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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
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Emma Miller 😁📚🍁 @emmadmiller.bsky.social Canadian Author & Creator of "The Doonies" children's book series! 📚🍁 https://thedoonies.ca
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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Sheelagh Caygill 🇨🇦 @sheelaghcaygill.bsky.social Founder OnCreativeWriting.com - podcast and author interviews. Writer, reader, podcaster, journalist. 🍁 MA Contemporary Creative Writing, NN London | OnCreativeWriting.com | SheelaghCaygill.com | https://linktr.ee/Sheelagh_Caygill
Alex Shams @alexshams.bsky.social Writer, Anthropologist, Editor @ajammc.bsky.social
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Qurat Dar @quratdar.bsky.social "Non-Prophet" available now: https://gooselane.com/products/non-prophet
Qurat is pronounced "Qur-rut" with a soft "t."
Lola Opatayo @lolaopatayo.bsky.social Writer, editor, podcast host (journeyoftheart.com). Empowering writers (wordcaps.com).
Julia Lin @juliaslin.bsky.social author: www.julialinbooks.com, #WritingCommunity #StopAsianHate #TransRightsAreHumanRights; #BLM; #Canada; She/her
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive
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Eleanor Fuller @eleanorfuller.bsky.social Winner Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction 2023; finalist Fiddlehead Short Fiction Prize 2023 & Cambridge Short Story Prize 2024. Edith Wharton WiR 2024. Words: The Waxed Lemon, The Moth, Malahat, The New Quarterly & other lovelies. CCA-funded sabbatical!
Kyle Flemmer @kyleflemmer.com writer, publisher, digital media artist
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Supergiants coming 2025 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
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Reza Zia-Ebrahimi @rezaziaebrahimi.bsky.social Historian of Islamophobia and antisemitism at King's College London. Woke. Citizen of nowhere. Traitor to the Aryan race. Islamo-gauchiste. ✊🏽🇵🇸 فلسطین.
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Quebec Writers' Federation @officialqwf.bsky.social Supporting, connecting, and inspiring Quebec writers
Ontario Book Publishers Organization @obpoofficial.bsky.social The OBPO is your connection to Ontario's vibrant literary scene. Posts via Holly and Sarah. Visit our website to learn more: https://obpo.ca
All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social An independent online bookstore and blog showcasing and selling Canada's best in indie books. Visit us at alllitup.ca
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social SF/F Writer | Aurora Award winner | World Fantasy & Locus Award finalist | Editor, Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, SFWA Nebula Award Showcase anthologies | Ansible Press | Tesla: The Life & Times Podcast | Bonsai enthusiast | 🇨🇦+🇺🇦+🌳
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.
Reading Islamic Texts @islamtexts.bsky.social Islamic studies researcher ⚡ Sharing beautiful & fascinating Islamic art, thought and history. ✨ Original translations of Classical Arabic
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Ann Y.K. Choi @annykchoi.bsky.social Author & Educator at Simon & Schuster Canada, Orca Book Publishers
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Barbara Tran @staranise99.bsky.social Poet, writer, K9 behaviour geek
Precedented Parroting 🦜 (poetry)
Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award
#anstrutherbooks | @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
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Tale Foundry @talefoundry.bsky.social Fiction inspiration, writing discussion, weird old machines. A show about made up stuff for people who like to make stuff up!
University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies @uoftscs.bsky.social Advancing careers and expanding horizons through innovative non-degree courses delivered in class and online by instructors who are leaders in their fields.
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. 
River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social A ragtag team of creatives celebrating amazing CanLit. Join the party, pals!
Est. 2010.
Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com Indie bookshop in Paris📚Online store ships to the world 🌎 Listen to our podcast here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company 🎧
Iryn Tushabe (she/her) @wordsweaver.bsky.social EVERYTHING IS FINE HERE (House of Anansi, 2025) available now from your favourite indie bookstore.
Native of Uganda transplanted to the Canadian Praries on Treaty 4 (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Iryntushabe.com
@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social Book*hug Press is a radically optimistic Canadian-owned publisher working at the forefront of contemporary book culture.🍁
Nein.Quarterly @neinquarterly.bsky.social A Compendium of Utopian Negation. Editor: Eric Jarosinski, Failed Intellectual (Emeritus)
New York, NY
Derek Mascarenhas (he/him) @dpmasca.bsky.social Author of | COCONUT DREAMS🌴🥥 | 100 CHAPATIS & 🥭THE MANGO MONSTER🥭 |✍🏾spec novel | Goan | tea & fruit lover | www.derekmascarenhas.ca
Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social historian, translator, author deeply committed to India's rich cultural heritage and diverse civilizational legacy. Author of the Delhi trilogy and In Search of the Divine: Living Histories of Sufism in India, A Firestorm in Paradise
Sufism on Bluesky @sufism.bsky.social Curator of conversations about Sufism, amplifying progressive Islamic voices on Bluesky.
Omid Safi @brotheromid.bsky.social Islamic studies prof (Duke U). Jedi-wannabe.
Rumi, Martin, Malcolm, and my Momma's love.
Leads spiritually oriented Turkey & Morocco, Spain & Umrah.
Teaches online http://illuminatedcourses.com
Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social Author of Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness (Guernica 2024) A Place for People Like Us (Guernica 2025)
Vidal, At Bay Press, 2026
For All the Men... reissue (Guernica 2028)
Fiction and art enthusiast. Humber School for Writers faculty.
Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social Assistant Professor Communication & Media Studies, Memorial University, Newfoundland | Feminist Archives & Tech | Artist Archives & Networks | Digital Archives | Critical DH | Curator-poet-critic | they/she
Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social Novelist (Radioland, The Society of Experience) / short fiction / essays.
Agent: Kelvin Kong, K2 Literary
Former film/TV post supervisor, currently Registered Psychotherapist in private practice
Haunting the margins
Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social Writes. Mothers. Neurodiverges.
Poet Laureate of Scugog Township.
📚: Fuse (CNF), Rebellion Box (poems), Widow Fantasies (stories), The Unravelling of Ou (novel).
Co-host of HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM & host at The New Books Network.
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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
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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
Chyx Xyng (they / them) @chyx-xyng.bsky.social A Toronto-based writer currently working on a genre-nonconforming novel about gender dysphoria, forbidden love, and acceptance over three generations of gender nonconformists.
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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social Award-winning independent literary press.
Read independently. https://linktr.ee/biblioasis_books
Manahil @manahil.bsky.social Writer, artist, editor, etc.
Author of Heliotropia (Brick Books 2024)
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The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social A charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Hamilton, Ontario. 
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JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social Toronto Reading Series
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Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her.
Author of MYTH. Editor of AS THE EARTH DREAMS (House of Anansi, 2025)
www.teresemasonpierre.com
Porochista Khakpour @porochista.bsky.social author | 5th book: Tehrangeles @pantheonbooks (2024) | contrib editor @evergreenreview | Iranian | she/her | agent Susan Golomb | IG pchza | www.porochistakhakpour | porochista@gmail.com
Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social Human poet/artist. Latest book NMLCT: POEMS from ECW Press. Professor at Sheridan College. Senior editor at Wolsak and Wynn. Editor-in-chief at The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing. wererabbit on Bandcamp. https://linktr.ee/paulvermeersch
Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social SFF writer—Year’s Best Canadian SFF, Fantasy Mag, THIS Mag. @SFWA. Banff Sci-fi ‘25. 6X Aurora Finalist. Ignyte Finalist. Loves fairy tales, comics, games, D&D.
Publisher @augursociety — Augur, Tales & Feathers, Augur Books.
Contact @ www.kerrycbyrne.com
Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social Stories for the futures we need | SFF and dream realism | Canadian, Indigenous & worldwide creators | Pub @kercoby COO @suntorya CPO @teresempierre
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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet.