Rob Taylor
Poet. Teacher. Editor. Interviewer. Festival Director. Plum memer. Not necessarily in that order. Usually found in Vancouver, Port Moody or Abbotsford. http://roblucastaylor.com/
Starter Packs
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Icebox-Thieving Motherfuckers
This starter pack is for anyone who has eaten the plums that were in my icebox and which I was probably saving for breakfast.
@bzuzarte.bsky.social
Poet, writer, creative director. Found or forthcoming in Arc Poetry, The Shore, and Augur. He/him. 👋🏽
@lynneaston.bsky.social
@evanpjones.bsky.social
Post-Canadian poet, Cavafy translator, author of Men of the Same Name (Carcanet 2025). I’ve published in the Guardian, TLS, Malahat Review and PN Review.
@vanopticon.bsky.social
word person managing the editing @biblioasis.bsky.social vanessastauffer.com
@pixelatedboat.bsky.social
The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
@doorisajarmag.bsky.social
Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey. Always open for submissions (guidelines on our website) https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
@craigbeaven.bsky.social
4 books of poetry, most recently In Arcadia (Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series) and Teaching the Baby to Say I Love You (Anhinga Press Poetry Prize.) Poems in Pleiades, Tin House, Hollins Critic, Western Humanities Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, etc. PhD Houston
@bidetofevil.wtf
Observability. Android Perf. Music. Sports Nerdery. 🇭🇰🇨🇦. Bringing OpenTelemetry to mobile and vice versa @ embrace.io Long-form navel-gazing and thoughts about Watford FC: https://hanson.wtf
@estmcphee.bsky.social
Writer, reader, librarian. Poetry book In Your Nature out now with Brick Books. More info on emcphee.com
@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.
@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)
@cv2magazine.bsky.social
Celebrating 50 years of poetry in 2025 ✨ https://linktr.ee/cv2magazine
@stevemcormond.bsky.social
Author of four books of poetry, most recently Reckon (2018). New chapbook forthcoming in Fall 2025 from Baseline Press.
@acornhaiku.bsky.social
Biannual print journal dedicated to publishing the best of contemporary English-language haiku. acornhaiku.com
@jo-betzler.bsky.social
I am a late-blooming #writer , scrambling to sort the clutter of stories in my head.
@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.
@the-wood-lot.bsky.social
We are a small Canadian Poetry reviews site that also hosts poetry-related nonfiction essays by Canadian poets. Query us at: query@the-wood-lot.ca
@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.
@poetbex.bsky.social
Teacher and Poet. WALRUSSEY, my debut pamphlet of ecopoetry, is now available from The Black Cat Poetry Press: https://www.blackcatpress.co.uk/product-page/walrussey
@donnaseto.bsky.social
Writer | Artist | Nerd Chinatown Vancouver: An Illustrated History (available May 1, 2025). www.donnaseto.ca
@caitlinpress.bsky.social
An independent Canadian publisher based in BC • Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry • Dagger Editions is our imprint for queer women-identifying writers.
@melaniesiebert.bsky.social
Poetry, adventure, swimming, planting, rewilding, decolonizing, therapy, heartbroken justice-doing as best one can, movement trying to know movement. She/Her
@eleonoreschonmaier.bsky.social
Poetry, fiction, song lyrics, music-theater. Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete, Dustblown Side of the Journey, and Wavelengths of Your Song (all from McGill-Queens’ University Press). https://eleonoreschonmaier.com
@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
@helloiamben.bsky.social
Author of novel "I Remember Lights" (Apr 2025) and 2 poetry books 🏳️🌈🇨🇦
@canadianpaintings.bsky.social
"Above all, we loved this country and loved exploring and painting it." ~ Lawren Harris
@jenhardwick.bsky.social
English faculty at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Settler scholar on Coast Salish lands. Neurodivergent teacher. Martial artist. Tea and cookie aficionado. Typo queen. She/They
@laura-trethewey.bsky.social
currently on mat leave Lauratretheweyprojects (at) gmail. com Author of 🌊The Deepest Map 🌊 Orders: https://tinyurl.com/57m9a9su (US) https://tinyurl.com/3prz94v8 (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.
@lisawhitt.bsky.social
This Magazine Publisher. Words in Longreads, The Walrus, Catapult, Hazlitt and more. Author of Girls, Interrupted: How Pop Culture Is Failing Women and a 33 1/3 on Beauty and the Beat by The Go-Go's.
@jencurrin.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, lover, minor gardener, lapsed cyclist. My recent books are Trinity Street: Poems and Disembark: Stories. www.jencurrin.com
@shanders.bsky.social
THE GREAT WHEREVER (forthcoming from Holt, summer ‘26); COMPANY, 2024 winner of the L.A.Times Book Prizes Award for First Fiction: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/company. Mom, twin mom, lawyer, Silver Springer. She/her
@jaynoelthefirst.bsky.social
Writer, sewist and hearth witch (so, clearly an expert homebody). 🇨🇦 Pansexual and gender fluid. They/Them.
@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).
@mwfield.bsky.social
Interested in poetry, screenwriting. Day job at the mall. Edmonton, Canada
@christinashah.bsky.social
Poet, videopoet, valve fairy. ⚙️⛓️🧚 Author of RIG VEDA (Anstruther Press), and one-fifth of The Harbour Centre 5. http://www.anstrutherpress.com/#/rig-veda-by-christina-shah/ https://harbourcentre5.wixsite.com/poetry/blank-1
@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/
@jamellahagen.bsky.social
Writer, mother, hiker. Author of Kerosene (Nightwood, 2011), and a forthcoming book from Gaspereau Press in 2026. Short pieces in The Globe and Mail, Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. I live in Whitehorse and teach at Yukon University.
@readtheorchard.org
Independent journalist in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton). Author of Kenneyism: Jason Kenney's Pursuit of Power. Subscribe to my newsletter: theorchard.Substack.com Buy my book: https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459752658-kenneyism
@madeprojects.bsky.social
MA|DE (est. 2018) is a collaborative writing entity, the joint authorship of Mark Laliberte + Jade Wallace —> Debut poetry collection, ZZOO, now available for preorder: 5 covers to choose from! Out in Feb 2025 … https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/zzoo-made
@donnakane.bsky.social
Poet, non-fiction writer, Sky Sleeper, interested in astronomy, science, the natural world. Divides time between Rolla and Halifax.
@dearkestrel.bsky.social
Author of 4 Poetry collections.. A Translation of Ghazal Mosadeq's "Andarznama" forthcoming with @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social Late 2025. 5th Poetry Collection "A Book of Interruptions" forthcoming with @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social Fall 2025
@leesadean.bsky.social
CWRT instructor, editor at Black Bear Review, community arts. Author of 2 books and some chapbooks; book 3 forthcoming from Gaspereau 2026. Lots of 📕ish tattoos. On Sinixt Territory in BC. www.leesadean.ca
@matthewhollett.bsky.social
✏️ Writer, photographer, walker 👁️ Optic Nerve (poems) published by Brick Books 🦑 Newfoundland / Ktaqmkuk
@danielaelza.bsky.social
poet, writer, editor, mentor, english & creative writing instructor, private tutor, and other writerly preoccupations.