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Trevor Bennett @tgabben.me ๐จ๐ฆ Newfoundland expat living in Halifax, NS. Devoted partner & pet parent.
Autistic | Secular humanist | Teetotaller | Cookery nerd | Knits, apparently?
He/him | Progressive Leftist | Anti-fascist | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ๐ต๐ธ ๐บ๐ฆ
Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social Kaleidotrope is a quarterly e-zine of sci-fi, fantasy & horror edited by Fred Coppersmith since 2006.
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Support it at http://patreon.com/kaleidotropezine
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Trevor Parsons @dartmouthcommon.bsky.social When it comes to the #ClimateCrisis, I think it's time to admit that Civility is Highly Overrated. We are in the middle of the Sixth Mass Extinction
Mi'kma'ki Nova Scotia
robyn (she/they) @birdiebent.bsky.social writer, editor, mum. tea lover. pot apostle, cat lady, yogi, taphophile, cheeseburgers. local wrestling โค๏ธ i drive a stick shift. punch nazis & zionists
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social.
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Canada Fiction Fest @canadafictionfest.bsky.social Like a great big online book fair, featuring Canadian fiction books and authors from all across the country. ๐๐ฆซ๐ซ | FictionFest.ca
(Also @nptwrites.bsky.social)
Brittni Brinn @brittnibrinn.bsky.social Writing sci-fi and horror in Mi'kma'ki/Nova Scotia.
Author of Misplaced (@littleghostsbooks.bsky.social)
She/they
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Nicole Munro @nicolemunro.bsky.social Journalist | Deputy managing editor, The Chronicle Herald.
๐Halifax, N.S.
N. E. White (Author) @nilaewhite.com ๐๐๐ Mapmaker Trilogy ๐ฆ
๐ ๐ Draghi Chronicles ๐ฒ (final coming 11/2026)
Fantasy writer and otherwise normal person. Check out my books here: https://story.nilaewhite.com/all_books
Human-generated content only! ๐๐ฝ
Helen Pinsent @heleninwords.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Dalhousie - American Gothic - Mobility Studies - we are here and it is now
Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social Punamuโkwatiโjk|Dartmouth (formerly Tsalaguwetiyi|Nashville). Inventor #DSPBposts. Small press, ๐บ๐ธ & ๐จ๐ฆ poli. I turn tea into words: novel AETHER AND EGO (Inanna, Sept 2026). https://linktr.ee/joannemerriam
Nell Mosher @nellmosher.bsky.social They/Them
East Coast. I dabble in drawing and writing real weird stuff.
Will probably have some 18+ content.
Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social SF mag from Canada | 2007-2013, 2020- | Opening to submissions on November 1st.
Publisher of Saros SF
For all of your various FF needs: http://linktr.ee/fusionfragment
Leslie Allen @cozywitch.bsky.social Author of SAILS OF BLACK AND BLOOD: THE REVENGE OF CAPTAIN VESSIA, out NOW!
Punk witch of a trans lady. Librarian. Union Leader. Autistic. I write murder gays on boats.
Unceded Mi'kma'ki. She/her |๐| Fuck off with your A/I
https://leslieallen.com/
Bex @chorizojoe.bsky.social Just Some Guy (not actually named Joe). Autistic with assorted brain scrambles. Burnt out writer and local witch. Last seen by European whalers in Baffin Bay awaiting good conditions to enter the Arctic labyrinth. TRANS RIGHTS and Free Palestine.
they/she
Monique AC @moniqueac.bsky.social queer SF/horror writer - first reader (Diabolical Plots & Small Wonders) - con stuff (Rainbow Space Magic & Can*Con) - settler - she/they - notwhereilive.ca
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
Lisa Carreiro ๐จ๐ฆ @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!
Straith ๐ @straith.ca D.A. Straith (they/them). Toronto-adjacent fiction person โข nonbinary trans & queer settler โข work in Augur, Fusion Fragment, SHATTER THE SUN โข Clarion West Novel Workshop โ25 โข #straithenfrancais โข agent: Laura Zats @ Headwater โข straith.carrd.co
Didi is a trans immigrant ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @didichanoch.northsky.social formerly didic on twitter. Writer. Editor. Translator. Blogger. Speaker. Geek. Asexual. Enby. Anti-Zionist. Tired. they/them. Science fiction and fantasy person. Former Israeli, now trying to become Canadian.
Owner at Other Places Books
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toril @toril.bsky.social the Internet's No.1 Horse Girl
she/her ๐ bay area
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social All Kinds of Weird ๐ฝ literary magazine and book company publishing strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful sff & horror. 100% organic, no AI ๐ซ
๐ธ https://www.apexbookcompany.com/
๐ https://violetlichen.com/
Rebecca Bennett @rebecca-b.bsky.social SpecFic Writer | TTRPG writer | Can Con | Managing Ed at @HeartlinesSpec | Senior Ed at @apparitionlit | Beer Enthusiast | she/her 
An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social The internet's definitive source for reliable factually accurate barely news and almost information about science fiction. Inexplicably a six-time Hugo finalist. hugoclub.blogspot.ca
Bag of Mints @bagofmints.bsky.social ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธโ ๏ธ A sometimes artist, sometimes writer, who doesn't post enough of either.
Writing BSKY:
@jameskairiddell.bsky.social
Cat Rector @catrector.com She/Her | Bi | ๐จ๐ฆ | Author of Horror and Dark Fantasy, often staring 30+ers who fk up consistently
WIP: A liminal space haunted house novel with daddy issues ๐โจ
jameskairiddell.bsky.social @jameskairiddell.bsky.social East Coast Fantasy writer, gore erotica enthusiast, and neurodivergent disaster!
๐๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธโ ๏ธ
Stephen Kotowych ๐จ๐ฆ @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 | ๐จ๐ฆ+๐บ๐ฆ+๐ณ
Now I am become Jeff, the destroyer of Whorls @trollbreath.com #SFF writer from Maine. VP21. He/Him. Cรณyotl and Foof award nominated. Creator of Speculative Fiction Magazine Subscription web page. Co-editor of Trollbreath Magazine. #AuthorsNotAlgorithms
https://www.trollbreath.com
https://magazine.trollbreath.com
Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social PSE, polling, GR by day. Stories in Analog, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Year's Best Canadian F&SF.
Jeanna Cammarano @wordrat.bsky.social Writer of stories. Drinker of beer. Newly minted Canadian. She/her.
Former game dev. || Assistant Editor at Flash Fiction Online. || Words in On Spec Magazine, Podcastle, Pseudopod, Flash Fiction Online, Adventitious, and more.
Andrew Variously @noumenon.bsky.social Andrew Critchley: real person, technical writer, lives in Spain, reads a lot.
Andrew (Leon) Hudson: unreal person, genre writer, edits Mythaxis Magazine (mythaxis.co.uk)
https://linktr.ee/andrewleonhudson
Mythaxis Magazine @mythaxis.bsky.social Publishing speculative fiction without distraction since 2008 (mythaxis.co.uk)
Edited by Andrew Leon Hudson @noumenon.bsky.social
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
Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca Leader of Canadaโs NDP / Le chef du NPD fรฉdรฉral
https://linktr.ee/avi.lewis
Claudia Chender @claudiachenderns.bsky.social Leader of the Nova Scotia NDP and MLA for Dartmouth South.
Callum Isaac Moscovitch @ravenswild.bsky.social Illustrator and schizophrenic moon-howler ๐
Passionate about bespoke, handcrafted design, fantasy illustration, and comics๐งฟ
โ๏ธ callum@callumisaac.art
All the links ๐๐ https://linktr.ee/Ravenswild
Halifax, NS
Took (they/them) @fooledtook.bsky.social One day I will fulfill my dreams of becoming a hobbit. ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐ Sometimes I stream on Twitch! No gen-AI. Land Back.
๐https://fooledtook.carrd.co/
business email: fooledtookstreams@gmail.com
PFP by MPOM
Alexander Quon @alexanderquon.bsky.social Provincial affairs reporter for CBC Saskatchewan. CAJ National Director, Saskatchewan Region. Data, politics & freedom of information requests. Cat dad. He/him.
A. Zwissler @antonihfx.bsky.social Freelance reporter in Kjipuktuk
Published mostly at Grand Parade but also the Halifax Examiner, BBC, and The Signal
Tor Books @torbooks.bsky.social Publisher of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, and Other Speculative Fiction
Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine Edited by Michael Damian Thomas. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026 Hugo & 2024 Locus Award Winner. uncannymagazine.com
Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com A Hugo Award-winning digital science fiction & fantasy magazine edited by @johnjosephadams.com.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social Hugo Award finalist, World Fantasy and Ignyte Award winning online magazine of literary adventure fantasy, since 2008.
Read/listen online: https://beneath-ceaseless-skies.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
https://linktr.ee/augurmag
Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com Heartlines Spec is a speculative magazine bringing you SFF stories and poetry focused on long-term friendships and relationships. $0.08CAD/word ๐จ๐ฆ๐ (posts by @rebecca-b)
Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine @neoopsis.bsky.social Art, Opinion, Fact, and Fiction. A Canadian science fiction Magazine published in Victoria, BC. www.neo-opsis.ca
Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com Neil Clarke: Editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year series, and more. Four-time Hugo Award Winner for Best Editor Short Form. Four-time Chesley Award-winning art director.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
neil-clarke.com
Speculative Fiction Magazine Subscriptions @sffmagazines.bsky.social A list of active, regularly published fiction markets, including stories by today's best science fiction, fantasy and horror writers.
Visit our web page and subscribe to your favorite titles:
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social I explore my adopted home of Japan, looking for fun and weird mascots (and other costumed characters).
Nยฒ @antire.al fern
(info@)โantireal.info
https://ko-fi.com/4nt1r34l
she/her ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Mz. April Daniels โง @aprildaniels.bsky.social Queen of the Omelet Bar, and friend of Dax
Dreadnought, Sovereign, and a forthcoming third book
I mute and/or unfollow anyone I see posting generative AI images.
Grand Parade Newspaper @grandparade.bsky.social An independent Halifax city hall newspaper. An actual paper. Available weekly on Mondays, starting May 5, 2025. Check us out online at www.grandparade.news
Marathon @marathonthegame.bungie.net Infilย into the dark sci-fi world ofย Tau Ceti IV. From the makers of Halo and Destiny. Content shown mayย needย purchase. Dates/Content may change.ย ESRB: Teen
Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror. The Guide to the World's Imagination.
https://locusmag.com
linktr.ee/locusmagazine
Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com The greatest autism info you will ever find, from autistic people, professionals, and parents. www.ThinkingAutism.com & buttondown.com/TPGA. Pro-neurodiversity. Even more TPGA community discussions on IG and FB.
Speakers Nova Scotia @speakersns.bsky.social We're a brand new (as of Oct 4/24) non-profit that aims to uplift the profession of public speaking in Nova Scotia. As we grow we'll be offering an online registry of members, and professional learning opportunities.
Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com Canada's National Observer delivers vital reporting on the defining crisis of our time: climate change. Through rigorous investigation and compelling storytelling, we expose the forces shaping Canada's climate future.
www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters
willa @willaoaks.bsky.social land back!! everywhere!! abolish the police and the systems that enable them! โ๏ธโ๐ฅโค๏ธโ๐ฅ๐
mostly here to read & learn and occasionally share some thoughts & photos
๐settler in kjipuktuk
Community Not Cops Kjipuktuk @communitynotcops.bsky.social Kjipuktuk based coalition working to defund, detask and abolish the police
๐ฑโ๏ธโ๐ฅ๐
linktr.ee/communitynotcopskjipuktuk
Nick P @npilon.bsky.social Dartmouth, NS dad; software engineer; fan of giant robots in many contexts, board games, RPGs. Queer rights are not negotiable. (He/Him)
Lucy. @transtextual.bsky.social Lucy. 36. She/Her.
Agender. Lesbian.
NSFW.๐
Jamie Livingston @jamielivingston.bsky.social Criminologist; critical work at the mental health, substance use, & criminal legal intersection
Kjipuktuk, Mi'kma'ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
He/Him ๐ โ๏ธ ๐ฅ ๐ ๐บ ๐
www.justmentalhealth.ca 
@anuragpuzzling.bsky.social @anuragpuzzling.bsky.social Puzzling, Questioning, Reading, Solving, Thinking
Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Sara Gillis @hfxlibrarian.bsky.social I โค๏ธ libraries. Living in beautiful Nova Scotia.
Jen Tee @coffeeandchamomile.bsky.social she/her
Musician, educator, lover of board games, cats, cozy novels, and cozy beverages
Matt Emmons @secondatbest.bsky.social Philadelphia based comic artist
The Council of Frogs/ Gardener/ Those That Inherit the Earth/ etc.
secondatbestpress.com
Risograph Print Club & comics work
patreon.com/secondatbest
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!
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social Senior Artist at @maxinfernogames.bsky.social
Artist & Illustrator & whatever. (he/him) โข NO AI โข http://paulghammond.com
Prem Thakker ใ @premthakker.bsky.social Political correspondent @zeteo.com
Any tips or info youโd like to share?
Signal premthakker.35
Prem@zeteonews.com
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social Politics, author of Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed. Meidas Canada/ The Resistance Lead singer with Grievous Angels. Just a boy from Cobalt.
Not a space for the cynical and snide.
Norma Kennedy @normaakennedy.bsky.social 
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com Human Rights Lawyer โข Author โข Dad Jokes โข SirusXM Host โข Creator: Let's Address This โข Subscribe: qasimrashid.com/subscribe โข Media requests: admin@justwinteam.com
aslynn is off-duty @aslynnromano.com AuDHD Psych NP specialized in SPMI & late ID'd autism, Autistic research, mental health, Neurodivergence, suicide awareness, NH politics, mutual aid, advocacy & love wins ๐ซถ
๐ชฟ CommunityFirstNH.org - Vice Chair
โจ NeurospaceAPC.com - Private Practice
Phoebe Barton ๐๐บ๐ณ @phoebebarton.bsky.social Giant queer trans sf/game writer who is NOT AMERICAN, typewriter guardian, mind poisoner. Nebula winner, Aurora winner! Assistant Editor at Escape Pod, CW '19. Hamilton, Ontario. Header by @shargrave.bsky.social. She/her. www.phoebebartonsf.com
Philippe J. Fournier @338canada.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief 338CanadaไธจRรฉdacteur en chef Qc125ไธจChroniqueur @ L'actualitรฉ, The Walrus & Politico CanadaไธจCo-host The Numbers podcastไธจProf astronomy & astrophysicsไธจOccasional cat pictures๐คไธจ๐Montrรฉal
Matt Galloway @mattgalloway.bsky.social I ask questions on the radio for a living. Also like running.
The Chronicle Herald @thechronicleherald.bsky.social Delivering news to Nova Scotians since 1874. And, later, to the rest of the world via thechronicleherald.ca
PressProgress @pressprogress.ca Award-winning Canadian journalism that:
๐ Holds the rich & powerful accountable
๐ Exposes unsafe & unfair workplaces
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Website: PressProgress.ca
Newsletter: PressProgress.ca/Newsletter
Montreal Gazette @mtlgazette.bsky.social Follow for features, news and to-the-minute updates on developing stories โก๏ธ montrealgazette.com
Toronto Star @thestar.com Canada's biggest daily newspaper thestar.com
The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca Our pod of investigative journalists dives deep to tell stories about the natural world in Canada you canโt find anywhere else. Sign up for our newsletter: http://thenarwhal.ca/newsletter or become a member: https://thenarwhal.ca/bsky-member/
The Walrus @thewalrus.ca Award-winning independent journalism, fact checking, national ideas-focused events, and podcasts. Stay connected: http://thewalrus.ca/newsletters
Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social Editor. https://policyoptions.irpp.org/
Retired reporter. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/les-perreaux/
Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social Policy prof. Feminist. Gender, Policy, Taxes, Life, Equity, intersectionality. Personal account. TBI survivor. Government-funded. Difficult/Immodest/Condescending. ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฎ๐ช www.lindsayTedds.ca, http://inclusiecon.ca/, factpartnership.ca
Justin Ling @justinling.ca Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
Newsletter: www.bugeyedandshameless.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JustinLing
Signal: JustinLing.42
Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social reactor mag's resident book nerd. they/them ๐ต๐ท๐ณ๏ธโ๐ nyc
https://linktr.ee/christinaorlando
Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca Investigative journalist
llebrun[at]thewatchdog[dot]ca | @thewatchdog.ca
Trident Booksellers & Cafe @tridenthalifax.bsky.social Cafe & Bookshop in Halifax, Nova Scotia
https://tridenthalifax.ca
Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social is this new twitter?