Sometimes author. Wrote A HORSE AT THE WINDOW (House of Anansi Press, coming June 2024), CRUISE MISSILE LIBERALS (Nightwood Editions) & COSMO (Coach House Books). Founded The Puritan (now Ex_Puritan). Former prof, now writer/editor in social policy. ☸️Ⓥ�
JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social Toronto Reading Series
September 13: Dina Del Bucchia (virtual)
📚📇
www.junctionreads.ca
Opinions shared are Alison's.
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
Amanda Leduc @amandaleduc.bsky.social Disabled writer, dreamer, dog mom. Space enthusiast. Lover of chocolate and stories, student of wonder and grief. New novel, WILD LIFE, out now.
Might say things here…might not. To be continued!
amandaleduc.com
Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social Poet, teacher, editor. Author of Siren (Signal Editions, Vehicule Press, 2017) and Reporting from Night (Iguana, 2011).
Kai Cheng Thom @razorfemme.bsky.social Writer, performer, facilitator, somatic coach & dreamer. Author of FIERCE FEMMES & NOTORIOUS LIARS, I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE, FROM THE STARS IN THE SKY TO THE FISH IN THE SEA, and FALLING BACK IN LOVE WITH BEING HUMAN. https://linktr.ee/kaichengthom
Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
She//Her
linktr.ee/nikostratis
Cake Moth @cakemoth.bsky.social A moth cake is a kind of a
poison
A cake moth is a kind of a
phylum
Cake Moth collects strange
poems & prompts
[When stars are not stars
they are moth circuses]
Vancouver Manuscript Intensive @vmiprogram.bsky.social Local. Global. One-on-one literary mentoring for emerging and established authors.
Jennifer LoveGrove @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social Writer / Collager/ Novice Drummer / Reader / Music Nerd
Kathryn O’Driscoll (she/her) @poetryod.bsky.social 2021 UK Poetry Slam Champion 🏆
Poet • Editor • Mentor • Event Organiser
House of O’Driscoll ✨✌️
🏳️🌈♿️🥄☘️🇮🇪⚔️📝🇬🇧🍉
Ursula Pflug @pflugu.bsky.social Author, editor, collaborator, coach. 11 books, authored or edited, in Canada, the US and the UK with Edge, Tightrope, Blue Denim, PS, Snuggly, Inanna. 100ish stories in Strange Horizons, Fantasy, Lightspeed, Leviathan, LCRW, litmags.
https:/ursulapflug.ca
Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social Poetry / Art Magazine Edited by Susanna Galbraith and Gregory McCartney. Abridged since 2004. A Derry Magazine. www.abridged.zone
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/
David Woo @davidwoo.bsky.social Poet and Writer. Books: DIVINE FIRE (Georgia Review Books/Univ. of Georgia Press) & THE ECLIPSES (BOA). Poetry chair, Board of Directors, National Book Critics Circle. he/him
www.davidwoo.info
https://linktr.ee/davidwoo?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social Arrowsmith Press publishes poetry, prose, works of translation, memoir, and a series of online columns. Support the literary world by checking out our website!
Martha Silano @marthasilano.bsky.social Poet
marthasilano.net
@marthasilano
Salamander @salamandermag.bsky.social Publishing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and works in translation since 1992.
salamandermag.org
Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social Literary non-profit. Publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers since 1999.
Michael Taeckens @mtaeckens.bsky.social Co-founder, Broadside PR
Lit Agent, Massie McQuilkin & Altman
https://michaeltaeckenspr.com/about-me/
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social A @storystudiochicago.bsky.social publication! Editor-in-Chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social
Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social Futurepoem is a NYC-based not-for-profit poetry press.
We champion innovative writing and writers.
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The Poetry Archive @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social With over 2000 free poems, 500 poets’ work and 5 million visitors a year, the Poetry Archive represents a rich diversity of both poets and poetry.
Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social
"Are you okay?"
MN, January 2026
New book: “Killing Spree”,Carcanet (UK); FSG (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).
Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Poet & NYT bestselling author of A SUIT OR A SUITCASE, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, DEAR WRITER, GOOD BONES +📚 Host of @slowdownshow.org