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Joanna Lilley @joannalilley.bsky.social Author of books including the extinction poetry collection Endlings and the novel Worry Stones. From the UK, now living in Yukon, Canada.
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.
sider0xylon press @sider0xylon.bsky.social a mono-press of pithy handmade limited edition mini/micro chapbooks and broadsides. launching june 20th @ the ottawa small press book fair! eic: @russellcarisse.bsky.social SUBMISSIONS OPEN, see sider0xylon.carrd.co for guidelines.
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW MaddowBlog.com
Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social narrator & protagonist of her own life | echolalia echolalia (Brick Books, 2024) | Crips for eSims for Gaza bit.ly/eSimsRUs website: janeshi.org
Kathryn Mockler @themockler.bsky.social fiction writer | experimental filmmaker | poet | Author of Anecdotes @bookhugpress.bsky.social Send My Love to Anyone: http://sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com https://linktr.ee/kathrynmockler | https://www.kathrynmockler.com
Meandering M🌿 @pathwaymoments.bsky.social Here to enjoy nature, photography and any gardening tips along the way.
Gaspereau Press @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers ¶ http://linktr.ee/gaspereaupress
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.
Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social Essay Press is dedicated to publishing artful, innovative, and culturally relevant prose. Distributed by Asterism Books.
Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social 6x award-winning feminist buzzkill. Franco-ontarienne du nord de l'Ontario. 🏳️‍🌈 Femme. I teach community care for a living and wrote a book about why resilience is futile, babyyyy ✌🏻 Actually fun™️ 📍Ottawa, Canada YellowManteau.com
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. If you have a style question, search: https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Parchment @parchmentmag.bsky.social The only literary journal devoted to contemporary Canadian Jewish writing.
Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social "Above all, we loved this country and loved exploring and painting it." ~ Lawren Harris
Mattea Roach @mattearoach.bsky.social host of Bookends on CBC Radio/podcast platforms everywhere, former 23x Jeopardy champion, slowly also writing // everything that happens will happen today
George Murray @bookninja.bsky.social Poet | 10 books | Neuromancer | Dog person | Habitual founder of things | Nerd | St. John's | http://newpoetry.ca | Other links: https://linktr.ee/georgemurray
Shari Kasman @smkasman.bsky.social Torontonian, artist, writer, co-creator of Bloordale Beach, maker of all kinds of stuff, incl a book about everyone's favourite mall, the Galleria.
knife | fork | book @knifeforkbook.bsky.social Poetry. Well-served. FLASH SUMMER SALE! EXTENDED NOW THRU 31 AUG! ALL KFB TITLES CURRENTLY IN STOCK $10 Exclusively at knifeforkbook.shop Find us: asterismbooks.com/publisher/knife-fork-book + knifeforkbook.com
Andrea Murphy @andreamurphy12.bsky.social Lives near that river, in Ottawa, Canada. Has been known to edit & work in arts orgs. Appreciates your book posts.
mreid@bsky.social @mreid.bsky.social poet, gardener, intelligence expert former Managing Editor at Arc poetry Magazine former Director at VerseFest books with Brick, Chaudiere, Anansi, rdc, etc new book coming from University of Calgary Press
Josiah Nelson @josiahnelson.bsky.social I'm what you call shy - William Steig/me Debut book forthcoming with @invisibooks.bsky.social Words in Brick, CV2, Fractured Lit, Grain, and the Literary Review of Canada
T Arnson @sirscribblesalot.bsky.social Writer-Producer ✍️ Here to check-out other creatives 🎭 Sharing my stories ✉️ Growing subscribers 📈 https://neuroticencounter.com/mailing-list/
Brittlestar @brittlestar.com Social Media Darling. International Bestselling Author. Occasionally funny. Brittlestar.com
Mary-Alice Thompson (she/her) @mathompson.bsky.social writer (poetry, fiction, plays), student, gardener, singer, teacher, mother, retired lawyer
John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social Writer. Poetry. https://www.johnglenday.com https://www.northseapoets.com
Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social Teacher and Poet. Pamphlets - Walrussey (The Black Cat Poetry Press, 2023) and Circulaire (Written off Publishing, 2025). Circulaire available to purchase here: https://writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/circulaire-bex-hainsworth
Lynda Williams (she/her) @lwilliams-author.bsky.social Writer of unlikeable female characters. The Beauty and The Hell of It and other stories, Guernica Editions 2025.
Rejected Central: a Human Podcast (www.rejectedcentral.com) @rejectedcentral.com Rejected Central is a SFW podcast that seeks to elevate the rejection experience. Hosted by bestselling novelist Brent van Staalduinen (www.brentvans.com) and educator and life-embracer Dave Parkinson. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!
Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social Journo, writer, lover of stories that end abruptly. Find me at Ricochet Media, Canada’s National Observer, Capital Daily, Women’s Media Centre and Watershed Sentinel.
Mary @mjwyatt.bsky.social Progressive, love the PNW, music, gardening, amateur iPhone photographer. All photos shared are mine. 🌷🌷🌷 Portland Oregon USA (PDX)
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
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Aidan Chafe @allegorically.bsky.social Teacher & poet. Author of the collections GOSPEL DRUNK (University of Alberta Press) and SHORT HISTORIES OF LIGHT (McGill-Queen's University Press).
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
𝚙𝚒𝚎𝚛𝚙𝚊𝚘𝚕𝚘 🇪🇺 @pierpaolo.bsky.social 𝙰𝚕𝚕 𝚙𝚒𝚌𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚎, 𝚎𝚡𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚜 🇮🇹 more on @pierpaolo2.bsky.social
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
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
rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc. out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press) https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
jade y. liu @jadeyuliu.bsky.social writer, dreamer | she/她 | articling student ⚖️ | poems @ jadeyliu.weebly.com | cognitive metaphor enthusiast!
Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social. 🔗 https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social Connecting you to art 🖼 Art UK is an art education charity and digital space that connects everyone with the UK's public art collection. Take part in the #OnlineArtExchange every Thursday! https://artuk.org/ https://linktr.ee/artukdotorg
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Centre Pompidou @centrepompidou.fr La plus grande collection d’art moderne et contemporain d'Europe, maintenant partout en France et dans le monde ✨ Retrouvez tous nos événements sur centrepompidou.fr !
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙 @catwrites604.bsky.social Author of poetry chapbook ZIPLESS (845 Press), finalist for two Bisexual Book Awards. Chinese Canadian. Banff Centre and Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio alum. Tin House ‘25. she/her/hers Vancouver, Canada linktr.ee/cat_writes_604
Jodie Young, verray jangleresse @jangleresse.bsky.social Poet (reading more than writing atm) in Naarm | Melbourne, Australia Poetry, books, art, history. Resisting the urge to despair.
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey. https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Elizabeth Ruth @elizabethruth.bsky.social Novelist & Poet. Author of (fiction) Semi-Detached, Matadora, Smoke, Ten Good Seconds of Silence (Poetry) This Report Is Strictly Confidential. Website: elizabethruth.com Insta: elizabethruthauthor Creative writing Instructor, U of Toronto. Lives in Canada
Matthew Hollett @matthewhollett.bsky.social ✏️ Writer, photographer, walker 👁️ Optic Nerve (poems) published by Brick Books 🦑 Newfoundland / Ktaqmkuk
Paul Motion @bassicallypaul.bsky.social Scotsman, Waterskier, Alpine Skier, Munro Bagger, Bass Player, dog lover, a bit of wild swimming and equestrian.
Ben Oofana @benoofana.bsky.social Trained by Kiowa Indian doctor (medicine man), Chinese Internal Arts-Xin Yi Quan-Baguazhang, @ home in India-Sri Lanka
Blue Wave Alxs 🌸🏳️‍⚧️📚🍥✨ @bluewavealxs.bsky.social She/Her/Hers, Feminist, Democrat, Pro-Choice, Pro-LGBT, Agnostic, Artist, Writer, Actor, Traveller, introspective aesthete, Human Rights Activist, Trans Rights Advocate, Ambassador, Mental Health Matters, Autistic,ADHD, Music Lover, Book enthusiast.
DA Brown @dabble58.bsky.social Writer, developmental editor, perennial volunteer. Author of Recycled Virgin and Spit & Polish, Bib & Tucker. Final book of series expected soon! Editor at DAB editing. www.Dorothyanneb.com Cat herder to a giant orange fellow named Norm. Retired nurse.
Lauren Carter @lcarterwrites.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Writer. Knitter. Founder of Wild Ground Writing Retreats (https://wildgroundwriting.com). Latest books: The Longest Night (Fall 2025); Places Like These; This Has Nothing To Do With You.
Forward Canada @forwardcanada.bsky.social Forward Canada is a movement dedicated to protecting and strengthening our democracy, public services, and workers’ rights. ForwardWeekly.ca
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 🏳️‍🌈 gender costume: she/they Alt image: white person in glasses. long wavy greying hair, wonder woman bracelet
Maggie Burton @mmburton.bsky.social Writer of Chores (Breakwater Books), winner of the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian First Book Prize. Musician, mom of 4. City Councillor. Soon-to-be med student. St. John’s, NL. Maggieburton.ca
Kathy Milanowski @kathymilanowski.bsky.social As an author, retreat leader, and Reiki teacher, I enjoy peace in the quiet outdoors and am often drawn to the natural world's rhythms. #Spiritual #Earth #Nature www.WisconsinReiki.com
Binoy Zuzarte @bzuzarte.bsky.social Poet, writer, creative director. Found or forthcoming in Arc, Augur, Scrivener Creative Review, Pinhole Poetry, The Shore, others. He/him. 👋🏽
Susan Mersereau @suemersereau.bsky.social Canadian American writer in Frederick MD, and sometimes in other places. Newest short story “Hotel Greif” in EVENT https://www.eventmagazine.ca/product/event-54-3-digital-edition-current-issue/
Michael Dechane @michaeldechane.bsky.social Poet. Jungian dream worker. Head Cook. Spoon carver. Author of The Long Invisible (2024, Wildhouse Publishing). #poet #poetry #author #writer #jung #jungian #dream #woodcarving
Roger Patulny @rpatulny.bsky.social Sociology Professor HKBU. Research emotions, loneliness, men, networks, urban themes. Part time writer and poet, dad, befriender of English teachers, Editor, Authora Australis @ausauthora.bsky.social Research, poems, stories - http://rpatulny.com/
Greg 🤍 MidwestUSA @midwestusa.bsky.social No AI ever ! 🤍 Travel, adventurer, builder, music, winery’s, brewery’s and curiosity just living on a hobby farm growing grapes, hops, apples and a little gardening. Photographing experiences. All are taken by me and are real.
phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social poet | phd | umichwriters alum | fiddlehead poetry editor | record collector | author of not even laughter | one-armed bandit | he/him
Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social Bright star! Would I were…
Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social Digital journal and chapbook press. We love the upside-down view and the fact that some art can only happen in the dark. Journal submissions always open! pinholepoetry.ca
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
ArtWorks for Cancer @artworksforcancer.bsky.social We bring works of art to cancer treatment units in hospitals across Ontario, Canada - transforming clinical areas into warm, hopeful and healing spaces.
Sam M @sammyjane.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Islander living on Epekwitk|PEI, spending time in the worlds of land use planning, community, violin, idle doodling and more. Mom to twins, surviving most days. Sometimes appearing as redsandsam. She/her
Anna Veprinska @annaveprinska.bsky.social Poet | Prof | Author: Wound Archive (2026); Bonememory; Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis; Sew with Butterflies https://utpdistribution.com/9781773856117/bonememory/ https://theporcupinesquill.com/collections/new-titles/products/wound-archive
Lion’s Roar @lionsroar.com Buddhism • Meditation • Mindful Living Find more at www.lionsroar.com ⠀
Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social Here for poems & other beauties. Writing in Poetry, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, The Poetry Review (UK), & elsewhere. Co-editor for book reviews at Plume. First collection of poems forthcoming with Orison Books in fall 2025.
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
Jenna Butler @jennabutler.bsky.social Author, writing mentor, editor, farmer. she/her Revery, A Profession of Hope, Magnetic North, and more. GG finalist. Acquisitions Editor, Barbour Books at NeWest Press www.jennabutler.com
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
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
Janet Bartier @janetbartier.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Canadian, writer
Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social Poet. Teacher. Editor. Interviewer. Festival Director. Plum memer. Not necessarily in that order. Usually found in Vancouver, Port Moody or Abbotsford. http://roblucastaylor.com/
Paula Parris Eisenstein @pparriseisenstein.bsky.social Flight Problems: Amelia Earhart Poems (Pinhole Poetry) Flip Turn (Mansfield Press) Vedic Astrologer New New Brunswick person
Michael Winter @michaelwinternet.bsky.social I'm a writer from Newfoundland living in Toronto. I admire trees and like to feed people and overhear conversations; I note gestures and read books and draw pictures and listen to old music and there's a dog I walk.
Rebecca Salazar Leon @rsalazar.bsky.social haunted swamp femme, PhD // author of sulphurtongue (2021) & antibody (2025) // (she/they) 🇨🇴🤎🇵🇸
Judith Nangala Crispin @judithnangala.bsky.social Poet & visual artist on unceded Yuin Walbunga Country in Australia. Afterlife portraits of animals & birds. Alternative darkroom with drawing & painting. Grainger Gallery and Anima Mundi. Poetry collections with Puncher & Wattmann. Member of FNAWN & Oculi.
Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social Post-Canadian poet, Cavafy translator, author of Men of the Same Name (Carcanet 2025). I’ve published in the Guardian, TLS, Malahat Review and PN Review.
Katia Grubisic @kgrubisic.bsky.social Writer, poet, literary translator. Sweet of tooth and hard of head. Resident of a beautiful planet. She/her. 📍Tio'tia:ke/Montréal.
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
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group. Send me your mutual aid requests.
Qurat Dar @quratdar.bsky.social "Non-Prophet" available now: https://gooselane.com/products/non-prophet Qurat is pronounced "Qur-rut" with a soft "t."
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social Full prof, biblical studies, but in a cool way. Author, dreamweaver etc.
Lina Ramona Vitkauskas @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social Video poem in human form. Canadian-Lithuanian-American. INSTEAD OF COMMUNITY WE GOT THE ALGORITHM. Alter ego / activist: @linarvit Fuck Fascism. Bio: https://linaramona.com/about-2/
John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social NBPF Beat Poet Laureate Founding editor, Crisis Chronicles Press Past Vice President, Ohio Poetry Association Hillbuckeye. Skeptic. Creative. Better woke than asleep. https://linktr.ee/johnburroughs 🏳️‍🌈
chris johnson @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social he/him : white settler : managing editor, @arcpoetry.bsky.social : editorial assistant, @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social : opinions are my own : say hi
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Kat Evans-Fleming-Gray @katlikeswords.bsky.social
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
Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi @dearkestrel.bsky.social Author of 4 Poetry collections.. A Translation of Ghazal Mosadeq's "Andarznama" forthcoming with @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social Late 2025. 5th Poetry Collection "A Book of Interruptions" forthcoming with @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social Fall 2025
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social On Mondays Jon Stewart hosts The Daily Show, but on Wednesdays he hosts The Weekly Show. Listen wherever you get your podcasts & watch on YouTube.