Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social She/her. Li'l EdTech; big mouth. Settler. Feminist. Reader, writer, teacher, scholar, doozer.
Podcasts too much: creator of Community of Praxis; co-host of @hkhspod.bsky.social.
Opinions yours.
https://sabbaticast.brennaclarkegray.ca
Susan Mersereau @suemersereau.bsky.social Canadian American writer in Frederick MD, and sometimes in other places. Newest short story “Hotel Greif” in EVENT https://www.eventmagazine.ca/product/event-54-3-digital-edition-current-issue/
Brian Busby 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰 @brianbusby.bsky.social Writer, écrivain public, anthologist, literary historian, bibliophile, and three-time winner of the Ice Capades Colouring Contest.
Author of Character Parts (Knopf), A Gentleman of Pleasure (McGill-Queen's UP), and The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis).
Esa Keltamäki @keltamakiesa.bsky.social 
Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social Hiker, backpacker, forager, fisher, gardener, fossil finder, iPhone nature pic taker, nature nerd. Retired (biologist, ec. dev. practitioner, entrepreneur). 🇨🇦
Jason Himsl (he/him/his) @jasonhimsl.bsky.social Education Officer in Ontario’s Ministry of Education where I'm supporting ELL and Secondary English curriculum writing. Passionate advocate for kids and literacy. Any opinions expressed are solely my own.
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
Cora McCloy, PhD @coramccloy12.bsky.social Toronto. Univ of Toronto. Outdoorsy, bike, swim, etc
Project Pedestrian @projectpedestrian.bsky.social A moving-image project about some of the experiences and conditions of walking.
https://projectpedestrian.com
Heather Treseler @htreseler.bsky.social poet & critic, author of AUGURIES & DIVINATIONS, PARTURITION, and HARD BARGAIN; poems/essays/rambles in Boston Review, LARB, Harvard Review, Narrative, and PN Review; heathertreseler.com 
University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA @uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social The official page of the University of Guelph Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, located at the University of Guelph-Humber in Toronto, Canada.
Website: https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/cwmfa
Linktree: linktr.ee/uguelphcwmfa
Eleonore Schonmaier Author @eleonoreschonmaier.bsky.social Poetry, fiction, song lyrics, music-theater. Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete, Dustblown Side of the Journey, Wavelengths of Your Song and Rush of Wingspan (2026, MQUP).
https://eleonoreschonmaier.com
Heather J. “Lives in a city on Lake Ontario” Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social Author, Publicist, World Fantasy Award Nominee, Cat Lover, Feminist (she/her but they/their is good too!)
Lauren Carter @lcarterwrites.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Writer. Knitter. Founder of Wild Ground Writing Retreats (https://wildgroundwriting.com). Latest books: The Longest Night (Fall 2025); Places Like These; This Has Nothing To Do With You.
Anne Lumsden @annelumsden.bsky.social Asking more questions than I answer
PeterB @peterblakewell.bsky.social 
The Pentaxian @the-pentaxian.bsky.social Amateur photographer and general ne'er-do-well.
All photos are my own, no sense in blaming someone else.
Kira Sheppard @kirasheppard.bsky.social Harpist and songwriter from Newfoundland
https://kirasheppard.bandcamp.com/music
Sara Tilley 🫐 @saratilley.bsky.social Multidisciplinary artist: writing, puppetry, clown, theatre. From St. John’s NL, currently based in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador. Keen about plants, cats, queers and doing better for our sweet lil planet.
Mayor Bert Xanadu @moviemayor.bsky.social It's circa 1973. I am Mayor of Toronto and owner of the Imperial Six cinemas. Now on sale: I OWN THIS TOWN: THE MAYOR BERT XANADU XANTHOLOGY spacingstore.bsky.social
Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social Food Editor @inquirer.com & writer other places sometimes.
🍔 My cookbook You Gotta Eat, on how to feed yourself when you don't have the energy, is out NOW 🍔
Sean Murray @seanwmurray.bsky.social Liver of life
Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • Writer in Residence at Duke University briangoldstone.net
Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social Politics, author of Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed. Meidas Canada/ The Resistance Lead singer with Grievous Angels. Just a boy from Cobalt.
Not a space for the cynical and snide.
Susan Telfer 🇨🇦 @susantelfer.bsky.social Canadian teacher, writer, artist, and musician. 🇨🇦
Torqolbo! @torq.bsky.social International childhood (UK/Zambia/Oz/Newfoundland!) and now somewhere in Toronto.
@riddlefence.bsky.social @riddlefence.bsky.social 
Nicole Haldoupis @nicolehaldoupis.bsky.social Writer of Tiny Ruins (Radiant Press)
Managing Editor, Paragon Press (MUNL)
Publishing Coordinator, At Bay Press
🎸 HAGS & True Trash
www.nicolehaldoupis.ca
Ronna Bloom @ronnabloom.bsky.social Writer of poems and essays. Taker of photographs.
IN A RIPTIDE is out now! Published by Brick Books.
ronnabloom.com
Bridget Canning @bridgetcanning.bsky.social Author of The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes, Some People's Children, and No One Knows about Us (Breakwater Books). Academic Communications Instructor at the College of the North Atlantic. She/Her. www.bridgetcanning.com
M Eagan @mireilleeagan.bsky.social 
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
Marilo Nunez @marilo99.bsky.social Latina, Chilean Canadian theatre director, playwright, dramaturge, phd candidate. Mother of 2 beautiful girls. Wife. Feminist.
🇨🇦 Bernice Hillier 🇨🇦 @bernicecb.bsky.social CBC Radio host in Newfoundland & Labrador, CANADA! 🇨🇦 I have a journalism/poli sci degree from Carleton University. I love yoga & poetry. I’m always eager to learn new things & to hear fresh perspectives. Canada is a sovereign nation. 🇨🇦
Christine McNair @christinemcnair.bsky.social Book person — read them, bind them, fix them, write them. I like type. Author of Conflict (2012) and Charm (2016) & Toxemia (poetic non-fiction) from Book*hug (fall 2024). President of CBBAG. Former co-organizer of the Ottawa Promise Walk for Preeclampsia.
Heather Benning @hbenning.bsky.social Aritist, educator, consultant
JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social Current: BSc Forensic Science (Student)
Prev: Writing & Editing in the Book Industry
Politics • Health • Bioethics • Science • Publishing
Ambidextrous Ragamuffin. Bookish.
Silly for dogs. Introvert. Awkward.
Over-thinker. Disabled.
Canadian. She/Her
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
Ramona Dearing @ramonadearing.bsky.social 
Kevin Patterson @treeist.bsky.social Nonfiction in NYT magazine, The Walrus, Globe and Mail. Best Amer Sci Wri. Fiction through Doubleday US, Randomhouse Canada, Albin Michel in France.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/23352/kevin-patterson/- K Kate Bolick @katebolick.bsky.social Author of SPINSTER; essayist/journalist; teach writing @Yale.
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
The Handsome Family @thehandsomefamily.bsky.social The oldest living band in North America.
"Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing...
Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice."
—GREIL MARCUS
https://handsomefamily.com/
Halwake @wakester.bsky.social 
Will Gill @willgillnfld.bsky.social Artist based in St John’s, Newfoundland
www.williamgill.ca
Selections from 30 years of art making. Not chronological. Click on website link 👆 for most recent focus and background on works.
💀 Cromortuary 💀 @lapanique.bsky.social Oh hi it's me your pal Panic.
Strident literary feminist. Publishing desk job. Ran one marathon one time.
"Worryingly erotic." "Disagreeable, quite shouty." "Alienating, dangerous, and perverse."
#Toronto
Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social Here for poems & other beauties. Writing in Poetry, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, The Poetry Review (UK), & elsewhere. Co-editor for book reviews at Plume. First collection of poems forthcoming with Orison Books in fall 2025.
Jennifer LoveGrove @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social Writer / Collager/ Novice Drummer / Reader / Music Nerd
Kate Sutherland @katesutherland.bsky.social Law prof, poet, collage artist.
https://linktr.ee/poetryartmagic
Hugh Griffith @hgriffith.bsky.social Ontarioan, now out west watching the tide go up and down, missing cicadas and thunderstorms.
@alpepperpot.bsky.social @alpepperpot.bsky.social 
Alexa Carmichael 🇨🇦 @alexacarmichael.bsky.social Not an ordinary cat.
Herons, art, history, books
We are all just walking each other home. - Ram Dass
Martin Reis @martinreis.bsky.social Independent photojournalist on two wheels & artist: Crosswalk Referee | Tour Lego | French Postman. Wears a nice hat | www.tino.ca
Tempête Parfaite Collective #SurvivalOfTheFriendliest 
Kali Solomon @kaliville.bsky.social Lion tamer, music-head, political junkie.
Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her.
Author of MYTH. Editor of AS THE EARTH DREAMS (House of Anansi, 2025)
www.teresemasonpierre.com
Brian Borncamp @zubaplants.bsky.social www.zubaplants.com - Native Plants and More - Buffalo, NY
Just Another Deb @stjohns.bsky.social One of many Debs, from the bay living in downtown SJ.
My hobby is... working a second job 🤪
Isabella @isabellawangbc.bsky.social 
Bridget Wayland @birdyway.bsky.social Language, absurdities & old trees.
Micah Toub @micahtoub.bsky.social Features editor at Globe and Mail. Author of Growing Up Jung: Coming of Age as the Son of Two Shrinks. Pet columnist for West End Phoenix.
Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social Ideas with appointments for food. 
Omar Baddar @omarbaddar.bsky.social Progressive; political analyst (US/Middle East, Palestine/Israel). Formerly at IMEU, AAI, & Al Jazeera. Into MMA. Views are mine. 🇵🇸🇺🇸
Andrew Hood @andrewnhood.bsky.social Author of Pardon Our Monsters, The Cloaca, and Who Needs What. Signed, personalized copies available at the local Value Village 
Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social Author of 10 books.The latest: A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN. THE AMNESIAC out 2027. Newsletter here: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com #1000wordsofsummer
@claudiacasper.bsky.social @claudiacasper.bsky.social 
Fred Stenson @ftstenson.bsky.social Author; SW Albertan; columnist at Alberta Views Magazine; novelist (The Trade, Who By Fire, The Great Karoo; Lightning)
Rebecca Silver Slayter @silverslayter.bsky.social 
Julie McArthur @diarydramatist.bsky.social Short Story Writer • Fiction Editor • Respite Caregiver • Cat Sitter
juliemcarthur.com
Sharon McCartney @sharonmccartney.bsky.social California grown. Vancouver Island now. Writer. Only disconnect.
Sara Spike @saraspike.bsky.social Cultural historian of rural communities and coastal environments in Atlantic Canada. The ocean and the woods. Visual cultures. Senses. Fog. Flora.
Adjunct Prof, Dalhousie University.
Executive Committee, NiCHE.
PhD, settler, she/her
https://saraspike.ca
Anne Burbidge @anneburbidge.bsky.social gardener, sketcher out of @humberpoly.bsky.social hort program *she/her
Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social she/her: sharing Ottawa -area sugar crone (tinyurl.com/ottawamandy) literary, spoken word, storytelling & nonfiction events daily ish. Out now!: Beast Body Epic, Autumn 2023. https://linktr.ee/amandaearl.
Jonathan Bessette @jonathanbessette.bsky.social writer/poet/friend/♌ (he/him)
Living on the stolen territories of the səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ, Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w, and šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ
https://jonathan-bessette.com
https://carteblanchemagazine.com/issue-48/bessette-inflation
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
abbatial @aobate.bsky.social hello it's me, I'm a bird and a writer, etc
(author of “Evie of the Deepthorn”; PhD in annihilation; more here: www.andrebabyn.com)
Rhea Tregebov 🇨🇦 @rheatregebov.bsky.social Poet, novelist, children's picture book author. Associate Professor Emerita UBC School of Creative Writing. Canadian. www.rheatregebov.ca 🇨🇦
Judy Land🇨🇦 @judyland.bsky.social I yoga, I garden. I love art,a cycle enthusiast. Living in #Bloordale, a wonderful neighbourhood in Toronto.
Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social THE BENEFACTORS Sceptre. Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. Shortlisted Irish Novel of the Year, Best British Audio Book. It’s out now. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
Andy McKim @andymckim.bsky.social My jam is theatre creation
Politics is my damnation.
People are my salvation.
Toronto/tkaronto is my location.
Find me at www.AndyMcKim.com
Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social Author of 8 books of fiction & poetry. Recent:The Thickness of Ice (novel, Baraka Books, 2024);The Death Poems (Salt, 2023).Winner of Rubery Award for Fiction. Shortlisted Danuta Gleed Award, Bord Gais Irish Book Awards, & Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
Lee Wright @wrightlee.bsky.social Writer
Matthew Heiti @harkback.bsky.social Writing wrongs.
www.harkback.org
Chris Banks @chrisbanks6625.bsky.social I’m a Canadian poet with eight collections of poems - Bureau of Useless Splendour forthcoming ECW press (Fall 2026). https://www.onlypoems.net/poets/chris-banks https://linktr.ee/royal.banksy
Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social Dallas-based writer. Subscribe to America's oldest and only country music newsletter, Don't Rock The Inbox: www.dontrocktheinbox.com
natalie.l.weiner at gmail
AuntMaureen @auntmaureen.bsky.social Toronto
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com
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Margaret Brodie @marbrodi.bsky.social Reading | Writing | YYC Mom | Contract Faculty | UCP Hater
Elisabeth de Mariaffi @elisabethdem.bsky.social Writer and daredevil. (Mostly writer.)
I write scary stories and also other stories.
See more of what I’m talking about: https://elisabethdemariaffi.substack.com/
Giles Blunt @gilesbluntbooks.bsky.social Author of John Cardinal mysteries morphing from crime to literary fiction. Don't wanna whine but, like they say about getting old, it ain't for sissies! No DMs.
Willow Kean @willowkean.bsky.social Actor, writer, eater. Kale always loses to poutine.
https://thelittleredchicken.substack.com/
https://breakwaterbooks.com/collections/fiction/products/eyes-in-front-when-running
Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social Tentatively here. Toronto by way of Montreal. Lapsed academic.
Sound + vision, mainly.
#MDANT
Oh, and @shelley_rohar on that other site
Mary W. Walters 🇨🇦 @marywwalters.com
Writer of fiction and blogs. Lives in Toronto. Occasional humorist. Stoic in Training. marywwalters.com Slava Ukraini
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social Lives near that river, in Ottawa, Canada. Has been known to edit & work in arts orgs. Appreciates your book posts.
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
Carmine Starnino @cstarnino.bsky.social I edit for http://thewalrus.ca. Most recent book is Dirty Words: Selected Poems 1997-2016 http://bit.ly/3hZXOED
𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com Author of Straphanger, Shanghai Grand, Lost Supper
Words: NYTimes NatGeo Smithsonian
⬇️ Train travel + politics of transit ⬇️
https://www.highspeed.blog
Talks: https://taras-grescoe.com/contact
IG: https://www.instagram.com/taras.rides.trains/
The Letters of Samuel Beckett @beckettletters.bsky.social We collect/consult/transcribe all extant letters by Beckett; see our interactive index (chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu), and 4 volume selected edition.