Rob Mathison @robmwrites.bsky.social Writing & other content things. Writing instructor at University of British Columbia. Slowly writing #VWFC & #HMFC football books when not freelancing. linktr.ee/robmathison
@stacypenner.bsky.social @stacypenner.bsky.social Writer, editor, and word enthusiast.
Heidi Klaassen @heidiklaassen.bsky.social Writer
heidiklaassen.com
Executive director, CNFC
creativenonfictioncollective.ca
@CNFC.bsky.social
Grad student, boy mom (4), dog mom (4), Calgarian. I probably take on too much.
Creative Nonfiction Collective @cnfc.bsky.social Canadian non-profit and registered charity for nonfiction writers.
creativenonfictioncollective.ca
mx anne hedonic โจ @beccagourds.bsky.social PVD Transplant in VBC ๐จ๐ฆ | cat mom, juice mixologist. the world is burning and we need bigger buckets | they/she
Royal City Literary Arts Society @rclas.bsky.social www.rclas.com
RCLASโs mission is to maintain and build a welcoming community of writers and readers, to support the goals of writers at all stages of their development, and to promote an appreciation of all forms of literary arts.
Caffeinated Canadian ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐จ๐ฆ @mayamilleresq.bsky.social โWe can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to existโ
- James Baldwin
~ Alison Peace @irishali13.bsky.social Mom. Poet. Teacher.
Linguistics & Lit-Reading Specialist.
Published: Canada-Paddler Press.
Texas Poetry. Poetry World.
Wax Poetry & Art. Dem. Ally.
Doctoral Candidate, ABD.
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.
Melissa Spohr @sonnetandsloth.bsky.social Mama. Writer. PhD student at UNB.
Sarah Slack @sarahjslack.bsky.social Human rights & community care
Anti-genocide ๐ต๐ธ & everywhere
Still ๐ท + to prevent COVID
& other airborne disease
Curiosity, connection, and community at our common table
@commontable.bsky.social
Oatleaf Poetry @oatleafpoetry.bsky.social An online poetry publication.
Submissions are open year-round!
oatleafpoetry.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, letโs connect.
Also: roll call of artists and people making amazing work. #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ArtCommunity #ArtForChange
Janaya Fuller Evans @janayafe.bsky.social Canadian writer and witch. Pansexual and gender fluid. They/Them.
JOANI TAYLOR @joanitaylor.bsky.social CANADIAN RECORDING ARTIST.๐ง JUNO NOMINATED, BC HALL OF FAME ๐
MENTOR/VOCAL AND PERFORMANCE COACH, DOG LOVER,๐ฆฎ NEVER CONSERVATIVE. LOVE FILMS๐ฌ MAKE MUSIC๐ถNOT WAR๐๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ
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Jared Pappas-Kelley @pappas-kelley.bsky.social Artist, lecturer, author - @manchester_university_press and @delere_press #Canterbury
Looking to build more queer spaces haha and also gigs
www.pappaskelley.com/author
https://pupandtiger.co.uk/donate
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).๐ฉท๐๐๐๐
lethepressbooks.com/product-page/fear-itself
jameskmoran.blogspot.com
Trying To Figure It Out @fixiespinner.bsky.social Bit lost after losing a loved one, trying to find motivation and connection. Riding a bike and staring at the sky.
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poetโlatest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. HerbalistโGreen Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
TVWritersVault @tvwritersvault.bsky.social Where TV/Film Producers & Execs Scout New Pitches for Film, TV & Digital. Shows Discovered & Broadcast Globally on Discovery Channel, A&E, Lifetime TV, SyFy, Velocity & Others... Visit https://www.tvwritersvault.com
Ash Winters @ash-winters.bsky.social I am a writer currently living in Toronto haunting my local bookshops and libraries. Book out - Run Riot: Ninety Poems in Ninety Days (https://caitlinpress.com/Books/R/Run-Riot)
Missy Marston @marstonshmelzer.bsky.social Novelist.
kevin @kevinharding.ca Public policy nerd, co-op believer, photographer, wannabe polyglot. I talk a lot about co-ops, policy, laws, legislation, economies, and more.
๐ Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish land
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Views here are my own and do not represent my employer.
Peggy Thompson @pegthomp.bsky.social Screenwriter, story editor, producer.
Zoรซ Sahay @zjsahay.bsky.social ๐จ๐ฆ ER Doctor
โ๐ผ: a little of this and a little of that
Tomato enthusiast ๐
Doctorsdesk.ca
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.
Joseph Kidney @josephkidney.bsky.social ๐จ๐ฆ Lecturer @Stanford. Bay Area & Vancouver. Early Modern Drama / Renaissance & Reformation / Poetry book DEVOTIONAL FORENSICS (icehouse) March 2025
https://gooselane.com/products/devotional-forensics
Carrie Mac @carriemacwrites.bsky.social Intrepidly curious, queer, four-eyed, writer, reader, mama, west coaster, outdoorsy so and so, nerd of all sorts. www.carriemac.com
Down The Lees @downthelees.bsky.social Post-noise rock
Off White House Records
https://linktr.ee/downthelees
Patrick Martone @drseaweed.bsky.social Seaweed Professor. LGBTQIA+ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Quebec Writers' Federation @officialqwf.bsky.social Supporting, connecting, and inspiring Quebec writers
Rebecca Salazar Leon @rsalazar.bsky.social haunted swamp femme, PhD // author of sulphurtongue (2021) & antibody (2025) // (she/they) ๐จ๐ด๐ค๐ต๐ธ
@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
Mick Cรดtรฉ @mickcote.bsky.social Gestionnaire principal, mรฉdias numรฉriques pour Bell Mรฉdia. Sinon, je passe mon temps dehors.
I also post in English or in some kind of sass
m @meganmiskiman.bsky.social poet. artist. dog enthusiast. struggler of many things.
current read: the book of records - madeleine thien
John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social NBPF Beat Poet Laureate
Founding editor, Crisis Chronicles Press
Past Vice President, Ohio Poetry Association
Hillbuckeye. Skeptic. Creative. Better woke than asleep.
https://linktr.ee/johnburroughs ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
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.
KK @kunstudios.com Accessible WordPress developer for social justice groups. (But also cycling, urbanism, books, coffee, photography, cats, travel...) On unceded Indigenous land, Vancouver.
Carmella Carmella @carmellacarmella.bsky.social books, babies, liberation, this gd sacred earth- E Ecotopian @ecotopian.bsky.social
Richard Krueger @richard-krueger.bsky.social Writer, musician, film snob.
Neurodivergent.
Montreal.
Amanduh Poon ๆฝ (she/her) @poonfumes.bsky.social Olโfashion nerd, secular humanist, animal lover, reader, gardener. Hooked on data & stats. MBA. Creative. Colour & glitter โจ.
Michele Rule ๐จ๐ฆ๐ 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.
MicheleRule.ca for more.
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 ๐ish tattoos. On Sinixt Territory in BC. www.leesadean.ca
Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social โ๏ธ๐ฅ Writer, English Lit, and Film Professor pauldbwatkins.com (he/him)
๐ตVinyl Aficionado and DJ
๐ Author: ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐โ โ๐๐๐๐๐: ๐น๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ โ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฃ๐ช, ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐๐, ๐๐๐ โ๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ค๐๐๐ก (WLU Press)
SoundinCanaan.com
๐ "Nowโs the Timeโ (MLK/Parker/Basquiat).
Liam Monaghan @liammonaghan.bsky.social 
an ocean of emotion @betarayben.bsky.social Fiction writer. Queer in his bones (menacing), not always safe for work. Nerd trash who reads too many (but not enough) comics. White settler Canadian living on lษkฬสทษลษn territory (Victoria BC). He/they
Tara Borin @taraborin.bsky.social They/them ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Poet, parent, and chocolate monster living in traditional Trโondรซk Hwรซchโin territory, Dawson City, Yukon. Author of The Pit.
Rรฉmi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
https://www.rmfrt.com/
JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social Toronto Reading Series
Have a great summer!!!
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www.junctionreads.ca
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TransFiXed Cabaret @transfixedcabaret.bsky.social The all trans genderqueer variety show! Produced on lekwungen territory (so-called Victoria) | hosted by @earlegay.bsky.social and The Gay Jatsby
andrรฉs ignacio torres @andresitorresm.com 29 ๐ณ๏ธโ๐. aka Andresito; en el laberinto como Asteriรณn.
software engineer ii @ microsoft vancouver.
computer science @colorado.edu | #USBve
computers, poetry & fiction.
YVR ๐จ๐ฆ / ๐ป๐ช
he/him
aitorres.com
Earle Gay @earlegay.bsky.social they/them | the drag thing bring you the t(ea)stosterone | host of TransFixed Cabaret | unceded lekwungen territory (so called Victoria)
R W Gray @robertwgray.bsky.social Writer always in other cities, looking for clarity in caught moments, found words, and espresso cups.
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
Farmhouse reader @mary-rutter.bsky.social Book addict, homebody, lover of the lake and woods, equal rights for all. ๐จ๐ฆ I acknowledge that I live on the lands of the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee. Attawandaron, and the Mississaugas of the Credit
She/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ally
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Anna Swanson @annajswan.bsky.social Writer + Librarian + Wild Swimming | The Garbage Poems (Brick 2025) | The Nights Also (Tightrope 2010) | annaswanson.ca | garbagepoems.com | she/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | no one is free until we all are free
Gail Anderson-Dargatz @anderson-dargatz.bsky.social Canadian. Mentor. Editor. Author of The Cure for Death by Lightning, The Almost Wife, The Almost Widow and many other books. Her latest novel, The Atlas Keeper, hits the shelves Aug. 26, 2026. Visit Gail at https://linktr.ee/Gail_AndersonDargatz
Emmett @emmetthm.bsky.social they/them | trans nonbinary ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ | disabled | writer, artist, producer working on lษkฬสทษลษn Territory (Victoria, BC) | Free Palestine ๐ต๐ธ
Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social Bright star! Would I wereโฆ
Sean Tucker @seantucker.bsky.social Professor (part-time), Occupational Health and Safety
University of Regina
Sessional Lecturer
School of Population and Public Health
UBC 
Shannon Smith @sksmithwrites.bsky.social 
Christopher Hugh ๐๐ฆฎ๐จโ๐ซ๐ท @chsibley67.bsky.social LGBTQ. American Expat. Kiwi. Educator. Bibliophile. Anglican Agnostic. ENTP. ADHD. Spanish/German speaker. USAR. Finding hope.
โForget everything else.Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant."-Marcus Aurelius
National Media Awards Foundation @canadamediaawards.bsky.social Since 1977, Canadaโs ๐จ๐ฆ most prestigious awards programs for magazine and digital publishing communities.
Depuis 1977, les programmes de prix les plus prestigieux du Canada ๐จ๐ฆ pour les communautรฉs de lโรฉdition magazine et numรฉrique.
Trish Kelly Chornyj (Gonneville) @trishkellyc.bsky.social Recovering Vancouverite living in Squamish with Hatch, Gowan, and Mitsou. Queer femme, proud Michif and Ukrainian-Canadian.
For fun: trail runner, movie watcher, paddle boarder.
For work: Accessibility and social enterprise enthusiast.
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
Andrew J Templeton @andrewtempleton.bsky.social Former playwright, sometimes cartoonist. You can follow my current project here: https://www.instagram.com/charismaticmegafaunacomic/
Mzooie @mzooie.bsky.social ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐โพ๏ธhe/him
Archetypal fictional characters: Edina Monsoon, Dale Cooper and Tank Girl.
Archetypal animal: skunk. Adorable, but it usually takes another skunk to really appreciate me.
Archetypal plant: stevia. Bitterly sweet and best in small doses
Elle @ellewalks.bsky.social passionate opinionated queer feminist SJW and researcher ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐จ๐ฆ
Writers' Trust of Canada @writerstrust.bsky.social On a mission to support & celebrate Canadian writers. Discover our literary award-winning books at writerstrust.com
@brokepress.bsky.social @brokepress.bsky.social 
Arielle Twist @arielletwist.bsky.social Emerging Aunty | Interdisciplinary Artist
Author of DISINTEGRATE/DISSOCIATE
Linktr.ee/ArielleTwist
Julian Paquette @julianpaquette.bsky.social Writer. Communicator. Trans human.
Cares about community, all creatures and the planet.
Infinitely curious.
Juniper Charlesworth @junicharlesworth.bsky.social Queer/Trans writer. Loves D&D, video games, and anything speculative fiction.
She/Her
Death Rides a Unicorn @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social Death Rides a Unicorn is a small non-profit arts organization that produces fun literary and spoken word events. More information can be found at www.deathridesaunicorn.com
Brandon Nadeau @bnadeauwriter.bsky.social Writer. Stories in The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, Literally Stories, NลD Magazine, Shift, and others.
Executive Editor: @MGLiterary.bsky.social
MoonLitGetaway.com/brandon-nadeau
Charmaine Arjoonlol @arjoonlal.bsky.social Writer. Social worker. Mother. Poetry and prose have appeared in numerous publications and two anthologies. charmainearjoonlal.wordpress.com.
Wayde Compton @waydecompton.bsky.social Author of Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics (U of Alberta P). Assistant Professor of Writing at the University of Victoria.
Andrea MacPherson @andreammacpherson.bsky.social Writer, Editor. Most recent book forthcoming is RECKLESS.
The Pi Review @thepireview.bsky.social An endless conversation on form. Poetry, prose and interviews. Curated by John Whittaker. https://thepireview.blogspot.com/
Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social Literary magazine publishing the best new poetry & prose for over 50 years. Details on subscriptions, submissions, contests and more at http://eventmagazine.ca
Tiffany TY @thirsty-tiff.bsky.social Community matters
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.- N ๐บ๐ธ @n976wow.bsky.social
Alex Lopez @alexlopezwrites.bsky.social Comedian, Writer, Actor, Big Booty Latina ๐ค๐๏ธ
Fred Stenson @ftstenson.bsky.social Author; SW Albertan; columnist at Alberta Views Magazine; novelist (The Trade, Who By Fire, The Great Karoo; Lightning)
Aaron Chan @theaaronchan.bsky.social ๐Pro in disappointing my Asian parents. Books: memoir: THIS CITY IS A MINEFIELD; picture book: THE BROKEN HEART | linktr.ee/theaaronchan
Bree Taylor ๐ @breetaylor0.bsky.social settler in amiskwaciwรขskahikan (yeg)
she/they | writer + poet | MFA @ UBC
https://linktr.ee/BreeTaylor0
Anvil Press @anvilpress.bsky.social Independent Vancouver book publisher. anvilpress.com
The Word | A Storytelling Sanctuary @wordisdiversity.bsky.social A literary arts nonprofit fighting for equity in publishing & literature. Uplifting BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, neurodiverse, and disabled voices.
thewordfordiversity.org
linktr.ee/wordfordiversity
David Ly @davidlywrites.bsky.social dragon-hearted writer and poet โข emotionally a cephalopod โข โleeโ
https://linktr.ee/davidlywrites
Rhea Tregebov ๐จ๐ฆ @rheatregebov.bsky.social Poet, novelist, children's picture book author. Associate Professor Emerita UBC School of Creative Writing. Canadian. www.rheatregebov.ca ๐จ๐ฆ
Harbour Publishing @harbourpublishing.bsky.social Books of the Pacific Northwest (and beyond). It's our 50th Anniversary and we published a collector's edition of Raincoast Chronicles - Fifth Five to celebrate. Distributor of Nightwood Editions.