Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com Landback | He/Him | Award-winning CDN Journalist | News Media Critic | Pod: The North State | Words: rabble, Toronto Star, The Beaverton, The Maple, Ricochet | YouTube: Pinko Punko | Subscribe to The Catch: https://readthecatch.ca/
Eric Wickham @ericwickham.ca 🔎 Ontario Reporter and Digital Production Lead @pressprogress.ca
DMs open for news tips and interesting crockpot recipes
Indie Reign @queermadefinds.bsky.social Finding the makers worth finding. ✨
🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ creators • indie artists • small businesses
Art 🖼️• books 📚• handmade • weird little treasures
Good work deserves a bigger audience.
kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social Senior Editor at Book Riot. Editor/Author of BODY TALK, HERE WE ARE, + (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY. Former librarian. Anti-censorship advocate. Yoga teacher. Your favorite infernal witch. She/her. Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2024.
Melissa Marr @melissamarrwriting.bsky.social I write books (Wicked Lovely, Bunny Roo, Remedial Magic, The Strange Case of Harleen & Harley, etc) for adults, teens, & kids + photography (Book: Wild Horses).
Wife to Amber. Mother to Chaos. Pronouns: she/her
Nina Crittenden @ninacrittenden.bsky.social kid book maker. tea drinker. minnesotan. ice out. ninacrittenden.com
Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social Author. Collaborator. Ghost.
NYT Bestseller SCENES FROM MY LIFE with Michael K. Williams (Crown); WaPo Book of the Year AN INCONVENIENT COP with Edwin Raymond (Viking); UNPREPARED: AMERICA IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS (Bloomsbury)
Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social Ugh, fine.
Writer in Texas.
I curse on the internet now.
#HouSky
www.jennystaffjohnson.com
Andrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social Screenwriter / Mentor / Landlocked yacht-rock lover. She/her. www.andreamann.com
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
Joanna Whaley @joannawhaley.bsky.social Candidate for the Michigan House of Representatives - District 2
- Get utility companies in check
- Pass healthcare reform
- Protect freedom for all
@jilltataraworld.bsky.social @jilltataraworld.bsky.social interested in books art movies science and other cool kids' stuff. #kidlit #scbwi #amwriting
Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social Film Critic (Film Comment, Reverse Shot, Criterion). GALECA.
Co-Author of CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS
Currently writing a book about TWIN PEAKS
Ben Plume @pittbaster.bsky.social I like nature, sci-fi, books, and being Dad. Live in the Maryland DC suburbs with a pretty cool spouse. Admittedly tired.
@deuteragonistpress.bsky.social @deuteragonistpress.bsky.social 
Wilbur Turner @queergranddad.bsky.social Wilbur Turner LL.D. (Hon.) 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇨🇦2SLGBTQ advocate. Writer. Founder Advocacy Canada. Proud father & granddad. Follow for advocacy news & opinion. Views are my own. he/him
taylor robin @taylor-robin.bsky.social he/him | author of Hunger's Bite, previously Never Satisfied
repped by Kurestin Armada
https://taylor-robin.com
honestly more active on tumblr as ohcorny
Justin Sulik @justinsulik.bsky.social 🇿🇦 Postdoc researching psychology of science at LMU Munich 🇩🇪.
P. Andrew Torrez @andrewtorrez.bsky.social Practicing lawyer and cohost of the Law & Chaos podcast with @lizdye.bsky.social
READ MY STUFF! lawandchaospod.com
LISTEN TO MY STUFF! patreon.com/lawandchaospod
he/him
Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social Daddo and married to @jenancona. Consultant of Destiny™️, standing athwart history yelling WTF. Research, persuasion, media, and processes for understanding the Dem-left coalition. A lot of my research etc lives here: chartingthewayforward.substack.com
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
Katherine Thorne @sparklemarkers.bsky.social She/her. Picture book writer/illustrator.
Rep: @swekstein.bsky.social
2024 Round Table Mentee, #PBParty Honorable Mention, #50PreciousWords HM.
Keep posting about your books; I want to read them!
sparklemarkers.com
Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social Journalist and author. @HoFoCo.org board member.
My newsletter, the Long Game, is about baseball, creativity, and mental health. You can find it here: https://mollyknight.substack.com.
My dog is named Canelo.
Travis Jonker @100scopenotes.bsky.social School Librarian. Author of BLUE FLOATS AWAY, THE VERY LAST CASTLE, THE SHIP IN THE WINDOW, CABOOSE | Author/illustrator of JUST ONE FLAKE and JUST ONE WAVE (2025)
Syd @sydhaines.bsky.social 📍Halifax, NS • 🏳️🌈 • she/her • Newbie cyclist
Mermaid Writer @mermaidwriter.bsky.social SCBWI NY Eastern Up! Critique Coordinator
Kidlit writer, published poet, gemologist-in-training, wannabe polyglot, occasional mermaid, reluctant zebra 🍰💜🩶🤍💚 #kidlit #scbwi #amquerying #actuallyautistic
🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 Pronouns: you choose (anything but he)
Catblossom @catblossom.bsky.social Elementary Library * College Kids * Cat Pics * UglyDogs * Bloggess Pals * (she/her)
Leena Walters @leenawalters.bsky.social Leena Walters started her career as a historian, writing about change inside countries. Now she writes brainy romances about change inside people's hearts. She lives in Edmonton, Canada. leenawalters.com
Rep: Kristin Ostby of Salky Literary Management
Summit County Libraries @summitlibraries.bsky.social #1 Most Followed Library in the USA!
https://summitcountylibraries.org/
Located in beautiful Summit County, Colorado.
Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social Wildlife rehabilitators often wrap owls so they can be weighed and fed. If not, the owls get in a flap.
The result? Loads of pictures of #owlsintowels
https://owlsintowels.org
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Carolyn Foote @technolibrary.bsky.social Technolibrary. Former teacher, techie librarian and now Tx #FReadomfighter. I support intellectual freedom and student voice. Keynoter, author on techie stuff! Former White House Champion of Change
Riverbank Bookshop @riverbankbookshop.bsky.social Pop-up bookshop in Paducah, Kentucky.
Elizabeth Keenan @elizabethkeenan.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Former real estate agent. Former ethnomusicologist. 
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca 
Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social "Above all, we loved this country and loved exploring and painting it." ~ Lawren Harris
Risa Hugo @risahugo.bsky.social Canadian/Japanese picture book illustrator based in Canada 🇨🇦
💌 hello@risahugo.com
Represented by Jacqui Lipton from The Tobias Agency
http://www.risahugo.com
Hi😉
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social comms for @mayorofchicago.bsky.social but this is my personal account.
Chicago-based attorney never giving legal advice. firm believer in the power of community.
Dylan Inserra-Peirson @dylanfromdallas.bsky.social That burly bearded therapist. Writer. Mental health advocate. Former elite gymnast and world team member. American living in London.
🇺🇸✈️🇬🇧
Carla Peck, PhD @carlapeck.bsky.social I research history, citizenship, identity & belonging at the UAlberta. Landlocked Bluenoser trying to get back to the ocean. 🌊
@cpeck3 at that other place.
Jackie Seidel @jackieseidel.bsky.social 😷 Born 322ppm 🌎 ❤️
Poetry. Bees. Bikes. Ecological education. Eco/Climate Justice. UofCalgary Assoc Prof Curriculum/Learning. She/Her
Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social Education professor. Simon Fraser University. Vancouver. Hiking, skiing, gardening. 
Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social Blog about kids books? You bet (A Fuse #8 Production). Library degree? You know it. Books for kids? Seven. Books for adults about kidlit? Two. Podcasts about kids books? One (Fuse 8 n’ Kate). Having fun! https://afuse8production.slj.com
Public Universal Friend (they/them) @universalfriend.bsky.social climate comms | outside learning about nature whenever possible | used to write about the toxic drug crisis, still carry that
photographer. trans. still masking. trying to be useful.
let's chill...in the comments or among the wildflowers
Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social Associate Professor of English. Author of Indigenous Cities (UNP 2017). ACLS Fellow. Writer of creative nonfiction. Adoptee. Native Chicagoan. Queer mommy. She/her.
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
Danielle Render Turmaud, PhD @drenderturmaud.bsky.social Kidlit Author (Rep: Amy Nielsen) + Trauma Therapist | THESE BOOTS WERE MADE FOR MARCHING (2029)| Psychology Today Expert Blog Author| SCBWI |Host of the You, Me, & the Writing Journey Podcast (@YMWJPodcast) and @YouDeservepIt Pitch Event
Paige McG @teenbrarian.bsky.social Trivia host. Librarian. Foodie. Quilter.
(she/her)
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.
Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social 📎2023 NJLA Librarian of the Year📎Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians📎NCAC Outstanding Librarian📎AASL, NJLA & NJASL Intellectual Freedom Awards📎InsiderNJ 2025 Policy Makers Power List📎2026 MLK Spirit Hall of Fame📎Ban book banners!
Brett McKay @brettmckay.bsky.social Reporter for the Investigative Journalism Foundation
Email: brett.mckay@theijf.org
Signal: brettmckay.23
Claire Woodcock @clurrese.bsky.social I write about the politics of information. Words @404media @edsurge & @npr member stations. Performative Bills fan. Based in CO. 👻.
Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social Actor/comedian/writer in Toronto. Words in The Beaverton, CBC Comedy, The Toronto Star, McSweeney’s, etc. Pierre Poilievre's personal assistant Mandy. she/her clareblackwood@gmail.com https://www.patreon.com/cw/ClareBlackwoodComedy
Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social Founder and mastermind, Talk Science to Me. Founder and publisher, Thornapple Press. Author, The New More Than Two. Dancer, climber, adventurer, cat servant. Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territory. Book inquiries to press@thornapplepress.ca.
Banned Camp podcast @bannedcamp.bsky.social A comedy podcast where we read banned books and figure out why they were banned.
Season 11: Margaret Atwood's “The Handmaid's Tale”
Listen, catch up, or grab free “I Read Banned Books” stickers at www.bannedcamppodcast.com
Scot Ritchie @ritchiescot.bsky.social Award winning author and illustrator of many children's books and cartoons. Apparently I'm amusing when needed and quite reliable. Out. And about. https://scotritchie.com/ Kidlit 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
Canadian Authors & Illustrators Against Book Bans @caiabb.bsky.social An organization of published authors & illustrators fighting back against censorship and book bans, find out more at https://linktr.ee/caiabb
Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social Parent-founded. Parent-led. Defending the right to read & supporting the fight against book bans in our public schools & communities.
Join us: www.txftrp.org/petition
📍Texas, USA
Gail de Vos (her/she) @taleteller.bsky.social Storyteller, author, university instructor of comics, storytelling, and Canadian children's literature, and independent researcher of folklore in popular culture. Newest book arriving November 19, 2024: The Watkins Book of Urban Legends.
Word Vancouver @wordvancouver.bsky.social Western Canada's largest free literary festival. 2026 Festival runs Sept 10-28, with main day Sat, Sept 19.
Kara Yorio @karayorio.bsky.social Senior news editor, School Library Journal (slj.com). Opinions are my own.
Jarch @itsokihaveabook.bsky.social Massachusetts librarian, parent, greyhound adopter. "It's what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." https://jenny-arch.com
Suzanne Trimel @suzannetrimel.bsky.social Veteran of global human rights orgs now Sr. Advisor @PENAmerica. Pro democracy, facts, science and free expression. Hiker. Occasional gardening posts. Greater NYC.
Jonathan Friedman 📚 @jonfreadom.bsky.social Fighting the official suppression of ideas with @PEN_America. | TEDx: https://rb.gy/jlsjjc | Opinions my own
Michael Leali @michaelleali.bsky.social Award-winning author. THE CIVIL WAR OF AMOS ABERNATHY | MATTEO | THE TRUTH ABOUT TRIANGLES. Rep by Sara Crowe. He/him/his. 🏳️🌈
à la bibliohèck @alabiblioheck.bsky.social public library assistant director. mawrter. saltwater conch. aggressively into potatoes. she/elle 🏳️🌈✨
Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org Lambda Literary, celebrating LGBTQ+ storytellers since 1985. Home of the Lammy Awards, Writers in Schools, the Emerging Writers Retreat for LGBTQ Voices, and the Lambda Literary Review.
lambdaliterary.org
lambdaliteraryreview.org
linktr.ee/lambdaliterary
Michael John Lo @michaeljohnlo.bsky.social Skeetin' from Victoria, Canada. Reporter with the Times Colonist newspaper, prev. words in the Globe and Mail, The Tyee, Capital Daily & more. He/him. Allergic to eggplant, shrimp, lobster.
Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
Cody Miller @hcodymiller.bsky.social English teaching, pop culture, comics, politics, and plants. FL ➡️ ROC. He, him, his.
Dara Purvis @darapurvis.bsky.social Law professor at Temple. Professional angry feminist (she/her). Views are mine, my own, my precious.
Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social Mom, wife, educator, activist. Co-founder of For Our Kids Alberta. Passionate about people and our beautiful planet. Treaty 7. She/her 🌎
scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca Gay Irish-Canadian Buddhist journalist.
Chaotic good.
JEDI consultant with Breakfast Culture.
He/him.
Eaton Hamilton @eatonhamilton.bsky.social Visual art, writing
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them ♿️ 😷🇨🇦 AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic, MG
UK Sunday Times bestseller, Guardian BOTY, Guernica, The Sun, NYT, Salon, Globe+Mail, Macleans, BAE Notables, BASS Notable, BAX, 10 books, won CBC fiction x2; on Patreon at HamiltonArt.
Loren King @lorenking.org "Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross"
Dad, professor, marathon swimmer.
Not nearly as smart as @kimdej.bsky.social
@lorenking@mstdn.ca
@lorenking.gander.social
www.lorenking.org
www.greatlakestrust.org
Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social reading books, writing books, defending books
https://linktr.ee/maiakobabe
pronouns: e/em/eir
Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app 3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | Host of B*tch, Listen podcast | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America🏳️🌈
@jeffreycanton.bsky.social @jeffreycanton.bsky.social 
Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social Michigan Law Prof.
Co-host, Strict Scrutiny Podcast
Author, NYT Bestseller “LAWLESS: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, & Bad Vibes”
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawless/Leah-Litman/9781668054628
@westcoaststeph.bsky.social @westcoaststeph.bsky.social Canadian, feminist, rights advocate, atheist, Liberal, loves libraries & librarians, love cats, dogs & most sentient beings, veganish, hates bullies, patriarchy, regressive thinking, repressive institutions & governments & believes billionaires are evil.
Carrie Stewart @carriejay.bsky.social Tea drinker, book lover, writer, mum of twin girls, northern Brit. In Canada for ten years now. Writing YA/Adult.
佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamteayang.bsky.social specfic writer and scallion pancake stan 🥬 quote posts and reposts are not endorsements, they're just little dopamine buttons
Amanda Littauer @amandalittauer.bsky.social Assoc Professor of WGSS and History, LGBTQIA+ Studies, queer/trans youth history, trauma informed pedagogy, DEIB, book: Bad Girls (2015, UNC)💜 🏔️🌊🌅📖🏳️🌈🏃♀️
Gregor Craigie @gregorcraigie.bsky.social Sleep-deprived early morning radio host of CBC On the Island. Author of Our Crumbling Foundation, On Borrowed Time, Walls, Radio Jet Lag & Why Humans Build Up.
Rhode Island Authors Against Book Bans @aabbri.bsky.social The Bluesky home of Authors Against Book Bans Rhode Island , a coalition of book creators united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. Learn more and join at https://www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/
Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social Free classroom lessons, workshops, seminars, campaigns, teacher study groups, & more to teach outside the textbook.
Coord. by @rethinkingschools.bsky.social & @teachingchange.bsky.social
Donate & more: https://linktr.ee/zinneducationproject
Jessica Pieklo @hegemommy.bsky.social Coloradan. Loud talker. Soccer lady. Italian matriarch. Justice minded thinker and writer. Can’t quit won’t quit trash talking SCOTUS. Not necessarily in that order.
Jay Willis @jaywillis.net I write about courts, democracy, media, and the raccoon family living in a tree behind my house. Bluesky’s ONLY fantasy football guru. EIC @ballsandstrikes.org, more writing at jaywillis.net.
Kids Can Press @kidscanpress.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of picture books for children 3-7 & non-fiction, fiction & graphic novels for children 8-12.
PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social We stand at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the U.S. and worldwide. Support and learn more at pen.org.
Charlotte Sullivan Wild (she) 🏳️🌈♿ @cswild.bsky.social 📚 Picture books!
💜 LOVE, VIOLET (Chua FSG)
🍎 THE AMAZING IDEA OF YOU (Lundquist, Bloomsbury)
✏️ former educator, bookseller, SCBWI RA
🌈2LGBTQIAP+ she/her
♿ ME/CFS
🌿 www.CharlotteSWild.com 🌿
📚 Repped by www.andreabrownlit.com/Team/analia
Books BC @booksbc.bsky.social The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia (Books BC) works to support the long-term health and success of BC Book Publishers and book-related communities. www.books.bc.ca
Mombian @mombian.bsky.social Parenting, politics, & diversions for lesbian moms & other LGBTQ parents, plus Database of LGBTQ Family Books. 2x GLAAD Media Award winner. #LGBTQFamiliesDay host, 6/1/26. She/her
Kyeren Regehr @byallmeanswrite.bsky.social New to this platform!
Literary Poet (author of Cult Life)
www.kyerenregehr.ca
Artistic Director of Planet Earth Poetry
www.planetearthpoetry.com
Host of The Poet Laureate Podcast
@poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social
7th Poet Laureate of Victoria (2025-2027)
The Poet Laureate Podcast @poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social Hosted by Kyeren Regehr and featuring poets laureate from across the country and beyond.
www.thepoetlaureatepodcast.com
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Anita Miettunen (she/her) @anitamiettunen.bsky.social Author of Big Blue Forever | Writer Illustrator| kids books | SCBWI 🇨🇦