Kilby Smith-McGregor @kilbysm.bsky.social Designer, writer, dog person. Just here for hoops. 
Kevin Shaw @kevinshaw84.bsky.social Writer | Ottawa | www.kevinshaw.ca
Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly
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Chelsea Dingman @chelsdingman.bsky.social Author of Thaw (@ugapress National Poetry Series) Through a Small Ghost (@ugapress 2020) I, Divided (@lsupress 2023) PhD/Assistant Lecturer @ualberta Postdoctoral Fellow @SSHRC Poetry editor @sweetliterary
Laurie D. Graham @lauriedgraham.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/lauriedgraham
Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social poet | Derelict Bicycles (Anvil Press, 2022) | creative humanities | environmental humanities | she/her
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
AVEN @avenofficial.bsky.social Asexuality Visibility and Education Network's official Blue Sky account!
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!
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Susan Rudy @susanrudy.bsky.social Academic & Writer | London & Wivenhoe | QMUL researcher | former creative writing teacher at Birkbeck and English Professor at University of Calgary | queer feminist theory | experimental writing
Jenn @raveonstudio.bsky.social Author, Artist and Filmmaker - New book coming Spring 2026
Find me here: linktr.ee/jennashton
Jónína (Nina) Kirton @jkirton.bsky.social I'm an Icelandic/Red River Métis poet, mother, grandmother & wife learning to live with uncertainty. Unsure which origin story to claim I choose science, & the knowing held within cells vibrating every language my Ancestors spoke. I am “Water made flesh."
Lorne Daniel @lornedaniel.bsky.social What is Broken Binds Us
new poetry
University of Calgary Press, Sept 2025
https://linktr.ee/lornedaniel
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
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David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social Poet-errant
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@james-lindsay.bsky.social @james-lindsay.bsky.social Book publicist and writer in Toronto.
ARP Books @arpbooks.bsky.social Activist press publishing literary and scholarly books for 30 years. Non-fiction, poetry, fiction with emphasis on critical leftist analysis of contemporary issues.
Winnipeg, Treaty 1
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David Romanda @romandapoetry.bsky.social Author of three books, including “Your Lover Stabbed in the Streets” (Frontenac House, 2025). https://www.romandapoetry.com
VERSe Ottawa / VERSeFest (prior account lost, @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social Ottawa's International Festival of Poetry / le festival international de poésie d’Ottawa / administrator of the City of Ottawa's Poet Laureate Program / l’administration du Programme des poètes lauréats d’Ottawa / https://www.verseottawa.ca/
Edmonton Poetry Festival @edmpoetryfestival.bsky.social Edmonton's month-long poetry celebration every April!
#yeg #AB #poetry
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Newsletter: https://edmontonpoetryfestival.com/the-magpie/
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.
Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social reader writer editor / linktr.ee/RahatKurd / THE BOOK OF Z: https://talonbooks.com/books/the-book-of-z / kashmīran / ahl-e-zubaan / she/they / free palestine
Natalie Rice @nataliericepoetry.bsky.social "Nightjar" Gaspereau Press, 2025
"Scorch" Gaspereau Press, 2023
natalierice.ca
Kegedonce Press @kegedoncepress.bsky.social All-Indigenous press on the territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (Neyaashiinigmiing and the land occupied by the city of Owen Sound, ON).
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melanie brannagan frederiksen @melanie-b-f.bsky.social poet, poetry columnist @winnipegfreepress
📚 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
Eaton Hamilton @eatonhamilton.bsky.social Visual art, writing
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Dr. Lara El Mekaui @lelmek.bsky.social Research Fellow @cercmigration.bsky.social
Lead non-fiction editor
@thenewquarterly.bsky.social
Writing and Communications Instructor
@uwaterloo.ca
website: thehesitantlocal.ca
Linda Morra @gettinglitwithlind.bsky.social Host/writer of the award-winning literary podcast, Getting Lit With Linda. Chair of Canadian Studies, Canadian Literature Professor
tim rogers @108.bsky.social youtube.com/actionbutton
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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social Poet! https://www.annajackson.nz/
she/her
When I translate Catullus writing as Sappho, as Ariadne, as Attis, as Procne, am I bird or birdsong? The journey, or the backwards glance?
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.
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
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poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publisher of poetry, fiction, drama & nonfiction. Good on paper since 1965. https://linktr.ee/chbooks
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.
nicolemarkotic @nicolemarkotic.bsky.social Poet, novelist, fiction writer, editor. Teaches at UWindsor.
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.
Claire Lacey (they/them) @poetactics.bsky.social poet. nerd. performer. educator. critic. phd in poetry and brain injury. general enthusiast.
located in Ōtepoti Dunedin. from Canada.
Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social Be-shadowed music reviewer on YouTube, cohost of
Song vs. Song
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Media/inquiries: toddintheshadows@standard.tv
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
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
Maggie Field (she / her) @mwfield.bsky.social Poetry, screenwriting, videography
City of Edmonton on Treaty 6 land, Canada
Poems in Snapdragon, Blue Unicorn, Oberon, Canadian Literature, Months to Years, +, bp nichol chapbook award. Finalist Berlin Intl Screenwriting Festival
Amanda Roth @helloamandaroth.bsky.social 🖊️ Poet, CNF Developmental Editor
🤍 Sci-fi, Folklore (Modern, Fairy tales, Food)
📍 Seattle
kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social literary home of the trans, queer, Crip, and sick
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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. 
Tea Gerbeza @teagerbeza.bsky.social She/her. Disabled neuroqueer writer and artist. Author of How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2025).
teagerbeza.com
Michele Rule 🇨🇦📝 she/her @michelerule.bsky.social Poet/Writer. Proud mom and grandma to both humans and pets. Disabled. Recovering politician. Chocolate lover. Human rights friendly. Coeditor at @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social.
MicheleRule.ca for more.
Richard Krueger @richard-krueger.bsky.social Writer, musician, film snob.
Neurodivergent.
Montreal.
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
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
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/
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
Selena Mercuri | Writer, Editor, Book Publicist @selenamercuri.bsky.social 📝 MFA Candidate @uguelphcwmfa
💼 @thenewquarterly @therightsfactory @river_street_writes @warlandaward @vancouver.manuscript.intensive.
Farah 🌿 @farahghafoor.bsky.social poet and author of Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025) 🌿 | she/her | Tkaronto | farahghafoor.com | farah.substack.com | IG @/shadowpricepoems
Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social Resident of Vancouver, writer, translator, explorer and connector of ideas.
Heidi (she/her) @hantolick.bsky.social 
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
Sea Otter @wns001.bsky.social 
Sacha Archer @sachaarcher.bsky.social 
AZE @azejournal.bsky.social AZE (azejournal.com) is a literary and art journal publishing asexual, aromantic, and agender authors. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aze_(magazine)
Andy Weaver @weaverandy.bsky.social Poet, professor of English and Creative Writing. Latest book, The Loom https://press.ucalgary.ca/books/9781773855837/. 
J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca Toronto writer. yoga instructor. social media manager. vespa. tm practioner. cinephile. autism advocate.
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Michelle Lobkowicz @mlobkowicz.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor @ualbertapress.bsky.social. (she/her/they)
Jennifer LoveGrove @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social Writer / Collager/ Novice Drummer / Reader / Music Nerd
@brokepress.bsky.social @brokepress.bsky.social 
Death Rides a Unicorn @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social Death Rides a Unicorn is a small non-profit arts organization that produces fun literary and spoken word events. More information can be found at www.deathridesaunicorn.com
Talonbooks @talonbooks.bsky.social Publishing words that matter since 1967. www.talonbooks.com
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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/
ottawa small press book fair @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social twice a year since 1994 : the best of the small press in Ottawa,
lovingly organized/curated by rob mclennan
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member of https://bsky.app/profile/smallpressalmanac.bsky.social
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.
The Pi Review @thepireview.bsky.social An endless conversation on form. Poetry, prose and interviews. Curated by John Whittaker. https://thepireview.blogspot.com/
simon brown @simonbeige.bsky.social poésie, traduction, anomalies artistiques et musicales / poetry, translation, performance art, weird music / New Brunswick / Quebec City / he-they-il-iel / https://linktr.ee/simonbeige
madeline lane-mckinley 🍉🍉🍉 @lalouverouge.bsky.social author of Solidarity with Children, Comedy Against Work, Fag/Hag
editor of The Return of the 90s
Amy LeBlanc @amyjleblanc.bsky.social Doctor of Words 🦊 “I used to live here” available now 🎓 Killam Laureate 2022-2024 📚Gothic studies 🕷️
many gendered mothers @mgenderedmums.bsky.social a project on literary influence: http://themanygenderedmothers.blogspot.ca
@talking-time.bsky.social @talking-time.bsky.social 
Ted Landrum @tedlandrum.bsky.social Teacher Critic Artist Archi-Poet |
UbuLoca | Midway Radicals | Human Earthling | Into Ideas Art Film Theatre Poetry Architecture & Peace for All
(living and learning in Tkaronto) #verify this https://www.ubuloca.com/2022/05/poetry-is-in-everything.html
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.
Kasey Mohammad @deathrockroadtrip.bsky.social Poet, teacher, cat dad. I like both kinds of music.
University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social University of Alberta Press is a contemporary, award-winning publisher of scholarly and creative books distinguished by their editorial care, exceptional design, and global reach. https://ualbertapress.ca/
Uche Peter Umez @uumez.bsky.social Learner, writer, reader, walker
Jonathon Wilcke @jonathonwilcke.bsky.social They/them
Musical and everyday improviser.
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
Bree Taylor 🍉 @breetaylor0.bsky.social settler in amiskwaciwâskahikan (yeg)
she/they | writer + poet | MFA @ UBC
https://linktr.ee/BreeTaylor0
Kate Sutherland @katesutherland.bsky.social Law prof, poet, collage artist.
https://linktr.ee/poetryartmagic
D.A. Lockhart @dalockhart.bsky.social Writer. Lenape. Independent Indigenous Scholar. Moravian of the Thames First Nation. Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press, 2025). Leaf Counter (Frontenac House, 2025) he/him.
Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social That writer performer filmmaker radical faerie professor curator consummate host and adorable gender-radical queerdo guy.
Ivan Coyote @ivancoyote.bsky.social Writer, storyteller, performer. Author of Care Of, Tomboy Survival Guide, Rebent Sinner and 10 other books. Kindling chopper, berry picker, snow shoveler, Yukoner. I like to build things. PLAYLIST is the name of my new show. www.ivancoyote.com
Vancouver Manuscript Intensive @vmiprogram.bsky.social Local. Global. One-on-one literary mentoring for emerging and established authors.
Kai Cheng Thom @razorfemme.bsky.social Writer, performer, facilitator, somatic coach & dreamer. Author of FIERCE FEMMES & NOTORIOUS LIARS, I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE, FROM THE STARS IN THE SKY TO THE FISH IN THE SEA, and FALLING BACK IN LOVE WITH BEING HUMAN. https://linktr.ee/kaichengthom
Victoria Mbabazi @victoriambabazi.bsky.social writer | they/them | the siren in the twelfth house (palimpsest press) | the stone who strapped me (arsenal pulp press, forthcoming)
victoriambabazi.ca
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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Leslie Hurtig @lesliehurtig.bsky.social Artistic Director Vancouver Writers Fest; New Yorker cartoon aficionado; fast walker. Views are my own but you could consider adopting them. Canadian made.