Amanda Earl

@amandaearl.bsky.social

she/her: sharing Ottawa -area literary, spoken word, storytelling & nonfiction events daily ish. Out now!: Beast Body Epic, Autumn 2023. https://linktr.ee/amandaearl. NO DMS. No "Only Fans"!

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Can Lit Journals

print & digital literary magazines in Canada

Car-Free Ottawans (bike/foot/transit)

For Ottawans who travel by bike, foot or transit as their primary modes of transportation. Sharing info about sidewalk conditions in winter and other fun things about trying to get by in this car-centric city.

Fellow whimsy enthusiasts

Artists, writers, filmmakers etc who colour outside the lines. If you want in, let me know .

Visual Poets of BlueSky

If you make visual poetry, please let me know and I'll add you. Digital or analogies. Collage, erasure, asemic writing, typewriter poems, embroidered text, you name it.

Ottawa/NCR Writers, Artists and Visual Poets

writers and artists of all genres who live in the National Capital Region

Caoimhe Lavelle (aka Kwoo)

@kwoovo.bsky.social

"The still beating heart of Bohemian Dublin" according to LyricFM DJ, Poet, Cartoonist, Audio Producer of Branched Out Podcast https://shows.acast.com/branched-out Patreon.com/kwoo

Soma Ghosh

@somaghosh.bsky.social

“A 1000 women in one” - The Hay Festival. “A snake and a prostitute”- some guy. Writer Podcaster Rural Raver. Also Tree hugger but not in a woo-woo way. Words on film, books, music, culture, 'Nature': Little White Lies, The Independent, The Irish Times etc

@murderedbybluesky.bsky.social

-Field: IT Systems Engineering (15+ yrs) -Crazy Cat dude -Financial/Culture/Class Equality Advocate -Not selling, buying or advertising anything. -Just an upset man shouting trying to get people to wake up to the reality unfolding.

@paddyscott.bsky.social

House of Anansi Press

@houseofanansi.bsky.social

Anansi publishes very good books. 📖 Follow us on Instagram and Pinterest: @houseofanansi Visit our website: https://houseofanansi.com/?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=bluesky_profile

Bette P

@bette56.bsky.social

@desertchick-hubby.bsky.social

Hot Cock Soup Publishing

@hotcocksoup.bsky.social

an interconnected, queer & disabled-led publisher, distro, and playground for experimental literature & art, based in Delhi, orbiting everywhere

Wynn Libby

@wynnlibby.bsky.social

writer/thinker/stinker/hater co-creator of Hot Soup Collective support your local artists & believe in yourself

T Arnson

@sirscribblesalot.bsky.social

Writer-Producer ✍️ Here to check-out other creatives 🎭 Sharing my stories ✉️ Growing subscribers 📈 https://neuroticencounter.com/mailing-list/

Kirsten Arcadio

@kharcadio.bsky.social

📚 Reader and writer of speculative fiction and psychological thrillers. ✍️ PhD graduate of creative writing. 🏫 Digital Marketer at Morley College London. 📖 Currently querying my new speculative thriller.

C. Signy Maraine 🛹🐢

@csignymaraine.bsky.social

Wordlarker. Writing teen horror fiction and rum poetry. Author of DREAD THE BOARDS - now at Kobo, Indigo, bol(dot)com, B&N, Booktopia, (Libby) OverDrive. At Amazon: https://a.co/d/ghXKLrv she/her

Hidingfromyou

@hfyou.bsky.social

Coffee and chocolate consumer, scifi and fantasy writer on the side. My books have a tiny bit of crazy gender stuff going on - definitely avoid if you're MAGA. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ongoing stories, free tier available: https://www.patreon.com/c/user?u=32955303

MW

@emdubbleu.bsky.social

wrote “these are not the potatoes of my youth” in 2019 and “terrarium” in 2024. mole trapped in human body. writing, reading, drawing, and dreaming.

@danellelejeune.bsky.social

Chaos, control- poetry, motherhood, pop culture, and midlife crisis; musing about life with teenagers, as a writer, and perimenopausal complications; food politics, pop songs, and my favorite movies; toxic family, blended family, divorce.

The Yarner

@theyarner.bsky.social

#yarnerdesigns https://www.ravelry.com/stores/the-yarner fibers / fabric /food in 🇨🇦 Gardening in zone 5 a/b

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 (2025-2026)

Joshua Chris Bouchard

@jcbouchardpoet.bsky.social

Poet. BURN DIARY out now w/ Buckrider Books (Wolsak and Wynn). Vocals in LINENS. Drummer in other bands. Editor of BAD DOG Mag.

E. Elizabeth Fog 🪦🍂

@pyrlian.bsky.social

writing and tummy aches ✍️ they/she published in The New Quarterly, Bywords, Flo.Lit Magazine and Beneath Ceaseless Skies 📚✨️

Missy Marston

@marstonshmelzer.bsky.social

Novelist.

Satonna

@satonna.bsky.social

I like to collect books, cats, yarn, and spell books. Married happily to best friend, currently serving two cats named Gremlin and Fidget. PLEASE NO DMS.

Johnstone

@massiveattack420.bsky.social

Host of the Paper Map Podcast (under-construction) with Co-Host @stendhalcyon.bsky.social Physical media collector. Photographer. Gamer (PSN: massiveattack420). Longboarder. Discgolfer. Eidetic memory. Blue Dot in Texas. Fuck Nazis! #TerrorVision #Severin

Aaron Apollo Camp

@campaaronapollo.bsky.social

Author. Writer. Podcast host. Progressive Democrat. Sports fan. Nerd. On the autism spectrum. Downstate Illinoisan. I don't fit neatly into any box, figuratively or literally. He/Him/His. https://linktr.ee/campaaronapollo

James Lilliefors

@jameslilliefors.bsky.social

Poet, journalist, novelist. BotN nominee. First poetry collection, SUDDEN SHADOWS (Finishing Line Press), coming in October.

Daniel Rolph Author

@danielrolphauthor.bsky.social

Daniel Rolph grew up in the UK foster care system, experiencing firsthand the challenges that come with it. Now, he's channelling those experiences into his debut novel, Shattered Paths Buy Now: https://geni.us/OEi75Gh

Jake Orlowitz

@jakeorlowitz.bsky.social

Internet Citizen, Founder of the #Wikipedia Library, #1Lib1Ref, and the Wikimedia Consultants Network. Lead at #WikiBlueprint Consulting. Seeker of well people and sane societies. Project2029.me #resist

Sean Bates

@seanjbates.bsky.social

writer/poet/educator UMassAmherst MFA alum three poems a week: https://substack.com/@seanjbates poems in: Stone Canoe Rising Phoenix Review "What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump", Curbstone Books. https://tinyurl.com/44yksnmp

Audrey

@audreyhornee.bsky.social

Feminist Fuck Patriarchy No DM 🚫

Melanie Siebert

@melaniesiebert.bsky.social

Poetry, adventure, swimming, planting, rewilding, decolonizing, therapy, heartbroken justice-doing as best one can, movement trying to know movement. She/Her

DM De Alwis 🇨🇦

@dmdealwis.bsky.social

Author 🇨🇦🇱🇰🍀 In this life or the next... blending mythology with fantasy. I also write Children's books.🦁👹 https://dmdealwis.com/quick-links/ 2nd-generation Canadian; open-source circles know me as dcor.

Jordan Moffatt

@jordanmoffatt.bsky.social

Writer (municipal issues and cycling in Ottawa), author (fiction) Website: https://jordanmoffatt.website/ Newsletter: https://jordobicycles.substack.com/

Cara

@carajeangoodwin.bsky.social

Scrivener Creative Review ★

@scrivener1980.bsky.social

is a literary journal published at McGill University in Montreal, founded in 1980. BUY TICKETS FOR THE LAUNCH PARTY HERE: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/2025-scrivener-launch-party

Taryn Stone

@trombonella.bsky.social

Canadian, Newfoundlander, Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, LAM, Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, Buddhist, Kin Canada, Girl Guides of Canada, Adult Educator, Disability Advocate, Needle Felter, Frequent Volunteer, Music Concerts, Festivals, Plays, and Musicals

J. D. Nelson

@micropoetry.bsky.social

poet & author MadVerse.com linktr.ee/jdnelson poetry micropoetry poem writer writing book chapbook e-book Dada Surrealism experimental weird literature haiku ecopoetry nature wildlife animal tree kindness Boulder Denver Colorado Christus Super Omnia +