Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social Ottawa's most beloved literary publisher (2006-2017): posting poems every April for National Poetry Month, and ongoing "six questions" interviews with current/former Ottawa-based writers,
https://chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/
Chris Dolan @mcdolan.bsky.social I am angry about the nitrate levels in Iowaโs drinking water. My writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Maudlin House, The Disappointed Housewife, and others. www.dolanchris.com
long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social longconmag.com: canadian magazine for art replying to art
ISSUE 2.6: submit by Sept 30
Montebank Prize: enter by Sept 30
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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social Curious. Clever. Quick. ๐โโฌ
Monthly Magazine for Micro Prose
Free to sub. Paying market.
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Majda Gama @majda.bsky.social Debut poetry book โIn the House of Modern Upbringing for Girlsโ Wandering Aengus Book Award (April 2025). Two Sylviaโs chapbook prize winner for The Call of Paradise (โ23). Graybeal-Gowen prize. โ24 Gregory Djanikian Scholar. https://www.majdagama.com
Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social Intelligent cultural criticism and literary analysis intended for the reading public.
Pittsburgh, PA.
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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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Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social Poet, writer of fiction, musician, educator, mother of 3 โ sometimes makes linocuts. Aims to someday live in a cabin with a woodstove, somewhere near a small, babbling brook.
Renee Sarojini Saklikar @reneesarojini.bsky.social Author, Educator, Editor
Angela Hume @anghume.bsky.social โ feminist historian, critic, poet
โ author of Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open (AK Press, 2023)
โ linktr.ee/angelahume
Sophia Dahlin @sophiadahlin.bsky.social Writer in the East Bay. Generative Poetry Workshop instructor, 1/8 curator of the weekly readings at Tamarack Oakland. Author of Natch (City Lights 2020) and Glove Money (Nightboat, 2025) https://www.sophiadahlin.com/
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Nic Brewer ๐ @notnicolebrewer.bsky.social Author of Suture (Book*hug Press 2021)
notnicolebrewer.com
League of Canadian Poets @canadianpoets.bsky.social The LCP supports poets & builds communities, supports inclusive and equitable free expression, & promotes Canadian poets and poetry. www.poets.ca
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Scott Jackshaw @scottjackshaw.bsky.social managing editor, differences | sometimes poet | Stigmata (Talonbooks, 2025) | they/them
The Song Cave @thesongcave.bsky.social Recovering a lost sensibility and creating a new one with books of poetry, translations & other related materials. @ben-estes and @alanfels
Frances Meh @francesmeh.reviews minding my own goddamned business
๐Toronto he/him
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
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Emily Shafer @emilyshaferwrites.bsky.social Sometimes I write things, sometimes theyโre published
Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social Poet. Physician. Dad. Cat roommate. Baseball fan. Hockey fan. Comics geek.
My poetry collection, โGreenโ, is available from Breakwater Books. https://breakwaterbooks.com/products/green
Leah Angstman @leahangstman.bsky.social DWHL hockey defenseman. ๐ #GoAvsGo fangirl. Your average Artturi Lehkonen enjoyer. Historian, editor. Author of 3 books. EIC @altcurrent.bsky.social. Interns: German Shepherds. Find me at leahangstman.com.
Kevin Shaw @kevinshaw84.bsky.social Writer | Ottawa | www.kevinshaw.ca
Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose @poetlady74.bsky.social Iโm a poet, animal lover, camping fanatic, and educator living in Rochester, NY. Medusa scholar. Author of Imago, Dei ( Rattle Chapbook Prize, 2021) and Wild Things (Main Street Rag, 2021). 2025 Betsy Colquitt Poetry Award.
Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social 
Geist Magazine @geistmag.bsky.social The weird and wonderful from the world of words.
geist.com
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Marcella Durand @mdurandpoet.bsky.social Poet, birder
Susan Rudy @susanrudy.bsky.social Academic & Writer | London & Wivenhoe | QMUL researcher | former creative writing teacher at Birkbeck and English Professor at University of Calgary | queer feminist theory | experimental writing
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Publisher @dblakesley @parlorpress.bsky.social Parlor Press publishes twenty book series in the humanities, new media, rhetoric, feminisms, new media, poetry, social justice, education, writing, and theory. Since 2002.
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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee ๐๐จ @xtinehlee.bsky.social Author of TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU DONโT REMEMBER Ecco/Harper Collins | ๐+๐๐จ | doberman mind, dachshund body | Essay Editor @ The Offing | she/they
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@james-lindsay.bsky.social @james-lindsay.bsky.social Book publicist and writer in Toronto.
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Jumoke Verissimo @awapointe.bsky.social New Book Alert ๐ข Circumtrauma - out in Fall 2025 with @CoachHouseBooks!
Preeti Vangani @preetivangani.bsky.social Poet, Writer, Email Hater. Author, Mother Tongue Apologize (RLFPA, 2019) and Fifty Mothers (River River Books, Feb 2026). 
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. 
Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social He collected things, each of a holy intention in isolation, but pagan in the variety of his choice.
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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social Booklover, blathering at http://www.bookgaga.ca - literary news, reviews, discussion, poetry posted daily (aka #TodaysPoem http://bit.ly/2J4ym4C), member of a thriving silent book club group (aka #SilentBookClub http://bit.ly/2NSBVtw) ... oh, and I crochet
One Fall Review @onefallreview.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to professional wrestling themed poetry.
www.onefallreview.com
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sider0xylon press @sider0xylon.bsky.social a mono-press of pithy handmade limited edition mini/micro chapbooks and broadsides.
launching june 20th @ the ottawa small press book fair!
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Isabella @isabellawangbc.bsky.social 
Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social writing + paintings here, there + all over the place | DOMESTICATED CREATURES coming Sept. 2026 | James Tate Poetry Prize | Pushcart, BoTN + Best Microfiction noms | Best Small Fictions 2025
Paintings, books + other writings: thaddevassie.com
Greg Bem, Librarian in Spokane @gregbem.bsky.social Academic Libraries
Open Education
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And so on... 
Moj Mortazavi @mojmrtzvi.bsky.social Filmmaker / Writer / Visual Poet
Capturing what moves me, breaks me, remakes me.
Posting thoughts, films, dreams, and whatever wonโt leave me alone.
๐๏ธ mojmrtzvi.com
โ๏ธ Essays on Substack https://substack.com/@mojmrtzvi?r=22uyqp&utm_medium=ios
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldnโt.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. ๐
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
https://www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-Person-Awake/dp/B0GT1262KP
Nancy Huggett @nancyhuggett.bsky.social Writer, caregiver, crone, that kinda gal. Work @ Event, The New Quarterly, Rust & Moth, American Lit Review, anti-heroin chic, Gone Lawn, Full Mood &&&
Robert van Vliet @letterspace.org Poet. St Paul, MN.
Offline for September 2026.
inventions (above/ground 2026)
Vessels (Unsolicited 2024)
This Folded Path (above/ground 2023)
Blog: www.letterspace.org
Homepage: www.robertvanvliet.com
โDonโt give her money back.โ
he/him
Janet Kvammen @janetkvammen.bsky.social Poet Laureate of the City of New Westminster.
Visual Artist, Mixed Media.
Josiah Nelson @josiahnelson.bsky.social I'm what you call shy - William Steig/me
Debut book forthcoming with @invisibooks.bsky.social
Words in Brick, CV2, Fractured Lit, Grain, and the Literary Review of Canada
isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social making lives better, making better lives, for everyone. retired #mentalhealth professional #haiku #peace #writingcommunity #buddhism #pagan #longcovid. old. they/she.
unceded, traditional, ancestral musqueam, squamish & tsleil-waututh lands aka vancouver.
Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social What d'ya mean, "normal men"
birdsandbeesandblooms.com
Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social Poet. Yukoner. Knitter. Book hoarder. Author of Northerny (University of Alberta Press, 2024). Reviewing older books alongside new stuff at https://reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/
Susan Johnston @joycuriosity.bsky.social Creativity | Dialogue and civic engagement | Community resilience | Arts and coffee Friday mornings @ CKCUFM.com
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee โ23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
mark stephen [surname stolen] @markmwahwords.bsky.social Poet, music distro, cultural worker, abolitionist, educator. Benefitting from occupied indigenous land. Sissy vegan for spaceship Earth.
The Poet Laureate Podcast @poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social Hosted by Kyeren Regehr and featuring poets laureate from across the country and beyond.
www.thepoetlaureatepodcast.com
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
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)
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. ๐ก๐ก๐ฎโจ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst ๐ธ๐ค
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Ian Seed @ianseedauthor.bsky.social Author: Forgetfulness, My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, Night Window, New York Hotel (TLS Book of the Year), Makers of Empty Dreams. Translator: Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Gรซzim Hajdari, Ivano Fermini. www.ianseed.co.uk
Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social Part Gucci part intestinal parasite, Ethel publishes handmade chapbooks, sewn with sword and talon since 2018.
www.ethelzine.com
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Andrea H. @andreahubley.bsky.social Poet - Mom - Reader - Tree Hugger - Bird Watcher - Mushroom Hunter.
Eric Lochridge @ericedits.bsky.social Poet | Editor (he/him)
Author of My Breath Floats Away from Me (FutureCycle Press, 2022). Associate poetry editor @okaydonkey.bsky.social
https://ericedits.wordpress.com
Disrupted Blue Indie Press Publicity @disruptedblue.bsky.social Working with (or have worked with) indie presses including KERNPUNKT, Black Herald, Shearsman, Carcanet, PN Review, Sublunary Editions, CB editions, Stone Corpse, Hanuman, Vanguard & more!
Founding Director: Vik Shirley
@vikshirley.bsky.social
@timfrankquill.bsky.social @timfrankquill.bsky.social 
Ben Niespodziany ๐๐ช @neonpajamas.bsky.social tiny poems & strange movies // ๐ซ๐ค // EIC at @pizamapress.bsky.social // chapbook soon with @gasherpress.bsky.social // writing prompt every Sunday via Substack (neonpajamas)
Jeffrey Hecker @heckheck03.bsky.social Poet, Teen Writers Fellowship Poetry Teacher (The Muse Writers Center), Poetry Staff Reader for Quarterly West and Okay Donkey Magazine.
russell carisse @russellcarisse.bsky.social poet. queer. dirt-farmer. trailer-trash. they/them
unceded Wolastoqiyik/Mi'gmaw territory
work currently or forthcoming in: ARC Poetry, Queen's Quarterly, Touch the Donkey, The Temz Review, Talking About Strawberries All The Time, and elsewhere.
Piลผama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social Indie press showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better. https://asterismbooks.com/publisher/pizama-press | Editor: neonpajamas.bsky.social
Jadine (JD) Pluecker @jdpluecker.bsky.social i make things in time and space mainly with objects, like words.
www.jdpluecker.com
Marian Christie @marianchristie.bsky.social Learner, listener, poet.
https://marianchristiepoetry.net/
Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social Writer | Chicago | Work in The Offing, X-R-A-Y, Wigleaf + more | Pushcart Prize and BotN nom | Best Microfiction โ24, '25, '26
https://elenalzhang.wordpress.com/writing/
Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com Poet, civil servant, music nerd | CV2, Malahat Review, QWERTY, ROOM, Crab Creek Review, The New Quarterly & others. jessicaleemcmillan.com
๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ณ๐ต ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฏ (Pinhole Poetry)
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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
Andrew Michael Gorin @andrewgorin.bsky.social writer, assistant professor of poetics, media, public sphere andrewmichaelgorin.info, organismforpoeticresearch.org
Sue Sorensen @suesorensen.bsky.social Person living in Winnipeg/Treaty 1 territory. Winsome combo of giddy farm girl, smartass former punkette & intransigent pseudo-intellectual. Director of CMU Press. Love the show, Steve. Hello to Jason Isaacs. New novel soonish. Interwebs: suesorensen.net
Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social The Least Important Man (poems), Army of the Brave and Accidental (a novel), Take This for the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life.
https://boydwords.wordpress.com
Allium, a Journal of Poetry & Prose @alliumjournal.bsky.social Representing the range and diversity of writers' voices, Allium publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry - from traditional to experimental.
allium.colum.edu
PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and promoting literature worldwide since 1921.
Northampton Poetry Review @npoetryreview.bsky.social Northampton Poetry Review. A literary journal of poetry and writing from Northamptonshire, UK
https://linktr.ee/npoetryreview
Suzanne Alyssa Andrew @suzannealyssa.bsky.social Author. Podcast host of Stardust and Courage. Intuitive coach for creative people.
Claire Lacey (they/them) @poetactics.bsky.social poet. nerd. performer. educator. critic. phd in poetry and brain injury. general enthusiast.
located in ลtepoti Dunedin. from Canada.
Jill Jones @jill-jones-1.bsky.social Poet & perambulator. Unruly in queer suburbia, living on unceded Kaurna land. Out now: Acrobat Music: New & Selected Poems (Puncher & Wattmann). Also: Wild Curious Air, A History of What I'll Become, Viva The Real, and others
Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social poet | Derelict Bicycles (Anvil Press, 2022) | creative humanities | environmental humanities | she/her
Allison Cobb @allisoncobb.bsky.social Writer and poet, environmental and climate justice advocate. https://www.allisoncobb.net/
WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at @siatsfu.bsky.social
PhD in Art and Biotech, UWA (Aus).
I work with menstrual stem cells + bioprinting.
whitefeatherhunter.ca
The Witch in the Lab Coat / BioartCoven #witchesinlabs โฃ๏ธ
Spandex-free cycling enthusiast.
Sheila E. Murphy @shemurph.bsky.social Poet, organizational consultant, researcher, and author
Missy Marston @marstonshmelzer.bsky.social Novelist.
The Ex-Puritan @ex-puritan.bsky.social Publishing fiction, poetry, essays, interviews and reviews. Proudly awarding The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence.
https://linktr.ee/ex_puritan
Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publisher of poetry, ๏ฌction, drama & nonfiction. Good on paper since 1965. https://linktr.ee/chbooks
Marcus Silcock @postpran.bsky.social Surreal absurd stories. Irish.ย Author ofย Dream Dust (Broken Sleep Books). Recent stories in Maudlin House, Broken Antler, Bending Genres, Your Impossible Voice, and others. Co-edits Surreal-Absurd Mercurius Mag. www.nevermindthebeasts.com
Emily Ursuliak @emilyursuliak.bsky.social Writer, gardener, librarian. She/Her
Dr. Roewan Crowe @roewancrowe.bsky.social artist, writer, professor. writing, making art & teaching in and thru collapse. intense biophillic desire, lover of all species. we breathe together. โจ๐ฑ๐ธ๐โจ
Eleonore Schonmaier Author @eleonoreschonmaier.bsky.social Poetry, fiction, song lyrics, music-theater. Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete, Dustblown Side of the Journey, Wavelengths of Your Song and Rush of Wingspan (2026, MQUP).
https://eleonoreschonmaier.com
Rachel Moritz @ramoritz.bsky.social โWhen you have no facts, the only government that can survive is a dictatorship.โ โMaria Ressa
Writer, mom, here to stay informed in our currrent hellscape. http://www.rachelmoritz.com