MarkZelinski.com @markzelinski-photo.bsky.social 🇨🇦Governor General's Medal, OCAD, RCGS, Explorers Club, Pro Photographer/Publisher/Speaker #MarkZelinski gifted 8K #BooksThatHeal to WW charities (fwds by HRH Philip, Justin Trudeau) MarkZelinski.com
katcameron1.bsky.social @katcameron1.bsky.social Poet (Strange Labyrinth and Ghosts Still Linger). Short-story writer (The Eater of Dreams).
GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social Independent Publisher of Diverse #CanLit: No Borders. No Limits.
www.guernicaeditions.com
Gaspereau Press @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers
¶ http://linktr.ee/gaspereaupress
Leona Theis 📚 @leonajoan.bsky.social Swim at Your Own Risk forthcoming with Thistledown Press. If Sylvie Had Nine Lives on shelves now. Novels, stories, lyric essays. Walker, paddler, snow lover. Www.leonatheis.com
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Astrid Aillume @aillume.bsky.social A detective. Astrid Aillume's New Case: A Billionaire's Mystery
Cracking a case is like salty liquorice.
Surprising at first,but ultimately addictive.
Ram Gulrajani Author 📚 @rockape65.bsky.social From suspense to soul-stirring stories I writes them all Love the arts, writing, painting, strumming my guitar & generally being creative. From Gibraltar originally Website: https://t.co/8gSEmJ7TCu Team Site @iquitcigs.bsky.social
Ian Robert Ross @ianrobertross.com Writer and artist from the Miramichi, now living in Ottawa, Canada.
Maritimer by blood, Upper Canadian by postal code.
Author of the epic fantasy 'Crown of Caphedra'.
Website: https://www.ianrobertross.com/
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
Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com Usually she/they, but I'll take whatever pronouns you've got.
Author & artist fantasy & science fiction!
📚 My books: RebeccaReyesWriting.com
💙 My store: https://ko-fi.com/rebeccaevita/shop
#BookSky #SFF #Scifi
Queen Em @queenemerald.bsky.social Autistic, agender. Happily married with 2 great kids. Veteran. Witch. Magician. They /she/he
💡💡💡💡
#fcknzs #fckmaga #acab #taco
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
Fee Thomas @feethomas.bsky.social Author of two poetry books: Owning the Color Blue, Dreams Never Die.
Poet, Artist, Activist, Photographer, Student, Mental Health Advocate. feethomas.blue
Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social Author of four books of poetry, most recently Reckon (2018). New chapbook with Baseline Press: https://www.baselinepress.ca/#/jacaranda-trees-mexico-city-steve-mcormond-2025
Bob Mayer @bobmayer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author in multiple genres. West Point grad. Special Forces disabled veteran. Science & empathy over ignorance & hate. 1 day at a time. Be nice. Bronx born, now on Maggie's Farm www.bobmayer.com
Emma Miller 😁📚🍁 @emmadmiller.bsky.social Canadian Author & Creator of "The Doonies" children's book series! 📚🍁 https://thedoonies.ca
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Bette P @bette56.bsky.social Poet | Writer | Creative contibutor | 🌈 Immigrant | Synesthete | Toronto, Ontario
Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social Poet (Brussels Review, Merion West, Pictura, Poets.ca & more), community acupuncturist in #YYJ. Add alt-text to images if you want me to follow you.
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Canada
Joni Page Author @jonipageauthor.bsky.social Wild child. Optimist.
Writer of captivating, happy tales.
Author of Beach Shorts - a Sandthology & The Feminist EarthMother PartyGirl.
Website: www.jonipage.com
Gratefully living on Kaurna Country, Australia.
Mike Slavin @mikeslavinauthor.bsky.social Author of fast-paced action-oriented crime/ thrillers.
-KIll Crime: a Vigilante series
-Spike, 35 Kills and Smiling (Think Reacher meets Dexter)
West Pointer, Support Democracy. Always learning.
Free prequel at the website
https://mikeslavinauthor.com/
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)
Chris Hutchinson @unfamiliarweather.bsky.social Poet, Educator, Human
https://chris-hutchinson.com/chris-hutchinsons-poetry-books/
Jen Falkner @jenfalkner.bsky.social she/her
Author of SUSANNA HALL, HER BOOK (Fish Gotta Swim Editions) and ABOVE DISCOVERY (Invisible Publishing)
Trying to learn Welsh, obsessed with standing stones
linktr.ee/jenfalkner
DM De Alwis @dmdealwis.bsky.social Author 🇨🇦🇱🇰🍀 In this life or the next... blending mythology with fantasy. I also write Children's books.🦁👹 Myths& Samsara podcast. https://dmdealwis.com/quick-links/
2nd-generation Canadian; open-source circles know me as dcor.
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
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
@thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social 
Maria Meindl @mmeindl.bsky.social Writer, historian, Feldenkrais practitioner.
Booster of works-in-progress at Draft Reading Series.
http://mariameindl.com
http://draftreadings.com
Checking this account once a week or so.
Laken Brimicombe @lakenbrimicombe.bsky.social 🇨🇦Middle grade writer
🐈⬛Cat mom
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.
jade y. liu @jadeyuliu.bsky.social writer, dreamer | she/她 | articling student ⚖️ | poems @ jadeyliu.weebly.com | cognitive metaphor enthusiast!
Amy Lilwall @amylilwall.bsky.social Writer. Novelist. Very bad at social media.
amylilwall.co.uk
Frances Roberts Reilly @francespoesis.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Roma, Poet, Author, Podcaster, Playwright, Filmmaker, Storyteller, Documentarian, Harpist, Welsh Gypsy, Nan.
Author of Parramisha: A Romani Poetry Collection & Akekoi: A Romani Memoir
Poetry Wales & Firebird Awards.
Producer, Watershed Writers Podcast.
Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor.
Chair, The Writers' Union of Canada
The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024)
The Pollination Field (Turnstone, 2025)
www.kimfahner.com
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
Amy Maltman 🇨🇦 Author @amymaltmanwrites.bsky.social Disabled bi ex-pharmacist (chronic pain, syringomyelia, POTS)
Snail-paced indie author
Tree-hugging vegan atheist
Crazy rat lady
💜 Supernatural, Louden Swain, D&D, Alexander Skarsgård 💜
Trying to Always Keep Fighting #AKF
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
Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Xeric gardener. OPENING (Glass Poetry, 2026). REMAINDER (Bull City Press, 2025). FRUITFUL (Driftwood Press, 2024). Poems in Best of the Net, West Branch, phoebe, Cincinnati Review, etc. More poems at https://linktr.ee/stefaniekirbypoetry
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
Author Suzy Davies Award-Winning Children's Books and YA LitFic @birdwriterwrites.bsky.social Cheese lover, animal/nature admirer, movie & anime lover, loves music. I love writing children's and ya books. Children's lyricist and composer. Children's Musicals.
NO CHAT UNLESS I KNOW YOU
BULLIES OUT
IF YOU COPY MY LINKS BOOK HASHTAGS please.
John Fullerton @fictionarrative.bsky.social Thriller writer. Latest, Oceans Deep, due May 25, 2027. Book news can be found on my website https://johnfullerton.org and most of my novels can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/author/jfullerton
#writingcommunity #author
Alie Dumas-Heidt, Author @aliedh.bsky.social Author of the detective thriller, The Myth Maker.
Host of The Writer's Journey podcast.
Wife, mom, dog mom, forest dweller.
Forever Ally.
Short but fierce. www.aliedh.com
Fay Thompson, Author/Artist @faythompsonauthor.bsky.social I write Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror that is slightly bent, a bit fun and certain to be an adventure. I also art. I encourage writers of all levels with writing. Nevada! NO AI here. DMs closed!
Liz Gauffreau @lizgauffreau.bsky.social Fiction Writer in Poet's Clothing ~ https://lizgauffreau.com ~ https://substack.com/@lizgauffreau
I have published a historical coming-of-age novel and 2 photopoetry collections. My latest novel was inspired by the closure of the last poor farm in VT.
Shamana @shamana58.bsky.social Writer, singer, photographer, carbon-based life form. I write poetry, magical reality fiction, and blues songs. Sensitivity consultant. Occasional juggler, and vexillologist, aspiring lamp shade.
Paul Lucas @plucas.bsky.social Writer and illustrator of scifi, fantasy, and erotica. Will post both mainstream and nsfw material. All creative work posted here is100% Human-Made. No AI! https://subscribestar.adult/plucas
Lady on a Wire @ladyonawire.bsky.social Shannon Lynette is an author, poet, and editor. She’s also the owner of Lady Chaos Press, a small independent press. ❤️🔪🖤
Read more about her sh!t at www.ladyonawire.com
@jeanettelynes.bsky.social @jeanettelynes.bsky.social Writer, writing teacher. Upcoming novel on women codebreakers in WW Two. The Paper Birds. Summer 2025! Professor of Creative Writing, University of Saskatchewan
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.
Sarah writes...a lot @sarah-writesalot.bsky.social Sarah here! (she/they, 24) Theatre artist, culture critic, educator. Lover of cold brew coffee, horror movies, and dragons. linktree: https://linktr.ee/sarahhajkowski
Terry Birdgenaw @terrybirdgenaw.bsky.social Award-winning author of The Antunite Chronicles (Antifascist Allegorical Fiction), Satirist, Professor, Democracy Defender, Resists Autocracy, Writing for freedom, Check out my humorous Orwellian stories.
terrybirdgenaw.com
https://linktr.ee/terrybirdgenaw
Tea Gerbeza @teagerbeza.bsky.social She/her. Disabled neuroqueer writer and artist. Author of How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2025).
teagerbeza.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
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social Full prof, biblical studies, but in a cool way. Author, dreamweaver etc.
MA|DE @madeprojects.bsky.social MA|DE (est. 2018) is a collaborative writing entity, the joint authorship of Mark Laliberte + Jade Wallace —> Debut poetry collection, ZZOO, available to order now (5 covers to choose from!): https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/zzoo-made
Carmen Wiigwaas Craig @carmunist.bsky.social Learning and teaching my language—Nishnaabemwin. Jijaak ndoodem. Consultant at Oodenaw.com. Award-winning short fiction author and poet. Developmental editor at DarlingAxe.com. Kidlit, YA, hist fic, women's lit. She/they
Dora Dueck @doradueck.bsky.social Writer. Reader. 6th book, "Like a River Divides the Earth" just released. Five books of fiction, and a collection of essays and memoir. I live in British Columbia, Canada.
Website and occasional blog: doradueck.com .
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 🏳️🌈
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
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.
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
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/
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.
Lindsay C @copperfire.bsky.social Fan of dogs. Animal welfare advocate. Poet.
Stu @clough.fyi Marketer. Dad. Poet. Data enthusiast. Footie fan. No particular order, combinations possible.
MA Poetry alum. | Manchester Writing School
Currently pitching debut collection, The Premiad
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
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). 
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 
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
Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social I'm the author of 80+ books and an established editor who has helped more than 400 authors achieve their publishing dreams. My books include writing guidebooks, a novel, children's books and more. Visit inventingrealityediting.com
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
Poetry Emma Meier @poetryemmameier.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Reader. Thinker. ✍️📖
Farah 🌿 @farahghafoor.bsky.social poet and author of Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025) 🌿 | she/her | Tkaronto | farahghafoor.com | farah.substack.com | IG @/shadowpricepoems
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
NO DMs | Terfs & Narcissists DNI
salem paige @salempaige.bsky.social they/them. 25. author of books and a little zine. on my fruity bullshit. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇨🇦
Clare Starling @clarestarling.bsky.social Poetry and milky tea - ‘Magpie’s Nest’, won the Frosted Fire First Pamphlet Award 2023
dave atwater @daveatwater.bsky.social poetry
random thoughts
haiku limericks micropoetry
Steven B. Epstein @stevenbauthor.bsky.social Author of bestselling true crime books Deadly Heist, Murder on Birchleaf Drive, Evil at Lake Seminole, and Extreme Punishment StevenBEpstein.com #truecrime
Duane Simolke @duanesimolke.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 I wrote scifi Sons of Taldra, the free scifi ebook Degranon, and slice-of-life fiction The Acorn Stories. Cowrote fantasy adventure The Return of Innocence. 📚🪐 https://linktr.ee/DuaneSimolke
ELANA MCDOUGALL 🇨🇦 @elanamcdougall.bsky.social Author of The Eldritch of Hallows series #fantasy 🌶️🌶️#romance #danger #KU
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B088KQMKWZ
Owned by 4 rescue dogs-2 dachshunds, a chihuahua & a chiweenie
Coffee is life ☕️ NO DMs ❌if not friends
Holly R. Valakresch @hollyvalakresch.bsky.social Author & Screenwriter | I 🩶 Arts & Sciences, Sculpting, Cartography, Cooking, Baking, Fashion, Fitness, Fairytales, & Historical Things.
https://linktr.ee/hollyvalakresch
Ian Rodrigues @ianwrites.bsky.social Writer of poetry and books for children of all ages. 12x12 and CANSCAIP member. Atheist. Vegan. POC. Trail runner. Leftist. He/Him. 🇨🇦
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
Ash @ashjenn6.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Poet. Technical writer 4 pay. WWU MFA ‘22. EIC flowlitmag.bsky.social
Tina Brobby @tbrobbs.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇬🇭🇬🇧 CNF Writer, photographer, lawyer, adoptee. Memoir in the making.
https://christinabrobby.com
Vijay Joshi @vjwords.bsky.social Poet...Poems are a very constructive channel for inner self, to link it with the world out there...
#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetry #poem
Tess Taylor @tessathon.bsky.social Poet. Gardener. Writer.
https://www.tess-taylor.com/
Colin Dardis @purelypoetry.bsky.social poet / editor / sound artist / creative human thing. Edits Poem Alone blog. Publisher at Rancid Idols Productions. Co-runs Purely Poetry open mic night in Belfast. Latest collection 'with the lakes' available from above/ground press.
Síodhna @siodhna.bsky.social #Dublin based #poet #nature lover. Writes on Substack under @theseainme. Here's my about page https://theseainme.substack.com/about
I like to write about the things people don't talk about through the intimacy of #poetry
Leonard Zinovyev @leonardzinovyev.bsky.social Digital art director. Visual artist, poet & fiction writer. Surreal and satire. ⚠️
-My not-so-official website
https://leonardzinovyev.ucoz.com
-Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/leonard.z.artist/
-Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/leonardzinovyev/
🇮🇱💪
Ursula Pflug @pflugu.bsky.social Author, editor, collaborator, coach. 11 books, authored or edited, in Canada, the US and the UK with Edge, Tightrope, Blue Denim, PS, Snuggly, Inanna. 100ish stories in Strange Horizons, Fantasy, Lightspeed, Leviathan, LCRW, litmags.
https:/ursulapflug.ca
Hannah Rose| Author @hrosewrite.bsky.social Romance writer. Former journalist. 🩷🤍🧡🏳️🌈 she/her. ADHD.
Debut novel WHY DO YOU LIKE ME? out now!
https://books2read.com/u/38qzqr
Hrosewrite.com
Nicola Vulpe @nicolavulpe.bsky.social Poet, writer, sometime thinker, indignado
🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🍉 🇺🇦 🇮🇸 🇨🇺
Laura Raine wrote a book 🫣 @laurarainewrites.bsky.social 👩🏼💻Domestic Suspense #writer
Currently #querying: Killing Asher Stewart 💙📚
cheese board enthusiast / book collector / rescue dog mama
TBR status: overwhelmingly full
Patrick Connors @81912con.bsky.social Author of The Other Life and The Long Defeat: https://mosaicpress.ca/products/the-long-defeat