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Fawn Parker @fparker.bsky.social Woman PhD
Teresa Wong @teresawong.bsky.social Canadian cartoonist and author of graphic memoirs DEAR SCARLET (2019) and ALL OUR ORDINARY STORIES (2024). Comics in The Believer, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and The Walrus.
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Ellen Chang-Richardson @ehjchang.bsky.social poet • hybrid genre writer • judicial assistant • editor • co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series
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📚 Blood Belies (2024) • Through the Eyes of Another (2027)
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JJ Lee @jjleeshouldwrite.bsky.social JJ Lee in New Westminster BC
he him 李仕深
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Holidays 2025, check out the latest anthology of worst-case-scenario Christmases: BETTER THIS YEAR
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Emily Bednarz @emilybednarz.bsky.social Writer, editor, and graphic / web designer based in Kjipuktuk / Halifax.
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(ottawa) small press almanac @smallpressalmanac.bsky.social , a collective of Ottawa small and micro press literary publishers : https://smallpressalmanac.blogspot.com/
Margo LaPierre @margolapierre.bsky.social Freelance literary editor, poet, writer. UBC MFA fiction grad. Editor @ Arc Poetry Magazine. Mad & queer. 🏳️🌈She/her. White settler living in Algonquin Anishinaabe territory. i of vii collective. margolapierreeditor.com.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social Vancouver journalist. Strives to tell unique stories.
http://moremcbarges.ca
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Kris Bertin @hobtown.bsky.social Please read my HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES but also my regular stories krisbertin.com hobtown.com
Nalo Hopkinson - Jamaica Ginger & Other Concoctions @nalohop.bsky.social Award-winning author of prose & comics, maker of food and small objects she/her/hers http://nalohopkinson.com
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
Lori Hahnel @lorihahnel.bsky.social Writer. Latest novel Flicker, U of C Press Brave & Brilliant Series, 2023. Vermin, winner of 2022 Alberta Short Story Collection Award. At work on a novel based on the life of Clara Schumann. I block fools.
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Michael V. Smith @michaelvsmith.bsky.social That writer performer filmmaker radical faerie professor curator consummate host and adorable gender-radical queerdo guy.
Laura Rock Gaughan @laurairock.bsky.social Reading, writing, walking in Ontar-i-air-i-air-io (Can-Am). Publishing advocate. Nonprofit consultant. Author of a short story collection (MOTHERISH), essays & more TK. She/her
Adèle Barclay @adelebarclay.bsky.social writer, editor, creative writing instructor | she/they |
author of If I Were in a Cage I'd Reach Out for You (Nightwood, '16) & Renaissance Normcore (Nightwood '19)
working on: cnf, fiction, poetry
Jason Purcell @jasonvpurcell.bsky.social SWOLLENING (2022, Arsenal Pulp Press) | Treaty 6. | they/them | http://jasonpurcell.ca
Kirsh (she/her) @kirshwords.bsky.social Writer, bookseller, publishing professional, former young.
A co-host of Wax Poetic on CFRO 100.5.
Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social FRSC Professor in Halifax🍁. Member of @dalfaculty.bsky.social . Locked out for 30 days in 2025. Views here mine only. Rebleats≠agreement.
"it is not Air / That from a thousand Lungs reeks back to thine" (Armstrong 1744). Silence=Spread🦠 #COVIDisAirborne
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!
Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social Director of Creative Writing Program, Assoc Prof, University of Georgia l Translator of five books l Harvard Radcliffe Fellow l NEA Fellow l How to Date a Fanatic (Harper Via 2026) www.arunikashyap.com l 🏳️🌈 He/Him l https://www.instagram.com/arunikashyap/
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Eleni Polychronakos @heleneleni.bsky.social PhD Candidate: autobiographical genres, oral history, creative writing, gender studies, feminism. Reader. Writer. Swimmer. Dreamer. She/Her 🌈☮️
https://storytelling.concordia.ca/eleni-polychronakos/ 
Conyer Clayton @conyerclayton.bsky.social Writer, Poet, and Editor from Louisville, KY in Canada | the lake-shaped excuse, Oct 2026 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social | 2025 MacDowell Fellow | conyerclayton.com | they/them
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
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
@delbauchery.bsky.social @delbauchery.bsky.social Writer, poet, farter.
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
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Sandra, present perfect @sgwong.com multi genre author weirdo • nerd of many things • disabled • demi • proud mum of 🏳️⚧️ darlings • space dust coalesced into dreams • cis she/her • BigVirgoEnergy™️ • Treaty 6
🎙️ @multitudespodcast.bsky.social
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candie tanaka @candietanaka.bsky.social #Writer Trans (They/He) Hāfu ハーフ @anvilpress
@guernica_ed @orcabook #Artist #Librarian on Stolen Indigenous land | BFA Emily Carr University | MFA University of Alberta | SFU Creative Writing | BCIT New Media | 
Saleema Nawaz @saleema.bsky.social Writer (TV, novels, musicals). Toronto & Montreal. Books: SONGS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, BONE & BREAD, MOTHER SUPERIOR. TV: MURDOCH MYSTERIES. Former columnist, game writer, narrative designer, person who liked being online.
Liz Johnston @lizjohnston.bsky.social She/her. Writer, book nerd & editor. https://liz-johnston.ca. THE FALL-DOWN EFFECT out now from @bookhugpress.bsky.social. Order here: https://shoplocal.bookmanager.com/isbn/9781771669627
Isabella @isabellawangbc.bsky.social 
Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social writer • editor Major 7th Mag • BETTER TO BEG out with House of Vlad
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Sydney Hegele @sydhegele.bsky.social Author of The Pump (2021) Bird Suit (2024) Bad Kids (2026) @invisibooks.bsky.social
Danny Ramadan @dannyramadan.com 🏳️🌈 - Syrian-Canadian author
Crooked Teeth, The Foghorn Echoes, The Clothesline Swing, and The Salma Books.
Lambda winner 🏆. Governor General Finalist 🏆.
Former refugee.
I don’t bite, unless you ask nicely!
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Joanna Pearson @pearsonality.bsky.social 📍Chapel Hill-Carrboro, NC
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
Casey Plett @caseyplett.com Publisher (LittlePuss Press)
Professor (Ohio University)
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Athens, OH / Windsor, ON (forever Winnipeg and Southern Manitoba)
Alicia Elliott @wordsandguitar.bsky.social Mohawk from Six Nations. Writer and Editor. Pro wrestling and makeup enthusiast. Horror and nail polish fanatic. She/her. Lit agent: Ron Eckel Speaking agent: rob AT transatlanticagency.com. AND THEN SHE FELL. A MIND SPREAD OUT ON THE GROUND. 
Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social one vile task after another. EARTH FILLED WITH BLOOD - a novel forthcoming from Gallery Books in 2027.
author of The Marigold, WASTE, All We Want is Everything, and co-author of The Handyman Method. www.andrewfsullivan.com
Pulpfiction Books @pfbvan.bsky.social YVR's legendary independent bookstore. Est. 6/00. 'The pessimism of the intellect, the optimism of the will.' (Gramsci). 2026 Living Wage employer.
Jen Sookfong Lee @jensookfonglee.bsky.social Still an author, still an editor, new book THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN out now, it might scare you
Christine Estima @cestima.bsky.social Author of THE SYRIAN LADIES BENEVOLENT SOCIETY (2023) and LETTERS TO KAFKA (2025) Bylines: The New York Times, The Walrus, Observer, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Vice, Chatelaine, and more. Free Palestine🇵🇸 Free Lebanon🇱🇧
Amy Jones @amylaurajones.bsky.social Writer, manatee enthusiast, keeper of the Great Potato 
Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com it's "see-sa"
hot takes bureau chief @thenarwhal.ca
writer @thewalrus.ca
adjunct prof @ubcjournalism.bsky.social
journalist, nêhiyaw, mom, roller skater
she/her ✌️michellecyca.com
Zoe Whittall @zoewhittall.bsky.social TV writer/novelist. My latest books: No Credit River, Wild Failure, & The Fake. The Best Kind of People was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Canadian Screen Award winner. Available to staff on your TV show. https://linktr.ee/Zoewhittall
Jennica Harper @jennica.bsky.social TV showrunner (JANN, Run the Burbs), TV writer (Crew Girl, Murder in a Small Town, Private Eyes: West Coast, SkyMed & more), poet (Bounce House), she/her
Lisa Brideau @lisabrideau.bsky.social author of ADRIFT (out now), climate change policy nerd, weaver, ballroom dancer, cookie addict. In Vancouver. www.lisabrideau.com
Manahil @manahil.bsky.social Writer, artist, editor, etc.
Author of Heliotropia (Brick Books 2024)
www.manahilbandukwala.com
Jen F. (she/her) says Black Lives Matter @jdotferg.bsky.social Michif/white, auntie, feminist & accomplice w/ a PhD. Kickass demi. THE SUMMER OF BITTER AND SWEET (2022), THOSE PINK MOUNTAIN NIGHTS (Sept 12, 2023).
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Jen Neale @jennyanne.bsky.social Writer and editor. Author of Land Mammals and Sea Creatures (ECW, Spring 2018) and some short fictions.
andrea bennett (they/them) @akkabah.bsky.social Senior editor at The Tyee. Author of the essay collections Hearty: On Cooking, Eating and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence (ECW Press) & Like a Boy but Not a Boy (Arsenal Pulp). Co-editor of the BC bestselling Points of Interest.
ambrose albert @ambrosealbert.bsky.social he/him | il * transmasc poet & community organizer * bec & call w/ Nightwood Editions 2018 * former Fredericton poet laureate * 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social Writing about belonging & diaspora. Author of the memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER (Ohio State Univ Press, 2024). https://linktr.ee/graceprasad?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=89b54520-7f8d-4182-91dd-cb30d74a6cd7
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
Anne Elliott @anneswriting.bsky.social She/Her. Avid reader. BSc Env Sci. MH. 🇨🇦🇮🇳🇳🇴. Kitchen dancer. ✍🏽 @brightflash1000, @clovesliterary, @cloudlakelit, @nytimesTLS, @EmergeJournal
sarah berman @sarahberms.bsky.social author of don't call it a cult
podcast producer
sarah.berms@gmail.com
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social Writer/Prof/Other. All pronouns. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/jbattis
John Elizabeth Stintzi @jestintzi.bsky.social Pre-eminent unknown trans writer and Grendel’s emergency contact. Call me Jes. [They/She]
📚: BAD HOUSES, MY VOLCANO, VANISHING MONUMENTS, JUNEBAT
Next: GUEST SERVICES AT THE MUSEUM OF SEXUAL DEVIANCE (novel, spring 2028).
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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/
Tolu Oloruntoba @tolu.ca Bumbler, quitter of things, poet, and project management person (in that order). My new Collection, UNRAVEL, was a National Book Critics Circle finalist.
Opinions mine. https://bio.site/tolu.ca he/him
Nikki Reimer @nikkireimer.bsky.social Your favourite Baba Yaga's favourite Baba Yaga.
Digital comms in higher ed, MA in Comms student, grief writer, cat guardian. Latest book: No Town Called We (Talon Books, 2023)
Poet, artist, white queer non-binary disabled settler in Treaty 7.
Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social She/her. Li'l EdTech; big mouth. Settler. Feminist. Reader, writer, teacher, scholar, doozer.
Podcasts too much: creator of Community of Praxis; co-host of @hkhspod.bsky.social.
Opinions yours.
https://sabbaticast.brennaclarkegray.ca
EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social bostony. vancouvery. poet laureate of Vancouver, Canada as of Jan ‘25 for 3yrs. eleekg.com It’s pronounced ELLY!
Monica Wang @monicawang.bsky.social Taiwanese Canadian in Europe. Writing in Electric Lit, Southword, Salamander, Augur, Malahat Review, EVENT, Banshee, etc. W&A Working-Class Writers' Prize shortlist. WHEN SAD ONES GO OUTSIDE (Black Sunflowers Press). she/they
Samantha eff Jones @sjonespoet.bsky.social Earth scientist. Poet. Editor. Arctic. Geohumanities. Black Canadian & white settler. Books: Attic Rain (NeWest) & I'll Get Right On It! (Roseway). Greyhound enthusiast. Speaks/Parle/Puhun English, mal français, vähän suomea. https://linktr.ee/JonesYYC
Krista Eide @kristaeide.bsky.social writer // managing editor of @eventmags.bsky.social // film & tv worker
https://linktr.ee/kristaeide
Aaron Kreuter @aaronkreuter.bsky.social Rubble Children: Seven and a Half Short Stories, out now! Lake Burntshore, April 22 2025. Ludic Luddite. #BLM #FreePalestine #LandBack
Lorri Neilsen Glenn 🇨🇦 @lorri.bsky.social writer (poetry/essays), editor, instructor, researcher, prof emerita, ex-poet laureate, RRMetis #womannotlady #NovaScotia #Ukings #MSVU #CanadaStrong 🇨🇦
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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social Formerly the writer formerly known as Matthew Salesses
Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social Author of SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS (2022) and TOUGH LOVE (March 2027) / tajjaisen.com
Annick MacAskill @thisisannick.bsky.social Poet
Latest: Votive (Gaspereau Press, 2024)
Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022) #GGBooks2022
Murmurations, No Meeting Without Body, five from hem, Brotherly Love: Poems of Sappho and Charaxos
annickmacaskill.com
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
Nancy Lee (she/her) @pantsmclee.bsky.social Co-editor of SHARP NOTIONS: ESSAYS FROM THE STITCHING LIFE
(2023). Author of WHAT HURTS GOING DOWN, THE AGE and DEAD GIRLS. Corgi fanatic. Always stitching.
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/
Marisa Grizenko @marisagrizenko.bsky.social Reviews editor for EVENT magazine. Writer of Plain Pleasures, an occasional newsletter about books. She/her. Vancouver → Montreal 
Erika Thorkelson @ethorkel.bsky.social Writer of CNF/fiction, instructor at Emily Carr U and writing consultant. Recent bylines at The Walrus, University Affairs, etc. She/ her https://linktr.ee/ethorkel
Chris Thomas @thechristhomas.bsky.social Just a nerdy dude from Halifax. Fan of video games, board games, pro-wrestling, television and dessert