JamesTheBalladeer
Novelist, short-story scribe, poet, editor, reviewer, comic-book aficionado, selenophile. Librarian-adjacent.
Town & Train, small-town Canadian horror novel & Fear Itself short-story collection from Lethe Press. In indie stores & on the amazons.🍀🩷💜💙🌈
@westofcanon.bsky.social
westofcanon.com. 🌊✨A pirate ship. A pressductions. ✨🌊 🌊✨The queerest little ship that ever did sail 🌊
@johnchrostek.com
Writer: johnchrostek.com EIC @cold-signal.com Bookseller @eveninghouse.bsky.social BOXCUTTERS, short stories: May 2025 https://malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcutters FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN, novel: Aug 26 2025 https://shorturl.at/WeXfh Buffalo, NY
@cold-signal.com
https://cold-signal.com Issue Three: Underworld, out now! ///a weird genre & indie lit online anthology series exploring the existential questions of today & tomorrow/// EIC: @johnchrostek.com
@zackquaintance.bsky.social
Comic Book Writer. Editor at Eisner-nominated comics news site, The Beat. Formerly ran Comics Bookcase. Wrote about comics for NPR Books. Once had a short story published by Tin House. https://linktr.ee/zackquaintance
@ericpalicki.bsky.social
He/him. Writer: BLACK’S MYTH • ATLANTIS WASN’T BUILT FOR TOURISTS • NO ANGEL • NINJA KAIDAN // 3x Ringo-nominated editor // Charlie-Mike // Social Justice Warlord // 📧: epalicki@gmail.com
@arsenalpulp.bsky.social
Leading 🇨🇦 indie publisher of LGBTQ2S+ & BIPOC stories | Literary fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, poetry, and YA & children’s books 📚🏳️🌈 📙 arsenalpulp.com | linktr.ee/arsenalpulp
@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
@garybarwin.bsky.social
writing, multimedia, music, art, Hamilton ON Canada https://linktr.ee/garybarwin “There’s a wisecrack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
@scottdagostino.ca
Gay Irish-Canadian AuADHD Buddhist journalist. Chaotic good. JEDI consultant with Breakfast Culture. He/him.
@kimfahner.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, editor. First Vice-Chair, The Writers' Union of Canada The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024) The Pollination Field (Turnstone, 2025) www.kimfahner.com
@akkabah.bsky.social
Senior editor at The Tyee. Author of the essay collections Hearty: On Cooking, Eating and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence (ECW Press) & Like a Boy but Not a Boy (Arsenal Pulp). Co-editor of the BC bestselling Points of Interest.
@ianletourneau.bsky.social
Poet (Metadata from a Changing Climate, out May 2025 from Gaspereau Press). Managing Editor of The Fiddlehead and SCL. Publisher of poetry chapbooks at Emergency Flash Mob Press. Bibliographer. Fredericton, NB.
@katerilanthier.bsky.social
Poet, teacher, editor. Author of Siren (Signal Editions, Vehicule Press, 2017) and Reporting from Night (Iguana, 2011).
@rheatregebov.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, children's picture book author. Associate Professor Emerita UBC School of Creative Writing. Canadian. www.rheatregebov.ca 🇨🇦
@roblucastaylor.bsky.social
Poet. Teacher. Editor. Interviewer. Festival Director. Plum memer. Not necessarily in that order. Usually found in Vancouver, Port Moody or Abbotsford. http://roblucastaylor.com/
@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.
@leahfromsd.bsky.social
Screenwriter | Artist | Roller Derby Skater | Lover of Cowboy Boots | She/Her | Oh, yeah, I kind of made a movie too: https://youtu.be/lwbzq0eDavU Coverfly: https://writers.coverfly.com/profile/leahfromsouthdakota
@roguestrands.bsky.social
Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
@mia-ironeyes.bsky.social
🇦🇷🏳️⚧️🐈⬛☕. Marine vet. Firefighter. Disaster worker. Policy wonk. Emergency Management specialist. Survivor of poverty, hunger, homelessness, disasters, and persecution. Ugly transfem. Coffee snob. Black cat lover. Not liberal. SOCIALIST.
@gregrucka.com
Writer. He/him. Genuinely too boring for social media. Often incandescently angry. #RCTID #BAON #YNWA Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️ The Old Guard 2 comes out July 2nd Newsletter: https://front-towards-enemy.ghost.io Avatar from no-gods-no-masters.com
@hamletwasanincel.bsky.social
Ireland, trans, bi, mostly use he/him. Here mostly to keep tabs on what the vibes are in the broader Irish community. If I have to see arguments about youtubers I'll explode. Currently 31.
@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/
@jeffbakerauthor.bsky.social
Writer Jeff Baker, who also writes as Mike Mayak. Bi. He/Him.
@benjaminwrites.bsky.social
Writer. My latest is The Art of Forgiveness, from @galleon-books.bsky.social, a collection of linked short stories about three boys growing up (roughly) in the suburbs outside Halifax. I also advocate for sustainable energy. https://chris-benjamin.ca
@niina.bsky.social
beautiful, powerful, dangerous, cold author of PATH OF TOTALITY (soft skull 2022) and DEAD HORSE (Birds, LLC 2015). reviews ed. at zona motel. poet, translator, parent in marshall, nc. niinapollari.com https://substack.com/@niinapollari
@christinashah.bsky.social
Poet, videopoet, valve fairy. ⚙️⛓️🧚 Author of RIG VEDA (Anstruther Press), if: prey, then: huntress (Nightwood Editions) forthcoming Fall 2025 http://www.anstrutherpress.com/#/rig-veda-by-christina-shah/ https://harbourcentre5.wixsite.com/poetry/blank-1
@hillarymonahan.bsky.social
Spiky author person with a rad jewelry shop. They/She. Queer, AuDHD, and probably watching a horror movie. Black Trans Lives Matter. Not taking your shit today. Official cat herder of the @peculiarityshop.bsky.social.
@tinwheels.bsky.social
Wet-Collodion & Historic Process Photographer Digital because I need the money. Painting - Collage - Sculpture Occasional writer, mediocre poet, excellent breather.
@weaverandy.bsky.social
Poet, professor of English and Creative Writing. Latest book, The Loom https://press.ucalgary.ca/books/9781773855837/.
@robralley.bsky.social
Historian of science and medicine. Editor for The Casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier (1596-1634), now writing about Napier, slowly. And taking photos. Views my own.
@mtherecordkeeper.bsky.social
librarian, writer and artist (on my good days), just prefiguring things out (she/her/elle)
@philipcbaldwin.bsky.social
LGBTQIA+/HIV activist and writer (he/him/his). GAY TIMES column. Church of England General Synod Member. Ozanne Foundation Trustee. Trans inclusive. Views my own. Press: lucy@wearelucy.co.uk
@catvalente.bsky.social
Queen of Lasers and NYT/USAToday bestselling author of Fairyland, Space Opera, Deathless, The Past Is Red, and many more. Thee/Thou. Art: http://patreon.com/catvalente Politics: http://catvalente.substack.com TipJar: https://venmo.com/u/cat-valente
@teastainss.bsky.social
contact: http://tianaoreglia.com Currently working as a freelance artist for games. Worked on comics @ Valve (TF2, Dota 2) SF bay area
@blacksalander.bsky.social
They/them Freelance illustrator for MTG/WOTC/Dragonlance/Taldorei Guide/Critical Role/ and private work merch, donations and info in my site: https://caiosantosart.com/
@coreybrickley.bsky.social
They/them. Artist just doing book covers, email info@debutart.com for inquiries. Married 💍 to my freaking job 🤣 help 🙏Upcoming TTRPG: http://blightshollow.com blocking ai ppl love u
@cotronis.bsky.social
Artist PRINTS! https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/ravenkult/ http://www.cotronis.com https://linktr.ee/cotronis
@ianmcque.bsky.social
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ianmcque/mileships-a-narrative-art-book-by-ian-mcque
@isaac40.bsky.social
Sou universitário, artista nas horas vagas e só I'm a university student, an artist in my spare time and that's it. Accounts: https://cara.app/srandreyson4040 https://www.instagram.com/sr.andreison?igsh=MTZ2YWo4OTE3eDFhMw==
@wastedwings.bsky.social
Color Artist. Painter. Books Hugo, GLAAD, Prism, Ringo & Harvey nominated. Rope witch. 200 RYS. Bad Yogi. Disabled- FMS, MCI, Ocular Migraines, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Depression/ Anxiety. Queer. ♠️. Agender. AuDHD. linktr.ee/kellyfempire
@lkk.bsky.social
Writer of TV (Star Trek: Voyager), novels (All In), short stories and graphic novels. Reader, animal rescuer, sci-fi geek.
@walshfreedom.bsky.social
Former GOP Congressman. Ex‑Tea Partier turned relentless anti‑Trump truth‑teller. Want the unfiltered takes the cable shows won’t touch? Read & spar with me on Substack 👉 https://substack.com/@socialcontractwithjoewalsh