Sofi P. @sofip.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Tired.
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/radium-girl?fbclid=IwY2xjawHiwnxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHXygvf1GdC9XqrKQH8rOKqVfgiOcUaR66kk5FwRFULvR9lhGs8HOjNiXjQ_aem_mLm1_goqGeZiFk125HZGNw
Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Toronto. Bloodborne infections, Lyme disease, misinfo. COVID-19 Resources Canada. Defend journalism. Look for the helpers. Opinions mine. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
https://covid19resources.ca
Sierra Skye Gemma @sierraskyegemma.bsky.social 🌈 Queer 🪩 AuDHD 💻 Writer 😈 Ethical Hater
paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social A human. Curator. Writer. Photographer. Researcher.
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
Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, capitalism, and schooling in Canada. Confronting residential school denialism. Books: When the Pine Needles Fall; Lessons in Legitimacy; Dissenting Traditions. www.seancarleton.com
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich @alexmlwrites.bsky.social THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder & A Memoir / US Artists & NEA (RIP) fellow / work in Best Amer Essays, NYTimes, Harper’s, etc / next up: a 🏳️⚧️ work of haunted 👻 nonfiction, BOTH & NEITHER, forthcoming from Doubleday & internationally
Theresa Therrien 🇨🇦 @tdtherrien.bsky.social Shouty writer. Half deaf.
These two things may be related.
SAINT JOAN BLACKHEART Spring 2027 Sourcebooks Fire
Rep’d by Rachel Letofsky
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com A reader-supported online film journal, offering a different lens on movies.
issues/essays: brightwalldarkroom.com
podcast: @bwdrpod.bsky.social
all the things: https://linktr.ee/brightwalldarkroom
The Script Reader @thescriptreader.bsky.social I've been a professional Script Reader for over a decade. Most amateur screenplays are really bad. I'm going to help change that. (No direct messages. Bluesky Age Verification can F-off) www.scriptreaderscheatsheet.com
Resistance Knitters 🧶💙🌊📎🕊️🗽📚🫖☕️📖🐈💍 @resistanceknitters.bsky.social Knitting🧶for Peace Inside & in Resistance☮️
***Update I'm Pausing News till the next Administration, I've had enough. Here's Hoping for Change***
Happily Married💍42 yrs
Joy in Landscape photography
Bookworm 📚
#knitting
Blog:
Lovelyyarnescapes.blogspot.com
Ann Brauer @annies330.bsky.social Making my original contemporary art quilts is my passion and my sanity as I try to piece together imaginary landscapes of time and space. www.etsy.com/shop/annbrauer
Pam Brisse @pamdorra.bsky.social Artist, quilter, crazy cat (and dog) lady. GenX mom to GenZ kid. Team Democracy. In my rage era. Pacific NW.
Hazel Ann @hazelann1.bsky.social Fellow quilters, have you found #quiltsky?
Disabled Veteran, Quilter, Alto & Tenor, retired ACSM RCEP, Clinical Exercise Physiologist, former runner, wife, mother, Bubby, Beginagainer.
KD3DEE
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
MW @emdubbleu.bsky.social Two-time Trillium award finalist for poetry. Books: “these are not the potatoes of my youth” in 2019 and “terrarium” in 2024.
mole trapped in human body. writing, reading, doodles.
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Electric Literature @electricliterature.com Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive
electricliterature.com
Stephen Rodrick @stephenrodrick.bsky.social Rolling Stone/Senior Writer
It's impossible to see
Who I'm waiting for in my raincoat
--Julia Holter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2JgMniIpRM&list=RDX2JgMniIpRM&start_radio=1
Kim Bolan @kimbolan.bsky.social Award-winning Canadian journalist at the Vancouver Sun/Postmedia covering organized crime. Canucks fan since 1970 (sigh) kbolan@postmedia.com 604-219-5740 WhatsApp/Signal
Peggy Thompson @pegthomp.bsky.social Screenwriter, story editor, producer.
@taragereaux.bsky.social @taragereaux.bsky.social 
Chelsea G. Summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social I like to write about terrible men, horrible things, and unlikeable women. Somehow my book is a bestseller. Repped by Kent D. Wolf at Neon Literary.
@whitneyfrench.bsky.social @whitneyfrench.bsky.social 
Images By Jon Evan @imagesbyjonevan.bsky.social I was a dentist until #MS affected my hands & mobility. Now I create photographs capturing the imagery of nature’s beauty and serenity in stunning prints.
websites:
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/imagesbyjonevan
https://www.pictorem.com/gallery/Ima
Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social Senior Editor at The Tyee. Journalism craftsman. Reporter. Lives in Lillooet.
tolsen [at] thetyee [dot] [ca]
Julie Reuben @juliereuben.bsky.social Quilts and other textile art
You may know me on IG as b_plus_q
Quebec Writers' Federation @officialqwf.bsky.social Supporting, connecting, and inspiring Quebec writers
Jamella Hagen @jamellahagen.bsky.social Writer, mother, hiker. Author of Kerosene (Nightwood, 2011), and a forthcoming book from Gaspereau Press in 2026. Short pieces in The Globe and Mail, Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. I live in Whitehorse and teach at Yukon University.
Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition hosted by the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Tanya Lloyd Kyi @tanyakyi.bsky.social Children’s writer and lecturer for UBC Creative Writing. Most recently: THE CITY OF LOST CATS.
Rebecca Morris @bexmorris.bsky.social Writer, editor & teacher in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal ✍️ Author of OTHER MAPS (@llpmtl 2024) 📖 Currently obsessed with trees 🌳
https://linktr.ee/rebeccamorriswriter
brandy ryan @brandyryan.bsky.social poet. avid pedestrian. collage artist. following the path of tiny cuts and misplaced adhesive.
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
Tania De Rozario @taniaderozario.bsky.social Artist | Writer | Horror-nerd | Queer | DINNER ON MONSTER ISLAND: ESSAYS out with Harper Perennial (Harper Collins) | Repped by Amanda Orozco, Transatlantic | she/her | https://linktr.ee/TaniaDeRozario
Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Shortlisted by @bridportprize.bsky.social Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood
Jai Michelle Louissen @jaimichellepoet.bsky.social Scottish poet living in The Netherlands. Poetry Scotland, Dust Poetry, Acropolis, Crow and Cross Keys. Second chapbook ‘THE WEIGHT OF VAPOUR’ by Alien Buddha Press EIC of The Winged Moon 
Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social Poet, gardener. Series editor, The Hilary Tham Capital Collection (The Word Works). My books include Motion Studies, Butcher's Sugar, Parasite Kingdom, and Turned Earth (Spring 2025, LSU Press). 
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
Farmhouse reader @mary-rutter.bsky.social Book addict, homebody, lover of the lake and woods, equal rights for all. 🇨🇦 I acknowledge that I live on the lands of the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee. Attawandaron, and the Mississaugas of the Credit
She/her 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ ally
💙📚
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.
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
Erin Pepler @erinpepler.bsky.social Freelance writer, book nerd, interested and sometimes interesting. Toronto gone suburbs. Author of Send Me Into The Woods Alone: Essays on Motherhood.
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
Jeffrey Ricker (he/him) @jeffreyricker.bsky.social #Queer writer of #YA and spec fic. Expect lots of Star Trek. Failing to meet the demands of capitalism since 1969. Trans rights or I’ll vaporize you w/a lvl16 phaser. Can I pet your dog? https://jeffrey-ricker.com/links/ and https://ko-fi.com/jeffreyricker
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
Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social Poet, teacher, editor. Author of Siren (Signal Editions, Vehicule Press, 2017) and Reporting from Night (Iguana, 2011).
Jennifer Jack @jsq-rd.bsky.social Teacher-librarian, book lover, grateful transplant recipient. Values and promotes diverse and own voices in books, art, and media. Always learning.
Jordan Marjorie @jamteezy.bsky.social writer, former journo. Probably sitting next to the river.
Other account:
@jamteezy42.bsky.social
#Tkemlups
I blog -->
https://jordanmarjorie.substack.com/
Into natural disasters, poems, and infrastructure.
Shelagh Rowan-Legg @shelaghrowanlegg.northsky.social Poet | Writer | Filmmaker | Scholar |
Editor, @screenanarchy.bsky.social |
OFCS, AQCC, Fipresci | Tiohtià:ke/Montréal |
Letterboxd, https://boxd.it/6L6X |
she/they
https://shelaghrowanlegg.com/
Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social Into words, sentences, genres.
#writingstudies #teamrhetoric #cdnwrds #genai+writing
https://katjat.medium.com/
♎️Lah🐈⬛NEE🔮ka🔪 @lancake.bsky.social wear a fking mask 😷💕
Karen Massey @karenemassey.bsky.social Poet & artisan. Lives in Ottawa, Canada on unceded Algonquin Anishinabe territory.
3 chapbooks from above/ground press Ottawa
2020 ARC Diana Brebner Award winner
2024 Finalist MIPP; Longlist 3-Day Novel Contest
karenmassey.wordpress.com
Maria Dobrinskaya @mdobrinskaya.bsky.social Politics and books. Cooperative overlapper. Hopeful collapsnik. She/her.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli #vanpoli
Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social Writer and editor. "Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist" now available-see http://melt-down.ca Bylines in LARB, Science, Nature, Orion, Longreads, Terrain.org, and others. snowhydro1 (at) gmail (dot) com https://linktr.ee/snowhydro
Jennifer Heighton @jheighton3.bsky.social Passionate BC teacher, activist. #COVIDisAirborne so ventilate, filtrate, mask up! Physics major. Co-Founder @Protect_BC @SafeSchoolsBC
Mastadon: @jheighton3@zeroes.ca
Twitter (X): @jheighton3
Always aware that I live on unceded Coast Salish territory. 
Sonal Champsee @sonalchampsee.bsky.social Writer, procrastinator, fake therapist
Writer Therapy, the newsletter: http://sonalchampsee.substack.com
Real Vancouver Writers' Series @realvancouver.bsky.social Literary reading series and writing school hosted on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations.
Supporting writers by any means necessary.
Curated. Inclusive. Independent.
Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social Author of Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness (Guernica 2024) A Place for People Like Us (Guernica 2025)
Vidal, At Bay Press, 2026
For All the Men... reissue (Guernica 2028)
Fiction and art enthusiast. Humber School for Writers faculty.
Marcello Di Cintio @marcellodicintio.bsky.social I am a journalist and author of six books, including Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers, Driven: The Secret Life of Taxi Drivers, and Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense.🍉🇵🇸
Lorri Neilsen Glenn 🇨🇦 @lorri.bsky.social writer (poetry/essays), editor, instructor, researcher, prof emerita, ex-poet laureate, RRMetis #womannotlady #NovaScotia #Ukings #MSVU #CanadaStrong 🇨🇦
—-NO DMs please. NO DMs. None—-
Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social Stubbornly sesquipedalian, just not at work
B.C. politics reporter with The Narwhal
She/her
Recent work: https://thenarwhal.ca/author/shannon-waters/
🏳️🌈 🐈⬛ 📚 🌊 🌱
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
Michelle Willms @michellewillms.bsky.social NORTHERN GIRLS: TRUE STORIES (Baraka Books). 2026 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Mother bear.
Northern Girls: www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/
TSR Review: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/northern-girls-true-stories-by-michelle-willms
Susan Mockler @susanmockler.bsky.social she/her
Writer
Disabled
Author of Fractured 
Ann Douglas @anndouglas.bsky.social Author of 26 non-fiction books, including NAVIGATING THE MESSY MIDDLE (a book about midlife). Trying to teach myself how to write my first novel. Passionate about democracy and social justice. http://anndouglas.ca
Palimpsest Press @palimpsestpress.bsky.social Small independent publisher 📍Windsor ON CAN
Beautiful Poetry | Fresh, Innovative Literature
Miss Havisham @misshavisham.bsky.social May be pretending to be an agoraphobic Victorian literary trope. Intrigued and slightly irascible. Pandemic-ing at the disco.
Brenda Schmidt @brendaschmidtpoet.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Prairie writer. Birder. Gardener.
Emma Kinsley @kinsleywrites.bsky.social Writer, editor, proofreader, and book nerd.
Specializing in romance, fantasy, speculative fiction, and more.
She/her. DMs currently closed. Watch this space!
Naomi MacKinnon @consumedbyink.bsky.social Reader, blogger, CanLit enthusiast
Erin Bowlen @erinbowlen.bsky.social Bestselling author of the Aoife O'Reilly series.
Women's Fiction and Romance writer.
MA in Classics.
Canadian. She/Her.
Books 📚 : erinbowlen.com
https://linktr.ee/admin
K. A. Riley @karileywrites.bsky.social Author of YA and NA Dystopian and Fantasy novels, vendor of souls, unhinged introvert, eternal smartass
Sydney Hegele @sydhegele.bsky.social Author of The Pump (2021) Bird Suit (2024) Bad Kids (2026) @invisibooks.bsky.social
Another Story Bookshop @anotherstoryto.bsky.social Indie bookstore in Tkatoronto. Radically supporting 2SQTBIPOC writers since 1987
#ownvoices kidlit and YA experts/ founder: Sheila Koffman
315 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto, Ontario M6R 2M6
hosting events throughout GTA
anotherstory.ca
Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social Poet, writer, maker of things. Seventeen collections of poetry and prose. Born and raised Vancouverite now living in Edmonton. ANTI-artificial thievery. Editor, reviewer, teacher of poetic forms. Loves: books, cats, gardening, family, real life. #canlit
Rob Budde @rbudde7.bsky.social He/him/hey buddy. Poet, novelist, UNBC creative writing prof, plant person, feminist, anti-fascist. Profoundly befuddled. Gratefully living on Lheidli T’enneh territory.
Lisa Richter (she/her) @lisarichter.bsky.social Poet, writer, educator, coffee addict
Sublunary @ualbertapress in Spring 2026
https://lnk.bio/lisarpoet
emily vance @emilyvance.bsky.social ✍️ Writer, working in tourism in remote corners of British Columbia
🌸 "What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" -Mary Oliver
✨ authory.com/EmilyVance
Sara Graefe @saragraefe.bsky.social She/they. Writer, script doctor, pug person. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
Brent van Staalduinen | Writer, Resister, Human. @brentvans.com Canadian. Award-winning novelist. Husband. Dad. Son. Resister of GenAI and fascism. Deconstructed/Reconstructing Christian. Forge FC supporter. Human. He/Him.
Dr. Kelly S. Thompson 📚📖🖌️ @kellysthompson.bsky.social Kellysthompson.com
Author of #memoirs STILL, I CANNOT SAVE YOU (2023) & GIRLS NEED NOT APPLY (2019). Instructor at King’s U nonfiction MFA. Canadian Forces Veteran. Bull terrier mom. Dreamer. Ally & safe space She/Her
Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social Journo @ CBC Investigates.
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.
Aimee @aimee-ouellette.bsky.social 
Rhea Tregebov 🇨🇦 @rheatregebov.bsky.social Poet, novelist, children's picture book author. Associate Professor Emerita UBC School of Creative Writing. Canadian. www.rheatregebov.ca 🇨🇦
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.
ACQL-ALCQ @acql-alcq.bsky.social Association des littératures du Canada et du Québec
Association for Canada's and Quebec's literatures
https://alcq-acql.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/acql.alcq
Rebecca Wood Barrett @rwoodbarrett.bsky.social (she/her) author | #MGFiction | pre-order now! ~ My Summer Camp Has Mega Sloths (May 2025 Orca) http://orcabook.com | My Best Friend is Extinct (Orca) | artistic director Whistler Writers Fest | MFA UBC | T1D
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
Libre @librelit.bsky.social A southern literature & arts mag bent on brain pain, taking the narrative back, jiggling it open, extracting the oyster from its background of compressed pain to reexamine what it means to scavenge for agency in liminal states of illness.
Librelit.com
Alex Lopez @alexlopezwrites.bsky.social Comedian, Writer, Actor, Big Booty Latina 🎤🗓️
Frances Peck @franceslpeck.bsky.social New to the sky | Editor turned novelist | THE BROKEN PLACES, a Globe & Mail best book 2022, and UNCONTROLLED FLIGHT (NeWest Press) | East coaster gone west | francespeck.com
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.
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
Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social ❖ #ForgottenPoets & #ForgottenPrints ❖ Pre-1930s poetry & art ❖ Edited by Dick Whyte #dwpoems ❖ https://forgottenpoets.substack.com
❖ Poetry New Zealand ❖
#PoetryAotearoa
❖ Forgotten Press ❖
https://linktr.ee/forgottenpoets
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