James Downe @james-downe-author.bsky.social James is a fantasy writer and graphic designer in Toronto, Ontario. 🇨🇦 He is the author of the Sisters of Jade Trilogy ('Sisters of Jade', 'Sorrow & Shroud', 'The Gorgon Court'), and the short story collection 'Salt & Cinder'.
www.jamesdowne.com
@Shamlet @shamlet.bsky.social HS English teacher in Canada. Here on weekends and holidays; during the work week, elsewhere and sometimes deactivated.
@lunarbaboon.bsky.social @lunarbaboon.bsky.social 
Meredith Harris | Client-First Editing @merediththeeditor.bsky.social freelance academic editor | clarifying language & verifying references so academics can share their ideas with less friction | I don't use AI in my work, just my brain | www.clientfirstediting.com
timbeyan.bsky.social @timbeyan.bsky.social Australian nature photographer exploring macro, wildlife and landscape photography. Sometimes you’ll get the thought behind the picture but quite often that thought is “pretty!”.
https://www.tanglednetphoto.com/
K. R. Wilson 🇨🇦 @krwbooks.bsky.social The wart on the frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of Canadian Literature. www.krwilson.ca No A.I.
Stan On Guard now available.
Andrew Varga @andrewvargaauthor.bsky.social YA Historical Fiction author of the Jump in Time series.
Total History Geek. Canadian.
www.andrewvargaauthor.com
#TimeTravelAuthors Starter Pack: https://tinyurl.com/yk68h2nd
#HistoricalFiction Starter Pack: https://tinyurl.com/5n8cnfk5
Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social Jeff Cottrill is a novelist, Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, journalist and spoken-word artist based in Toronto.
Dr Chandra Clarke @chandraclarke.bsky.social Author, recovering/relapsing entrepreneur, professional optimist. Puns *always* intended. New book: Let's Fix This: Cleaner Living in a Dirty World https://bookshop.org/a/87457/9781777217495
Subscribe to my blog: https://chandra-clarke.kit.com/227d9de4b6
comp_phys_marc @marcusedwards.me Quantum physicist and traditionally published science author. Quantum Software Dev II @ Xanadu. Incoming part-time Computing PhD @ Portsmouth. MSc Quantum Info Science @ UWaterloo. BSc CS and Physics @ Laurier. Amateur sci-fi author and maker. Views my own
Paisley Rose @paisley-rose.bsky.social She/They | Canadian author and artist with too many hobbies | Queer AuDHD nerd who loves romance books and video games | Gamer rom-com series available now! GET LUCKY CHARM coming soon!
https://linktr.ee/paisleyrosebooks
Kurt Kirchmeier @kurtkirchmeier.bsky.social Canadian - fantasy/horror writer + nature photographer
Cheyenne Brammah | Iron Dragon @akairondragon.ca 🇨🇦 Author of the All Our Sins Saga (1/7 released)
🌌 Spicy dark scifantasy with nonhuman MCs
📚 Preorder Children of Wrath now! Start here ⤵️
https://ubl.akairondragon.ca/cow
SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social Lord of worms. Home of the hashtag game #SFFChat! Join us every Thursday for a new set of questions, comment on other authors' posts, and make some friends!
Absolutely NO AI allowed.
Melissa Yi (Yuan-Innes) @melissayi.bsky.social Writing, dreaming, occasionally saving lives in the ER
Lisa Carreiro 🇨🇦 @lisaldmcarreiro.bsky.social Science fiction and fantasy writer (she/her)
Foul-mouthed fallen mermaid often found wandering on beaches. Queer, feminist, pinko, atheist, weirdo, Canadian. Works at stringing words together so they occasionally make sense.
No haters! No AI!
Michelle Barker @michellebark.bsky.social Senior #editor at DarlingAxe.com. Award-winning #author, Ironman #triathlete. michellebarker.ca
Abigail de Niverville @adeniverville.bsky.social Author of I KNEW HIM, among other things! Maritimer based in Toronto. I KNEW HIM 2nd EDITION OUT NOW! #YA #poetry
PFP and header images by Cristina Nikolic
https://books2read.com/ap/nBYbWl/Abigail-de-Niverville
https://adeniverville.com/
Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social Purveyor of bleak climate fantasy and, apparently, cookbooks. Newsletter at https://nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter/. https://rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.
Order my newest book, Blight, here: https://books2read.com/u/mYVl9P
Carly Hayward @fromcarly.bsky.social Book Light Editorial & #RevPit editor, Story Chat Radio co-host. Disabled. You'll usually find me cuddling w/ a cup of tea and a great book. She/her
Editing: https://booklighteditorial.com/
Podcast: https://www.storychatradio.com/
Ren Alea @sarensays.bsky.social Words and cats and some other things 🐈⬛📚🐈🧵🎲🎮
Freelance person who lives on/in/because of books 📖🔖
Titanium cyborg since 2021 🔩
renalea.com
Dayna R (they/them) @yourpublishingbff.bsky.social Inclusion-focused line/copy editor and coach specializing in romance, cozy mystery, and children's books. AuDHD. Fat Liberation. 🏳️🌈🇵🇸
www.YourPublishingBFF.com
Robin LeeAnn 🐉🖊️📚 SFF Editor @dragonediting.bsky.social A fantasy and sci-fi editor and writer who is surrounded by puppies and dragons.
🐉 developmental, copyediting, proofreading, query packages
📖 queer 💚🩶🤍🖤🤍💜 (she/her) + disabled
🐉 works with: @phenomenapress.bsky.social 🌈📚♠️
https://dragonediting.carrd.co
Suzanne Craig-Whytock @mydangblog.bsky.social Suzanne Craig-Whytock. Humour blogger, author, publisher. She/her.
Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social Queer Canadian romance author. Occasionally I make things that aren't books. she/her. Against generative AI for any reason.
csrosbak.com
Christine d'Abo @christinedabo.bsky.social Romance author, mom, Canadian. Also writes as Alyse Anders. Repped by Handspun Literary @millercallihan.bsky.social #Romancelandia
www.christinedabo.com
Pamela Weis @pammerdrums.bsky.social Writer (Spec Fic of various flavors, but mostly horror), Reader, Cat Mom, Former Anthropologist, Forever Musician, Web & Email Developer, Associate Editor - Daikaijuzine
https://www.pamelaweis.com
http://instagram.com/pammerdrums/
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
Montreal WorldCon 2027 @montrealworldcon27.bsky.social WorldCon in Montreal in 2027.
https://montreal2027.ca/en
Peggy Blair @peggyjblair.bsky.social Ottawa realtor, retired lawyer, mystery author, small publisher, level 6 boxer, doctorate in Indigenous law, Have a TV-watching dog. www.reboundpress.com!
CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io They/He/She 💀 #ApocalypticallyOptimistic 🌻 Genre-weaver writer radiating happiness w/sloshes of coffee | #HurricaneWriter, #DustWarrior, & Funshine Care Bear
Claris Lam @clarislamauthor.bsky.social Multi-genre author and poet writing to inspire readers with hope, perseverance, creativity, and happy endings.
All links: https://clarislam.carrd.co
Ivanka Fear @ivankawrites.bsky.social Writer of poetry and short stories. Author of the Blue Water Mystery and Jake and Mallory Thriller series.
Will J Fawley @willjfawley.bsky.social Queer Urban Fantasy Author
City of Stars and Shadows is available now!
Queer urban fantasy 🌈🌃
Found family + cosmic magic 🌟
Ash the Stampede @ashthestampede.bsky.social Social justice bard and "avowed asexual", former TTRPG designer, and queer 🔞 romance author writing trans stories.
ashkreider.com
https://ko-fi.com/akreider
#WritingCommunity #QueerWriters
@mahtabnarsimhan.bsky.social @mahtabnarsimhan.bsky.social Writes books for young, curious minds.
Repped by Naomi Davis, Bookends Literary
The Ghost Queen is a JLG Selection : 11 Feb, 2025
https://www.mahtabnarsimhan.com/
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. 
Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social Weird little stories in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and other fantastical places. Always seeking human creativity (NO AI), coffee, and petrichor. https://www.marvincent.com/
Currently in the liminal space known as novel revisions. 📝✍️✍️
Chandra Fisher @thatchandrafisher.bsky.social Author, teacher, mom, witch, cryptid. www.chandrafisherwrites.com
Scarlett Kol @scarlettkol.bsky.social Author. Dreamer. Storyteller.
Ellie Ash @ellie-ash.bsky.social MM fantasy romance author. She/her. Happily ace. Canadian.
ellieashauthor.com
Timothy Forner @timothyforner.com Writes stuff. Cannot pass a dog without wanting to pet it. MG series *Montgomery Schnauzer P.I.* out now!
Official site --> https://MontgomerySchnauzer.com
Books! --> https://books2read.com/u/mvM0Zz
More books! --> https://books2read.com/u/4XO98N
Jason Pchajek @jasonpchajek.bsky.social | He/him | Canadian Cli-Fi Author | Co-Host of The Hockey Show | Winnipegger | Author of “BOUNTY” available now from Turnstone Press | 🇨🇦📚
Website: https://www.jasonpchajekwriting.com/
Dylan Madeley @dylanmadeley.bsky.social Writer. He/him demisexual #bi cis. Stutters. #ActuallyAutistic. Nine self-published fantasy works complete; six currently available via Itchio, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, Apple Books, and Amazon.
https://www.dylanmadeley.com
Jennifer Rahn 🇨🇦 @jennrahn.bsky.social SF and F enthusiast.
deadeyebooks.ca
Direct Sales
payhip.com/DeadeyeBookcraft
I generally don't reply to DMs. (No, I'm not hiring. Sorry.)
Corinne Lewandowski @corinnethewriter.bsky.social Science fiction, fantasy and horror writer from Nova Scotia Canada. I enjoy writing quirky stories with twists. LGBTI diversity is in my writing. I enjoy board games, attempting veggie gardening , cooking and BBQing. Love creating art and crafts
💀kris is editing London and the King of Bone💀 @kamielke.bsky.social they/he | queer🏳️🌈 | Black lives matter | protect trans kids | Free Palestine | Nebula-nominated author | https://linktr.ee/KAMielke | banner art by Ursula Gray
Y. R. Liu @yrliu.bsky.social Fantasy writer. Storyteller. Author of Hallowed, The Whisperer in White, and more. BBNYA 2025 finalist.
📖 yrliu.com
Personal account: @rosefae.bsky.social
David Jón Fuller 🇨🇦 @davidjonfuller.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Author of VENUE 13, out now from Ravenstone. Interested in history, knitting, baking, cycling infrastructure, not necessarily in that order. Talar smá íslensku. He/him.
@mimifloodauthor.bsky.social @mimifloodauthor.bsky.social 
Author Renée Gendron @reneegendron.bsky.social Strong heroines with big hearts that hold their own. Noble heroes that do what's right. #westernromance #romcom #romantasy I bleed #LeafsForever blue
#romancereaders #romancecommunity #Canadianauthor
Alison McGauley @alisonmcgauley.bsky.social #Author of big-hearted stories for little readers. #teacher #parent #chronicillness #IBD #arthritis
https://linktr.ee/alisonmcgauley
Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛♂️🏳️⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social
WARNING: May cause "discomfort & distress" 🏳️⚧️
Dr. Monster (PhD)
E-mail: stevehughwestenra@proton.me
Canadian author of questionable taste. Words in New Edge Sword & Sorcery. Book reviewer. Expert on monsters. HWA. He/him
linktr.ee/SteveWestenra
NO AI
Stephanie Caye @kittensyay.bsky.social Writer, reader, wanderer, constantly wanting to rearrange my furniture. She/her/elle. 82% sarcasm.
Author of the urban fantasy series GRAVITY'S DAUGHTER.
https://stephaniecaye.com#books
#StetChat @stetchat.com #StetChat is an hourlong live conversation on Bluesky for the #editing community.
💬 Next #StetChat: Sept. 2 | Style Sheets
📆 1st & 3rd Wednesdays
🕓 4–5 p.m. ET | 1–2 p.m. PT
⏰ #StetSprint
Tuesdays 2–3 p.m. ET
Fridays 3–4 p.m. ET
stetchat.com
Warren Frey🇨🇦 @freyburg.bsky.social Radio Free Skaro co-host, journalist, podcast cutter-togetherer (listen to @isitcamppod.bsky.social) prose and TTRPG writer. Codex and SFWA member. Hire me at freyburgmedia.com and check out my author site at freyburg.com
Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Writer of comedic mysteries and rom-coms. Professional fiction editor by day. Here to engage with others about writing and keep inspired. Happy member of Sisters in Crime.
Canada Fiction Fest @canadafictionfest.bsky.social Like a great big online book fair, featuring Canadian fiction books and authors from all across the country. 🍁🦫🫎 | FictionFest.ca
(Also @nptwrites.bsky.social)
Steve Luttrell @slluttrell.bsky.social Bookworm. Sky watcher. Intransigent centrist.
Eva Leigh @evaleigh.bsky.social USA Today bestselling author. THE SEA WITCH, a pirate romantasy available now. she/her. evaleighauthor.com
Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com Author of SF/F romance featuring dangerous women & smitten men. SILVER & BLOOD is out now! Game geek. Introvert. She/her. Agent: Sarah Younger.
www.jessiemihalik.com
Conscious Style Guide by Karen Yin @consciousstyleguide.com The essential guide to conscious language, by @karenyin.bsky.social.
➕ Book: The Conscious Style Guide https://karenyin.com/books/csg-book/
➕ Newsletter: https://mail.consciousstyleguide.com/subscribe
➕ Website: https://consciousstyleguide.com
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
EllieAboutTown @ellieabouttown.bsky.social Internationally acclaimed narrative improvisor, award-winning theatre designer, amateur musician, aspiring author, former Jeopardy! contestant.
Also, I read a lot. 🇺🇸 > 🇨🇦.
linktr.ee/ellieabouttown
Dave Dufour 🇨🇦 🍁 @dayvthetraveller.bsky.social Publisher at Flame Arrow Publishing, SFF Author at David M. Snow, Book Coach and Teacher at Spark Word House
Carolyn Charron @carolyncharron.bsky.social Author of Hunting a Sea-Glass Heart (Renaissance Press)
Knitter, sewist, reader and baker, she/her
Erin Rockfort (they/she) @pineapplefury.bsky.social Writer, therapist, podcaster
Possible Programming Lead at Can*Con
Queer and neurodivergent
Beware of reptile
https://erinrockfort.com/
Roy Sarkar @read-roy.bsky.social Mostly freelance ghostwriter (tech) & sometimes fiction writer (current WIP: a magical heist!). Always reading.
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🇨🇦 Canada 🖖🏽 Trekkie
roywrites.com
Straith 🍉 @straith.ca D.A. Straith (they/them). Toronto-adjacent fiction person • nonbinary trans & queer settler • work in Augur, Fusion Fragment, SHATTER THE SUN • Clarion West Novel Workshop ‘25 • #straithenfrancais • agent: Laura Zats @ Headwater • straith.carrd.co
Adriaan 🏳️⚧️🇨🇦 @adriaan.braevitae.com SciFi and Fantasy Author 🇨🇦 at https://braevitae.com. Software Developer. Parent to a very busy 9yo 🤷♀️💗
Trans 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 They/She
Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net Author of THE THEMIS FILES, THE TEST. TAKE THEM TO THE STARS, NO KINDNESS TOO SOON, THE MANY. www.neuvel.net
Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social Canadian writer of short, speculative fiction. Also a Legal Assistant, Martial Artist, Classicist, Pet owner, and Time-traveller. She/They.
https://linktr.ee/melodyemcintyre
Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social Author, editor, angry Asian. Got the basketball jones. BITTER MEDICINE | THE MEMORY HUNTERS. Rep: Anne Tibbets. Hugo finalist and Hugoish winner. @concurrentseattle.bsky.social creator. From the North but I stay in the South.
Links: miatsai.carrd.co
Anna Pele @annapele.bsky.social Writer | Daydreamer | Solo Wanderer | Resister of Labels | Lover of To-Do Lists
In The Shore, The Perch, X-R-A-Y, Sunlight Press
annapele.eu
@erinmhartshorn.bsky.social @erinmhartshorn.bsky.social 
felicia martínez @feliciafm.bsky.social 💀💀Artist and writer of unusual things. Author of The Other Lives of Altagracia Sanchez. California transplant, still a New Mexican at heart. She/her. feliciamartinez.com
social media skeleton @thedeadlands.com @psychopomp.com @fantasymagazine.bsky.social
Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social Addicted to words. Used to be paid by the column-inch. (You can probably still tell.) Gleeful flipper of all the tropes. Queer, disabled, neurospicy thespian. Indie author of Chai and Cat-tales. (About to commit a trilogy.) https://lynnstrong.com
Susannah Betts @sjbetts.bsky.social Writer, artist, reader. Plays too much Stardew. Hates cooking but trying to be better. Based in NYC. 
TriCon @tricon-hfx.bsky.social TriCon is Atlantic Canada's literary conference for speculative fiction. TriCon 2026 will be held May 15th-17th, 2026 at The Westin Nova Scotian.
https://tricon-halifax.com
Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social Writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Currently missing the ocean. 🇨🇦
SHIFTINGS & OTHER COORDINATES OF DISORDER (Pinhole Poetry, 2024).
LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA (Bull City Press, forthcoming 2026)
jenwithwords.opencorners.ca
George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social Author of funny books, cultural omnivore. I like tea and cats, not necessarily in that order. I inhale deeply when first stepping in to bookshops and libraries. 🌈
https://linktr.ee/Georgepenney
Into the Greenwood @intogreenwood.bsky.social Taking aim at the figure of Robin Hood to consider what life was really like during the middle ages, what lessons we can learn from an outlaw hero, and how we reinterpret our legends through the centuries.
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
Doug Savage @savagechickens.bsky.social I'm the creator of Savage Chickens, and Laser Moose & Rabbit Boy.
Sierra Branham @sierrabranham.bsky.social sff author, juggles knives, has goats
LOVE GALAXY (DAW 🇺🇸 & Transworld 🇬🇧 2026)
rep: Cameron McClure @ DMLA
she/her
https://linktr.ee/authorsierrabranham
Liz @clearwords.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Canadian, lover of art (with a weakness for surrealism), books, cats and music. Tech writer, editor and general word nerd with a smattering of accessibility knowledge.
she/her
All requests for money will be blocked.
Elisa - Ellie - Serio 🏴☠️ @eserioart.bsky.social 🌿 freelance fantasy artist and fine artist 🌿pirates obsessed 🏴☠️ 🌿 lucasfilm, paizo, critical role/darrington press, monte cook games, cosmere rpg, IBA13 🌏https://linktr.ee/eserioart 🌿 ✉️ eserio.art@gmail.com | she/her
king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social Order books online or shop in-person at Canada's hardest to find indie bookstore, co-operatively run in Halifax, Nova Scotia, featuring $5 flat rate shipping across Canada!
www.linktr.ee/kingscoopbookstore
Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social librarian and illustrator.
will post later, too sleepy
My shop: https://www.willquinnart.com/shop/prints
Hal-Con @halconscificon.bsky.social Atlantic Canada's Largest Completely Volunteer Run Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Gaming Convention!
Hal-Con 2026: Nov 6-8 at the Halifax Convention Centre, Halifax NS
dinsdale press @dinsdalepress.bsky.social A brand-new Canadian indie micro press where the dream meets the page! Owned by award-nominated author @bgordonauthor.bsky.social and award-winning author and editor @caitgauthor.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/
Genevieve Clovis @cloviseditorial.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Novel editor and writing coach specializing in fantasy, horror, and science fiction books.
cloviseditorial.com
Strong Women, Strange Worlds @swsworlds.bsky.social Our mission is to elevate the voices of women and other underrepresented gender identity authors of science fiction, fantasy, and horror; to highlight stories featuring strong female and non-binary characters; and to share these stories with readers of all
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social SFWA promotes, advances, and supports science fiction and fantasy storytelling by educating, promoting, and empowering its creators and the larger community. This account is for informational purposes.
David R. Slayton (He/Him) @drslayton.bsky.social Gay, geeky author of urban and epic fantasy. Books available everywhere from Blackstone Publishing in print, audio, and ebook. Repped by the Seymour Agency.
Wen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social Chinese American short fiction writer in the Rumpus, Cast of Wonders, Apex & more
WenWenWrites.com
She/her. Codex, SFWA Flight Crew, Viable Paradise, Brave New Weird. Fast talker from the Bronx.
Christiane Knight @christianek.bsky.social AKA Xiane. Author. SFF. Baltimore Fae. Crohn's. ⊙⊝⊜. Queer. Musician. She/They. I spin spooky music and fuzzy fibers. I write characters that dare to hope. SFWA Member. Indie Ink Awards Finalist.
No GenAI!
Find my books at https://www.christianeknight.com
Christy Climenhage @cclim.bsky.social SFF author. Muddling through the pre-apocalypse. CSFFA SFWA. She/her. 🐙🐾
Unceded Algonquin territory. 🇨🇦 Debut 2025: THE MIDNIGHT PROJECT with Poplar Press (Wolsak & Wynn). Rep’d by Sara Megibow. Views my own.
www.christyclimenhage.com