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/
RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com Writer @ Epic Games. Screenwriter. Emerging tabletop RPG designer. Gay as hell, broken in a fundamental but amusing way, and trying his best to make you laugh and/or cry.
He/him.
dr. kimberly ann @kimannjosouth.bsky.social 💚 poet, phd, professor, human, mama, aries, eagles/phl sports , ucw-cwa, she/her/hers 💚
rts ≠ always endorsements
Christina Shah @christinashah.bsky.social Poet, videopoet, valve fairy. ⚙️⛓️🧚 1/5 of the Harbour Centre Five. Author of RIG VEDA (Anstruther Press), if: prey, then: huntress (Nightwood Editions) Fall 2025
https://nightwoodeditions.com/collections/forthcoming/products/9780889715028
Georgia Equality @georgiaequality.org Georgia's largest advocacy organization working to advance fairness, safety, and opportunity for LGBTQ+ people, our allies, and all living with HIV. 🏳️🌈✨🏳️⚧️
Green and Red Podcast @podcastgreenred.bsky.social Scrappy podcast about radical environmental & #anticapitalist politics. Hosted by @sparki1969.bsky.social & @bobbuzzanco.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast
@moonryme.bsky.social @moonryme.bsky.social non-binary trans woman, elder millennial, struggling trad artist, self-loathing matron saint, clueless social media novice, quixotic jedi, principled pan-slut, rogue in-dark whistler, sidewalk photographer
IG monicabrynne
monicabrynne.wordpress.com
Royal City Literary Arts Society @rclas.bsky.social www.rclas.com
RCLAS’s mission is to maintain and build a welcoming community of writers and readers, to support the goals of writers at all stages of their development, and to promote an appreciation of all forms of literary arts.
Laurie D. Graham @lauriedgraham.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/lauriedgraham
Minx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social astrophel • a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • « botanical, celestial, erotic » • hedgehog chronicler
https://linktr.ee/isabellastreffen
Born on a Raft Theatre @bornonarafttheatre.bsky.social Montreal's newest Queer-led Theatre company. Presenting "The Best Brothers" by Daniel MacIvor in May of 2026.
Kevin Shaw @kevinshaw84.bsky.social Writer | Ottawa | www.kevinshaw.ca
Randall Perry 🍁 @randallperry.bsky.social Independent editor and writer. Publisher at October Park Editions (a chapbook micropress). Toronto, ON
Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social Author of 8 books of fiction & poetry. Recent:The Thickness of Ice (novel, Baraka Books, 2024);The Death Poems (Salt, 2023).Winner of Rubery Award for Fiction. Shortlisted Danuta Gleed Award, Bord Gais Irish Book Awards, & Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
Hilary Mosher @unusual-care.bsky.social Physician. Poet. I essay.
Analog time. Impressions; assent;volition. Pro slow thought.
JL Croner @jlcroner.bsky.social Back then, managing editor, KTTV in LA.
Now, “Ordinariness/ bright as raspberries” (from This Morning by Jo McDougall.)
Two of my poems in Mudfish 24.
Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social indie poetry publisher based in Canada with an international focus. we publish books and we have an online website with series and blogs w/poets, fiction writers, visual artist, experimental projects www.icefloepress.net EIC/publisher Robert Frede Kenter
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Alison @alisonburnis.bsky.social Occasional writer, intermittent artist. Red lipstick enthusiast. Likes cake. Current academic librarian, former hospital librarian. Atlantic Canada. She/her/elle.
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
Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social Toronto writer. Words in Wigleaf Top 50, Cincinnati Review, Gone Lawn, Milk Candy, New Ohio Review, Pithead Chapel
Reader, Fractured Lit.
Noms Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, BOTN.
Award-winning chapbook, Good Mother Lizard.
Edmonton Poetry Festival @edmpoetryfestival.bsky.social Edmonton's month-long poetry celebration every April!
#yeg #AB #poetry
Website: https://edmontonpoetryfestival.com
Newsletter: https://edmontonpoetryfestival.com/the-magpie/
VERSe Ottawa / VERSeFest (prior account lost, @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social Ottawa's International Festival of Poetry / le festival international de poésie d’Ottawa / administrator of the City of Ottawa's Poet Laureate Program / l’administration du Programme des poètes lauréats d’Ottawa / https://www.verseottawa.ca/
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social Gulfport, FL poet laureate
I write poems about bodies - ours, animals, water, our collective nature
Here to connect with poets & poetry lovers
Author of Water Yoga (Singing Dragon 2022).
Lover of tea & avocados 🥑
https://christafairbrotherwrites.com/
dogyard @dogyardmag.com Just a mag chasin’ tales.
We accept all types of work from all (leashed) walks of life: poetry, fiction, essay, art, nonfiction, and more.
Read & Submit 👇
dogyardmag.com
Account ran by @edithkrone.bsky.social
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
Banner artist: Andrew James McKay (andrewjamesmckay.com)
longconmag.com/collusionbooks: canadian micro-press for collaborative poetry
Press of the Varying Hare @varyinghare.bsky.social Andrew Steeves is a writer, editor, typographer and letterpress printer based in Black River Lake, Nova Scotia. He is the sole proprietor of the Press of the Varying Hare.
The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social “The Adroit Journal is where I go when I want to know what the kids are reading.”
—The Paris Review
https://linktr.ee/theadroitjournal?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaY2AGldWsnSz9H-OoEtXxJjk02NLV0fG0wkmOIITzjlxRYq8R2lWo6jrIU_aem_BU_jPktWCVqyJRazMLp4sA
Prairie Fire Magazine @prairiefiremag.bsky.social Award-winning Canadian journal of innovative writing that has been publishing exceptional writing for over 45 years. One of Canada’s oldest literary magazines.
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social Author, he/him
Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social poet, teacher, sometimes essayist. chapbook, Love That For Us, out now @andchangepoetry.bsky.social. craft book forthcoming @noemipress.bsky.social. two books @boa-editions.bsky.social.
abolish the police & free palestine.
https://www.chenchenwrites.com
PRISM International @prisminternational.bsky.social Periodical literary magazine located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm people (Vancouver, BC)
https://prismmagazine.ca/
Andrea Bishop @andreabishop.bsky.social Writer. Salt Spring Island & Vancouver, 🇨🇦. Stories in/coming: New Ohio Review, Malahat Review, Masters Review, Cleaver, Grain, BULL, PRISM...
Knows: healthcare, psych & change
Appreciates: dogs, quests, diversity & curiosity
linktr.ee/andreabishop
The Dead Poets Reading Series @deadpoetsreading.bsky.social A reading series/literary seance that takes place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations, colonially known as Vancouver, BC. Poets present the work of dead poets they admire. http://www.deadpoetslive.com/
BC and Yukon Book Prizes @bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social Our mission is to recognize and promote the achievements of the book community in BC and Yukon through the BC and Yukon Book Prizes and related programs. The 10 Prizes are presented annually recognizing authors, illustrators, and publishers.
Estlin McPhee @estmcphee.bsky.social Writer, reader, librarian. Poetry book In Your Nature out now with Brick Books. More info on emcphee.com
CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social Celebrating 50 years of poetry in 2025 ✨
https://linktr.ee/cv2magazine
Susan Swan @susan-swan.bsky.social Bluesky convert. Author, journalist, co-founder of Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. New book: Big Girls Don’t Cry: A Memoir about Taking Up Space published in Canada and the US May 2025 My website: http://www.susanswanonline.com
Nicole Haldoupis @nicolehaldoupis.bsky.social Writer of Tiny Ruins (Radiant Press)
Managing Editor, Paragon Press (MUNL)
Publishing Coordinator, At Bay Press
🎸 HAGS & True Trash
www.nicolehaldoupis.ca
Sarah Ens @sarahens.bsky.social Writer, editor, & book publicist. She/her. The World Is Mostly Sky & Flyway (Turnstone Press)
Tea Gerbeza @teagerbeza.bsky.social She/her. Disabled neuroqueer writer and artist. Author of How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2025).
teagerbeza.com
Meredith Hambrock @meredithambrock.bsky.social Novelist, OTHER PEOPLE'S SECRETS (Crooked Lane Books, 2022), and SHE'S A LAMB! (ECW Press - 2025), Screenwriter (Corner Gas Animated,) and Writing Instructor. Curling- biking-reading repeat. Canadian.
https://linktr.ee/mhambrock
Tove Black @toveblack.bsky.social Gen X writer and sometimes musician based in Vancouver (Canada). Pen name, pronounced "tova." https://toveblack.ca/about/
Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social Vancouver librarian, writer, music and radio type (etc.), often worrying about mis/disinformation and AI. I block profiles that give a weird vibe -- sorry if this leads to some errors. (Opinions are my own.)
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
Janet Kvammen @janetkvammen.bsky.social Poet Laureate of the City of New Westminster.
Visual Artist, Mixed Media.
Molly McCarron @mccmolly.bsky.social Writing, observations from the backyard
http://linktr.ee/mollymccarron
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
@ninjay25.bsky.social @ninjay25.bsky.social 
Palabra Flamenco @palabraflamenco.bsky.social Traditional flamenco meets English-language poetry. Members include dancer Denise Yeo, guitarist Gareth Owen, and poets Garth Martens and Jan Zwicky. Ongoing performances on Vancouver Island. Upcoming performance in Vancouver.
StFX English Dept @stfxenglish.bsky.social English Department at @stfx-university.bsky.social
Dr. Lara El Mekaui @lelmek.bsky.social Research Fellow @cercmigration.bsky.social
Lead non-fiction editor
@thenewquarterly.bsky.social
Writing and Communications Instructor
@uwaterloo.ca
website: thehesitantlocal.ca
mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
Marlanator @marla.bsky.social I watch the sky over the mouth of the harbour in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sometimes it's blue!
Perry King @kngprry.bsky.social ✍🏾⚡️multi-hatted
storyteller @oiseuoft.bsky.social
REBOUND (2021); BORDERLESS (2027)
My exhibit: https://kngprry.tumblr.com/homegame
My work: https://linktr.ee/perryking
📍Sector 2814
Camille-Zoé Valcourt-Synnott @camillezvs.bsky.social Visual artist and arts worker interested in labour conditions in arts/culture and in other things too when I get too depressed 🙃
www.camillezvs.com
Phoenix @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social Atlantic Canadian game critic (She/They)
Columnist at @unwinnable.com
Co-Editor of @tier-review.com
https://muckrack.com/phoenix-simms
phoenixwritesdown@protonmail.com
Banner by Lina Wu
Avi by realrollsweat
@smurtagh-writer.bsky.social @smurtagh-writer.bsky.social Author of We're Not Rich
suemurtagh.com
Block Shop Books @blockshopbooks.bsky.social Women/Queer-owned curated bookstore connecting people with great new books. A safe space.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Mon-Sat 10-5 Sun 11-4
Co-owned by - author Jo Treggiari
125 Montague Street, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia B0J 2C0
www.blockshopbooks.ca
Playwrights Canada Press @playcanpress.bsky.social Canada's foremost publisher of theatre books since 1984
playwrightscanada.com
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
Montreal International Poetry Prize @montrealprize.bsky.social The Montreal Poetry Prize is committed to poetry and poets around the world. For our 2024 winner and finalists, visit us at:
https://www.montrealpoetryprize.com/
Submit to the 2026 competition at https://montrealpoetryprize.awardsplatform.com/
Katherine J Barrett @kathj.bsky.social Writer-editor chick in rural Nova Scotia / Mi'kma'ki.
katherinejbarrett.com
Canadian Literature @canadianlit.bsky.social DMs are not monitored. Contact us at link below!
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Philip Baldwin @philipcbaldwin.bsky.social LGBTQIA+/HIV author, presenter, speaker, writer and activist (he/him/his). Gay Times column. Trans inclusive.
https://linktr.ee/philipbaldwin.london
Maria Meindl @mmeindl.bsky.social Writer, historian, Feldenkrais practitioner.
Booster of works-in-progress at Draft Reading Series.
http://mariameindl.com
http://draftreadings.com
Checking this account once a week or so.
Ann Y.K. Choi @annykchoi.bsky.social Author & Educator at Simon & Schuster Canada, Orca Book Publishers
& YRDSB, UofT SCS | Korean Canadian I coffee & fonts (garamond) | annykchoi.com
John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social Apocalyptic shit disturber elephant trainer -
This is the only account . 👈 If I share something it doesn’t necessarily mean I agree
Founding board member
@Freedom.press please follow https://linktr.ee/freedomofpress
@johncusack on twiiter
Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social Free classroom lessons, workshops, seminars, campaigns, teacher study groups, & more to teach outside the textbook.
Coord. by @rethinkingschools.bsky.social & @teachingchange.bsky.social
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
Newsletter: www.bugeyedandshameless.com
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Hoa Nguyen @peacehearty.bsky.social Poet. Educator. Aquarius stellium. Not really here.
Honor Brabazon @honorbrabazon.bsky.social Prof at SJU. Law, social movements, neoliberalism, universities, theory. Views here are my own.
Zoe Dickinson @zoeidadickinson.bsky.social Poet; Bookseller; Baker; Human belonging to Duke (dog) and the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher (cat).
Author of:
Public Transit
Interidal: Poems from the Littoral Zone
Staff Picks for Invertebrates (forthcoming, Guernica Editions, 2026).
Carmen Wiigwaas Craig @carmunist.bsky.social Learning and teaching my language—Nishnaabemwin. Jijaak ndoodem. Consultant at Oodenaw.com. Award-winning short fiction author and poet. Developmental editor at DarlingAxe.com. Kidlit, YA, hist fic, women's lit. She/they
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
Anton @aaantons.bsky.social https://www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/realisticfiction
https://www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/2024/11/5/how-to-run-for-local-office
https://evergreenreview.com/read/the-most-dangerous-game
"There is nobody doing it like Anton." --Tuck Woodstock
Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor.
Chair, The Writers' Union of Canada
The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024)
The Pollination Field (Turnstone, 2025)
www.kimfahner.com
Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social "Above all, we loved this country and loved exploring and painting it." ~ Lawren Harris
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social anthropologist, editor at mcmaster university. author of THE DREAD HEIGHTS: TRIBULATION AND REFUGE AFTER THE SYRIAN REVOLUTION (https://fordhampress.com/the-dread-heights-hb-9781531510312.html). bookmarking in the wasteland
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social A digital poetry journal, edited by @kathryngray.bsky.social and @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social Enjoy our blooms! badlilies.uk
Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social Biologist, gender/sex expert, feminist. In the works: a book on gender identity. In retirement: lots of bird photography.
Substack: Sterlinga.substack.com
Mastodon: @faustosterling@mastodon.world
Website: annefaustosterling.com
Andi Leigh @andileighwrites.bsky.social Poet, novelist, short story writer, & visual artist.
💛🤍💜🖤 🌻 🖤🩶🤍💜
EIC: @oatleafpoetry.bsky.social
andileighwrites.com
allison @allisonmunday.bsky.social freelance writer & editor, bookseller and general recluse
Open Secrets @opensecretsbooks.bsky.social independent booksellers located in kentville, nova scotia. in-store and online shopping available, click the link below to shop the online store—flat rate shipping or in-store pickup available!
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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social Award-winning investigative journalist with the Halifax Examiner. Horsewoman. Birder. Not everyone's cup of tea. Opinions expressed here are my own.
She/her
Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social Author, independent investigative journalist, member ICIJ global network - environment, climate, and corporate capture my obsessions - allergic to hypocrisy, propaganda and greenwashing grifters. Still writing after all these years. Opinions my own.
Yvette d’Entremont @dentremy.bsky.social Reporter/Managing Editor @halifaxexaminer.ca
Health/research/social justice.
Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦
Fuelled by lukewarm coffee and hope for a better world. Fan of forests, fireflies, dark skies and the sunrise.
Opinions are mine.
Acadienne
She/her
Micheline Maylor @michelinemaylor.bsky.social Independent academic, poet, editor, reviewer, writing and mindfulness mentor. 
Susan Gillis @susangillis.bsky.social Poet, editor, art lover. Fire and water, earth and air. Tending life in the Frontenac Arch. Yellow Crane, The Rapids, and more www.susangillis.ca
Selena Mercuri | Writer, Editor, Book Publicist @selenamercuri.bsky.social 📝 MFA Candidate @uguelphcwmfa
💼 @thenewquarterly @therightsfactory @river_street_writes @warlandaward @vancouver.manuscript.intensive.
@yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social 
Kevin MacDonell (he/him) @kevinmacdonell.bsky.social Writer and lifelong diarist. Nova Scotia, Canada. Creative nonfiction, personal essays. Recent/forthcoming: Malahat Review, Queen’s Quarterly, Grain, Dalhousie Review, Camel, Riddle Fence, Emerging Writing Reading Series. Site: kevinmacdonell.com
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov This account is maintained by federal staff to share services and legislation relevant to constituents of NY-14.
Meghan Kemp-Gee, SPACE POET @meghankempgee.bsky.social Teacher | Writer (she/her)
NEBULAS ✨ https://chbooks.com/Books/T/The-Animal-in-the-Room
Come Out and Play 🌈
Passing in the Night 🐉
Contested Strip: ONE MORE YEAR 🥏
The Animal in the Room 🦌
Space Heroines of El Andoo 🤖
Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social author of The Danger Model (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019). poetry / essays / neurodiversity & disability studies / 🏳️🌈 
Tamara Jong @bokchoygurltjong.bsky.social Tamara Jong (she/her) is a Montréal (Tiohtià:ke)-born writer/artist of Chinese and European ancestry. Debut memoir Worldly Girls published by Book*hug out September 9th 2025: https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/tamara-jong/worldly-girls-by-tamara-jong/