Joseph Kidney @josephkidney.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Lecturer @Stanford. Bay Area & Vancouver. Early Modern Drama / Renaissance & Reformation / Poetry book DEVOTIONAL FORENSICS (icehouse) March 2025
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Matthew Tierney @mtierney.bsky.social Poetry editor at Coach House Books. Science writer at U of T.
Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
gay opinion haver @racholau.bsky.social just some guy (who cares a lot). they/他/佢
Lisa Richter (she/her) @lisarichter.bsky.social Poet, writer, educator, coffee addict
Sublunary @ualbertapress in Spring 2026
https://lnk.bio/lisarpoet
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.
Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation The Poetry Foundation transforms lives through the power of words. Publisher of POETRY magazine. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
Gary Shteyngart @shteyngart.bsky.social Gary Shteyngart is a book writer.
garyshteyngart.substack.com
http://facebook.com/shteyngart
Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
She//Her
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thelonghand @thelonghand.bsky.social Screenwriter. Poet. Professor.
Books: Eidolon. The Getty Fiend. Middlemost Constantine. Films: Winter in the Blood. Wed the Dark.
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com Since 1768.
The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social “A great contrast to the usual magazine.”
—Virginia Woolf
Join a conversation 200 years in the making.
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Alix Ohlin @alixohlin.bsky.social alixohlinauthor.com
Geist Magazine @geistmag.bsky.social The weird and wonderful from the world of words.
geist.com
phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social poet | phd | umichwriters alum | fiddlehead poetry editor | record collector | author of not even laughter | one-armed bandit | he/him
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Prairie Fire Magazine @prairiefiremag.bsky.social Award-winning Canadian journal of innovative writing that has been publishing exceptional writing for over 45 years. One of Canada’s oldest literary magazines.
Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social librarian and illustrator.
will post later, too sleepy
My shop: https://www.willquinnart.com/shop/prints
Gaspereau Press @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers
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Paul Hlava Ceballos @paulhlava.bsky.social Author of banana [ ], winner of AWP Prize & PSA 1st Book Award. Finalist for Kate Tufts & National Book Critics. Editor Seattle Met, CantoMundista, echocardiographer
The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com North America’s Trusted Source Of News
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Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social Poet, teacher, editor. Author of Siren (Signal Editions, Vehicule Press, 2017) and Reporting from Night (Iguana, 2011).
KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social from the author of POETRY IS QUEER, SHE, + THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF
FAIRY (OUT NOW) @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
palimpsestpress.ca/books/fairy-kirby/
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substack.com/@itsakirby
Publisher @knifeforkbook.bsky.social
Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social #Poetry without pretension since 1995. Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3, and not affiliated with any other organization.
$15,000 for a single poem: rattle.com
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Susan Orlean @susanorlean.bsky.social Pencil pusher
Kirsh (she/her) @kirshwords.bsky.social Writer, bookseller, publishing professional, former young.
A co-host of Wax Poetic on CFRO 100.5.
Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social poet, teacher, sometimes essayist. chapbook, Love That For Us, out now @andchangepoetry.bsky.social. craft book forthcoming @noemipress.bsky.social. two books @boa-editions.bsky.social.
abolish the police & free palestine.
https://www.chenchenwrites.com
Garth Martens @garthmartens.bsky.social Poet. Palmero. Member of Palabra Flamenco. Producer of Dark Sounds. Author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence (Anansi, 2014) and Who Else in the Dark Headed There (Biblioasis, 2026). Pronouns: he / him. 🇵🇸 🌈 🍉
SFU Continuing Studies @cs-sfu.bsky.social Simon Fraser University Continuing Studies has been providing flexible learning options since 1971.
https://www.sfu.ca/continuing-studies.html
Emily Davidson @emilyannedavidson.bsky.social Writer. Chorister. Napper. Here for more writing community.
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/
The American Poetry Review @ampoetryreview.bsky.social Poetry all the time since 1972. We never close. aprweb.org
Natalie Rice @nataliericepoetry.bsky.social "Nightjar" Gaspereau Press, 2025
"Scorch" Gaspereau Press, 2023
natalierice.ca
The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
https://www.theparisreview.org/
https://theparisreview.substack.com/
Ms. Ezra Furman @msezrafurman.bsky.social She writes she sings she pleads for her life.
Government of British Columbia @governmentofbc.bsky.social Official Government of BC Bluesky account.
Moderation policy and collection notice: http://news.gov.bc.ca/23589
Sixth Finch @sixthfinch.bsky.social Online journal of poetry and art
Chapbook publisher
https://sixthfinch.com
Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social Poet & Teaching Artist
University Lecturer
UmichWriters MFA
book: A COMMON NAME FOR EVERYTHING
Montreal & Vermont | writing pedagogy | ferns 🌱
poems forthcoming in Yolk, Bennington Review & Best Canadian Poetry
www.sarahwolfsonwriter.com
Telodendron @telodendron.bsky.social 𝑨𝑵𝑶𝑻𝑯𝑬𝑹 𝑻𝑬𝑳𝑶𝑫𝑬𝑵𝑫𝑹𝑶𝑵 𝑺𝑼𝑪𝑪𝑬𝑺𝑺 𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑹𝒀
starring:
@winterk.bsky.social
@utilitylimb.bsky.social
Nate Nate Nainers @nate-nate-nainers.bsky.social Poet | Storyteller | Performance Artist
Wild Ride Journeyfemme
(They/She)
Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social Canada's Poetry Magazine, founded in 1978. Arc Poetry #109 is available to order now. Subscribe today at arcpoetry.ca!
The Ex-Puritan @ex-puritan.bsky.social Publishing fiction, poetry, essays, interviews and reviews. Proudly awarding The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence.
https://linktr.ee/ex_puritan
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net
Phoebe Wahl @phoebewahl.bsky.social Author, illustrator, surface designer 📚🍄🌷
Qurat Dar @quratdar.bsky.social "Non-Prophet" available now: https://gooselane.com/products/non-prophet
Qurat is pronounced "Qur-rut" with a soft "t."
Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social Award-winning independent literary press.
Read independently. https://linktr.ee/biblioasis_books
Tawahum ⚔️🐦🔥⚡️ @tawahum.bsky.social Poet. Upcoming collection with Nightwood Editions: Stages of Tanning Words and Remembering Spells pt1
Nightwood Editions @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social Innovative literary book publisher based in British Columbia, Canada. https://linktr.ee/nightwoodeditions
clean air 604 @cleanair604.bsky.social Providing air purifiers, masks, and other tools to create safe and accessible spaces in the vancouver arts community and more
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Heather Talbot @htalbot-art.bsky.social #textile #artist based in #Vancouver BC inspired by complex systems in nature
www.heathertalbotfineart.com
Jaeyun Yoo @jaeyunwrites.bsky.social Poet, psychiatrist, psychotherapist. One-fifth of Harbour Centre 5. she/her.
Chapbook: when a country teaches you (Baseline Press, 2026)
https://harbourcentre5.wixsite.com/poetry/
Estlin McPhee @estmcphee.bsky.social Writer, reader, librarian. Poetry book In Your Nature out now with Brick Books. More info on emcphee.com
BC and Yukon Book Prizes @bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social Our mission is to recognize and promote the achievements of the book community in BC and Yukon through the BC and Yukon Book Prizes and related programs. The 10 Prizes are presented annually recognizing authors, illustrators, and publishers.
SEAN ORR @seanorr.bsky.social Vancouver city councillor
Garth Mullins @garthmullins.bsky.social Host @Crackdownpod.bsky.social VANDU veteran. Drugstore cowboy. National bestselling author. Award-winning journalist. Policy analyst. Shop steward. Blind. Be safe-Keep 6
Jaime Forsythe @jaimeforsythe.bsky.social writer & reader
Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social poet | Derelict Bicycles (Anvil Press, 2022) | creative humanities | environmental humanities | she/her
Melanie Siebert @melaniesiebert.bsky.social Poetry, adventure, swimming, planting, rewilding, decolonizing, therapy, heartbroken justice-doing as best one can, movement trying to know movement. She/Her
@arleenpare.bsky.social @arleenpare.bsky.social 
Cross & Crows Books @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social That queerly friendly neighbourhood bookstore in the community of East Van on unceded and occupied MST land. Offering new and used books, small gifts, and Cozy Chairs™ for the queer soul and beloved community since 2023. www.crossandcrows.com 
Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social Bright star! Would I were…
Esa Keltamäki @keltamakiesa.bsky.social 
Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social The Air Contains Honey
Artistic Director of PME-ART
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Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Desire Without Expectation
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
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
49th Shelf @49thshelf.bsky.social Fuelled by the largest collection of Canadian books ever assembled, 49th Shelf makes it easier to find your next great Canadian read. 
Sue Goyette @suegoyette.bsky.social poet
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
Farah 🌿 @farahghafoor.bsky.social poet and author of Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025) 🌿 | she/her | Tkaronto | farahghafoor.com | farah.substack.com | IG @/shadowpricepoems
Blair Trewartha @btrewart.bsky.social Poet with 3 chapbooks and one full-length book. Next full-length "Half-Earth" forthcoming in 2026 with Palimpsest Press. Chapbook editor at Anstruther Press. Learning Specialist & Instructional Designer at Western University. Father of two.
The Wood Lot Canadian Poetry Reviews & Essays @the-wood-lot.bsky.social We are a small Canadian Poetry reviews site that also hosts poetry-related nonfiction essays by Canadian poets. https://the-wood-lot.ca/ Query us at: query@the-wood-lot.ca
Ernst Schneider @digi604.bsky.social 
Noah Gabriel @modernanxiety.bsky.social Director, College of Modern Anxiety
Lecturer, University of Winchester
Goofy Dancer, anywhere and everywhere
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 🏳️🌈 | no one is free until we all are free
@freedryk.bsky.social @freedryk.bsky.social 
medousapril @medousa.bsky.social libraries. land back. inclusive cities.
I read more than I write. faceless, as the internet grew up mean. they/xe/she
The Dead Poets Reading Series @deadpoetsreading.bsky.social A reading series/literary seance that takes place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations, colonially known as Vancouver, BC. Poets present the work of dead poets they admire. http://www.deadpoetslive.com/
Kevin MacDonell (he/him) @kevinmacdonell.bsky.social Writer, essayist, lifelong diarist. Nova Scotia, Canada. Recent/forthcoming: Malahat Review, Queen’s Quarterly, Grain, Dalhousie Review, Camel, Riddle Fence, Antigonish Review, Globe & Mail. Site: kevinmacdonell.com
nattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social stay tuned for wet mystery at @telodendron.bsky.social
@adamsol.bsky.social @adamsol.bsky.social Poet, prof, point guard, pater, not necessarily in that order.
https://howapemmoves.wordpress.com
https://www.vic.utoronto.ca/about-victoria/centre-for-creativity/
http://adamsol.com
Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social Most recent books: IN THE RHODODENDRONS: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf, PAPER CROWN: Poems
https://linktr.ee/heatherchristle
Robyn Hanson @bcrobyn.bsky.social Storyteller, geographer, nature nerd, food enthusiast, and former tourism professional living south of Vancouver at the mouth of the Fraser River in xʷməθkʷəy̓əm territory. www.bcrobyn.com
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social Ottawa's most beloved literary publisher (2006-2017): posting poems every April for National Poetry Month, and ongoing "six questions" interviews with current/former Ottawa-based writers,
https://chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/
Steven Leyva @stevenleyva.bsky.social Poet, Associate Professor at the University of Baltimore, Nerd, Author of THE UNDERSTUDY’S HANDBOOK and THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY
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
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.
Christina Shah @christinashah.bsky.social Poet, videopoet, valve fairy. ⚙️⛓️🧚 1/5 of the Harbour Centre Five. Author of RIG VEDA (Anstruther Press), if: prey, then: huntress (Nightwood Editions) Fall 2025
https://nightwoodeditions.com/collections/forthcoming/products/9780889715028
Amber Dawn is bent @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social Kitchen witch, sparkle mind & aging whore. Wrote SUB ROSA, SODOM ROAD EXIT and other queer weird books. New poetry collection BUZZKILL CLAMSHELL Spring 2025.
https://arsenalpulp.com/Contributors/D/Dawn-Amber
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.
Anvil Press @anvilpress.bsky.social Independent Vancouver book publisher. anvilpress.com
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.