Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
Rebecca Chambers @metismamamb.bsky.social Columnist & project lead for the @WinnipegFreePress.com media literacy platform at www.winnipegfreepress.com/education, high school teacher, grad student @UManitoba.bsky.social, lifelong learner, Autism mom, love warrior.
Julie Penner @julespenner.bsky.social Musician, mother, arts worker. I play violin with Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene, JP Hoe, etc. Made radio/podcasts with The Vinyl Cafe and William Prince. I tend to post about Winnipeg, biking, urbanism, and politics.
https://linktr.ee/JuliePenner
Susan Ray, Writer @creativewordcraft.bsky.social Author of multiple books (poetry, folklore, family activity books, history, foodie everything). Designer and host of programs that encourage individual creativity. Book crafter. All around daydreamer.
www.SusanRayWriter.com
She/her 💙💜🏳️🌈ally🌲🫂🪶📖🎨🎙️
Sherri Rollins @sherrirollins.bsky.social City Councillor Fort Rouge East Fort Garry
I ❤️ politics, but I ❤️ gardening more 
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Karen Pauls @karenpaulscbc.bsky.social CBC national news reporter in Manitoba and wherever life takes me. Always looking for good stories.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/author/karen-pauls-1.3347157
Tips? karen.pauls@cbc.ca
IG: karenpaulscbcnews
NakedPastor @nakedpastor.bsky.social I’m a lot of things. Pastor turned artist. Cartoonist. Writer. And other things I’m still figuring out. To be all these things is simply to be human. Complex, meaningful, creative, curious, and evolving.
www.nakedpastor.com/pages/links
Patty Wurster @pattywurster.bsky.social Illustrator • Writer • Regional Advisor #SCBWI New York West/Central Upstate • MFA Indiana U
#kidlit #kidlitart
www.pattywursterstudio.com
Daily Short Story Deadlines @shortstorycontests.bsky.social Submit your short story to the relevant genre. All of these contests are guaranteed acceptances. Your story gets a video performance reading made!
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-short-story-contest-deadlines/
Daily Submittable Deadlines @submittabledaily.bsky.social Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable.
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/projects
Ken Gingerich Design Studio @kgdesignstudio.bsky.social Artist/Designer. Urban Anabaptist.
Spiritual Deconstructionist/Re-constructionist. Unemployed chair arranger.
Running the Goat Books @runningthegoat.bsky.social A Newfoundland-based micropress specializing in children's books and letterpress-printed chapbooks.
Visit our bookstore and printshop in Tors Cove.
https://linktr.ee/runningthegoat
Find Marnie at her personal account: rtgbooks.bsky.social
Tom Penner 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social Winnipegger. Copy editor in sustainable development. Jets fan, much of the time. YIMBY. Musician for joy, not mastery. Just trying to find good Winnipeg/hockey/literature/language stuff on here.
All vibes positive until further notice.
Eva Wasney @evawasney.bsky.social Manitoba environmental reporter for The Narwhal and Winnipeg Free Press.
The Malahat Review @malahatreview.bsky.social Canadian literary journal established in 1967 publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from emerging and established writers.
Erin MacNair @emacnair.bsky.social Writer of fiction/non-fiction short stories–leaning into the speculative. Finished a collection with the generous support of the Canada Council. Conjunctions/PRISM/PrarieFire/The Walrus/subTerrain/The Razor/EVENT/ etc.
Tree hugger.
Runs on coffee, cheese.
writerharrison @harrisonwriter.bsky.social 🍁 #Canadian - #Author - #Poet 🍁
amazon.com/author/phillipharrison
I try to write in ways that feed both the mind and soul. ♊ & #GenX #stationaryaddict
💫 Creator of imagined worlds 💫
David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
Sonja Boon @storiedselves.bsky.social writer. researcher. flutist. teacher. stitcher of stories.
https://linktr.ee/sonjaboon
Pam Frampton @pamframpton.bsky.social Writer, editor, columnist, wine enthusiast. Serious case of wanderlust. Avid reader, gardener, cook.
Corey Redekop @coreyredekop.bsky.social Canadian author, SHELF MONKEY, HUSK, assorted literary sundries. Socially friendly, emotionally distant. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/758661.Corey_Redekop
MadeInDex 📰 🌎 @madeindex.bsky.social 🌍 The #Sustainability Index
🌲 Environmental News & Guides about sustainable Products, Companies & their impact
💻 Privacy, Journalism, Politics, Humor, AI, Pacifism, Animal Rights, Cleaning nature
💚 Vegan & vegetarian topics
🔗 madeindex.org
Jedlie @jedlie.bsky.social I am the host of the Reading With Your Kids Podcast. Our mission is to help families grow closer through reading!
LGBTQ 🌈 FOR LIFE KAKUMA @joy167.bsky.social Am a concerned LGBTQ minority seeking for help, assistance and support in anyway possible for my fellow folks , please consider all us🌈any one to donate 🙏 volunteer to repost our pics
Jay @jaywalkingtheatre.bsky.social #Stories, #recitations, #walkingtours, #theatre.🎭
Jenna @fallingletters.ca #BookBlogger | former children’s librarian | 💜 #MGlit, spec fic, Tolkien, the Karluk, Depeche Mode | ace | she/her | 🇨🇦
https://fallingletters.ca
Umar Albin @umaralbin1029.bsky.social Realtor 🗝️🚪🏠
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Jessica Ralli @jessicaralli.bsky.social Manager of #EarlyLiteracy Programs & Special Initiatives @ Brooklyn Public Library | #KidLit Writer @ RISE X Penguin Workshop | LJ Mover and Shaker 2020 |
Anno Dominaysayer @annodominaysayer.bsky.social Land back 🍉 maker ♻️ social justice worrier 😷 cussmouthed mennonite 💒 lefty by 💁 handedness & 🌹 inclination 🎨 spreadsheet enthusiast 🚫AI 🚫car 🚫cops 🚫nonsense pls 🏳️⚧️ she/they
LGBTQ+ Toronto & LA Film Festival @lgbtlatoronto.bsky.social Monthly festival showcasing the best of LGBTQ+ films and screenplays from around the world, using the audience feedback format.
https://lgbttorontofilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/LGBTTorontoFilmFestival
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
@travisscotty76.bsky.social @travisscotty76.bsky.social 
drmc @lilwoo2.bsky.social student. musician.
hands, legs, and feet
follow along if you like
Simon Constable @realconstable.bsky.social Broadcaster | Columnist | Commentator | Award-winning Author
Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Applied Economics
If you are an author or an aspiring one, feel free to contact me
Rusty Fischer | Children's Author @rustyfischer.bsky.social Rusty Fischer's poems for children have appeared in Reader’s Digest, Good Housekeeping and Woman’s Day. His latest poem, “Socks,” is currently featured in The Dirigible Balloon.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/36446
Julia Lin @juliaslin.bsky.social author: www.julialinbooks.com, #WritingCommunity #StopAsianHate #TransRightsAreHumanRights; #BLM; #Canada; She/her
@randyrt6coates.bsky.social @randyrt6coates.bsky.social 
JoAnneh Nagler @joannehnagler.bsky.social Author, Singer, all things ART. Lover of my sweet husband. Yoga, travel, love being alive!
Abbie James @abbiewjames.bsky.social #Kidlit Writer: PB, MG, YA. #SCBWI. Poetry.
Youth Services at a Public Library. Licensed Behavior Specialist.
Wife & Mom. Gardener/Hiker/Birder. Environmentalist. No AI. She/her
abbiewernerjames.com
Susan McGuirk @susanmcguirk.bsky.social For fans of epistolary novels like "The Correspondent", try Amazon Best Selling author Susan McGuirk's historical fiction "Dear Missing Friend." Follow your favorite Hist Fict heroines on her free Substack “The Storied Sisters Society" on Wednesdays.
easychore.bsky.social @easychore.bsky.social Want a simple, free to use Chore and Allowance App? Say no more!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.easychore.easy_chore
Albert Schweitzer @alber13.bsky.social 😇😇🫶🫶
John Brown 3 @johnbrown3-m6z.bsky.social Writer's Therapy
https://www.facebook.com/john.brown.649528?mibextid=ZbWKwL
https://online.fliphtml5.com/ojwdf/kvoa/
https://heyzine.com/flip-book/2909bdf4a8.html
https://heyzine.com/flip-book/2909bdf4a8.html
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Mary Ostler @littlesthobo.bsky.social Baba Yagas on-call plumber
Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social Stand-up philosopher, scribe, bongo drummer and professional time-traveller. (Once dated Anne Boleyn)
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: http://bit.ly/3K6WdB9
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2992620/
Jason Friesen @jfries47.bsky.social Addicted to coffee, but in a good way | 📚| 🐈 | climate change | NHLJets, Blue Bombers | Mennonite | He/him
Blair N Williamson, Children's Author @theislandwriter.bsky.social Award-winning #kidlit author / Ocean Activist / Retired Scuba Instructor and Boat Captain bringing a unique voice from the ocean. Rep'd by Andie Smith and CMA Lit
School Library Journal @slj.com School Library Journal is the premiere publication for librarians and information specialists who work with children and teens. A source of quality, award-winning journalism and reviews for 70 years, SLJ publishes 5,000+ reviews annually.
Ariel Gordon @ariel-gordon.bsky.social Winnipeg/Treaty 1-based writer, editor & enthusiast. Recently - Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest w/W&W. Now - Blood Letters w/GPP. WiR at Winnipeg Public Library.
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
Mikki - KidLit Author @mikkidefever.bsky.social Picture Book Author
SNUG AS A MOSQUITO IN A BURRITO (Beaming Books '28)
HOT CHOCOLATE IN YOUR POCKET (Groundwood Books '28)
Rep'd by Katie Erickson at Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency. #kidlit
Patty Wiens @pattybikes.com Brazilian Queen of the North. Bicycle Mayor of Winnipeg.
Rhea Tregebov 🇨🇦 @rheatregebov.bsky.social Poet, novelist, children's picture book author. Associate Professor Emerita UBC School of Creative Writing. Canadian. www.rheatregebov.ca 🇨🇦
Layne Johnson | Children’s Author - Is Querying @laynejohnsonkidlit.bsky.social Layne Johnson is a picture book writer/aspiring illustrator. #SCBWI. Humor and Heart|STEAM and SEL|ADHD #amquerying
Website: https://laynejohnsonkidsbooks.com/
Dolo Okecki @dolokecki.bsky.social Childrens-MG comic artist & illustrator. Rep'd by @astound_us
www.dolokecki.com
Ilustradora y comiquera. Autora de "Te trajimos un amigo, Mishu".
Eng-Spa 🇦🇷
❌️🤖✨️💩
Children's Book Insider, the Children's Writing Monthly @writeforkids.bsky.social Since 1990, we've helped thousands of writers learn the path to success as an author of books for children and teens. More info: https://writeforkids.online
Sally Ito @sallyito.bsky.social Writer, translator, teacher, mudlark.
Living Prairie Museum @livingprairie.bsky.social Living Prairie Museum is a unique urban nature preserve that protects endangered tall grass prairie in Winnipeg MB. The site has walking trails and an interpretive centre. Events and education programs are held year-round. www.winnipeg.ca/livingprairie 
Morgen Jahnke @morgenjahnke.bsky.social Writer, autistic mama, Saskatoon moon watcher. Nerd for nature, poetry, politics. Poetry: Grain, Prairie Fire
Ann E. Burg @aeburg.bsky.social Writer/reader/worrier with two grown-kids, a curly-topped grandson and scaredy-cat dog 🐾Hoping to do my part to preserve democracy.
Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Alien Buddha Press has been publishing emerging writers and artists since 2017. Open for submissions at abuddhapress@yahoo.com
Jacqueline Dumas @jacquidumas.bsky.social Nova Scotia writer living with gratitude & reverence in Mi’kma’ki. Last novel, The Heart Begins Here. Lover of books, lakes, the ocean, trees, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, Octavia Butler, Nicole Brossard, Nicola Griffith and Alison Bechdel.
she/her
Angela Antonelli @skybrary.bsky.social #Librarian, K-4 | #Kidlit Writer | #SCBWI | #12x12 | #CTCASL Board Member | #STEM
Sarah @sarahfloyd.bsky.social Writer, mom, dog lover, dreamer 🦋
MG novels: BUTTERFLY GIRL and SURVIVOR MOUNTAIN (Wild Ink Publishing, 2025)
PB: TEN CLEVER NINJAS (Clear Fork Publishing, 2019)
Stacey Ervin - Indie Author @saervinstories.bsky.social Author of The Warden series, coming 2026.
Supporting other #authors.
Grace Wynne-Jones @gracewynne-jones.bsky.social As an article said, my novels are often about ‘older women looking for fulfilment and, yes love, in a complicated world’. Big fan of animals, and doodles.
Dr Karen Jane Cannon @karenjanecannon.bsky.social Poet//Author//PhD (Ecopoetics of Place/Body) Novel: Powder Monkey (W&N & Phoenix). Poetry: The Curfew Bell & Emergency Mints. Hamish Canham Prize 2022. Bridport shortlist 2019 & 2024. New Forest Dweller. #poetry #place #nature www.karenJaneCannon.com
Wonderful Travels @wonderfultravels.bsky.social I love posting travel adventures. I will try to post regularly. Hope you enjoy my page. Thank you for your support. See you in the comments.
Heather M.O'Connor @heathermoconnor.bsky.social Canadian kid-lit author of FRIENDS FIND A WAY, RUNS WITH THE STARS, FAST FRIENDS and BETTING GAME. Lover of books, libraries, and shiny objects. I love doing school and library visits!
heathermoconnor.com
Cale Atkinson @caleatkinson.bsky.social Word Writer - Picture Maker
Represented by LK Literary
📚 Simon and Chester Series • Where Oliver Fits • To the Sea • Explorers of the Wild • Sir Simon Super Scarer • Off & Away • Unicorns 101 • Maxwell the Monkey Barber
🔅 www.cale.ca
Rebecca Upjohn @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social Kidlit author 📚, picture taker 📷, knitter 🧶, woods wanderer 🌳🚶♀️, tree hugger 🌲, dreamer 🌌
www.rebeccaupjohn.com
🇨🇦 + 🇺🇲 #CANSCAIP, #TWUC, #SCBWI, #12x12pb
Every Child Matters
Kate Blair @kateblair.bsky.social Award-winning British-Canadian YA author of WE BURY NOTHING, A MIST OF MEMORIES, TRANSFERRAL, TANGLED PLANET & THE MAGPIE’S LIBRARY (MG), out with DCB/Cormorant. https://www.cormorantbooks.com/Books/W/We-Bury-Nothing
She/her
Jean Mills @jeanmillswriter.bsky.social 🇨🇦 YA MG Author. Skating Over Thin Ice ~ Larkin on the Shore ~ The Legend ~ Bliss Adair and the First Rule of Knitting ~ Wingman ~ After the Wallpaper Music ~ 🥌 🎵 🫖 #LeafsForever 
Adrienne Kress @adriennekress.bsky.social Toronto Author/Actor/Filmmaker striving for sensational wonderfulness. She/her.
MG/YA author - THE EXPLORERS & #BENDY books! #FNAF: RETURN TO THE PIT 📚
GHOST CIRCUS, middle grade graphic novel, out now!
https://linktr.ee/adriennekress
@mahtabnarsimhan.bsky.social @mahtabnarsimhan.bsky.social Writes books for young, curious minds.
Repped by Naomi Davis, Bookends Literary
The Ghost Queen is a JLG Selection : 11 Feb, 2025
https://www.mahtabnarsimhan.com/
Loretta Garbutt www.booksbyloretta.com @lorettagarbutt.bsky.social Kid Author
2020 - Stopwatch From Grampa-KCP
2021 - JJ SLEPT - KCP
2023 - JEFFREY LOVES BLUE-Owl
2024 - Wake Up, Little Pin!-Owl
2025 - DIAPER KID-Owl
2027 - In Baba's Tiny Kitchen-Owl
2027 - Where I Belong -Tundra
Voice Animation
Sailor Moon, Max & Ruby
Gillian Chan @gilliancha.bsky.social Writer, lover of all things Norse, baker, science fiction/fantasy aficionado, English by birth, Canadian by choice
Still working on the great, big Norse novel
Eric Fan @ericfan.bsky.social Picture book artist and author. One part of the Fan Brothers. Repped by Kirsten Hall at Catbird Agency.
https://www.thefanbrothers.com
Stephanie Buosi @stephaniebuosi.com Canadian #freelance illustrator. Earth advocate, tree-hugger, turtle protector, mother of cat, mother of little human.
Website/Portfolio: www.stephaniebuosi.com
jan dolby @jandolby.bsky.social Children’s Illustrator made in Newfoundland based in Toronto, Canada.
jandolby.com
https://linktr.ee/jandolby
Rep'd by @pageturnerlit.bsky.social
Patricia Storms @stormsy.bsky.social Picture book author/illustrator, painter, ukulele-player, nature-loving artsy gal • Newest book: If I Could Draw... by DC Canada Educational Publishing
Seeking commissions
https://patriciastorms.com
Kevin Sylvester @kevinarts.bsky.social Illustrator, author and broadcaster
Apartment 713 out now!
Night of the Living Zed out now!
Puffin and Penguin out now!
Two more Hockey Super 6 books out now!!!
Check out my site kevinsylvesterbooks.com
KarenJameson15.bsky.social @karenjameson15.bsky.social Children’s author of lyrical/STEM picture books - WOODLAND DREAMS & more. WHO NESTS HERE? & THE SECRETS of the JELLIES. Repped by K. Rushall of ABLA.
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social Canadian author of magical middle grade books. Probably in the garden.
On social media break; return date unknown. Books news on author site.
books2read.com/NPTwrites | shop.nptwrites.com | nptwrites.com/links
(Also: @CanadaFictionFest.bsky.social)
Nicole Anne. @nicolewalker.bsky.social Illustrations, Writing, Comics
Used to be a lot of things
BC, 🇨🇦
“Talk less smile more - Never!” Actually I have Feeds; I can give you less or more
Shares neurodivergence, Aphantasia & Life so far (Ideas -WIP, OC) NO AI
nicole@westcoastfloraandfauna.ca
Carol Matas @carolmatas.bsky.social 48 books, mostly novels for #MG or #YA. #Holocaust, #Historical #Fantasy #Paranormal #PB
#SCBWI #CANSCAIP #TWUC #PEN #KIDLIT
https://carolmatas.com
Nadia L. Hohn @nadialhohn.bsky.social Author and educator
🇯🇲🇨🇦 Crafting fresh stories inspired by history, culture, & now. Order #MCQ @Groundwoodbooks & #TheAntiracistKitchen @orcabook. Rep’d by @hilary_mcmahon.
linktr.ee/nadialhohn
Cheryl Rainfield @cherylrainfield.bsky.social I write the books I needed & couldn't find. Award-winning YA author of SCARS, STAINED, HUNTED, VISIONS. Cult torture survivor, neurodivergent, mental health. Repped by Jennifer Wills. They/them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇨🇦 https://beacons.ai/cherylrainfield
Lee Edward Födi 🇨🇦 kidlit author @leefodi.bsky.social
Kidlit author who teaches creative writing
+
🧳 Traveler
🐉 Maker of dragon eggs
❤️ Dad
he/him
🧹 Spell Sweeper & more
Rep'd by Rachel Letofsky
https://linktr.ee/leefodi
@canscaip.bsky.social
The Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illust & Performers. @canscaip.bsky.social The Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP) is a national arts service organization dedicated to supporting the creation of Canadian literature and performance for young audiences. https://canscaip.org/
Street Noise Books @streetnoisebooks.bsky.social Unapologetic, authentic, and politically relevant books, especially graphic novels and comics.
Posts from Liz Frances, Publisher + Founder. She/her
Author Suzy Davies Award-Winning Children's Books and YA LitFic @birdwriterwrites.bsky.social Cheese lover, animal/nature admirer, movie & anime lover, loves music. I love writing children's and ya books. Children's lyricist and composer. Children's Musicals.
NO CHAT UNLESS I KNOW YOU
BULLIES OUT
IF YOU COPY MY LINKS BOOK HASHTAGS please.
SaskBooks @skbooks.com Provincial creative industry association for book publishers in Saskatchewan. Find us at https://www.skbooks.com and Read Saskatchewan!