Kevin Spenst
Author, poet, chapbook-maker, teacher, lover of the spectrums, and quite often a person on a bicycle. New chapbook with Anstruther Press out in 2025!
@sfufass.bsky.social
With over 28 departments/programs in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, FASS is Simon Fraser University's largest and most diverse faculty. We're committed to engaging our communities with award-winning research and teaching.
@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/
@shawnalemay.bsky.social
A writer inspired by photography. Musings at transactionswithbeauty.com
@salempaige.bsky.social
they/them. 24. sleepy (disabled) genderfluid poet, essayist, digital artist, bug enthusiast. BotN nominee. author of books and a little zine. on my fruity bullshit. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇨🇦
@emaleea.bsky.social
Poet, post-doc, geography lecturer, community-based researcher, journalist. Author of award-nominated “Hesitating Once to Feel Glory” (poems), Nightwood Editions, 2022 and “Gardens Aflame,” (NF) on LEKWUNGEN/WSANEC Garry oak meadows. Part dog, part plant.
@btrewart.bsky.social
Poet with 3 chapbooks and one full-length book. Next full-length forthcoming in 2026 with Palimpsest Press. Chapbook editor at Anstruther Press. Learning Specialist & Instructional Designer at Western University. Father of two.
@farahghafoor.bsky.social
poet and author of Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025) 🌿 | she/her | Tkaronto | farahghafoor.com | farah.substack.com | IG @/shadowpricepoems
@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
@writersfest.bc.ca
Connecting people to exceptional books, ideas, and dialogue. 📚 Books & Ideas series on now until June 2025
@jaeyunwrites.bsky.social
Poet, psychiatrist, psychotherapist. One-fifth of Harbour Centre 5. Alum @TWSSFU. she/her. Chapbook: when a country teaches you (Baseline Press, 2026) https://harbourcentre5.wixsite.com/poetry/
@kitdobson.bsky.social
Author of We Are Already Ghosts (2024), Field Notes on Listening (2022), and more. Progressive Albertan. UCalgary Prof, Dept of English.
@cs-sfu.bsky.social
Simon Fraser University Continuing Studies has been providing flexible learning options since 1971. https://www.sfu.ca/continuing-studies.html
@annaveprinska.bsky.social
Poet | Asst Professor, UCalgary | Collection of poems, Bonememory, April 2025 | Author: Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis; Spirit-clenched; Stone Blossom; Sew with Butterflies Bonememory: https://utpdistribution.com/9781773856117/bonememory/
@artofcompost.bsky.social
Poetry + vispo, printing history + paleography, a little of this + a little of that. Angered + activated by the slide of my birth country toward dictatorship. http://artofcompost.ca.
@russellbooks.bsky.social
Canada's largest independent used bookstore: 20,000 sq.ft filled floor to ceiling with everything from vintage to today's bestsellers. www.russellbooks.com Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
@bctela.bsky.social
BC teachers supporting BC teachers with conferences, a student writing contest, an educational journal for sharing reflections & practices, and through our media accounts. Share helpful practices, resources, reflections, ask questions.
@movingpoems.bsky.social
The best poetry videos on the web at https://www.movingpoems.com
@salenawiener.bsky.social
poet & phd student in english literature at simon fraser university. romanticism & women's book history. bodies like gardens (cactus press 2023). RA women's print history project.
@lornedaniel.bsky.social
writer: people - place - connection new poetry collection coming, Sept 2025 https://linktr.ee/lornedaniel
@melaniesiebert.bsky.social
Poetry, adventure, swimming, planting, rewilding, decolonizing, therapy, heartbroken justice-doing as best one can, movement trying to know movement. She/Her
@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
@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.
@jacobwren.bsky.social
Artistic Director at PME-ART The Air Contains Honey Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim Rich and Poor Polyamorous Love Song https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
@christinemcnair.bsky.social
Book person — read them, bind them, fix them, write them. I like type. Author of Conflict (2012) and Charm (2016) & Toxemia (poetic non-fiction) from Book*hug (fall 2024). President of CBBAG. Former co-organizer of the Ottawa Promise Walk for Preeclampsia.
@nate-nate-nainers.bsky.social
Poet | Storyteller | Performance Artist Wild Ride Journeyfemme (They/She)
@megaphonemagazine.com
Megaphone provides work opportunities & community connection for people who are homeless & low income in Vancouver, BC. #changethatworks https://linktr.ee/megaphonemag
@andreareimer.bsky.social
I spent 4 terms in local gov focused on climate action, reconciliation, social justice & a stronger democracy. I left in 2018 to figure out why Trump got elected. Now I teach power literacy & help courageous people take action on bold, progressive ideas.
@taraborin.bsky.social
They/them 🏳️🌈 Poet, parent, and chocolate monster living in traditional Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in territory, Dawson City, Yukon. Author of The Pit.
@yilinwriter.bsky.social
Writer. Poet. Editor & translator, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing 2024). Clarion West '21. ace 🏳️🌈. linktr.ee/yilinw
@shanmonster.bsky.social
Author, artist, poet, & 2-spirit swamp hag. Grew up on the land & off the grid. Work appears in The Deadlands, Augur Magazine, SolarPunk Magazine, Strange Horizons, On Spec, etc. Aurora finalist and total weirdo. shanmonster.dreamwidth.org
@rsalazar.bsky.social
haunted swamp femme, PhD // author of sulphurtongue (2021) & antibody (2025) // (she/they) 🇨🇴🤎🇵🇸
@evelazarus.bsky.social
Eight-time award losing author and true crime podcaster with a passion for history. New book: Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck out April 2025 http://evelazarus.com/
@waydecompton.bsky.social
Author of Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics (U of Alberta P). Assistant Professor of Writing at the University of Victoria.
@kindofkevin.bsky.social
Writes, reads, listens, eats. Assoc Prof at UBC, Vancouver. Poetry collection Embouchure (2011). Audio on Bandcamp. Blogs frankstyles.blogspot.com and flowfissuremesh.com. Check out kevinmcneilly.ca and kevinmcneilly.com for much and more.
@forgottenpoets.bsky.social
❖ Poems & Pictures ❖ #ForgottenPoets edited by Dick Whyte #dwpoems, a newsletter of pre-1930s poetry ❖ ❖ Poetry Newsletter ❖ https://forgottenpoets.substack.com ❖ Poetry New Zealand ❖ #PoetryAotearoa ❖ Haiku Translations ❖ @dailyhaikai.bsky.social
@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/
@ottawasmallpress.bsky.social
twice a year since 1994 : the best of the small press in Ottawa, lovingly organized/curated by rob mclennan https://bsky.app/profile/robmclennan.bsky.social member of https://bsky.app/profile/smallpressalmanac.bsky.social
@eventmags.bsky.social
Literary magazine publishing the best new poetry & prose for over 50 years. Details on subscriptions, submissions, contests and more at http://eventmagazine.ca
@iaawc.bsky.social
Indigenous-Aboriginal American Writers imparting field-related craft, pedagogy, celebrations, & concerns nativewriterscaucus.wordpress.com
@meharoona.bsky.social
Writer. Poet. Public Speaker. Inspire Ideas. Cultivate Diversity. Build Inclusion. Views here are my own.