Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social a devotee of essays, novellas, hybrid writing, rivers, trees. 17 books. The Art of Looking Back: a painter, an obsession, and reclaiming the gaze, forthcoming (Thornapple Press, 2026). North American half of fishgottaswimeditions.com
theresakishkan.com
Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social The Least Important Man (poems), Army of the Brave and Accidental (a novel), Take This for the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life.
https://boydwords.wordpress.com
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social ๐จ๐ฆ Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writersโ Hour, MacQueenโs Quinterly, and elsewhere.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
Claire Delune ๐ฆ @clairedelune.bsky.social Queer author of speculative fiction whose work has been featured in various outlets including HuffPost. Has a freakish depth of knowledge about animals and a worrying fixation on unicorns. Resides in Washington, where this sort of thing is encouraged. ๐ฆ
Channel Press @channelpress.bsky.social Words that connect ๐ Ireland's home for writing on ecological entanglement, funded by the Arts Council.
Apollo Papyrus @apollopapyrus.bsky.social A podcast and YouTube channel about books, writing, and literature hosted by @campaaronapollo.bsky.social!
priyaramsingh.bsky.social @priyaramsingh.bsky.social Canadian writer and photographer. Believer of karma. Progressive. You can call me woke if you like. www.priyaramsingh.ca
San Alland (they/San) @san-alland.bsky.social Writer, artist, performer, curator. Latest story in beestung. Nominated Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions. www.blissfultimes.ca
No DMs; locked out.
(Photo: me masked; white person, short hair, smiling. Banner: Free Falasteen sign on a bookshelf)
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
booksbyjeffrey @booksbyjeffrey.bsky.social ๐จ๐ฆ Canadian writer in #hamont
THE MANDALA (spec thriller)
VERTEBRAE: dark sci-fi comedy (in progress)
Querying for debut โข #booksky
D&D teacher on Outschool
1300+ day Japanese streak
Read along:
https://booksbyjeffrey.substack.com
Rose Mynks @rosemynks.bsky.social Alabama-based queer fiction writer. Here for bookish community, Southern Gothic, drag, craft, queer Southern mess, dark humor, and a good spooky story. She/her
MICHAEL CHANG POET @officialmchangpoet.bsky.social Final Boss // http://linktree.com/mchang // https://cheeks.bigcartel.com
Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social writer/poet/educator
https://substack.com/@seanjbates
https://linktr.ee/seanbateswrites
poems in:
Paddler Press
Emerge Literary Journal
Stone Canoe
Rising Phoenix Review
"What Saves Us"anthology ed. Martรญn Espada https://tinyurl.com/44yksnmp
Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social Ly Faulk (they/she) is a queer writer, artist, and an all-around weirdo. They are the author of Hippie Speedball and Sick Sad Queer. Learn more about their writing at lyfaulk.com.
CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social Celebrating 50 years of poetry in 2025 โจ
https://linktr.ee/cv2magazine
Cinnamon & Smoke - S.E.L.F. ๐ @s-e-l-f.bsky.social Indie Author, Cinnamon & Smoke
Grey/Aro ~ Queer ~ She/her
Spicy-Lite | Urban Fantasy | Monster Romance
Book One: Limbo - Out Now! ๐๐โจโ๏ธ
books2read.com/TenHellsPublishing
I write about demons, desire, and survivors.
No AI | F#ยขk fascism | 18+ Only Please!
Becki Ledford Richard @beckiwrites.substack.com Writer, editor, mom.
Queer, Appalachian, witch.
Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social poet โข advocate โข silly person
spaceghost @spaceghost.boo Poet. Gamer. Wrestling fan.
Kath Healing @kathhealing.bsky.social queer, trans, disabled, multiple
poet & writer
what survives the paperwork
http://kathhealing.com
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.
Wendy Waring @wendywaring.bsky.social writer, editor, prof, traductrice
Queer ecofiction novel forthcoming @Stelliform.press: The Hunger of Those Who Built It
๐น grew up in the Hammer, raising rabble world-wide ๐น
she | they | dr ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ซ๐ท
Queen's | UofT | ISTI | Clarion
Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social A small press in Lexington, KY that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic & literary fiction. A free story each week! We pay authors.
brownhoundpress.com
Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social Dark fantasy, bleak science fiction, unsettling horror, and Weird genre grime.
Currently closed to submissions.
Gaspereau Press @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ยถ One of Canadaโs most innovative and tenacious literary publishers
ยถ http://linktr.ee/gaspereaupress
Amplifying Trans Joy @amplifytransjoy.bsky.social A movement for healing trans nervous systems + infusing inboxes with joy!
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Dr Jamie Paris @jamieparis.bsky.social Instructor II at the University of Manitoba. I work on premodern race studies and early modern drama, critical pedagogy studies, and Black and Indigenous literature written in Canada
leandra @blockthisoverhead.bsky.social t4t butch lesbian & cultural worker. 1v1 me or organize with me (ask me about national democracy in the philippines and/or youth harm reduction in toronto!) https://lea-gb.carrd.co
she/her, 32 ๐
The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing @theampersandreview.bsky.social 
Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social Writer, reader, punk | MFA UBC | He/him
Novel: Temporary Palaces (House of Anansi, out now!) Non-fiction: Ghost Pine: All Stories True (Invisible)
The Malahat Review @malahatreview.bsky.social Canadian literary journal established in 1967 publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from emerging and established writers.
Bogi Takรกcs / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social Writer, editor, critic, scholar. Lambda + Hugo winner. Hungarian / Jewish / agender / neuroatypical. E/em/eir/emself or they. ืืืืืื. Intersex. 100% migrรกncs in Lawrence, Kansas. Metroidbrainia enjoyer. Opinions my own & do not represent anyone else
The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social The Fiddlehead is Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal.
Celebrating 80 years of literary foraging in 2025!
https://thefiddlehead.ca
Carrie Lee Connel @ccgwriter.bsky.social Canadian Poet and Fiction Writer
One-half of The Lovebird Poets.
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I follow writers and cats.
David Romanda @romandapoetry.bsky.social Author of three books, including โYour Lover Stabbed in the Streetsโ (Frontenac House, 2025). https://www.romandapoetry.com
Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social Author, artist, poet, & Indigiqueer swamp hag. Grew up on the land & off the grid. Writing in The Deadlands, Augur, Nightmare, Malahat Review, Fiddlehead, etc. Aurora finalist, optimistic nihilist & possible witch. No GenAI
shanmonster.dreamwidth.org
Nadja Pelkey @telextelex.bsky.social Artist, mostly.
Moving platforms from ig @_n_pelkey_
VERSe Ottawa / VERSeFest (prior account lost, @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social Ottawa's International Festival of Poetry / le festival international de poรฉsie dโOttawa / administrator of the City of Ottawa's Poet Laureate Program / lโadministration du Programme des poรจtes laurรฉats dโOttawa / https://www.verseottawa.ca/
Edmonton Poetry Festival @edmpoetryfestival.bsky.social Edmonton's month-long poetry celebration every April!
#yeg #AB #poetry
Website: https://edmontonpoetryfestival.com
Newsletter: https://edmontonpoetryfestival.com/the-magpie/
Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social Writer, teacher, workshop leader.
Hand holder
Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others.
Pushcart nominee.
www.bethkanter.com
Books: No Access DC & Great Food Finds DCโฆ
Emily Bednarz @emilybednarz.bsky.social Writer, editor, and graphic / web designer based in Kjipuktuk / Halifax.
Currently managing Business Voice magazine for the Halifax Chamber of Commerce. Former Managing Editor of The New Quarterly. Former jaded academic.
All views are my own.
kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social literary home of the trans, queer, Crip, and sick
kithbooks.com
ONE ART: a journal of poetry @oneart.bsky.social ONE ART: a journal of poetry
(write it!)
>> oneartpoetry.com
~ EiC: Mark Danowsky
>> @markdanowsky.bsky.social
~ Consulting Editor: Louisa Schnaithmann
>> @eboninthehedges.bsky.social
~ Haiku Editor: Katie Dozier
>> @katiedozier.bsky.social
๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ~ BLM ~ ๐๐
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/
Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Historian of global feminism & believer in ๐๐ ๐ฆญ๐๐๐โโ๏ธ ๐น ๐
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
Sheri Benning @sheribenning.bsky.social Writer | forthcoming Civil Twilight (Carcanet); Field Requiem (Carcanet); The Season's Vagrant Light: New & Selected (Carcanet); et al. | Poems in The Paris Review, The TLS, PN Review, Poetry Review, Brick, et al.
https://www.sheribenning.com/
Natalie Rice @nataliericepoetry.bsky.social "Nightjar" Gaspereau Press, 2025
"Scorch" Gaspereau Press, 2023
natalierice.ca
T.E. Bean @tebean.bsky.social lit-sci-fi novel โพ๏ธ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ โพ๏ธ arriving Nov 2026 from Black Spring Press (UK) + via Simon & Schuster (US/Can) rep: Katharine Sands
โ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฟ (Beacon Press) Autumn 2027 https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/T-E-Bean/269958332
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
Ryanne Kap @ryannekap.bsky.social writer & PhD candidate at the University of Calgary | editor in chief @ex-puritan.bsky.social
jerome๐ช *screams in Indigenous* ๐ต๐ธ @finalqueer.bsky.social Tohono O'odham+Choctaw+๐ฒ๐ฝ โขartistโขstorytellerโขnightmare (he/him/his) the horrors persisted so I became the horrors instead. (eeikuobaj)
#LandBack #FreePalestine #MMIWG2S #FUCKICE
Stelliform Press @stelliform.press Award-winning SFFH & literary books engaging with environmental justice. Now: THE OTHER SHORE, THE WILDCRAFT DRONES. www.stelliform.press.
This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social Progressive politics, ideas & culture.
this.org
x.com/thismagazine
linkedin.com/company/this-magazine/
Psychopomp @psychopomp.com Publisher of otherworldly fiction @ Psychopomp.com
Publisher of death-focused magazine: @TheDeadlands.com
Publisher of @fantasymagazine.bsky.social
Buy our books! https://psychopomp.com/books/
GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social Independent Publisher of Diverse #CanLit: No Borders. No Limits.
www.guernicaeditions.com
Jade ๐ค @mothra-lady.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ She/Her, 30s, Latina, goth larper
Synth musician, unemployed, nsfw mdni
Free Palestine, Fuck ICE, Black Lives Matter, Trans Rights are Human Rights
https://mothralady.bandcamp.com
requests: mothralady(at)proton.me
tipping appreciated: $AnnaliseJade193
melanie brannagan frederiksen @melanie-b-f.bsky.social poet, poetry columnist @winnipegfreepress
๐ 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
Just Wren @crescentsays.bsky.social Figuring out where I fit in. #Blind genderqueer person, late 20s, #Audhd #Student of psychology. Proud Swiftie, baker, reader and Pagan. Always learning.
Nancy Huggett @nancyhuggett.bsky.social Writer, caregiver, crone, that kinda gal. Work @ Event, The New Quarterly, Rust & Moth, American Lit Review, anti-heroin chic, Gone Lawn, Full Mood &&&
Erin Murphy @erinmurphy.bsky.social Poet. Essayist. Editor. Penn State professor. Swimmer. Cat & cava lover. http://www.erin-murphy.com/
Noelle Allen @noelleallen.bsky.social Editor, gardener, lots of opinions.
Moj Mortazavi @mojmrtzvi.bsky.social Filmmaker / Writer / Visual Poet
Capturing what moves me, breaks me, remakes me.
Posting thoughts, films, dreams, and whatever wonโt leave me alone.
๐๏ธ mojmrtzvi.com
โ๏ธ Essays on Substack https://substack.com/@mojmrtzvi?r=22uyqp&utm_medium=ios
Dithering Chaps - submissions open @ditheringchaps.bsky.social I'm David Herring, Lead Editor of indie poetry press, Dithering Chaps, based in Dorset, UK. We publish thematically-linked sequences of poems: works that riff on a core conceit, event or narrative voice. He/him. https://www.ditheringchaps.com
Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social slow-lane poet, insect- & fungi-portraitist Good Omens DT & MS fan, rabid reader & writer in Quebec Canada
www.pearlpirie.com
๐ณ๏ธโ๐ gender costume: she/they Alt image: white person in glasses. long wavy greying hair, wonder woman bracelet
Lorne Daniel @lornedaniel.bsky.social What is Broken Binds Us
new poetry
University of Calgary Press, Sept 2025
https://linktr.ee/lornedaniel
Midnight Sun Magazine @midnightsunmag.bsky.social A magazine of socialist strategy, analysis, and culture. By the midnight sun we make our plans for daybreak.
midnightsunmag.ca
Brockton Writers Series @brocktonwriters.bsky.social A literary series featuring diverse writers. The 2nd Wednesday of every other month, at Glad Day & livestreamed on YouTube. Funded by Toronto Arts Council and Access Copyright.
brocktonwriters.com
Queer Aging BC @queeragingbc.bsky.social Dedicated to affecting systemic change that creates culturally appropriate services for 2SLGBTQIA+ Seniors in British Columbia
www.queeragingbc.ca
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Chiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on top of St. Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet. A poet is Atlantic and lion in one. (Woolf)
Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social Award-winning independent literary press.
Read independently. https://linktr.ee/biblioasis_books
House of Anansi Press @houseofanansi.bsky.social Anansi publishes very good books. ๐
Distributed by Jaguar in Canada and PGW in the U.S.
Visit our website: https://houseofanansi.com/?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=bluesky_profile
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
Alison Lubar @theoriginalison.bsky.social poet & aspiring queer elder & mixed CA transplant ๐น poetry collections w @thirtywestph '22 || Bottlecap '22 || @mouthfeelpress '23 || @stanchion '23 || METAMOURPHOSIS @fifthwheelpress โ24 (they/themme) https://linktr.ee/theoriginalison
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
Chris_MJ @chrismj199.bsky.social commie. ml. anti-imperialist. writer of words. purveyor of radical literature. at the still point of the turning world. from the river to the sea. he/him ๐ฉ๐ต๐ธ
QUEERFM Van 101.9FM @queerfmvan.bsky.social Canada's longest running #2SLGBTQIA+ radio show!๐Hosts @megamouthmedia.bsky.social @djdenise35 ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ TUES & FRI: 8-10am PST | 11am EST | 4pm GMT on 101.9FM #CiTRradio
queerfmreloaded@gmail.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
Kathy Friedman @kathyfriedman.bsky.social Author of ALL THE SHINING PEOPLE (House of Anansi, 2022). Disabled/Jewish/queer as in free Palesine. ๐ http://www.kathyfriedman.com
@thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social 
Amy Lilwall @amylilwall.bsky.social Writer. Novelist. Very bad at social media.
amylilwall.co.uk
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
jade y. liu @jadeyuliu.bsky.social writer, dreamer | she/ๅฅน | articling student โ๏ธ | poems @ jadeyliu.weebly.com | cognitive metaphor enthusiast!
Latitude 46 Publishing @latitude46pub.bsky.social Literary publisher based in Northern Ontario, Canada
Visit our website: https://latitude46publishing.com/
PEN Canada @pencanada.bsky.social We defend free expression, aid writers in peril, and celebrate literature.
pencanada.ca
Villain Era ๐ค๐ช @villaineralit.bsky.social A literary magazine obsessed with revenge. Open for submissions! https://www.villaineralit.com Mastermind: @charlesjensen.bsky.social
Rochelle Ellar @roeshells.bsky.social 
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.
Sarah Kurchak @fodderfigure.bsky.social Author of I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder and Work It Out: A Mood-Boosting Exercise Guide For People Who Just Want To Lie Down. Wrestling and film nerd. Lapsed music fan finding her way back.
Josh Rosen @joshdraws.com Professional cartoonist and illustrator. Comic books and Kid Lit. Account managed by Tapioca the rat terrier
Co-creator of HISTORY COMICS: WORLD WAR II (First Second) and THE GOOD FIGHT (Scholastic)
https://www.joshdraws.com
Polly Beats @pollybeats.bsky.social ยฐ arranger of tones and textures ยฐ
~ composer ~ pianist ~ writer ~
digital photographer ~ gardener ~
โฅ๏ธ lover of nature, architecture, books, bugs, and films โฅ๏ธ
They/them๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
https://linktr.ee/PollyBeats