Na Malum Afrad @namalumafrad.bsky.social Journalist and documentarian posting independently curated and underreported global news.
Amplifying grassroots movements & mutual aid.
Anonymous for safety, vocal for justice. 👇 Drop tips in replies.
UCalgary Press @ucalgarypress.bsky.social Home of Brave & Brilliant poetry and literature.
UCalgary Press publishes peer-reviewed academic books that connect expert scholars and readers worldwide.
Andreas Gripp poetry + art @andreasgripp.bsky.social Essex County writer and photo artist. Happily Married. This new account was created in August of 2026. Website:
andreasgripp.wixsite.com/andreasgripp
@joelnanz.bsky.social @joelnanz.bsky.social 
Chet Wydrzynski @realchet.bsky.social Detroit sports fan, West Ham supporter, Swiftie, Toronto resident, run a law office.
I once got a personal foul before the clock started.
priyaramsingh.bsky.social @priyaramsingh.bsky.social Canadian writer and photographer. Believer of karma. Progressive. You can call me woke if you like. www.priyaramsingh.ca
Cole Webber @colewebber.bsky.social legal clinic worker in Parkdale, Toronto.
New book: https://btlbooks.com/book/renoviction-and-resistance-in-the-capitalist-city
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)
Mark Coakley @markcoakley.bsky.social Writer
markcoakleybooks.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.
www.lorihahnel.ca
LSU Press @lsupress.bsky.social Louisiana's premier academic publisher, established in 1935. #lsupress
Samuel Langhorne Clemens @brennan617.bsky.social Quotes and such
Basically a Mark Twain fan account
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Joe Mahoney @donovanstreetpress.bsky.social Donovan Street Press Inc.
www.donovanstreetpress.com
www.re-creative.ca
https://mahoneyj.substack.com/
I don't DM people I don't know.
Sean Paul Bedell @seanpaulbedell.bsky.social father, husband, fountain pen user, horibell spelar, retired paramedic, former firefighter, lover of Canadian Literature. My novel, Shoebox, is coming soon to your favourite bookseller. www.seanpaulbedell.ca
@misdai.bsky.social @misdai.bsky.social 
Canadian Notes & Queries @cnandq.bsky.social Canada's oldest magazine of literary criticism. Books, culture, a Canadian perspective, a backward glance. Design by #Seth.
https://linktr.ee/cnandq
Adrian Markle @amarkle.bsky.social BA English/Creative Writing Course Leader at Falmouth University. Fiction editor for Aethlon journal. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧. Author of many stories and the novel BRUISE. Writing about class, gender, pedagogy, and sometimes sport.
https://linktr.ee/adrianmarkle
Barbara Stocker 💙📚 @bluebirdbhs.bsky.social Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social Team Site
Stephen Randle 🍁🍁🍁 @davethecamel.bsky.social Debut novel TRACE EVIDENCE now available at https://reboundpress.com/books/trace-evidence
He/Him. Proud Canadian, AEW fan, follower of the Tao of Pratchett, aka DavetheCamel
Business contact dai_shar@yahoo.com
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!
@jiaconoauthor.bsky.social @jiaconoauthor.bsky.social Canadian author/illustrator of "The Monsters No Grownup Sees"
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jiaconoauthor
Michelle Willms @michellewillms.bsky.social NORTHERN GIRLS: TRUE STORIES (Baraka Books). 2026 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Mother bear.
Northern Girls: www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/
TSR Review: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/northern-girls-true-stories-by-michelle-willms
Renee Sarojini Saklikar @reneesarojini.bsky.social Author, Educator, Editor
Parthian Books @parthianbooks.bsky.social Welsh Independent Press, established in 1993. Based in Aberteifi/Cardigan
A Carnival of Voices in independent publishing. Our titles reflect a diverse and contemporary Wales that cast a keen eye on the wider world.
@romanrhs.bsky.social @romanrhs.bsky.social 
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
@significantdot.bsky.social @significantdot.bsky.social 
@pottersfieldpress.bsky.social @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social 
Gaspereau Press @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers
¶ http://linktr.ee/gaspereaupress
@james-lindsay.bsky.social @james-lindsay.bsky.social Book publicist and writer in Toronto.- J @jennifercarter.bsky.social @jennifercarter.bsky.social
Running the Goat Books @runningthegoat.bsky.social A Newfoundland-based micropress specializing in children's books and letterpress-printed chapbooks.
Visit our bookstore and printshop in Tors Cove.
https://linktr.ee/runningthegoat
Find Marnie at her personal account: rtgbooks.bsky.social
Scotty Sandalwood @scottysandalwood.bsky.social “Where romance, like a fine wine, just gets better with age”
An avid romance reader...and aspiring romance author
Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social Poet. Physician. Dad. Cat roommate. Baseball fan. Hockey fan. Comics geek.
My poetry collection, “Green”, is available from Breakwater Books. https://breakwaterbooks.com/products/green
Gina Catherine Grant @ginacgrant.bsky.social artist, writer
sean minogue @seanminogue.bsky.social My novel TERMINAL SOLSTICE (Turnstone Press) + play PRODIGALS (Latitude 46) are fun to buy.
Embarrassing dad, aspiring Gaeilgeoir, copy grunt. https://seanminogue.com
N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social Canadian author of magical middle grade books. Probably in the garden.
On social media break; return date unknown. Books news on author site.
books2read.com/NPTwrites | shop.nptwrites.com | nptwrites.com/links
(Also: @CanadaFictionFest.bsky.social)
Tyche Books 🇨🇦 @tychebooks.bsky.social A Canadian small-press specializing in science fiction, fantasy, and related non-fiction. www.tychebooks.com Calgary, AB She/Her
Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social EverUnfolding.life
Choosing to err on the side of love, if these are our choices...Aspiring abolitionist. In this with all y'all.
@islanderdianahayes.bsky.social @islanderdianahayes.bsky.social 
CWILL BC @cwillbc.bsky.social CWILL BC is a lively group of published writers and illustrators for children, with over 150 members across British Columbia.
https://www.cwillbc.org
Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social Crone, wastrel, lapsed (but twitching) novelist. Posts about art & lit.
Me: https://www.writersunion.ca/member/anne-denoon
My book: Back Flip, a novel about art & the 1960s: https://t.co/m7fQSOo6At or (with reviews) https://tinyurl.com/4dzwzpdp
Sarah Emsley @sarahemsley.bsky.social My debut novel, The Austens, won the 2026 Atlantic Independent Booksellers Readers' Choice Award. https://sarahemsley.com/the-austens-a-novel/
@americanchoadshow.bsky.social @americanchoadshow.bsky.social 
Matt Higgs @theofficialmatt.bsky.social New here. Interested in marketing, nature, writing, travel, New England, science, and more. No politics, please.
📍New Brunswick, Canada.
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
Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social Writer with a civil engineering background. Born in WA, lived in these states: MI (1989-91), MA (1993-4), AK (1999-2003, 05-6), NM (2007), and international: UA (1994-5), KG (2003-4), AZ (2006-7), PH (2007-8) BY (2008-10, 12-15), AR/CL (2010-2), PL (2015-)
Gail Anderson-Dargatz @anderson-dargatz.bsky.social Canadian. Mentor. Editor. Author of The Cure for Death by Lightning, The Almost Wife, The Almost Widow and many other books. Her latest novel, The Atlas Keeper, hits the shelves Aug. 26, 2026. Visit Gail at https://linktr.ee/Gail_AndersonDargatz
Hamilton Public Library @hamiltonlibrary.bsky.social Hamilton Public Library is a vibrant hub for information and culture, providing our diverse community the Freedom to Belong and Discover.
Corey Redekop @coreyredekop.bsky.social Canadian author, SHELF MONKEY, HUSK, assorted literary sundries. Socially friendly, emotionally distant. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/758661.Corey_Redekop
L.Kenney @lkenney.bsky.social Making art in Canada's Ocean Playground
laurakenneyrugs.ca
The Happy Duck Bookshop & Readery @thehappyduckbooks.bsky.social New and used books and local art 📚
Open Tues & Wed 10-4, Thurs & Fri 10-6, and Sat 10-5 🦆
586 Prince Street, Truro, Nova Scotia
Michael Hollett @northbymichael.bsky.social Editor/publisher NEXT Magazine. President/CEO NXNE. Editor-in-Chief SPIN Canada. Founder of NXNE and NEXT Magazine, co-founder NOW Magazine nextmag.ca. NXNE 2027 June 16-20
Mediacloner @mediacloner.bsky.social 
Leamington Books @leamington.bsky.social We are publishing Ceitidh Chaimbeul • Mohammed Moussa • Luca Serra
Great Novel Reads @greatnovels.bsky.social Fiction-only book discovery platform.
Authors: List your novel.
Readers: Explore stories worth reading.
No noise. Just novels.
👉 greatnovelreads.com
Sunburst Award @sunburstaward.bsky.social The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an annual juried award that recognizes exceptional works of Canadian speculative literature. www.sunburstaward.org
Noelle Mitchell @noellemitchell.bsky.social I like to read, edit videos, and write on my blog. And coffee.
Horror, mystery, and thrillers are my faves
My blog: https://bookswithnoelle.wordpress.com/
Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com 
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
Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social Independent editor and writer. Publisher at October Park Editions (a chapbook micropress). Toronto, ON
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
jrmcconvey @jrmcconvey.bsky.social Writer/kraken. Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep.
Books: False Bodies (2024), Different Beasts (2019). Raptors faithful. He/him. www.jrmcconvey.com
Renegade Arts Entertainment @renegadeartsent.bsky.social Award winning Small Press graphic novel & comic book publisher, family run, operating from a secret mountain lair in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
Our fiction reveals more truth than just the facts ever could.
https://renegadeartsentertainment.com
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Christopher Moore @cmedmoore.bsky.social Writer. Historian of things Canadian.TFC supporter. Still blogs at www.christophermoore.ca
Kegedonce Press @kegedoncepress.bsky.social All-Indigenous press on the territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (Neyaashiinigmiing and the land occupied by the city of Owen Sound, ON).
www.kegedonce.com
communications@kegedonce.com
@nilaan.bsky.social @nilaan.bsky.social 
Word Vancouver @wordvancouver.bsky.social Western Canada's largest free literary festival. 2026 Festival runs Sept 10-28, with main day Sat, Sept 19.
@hume1711.bsky.social @hume1711.bsky.social 
Rhonda Waterfall @queenrha.bsky.social Author of:
SOMBRIO
The Strait of Anian
The Only Thing I Have
GUERNICA EDITIONS @guernicaeditions.bsky.social Independent Publisher of Diverse #CanLit: No Borders. No Limits.
www.guernicaeditions.com
Angela Antle @acantle.bsky.social Energy Futures at the Independent.ca, GYRE podcast, 2025 Rachel Carson fellow, debut novel (The Saltbox Olive - Breakwater 2025), Writers at Woody Point co-host, former CBC, MUN PhD candidate - #petrocultures #climatejustice #EnvHum
@mtlreviewofbooks.bsky.social @mtlreviewofbooks.bsky.social 
Bill Vandenbush @hawkeyebilly.bsky.social Author, inspirational speaker, TV and radio personality, retired civil servant, MSW, disabled Vietnam Vet, proud Liberal. PNW Sports fan, dogs, cooking, reading, Retired and loving it. 🚫DMs please 🚫money requests 🐕🦺🏳️🌈🌲🌍👨🎓🏳️⚧️ RESIST!!
John Robb @realstirfryguy.bsky.social Gregarious line cook. I have many opinions and they are all mine. #Reds fan. Settler on unceded Wolastoqiyik territory. il/He/Him 🤼 🌱🌿📌 #NBBluesky #CanadaSky
A.G. Pasquella @agpasquella.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor. Words in McSweeney’s, Utne Reader, Joyland, Broken Pencil & more. Author of the Jack Palace crime series. Most recent book: WELCOME TO THE WEIRD AMERICA. As co-editor: DEVOURING TOMORROW
Keith Burgoyne @keithburgoyne.bsky.social Dad, app developer, writer, occasional emcee, vegetarian. Book lover, long walker. Love the CBC. Previously PEI Writers' Guild. Sometimes I talk about books on the radio.
Leona Theis 📚 @leonajoan.bsky.social Swim at Your Own Risk forthcoming with Thistledown Press. If Sylvie Had Nine Lives on shelves now. Novels, stories, lyric essays. Walker, paddler, snow lover. Www.leonatheis.com
Kindlei – Smarter Kindle Book Discovery @kindlei.bsky.social Where Kindle books stay visible, not buried.
For indie and traditional authors who want lasting discoverability.
📘 List your book → kindlei.com
Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca SSHRC funded PhD in at UCalgary.
THE LIBRARY COSMIC: Stories
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the-library-cosmic
THE YEARS SHALL RUN LIKE RABBITS
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/all/products/the-years-shall-run-like-rabbits
Amelia ✨is Querying✨ @reinhardtwrites.bsky.social 📚English teacher
🐐Homesteader
🦞Mainer
📖 Querying a YA contemporary novel with elements of mystery
Ezekiel McAdams @pocketfullofish.bsky.social 
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.
Richard Cumyn 🇨🇦 @richcumyn.bsky.social Writer married to a librarian, i.e., two endangered species. No oligarchs allowed in the clubhouse. Elbows up, Canada! Get well soon, America
Veena Gokhale @veenago.bsky.social Former journalist & immigrant shape shifter, Veena Gokhale, has a passion for narrative. Her books? Bombay Wali & Other Stories, Land for Fatimah, a novel, & Annapurna's Bounty, Indian Food Legends Retold (2025). She teaches ESL & lives in Montreal.
@catherinelunenburg.bsky.social @catherinelunenburg.bsky.social 
I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social Anti-Smoker My Website campralquitsmoking.net See How I Quit 20 Years Ago Fought Nicotine 35 Years Supporting others who Quit 🚭 STL MO ❤️To Promote Authors 📚 & Ozarks 🌄 Photographer 📷 Pez Add @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social 💙
McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social We bring the best of Canadian scholarship to the world and the best of international scholarship to Canada.
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/
Punctured Lines @puncturedlines.bsky.social Post-Soviet Literature in and outside the Former Soviet Union. Blog by Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social and Olga Zilberbourg
@olgaz.bsky.social
http://puncturedlines.com
@thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social 
Kelly @brnidgirl.bsky.social 🇨🇦#ElbowsUp🇨🇦 Retired Youth worker Proud Mom to 2 grown daughters. Animal Lover, social justice supporter and overall genuine, kind and considerate person. Badge of honour:Got kicked out of Twitter (she/her). 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🏳️🌈🇺🇦🏳️⚧️💙🌮 🫘
@orlinde.bsky.social @orlinde.bsky.social she/her
Eaton Hamilton @eatonhamilton.bsky.social Visual art, writing
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them ♿️ 😷🇨🇦 AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic, MG
UK Sunday Times bestseller, Guardian BOTY, Guernica, The Sun, NYT, Salon, Globe+Mail, Macleans, BAE Notables, BASS Notable, BAX, 10 books, won CBC fiction x2; on Patreon at HamiltonArt.
Age of Tempest @age-of-tempest.bsky.social I'm Edgar Blackwood, fantasy author and worldbuilder.
Age of Tempest is a fantasy series for fans of A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF), Malazan, and Realm of the Elderlings!
Read RUSTBORN for free: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rustborn-chapter-128138429
Christina Gabriel @mcg57.bsky.social Elec Engineer (MIT PhD, quantum electronics). Bell Labs researcher. Natl Sci Foundation exec. US Senate Approps staffer. Univ VP & CTO. Nonprofit grantmaker.
Extreme wealth concentration is poison. Paul Wellstone: We all do better when we all do better.
Fourth Act Fantasy @fourthact.ink Publisher of Sci-Fi and Fantasy ⚔️🚀🇨🇦 Crafting stories, forging worlds.
Learn more at https://fourthact.ink/
Start reading Age of Tempest on Patreon
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Mr Media @mrmedia1.bsky.social Writer, cultural critic. Photographer
Couple of u.degrees in media,+a lifetime of experience.
Interpreting and commentary on media messages.
Love photography, advertising, music, arts, culture, movies, education, justice 🚫AI
Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social Author of four books of poetry, most recently Reckon (2018). New chapbook with Baseline Press: https://www.baselinepress.ca/#/jacaranda-trees-mexico-city-steve-mcormond-2025