Ron Eckel
Literary agent and co-owner of CookeMcDermid Agency. MPub from SFU. Punk. Settler. He/Him.
@fox-e-laurence.bsky.social
Professional Mouthy Queer working in #caribou and #salmon #conservation. #Author of “This Has Always Been A War.” New #book about #capitalism and #climate crisis, “This Book Is a Knife” out spring 2025. Basically Beef Tobin’s enby cousin. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴
@lesliehurtig.bsky.social
Artistic Director Vancouver Writers Fest; New Yorker cartoon aficionado; fast walker. Views are my own but you could consider adopting them. Canadian made.
@aaronkreuter.bsky.social
Rubble Children: Seven and a Half Short Stories, out now! Lake Burntshore, April 22 2025. Ludic Luddite. #BLM #FreePalestine #LandBack
@brendanvidito.bsky.social
He/Him Author of Nightmares in Ecstasy and Pornography for the End of the World Wonderland Award winner Worm Aficionado Website: https://brendanvidito.com
@racheltremblay.bsky.social
Wrote TOPAZ; THE NIRVANA THREADS; OFF MY FEET; CRASH KITTY; LAVENDER SPIKE (2026 with @ecwpress) 🍁 • Gimme All Things Beautiful, Dark & Weird •
@bridgetcanning.bsky.social
Author of The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes, Some People's Children, and No One Knows about Us (Breakwater Books). Academic Communications Instructor at the College of the North Atlantic. She/Her. www.bridgetcanning.com
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
We're a small press publishing genre fiction. We offer a selection of original books, zines, and magazine articles. Founded and run by @alandistro.bsky.social (active HWA member, full SFWA member). Our full catalog: https://shortwavepublishing.com/
@pas-mal.bsky.social
Now I got a laptop computer. New novel: https://chbooks.com/Books/A/All-You-Can-Kill Job: https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/pmalla/
@simonmoyasmith.bsky.social
Writer & Reporter | Oglala & Chicano | Thurs on SiriusXM | Bylines on The Nation | Columbia Journalism grad | Literary agency Cooke McDermid | Insta simonsaidtakeapic.
@cookemcdermid.bsky.social
Literary Agency representing literary and commercial fiction, narrative-driven nonfiction, middle grade and YA.
@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. they/them
@biidaasamose.bsky.social
Michi Saagiig Nishnaabe writer, musician and intellectual. https://linktr.ee/betasamosake
@melgaard.bsky.social
Author of Not That Kind of Place (2023) and the short story collection Pallbearing (2020).
@marisagrizenko.bsky.social
Reviews editor for EVENT magazine. Writer of Plain Pleasures, an occasional newsletter about books. She/her. Vancouver → Montreal
@pantsmclee.bsky.social
Co-editor of SHARP NOTIONS (2023) PRE-ORDER: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/S/Sharp-Notions. Author of WHAT HURTS GOING DOWN, THE AGE and DEAD GIRLS. Corgi fanatic. Always stitching.
@jasonvpurcell.bsky.social
SWOLLENING (2022, Arsenal Pulp Press) | Treaty 6. | they/them | http://jasonpurcell.ca
@danielallencox.bsky.social
I FELT THE END BEFORE IT CAME. ⭐ in PW. "...language for others who might still be searching for the right thing to say." —WaPo Essays in The Guardian, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, The Malahat Review, Best Canadian Essays. Queer. He/him danielallencox.net
@andrewnhood.bsky.social
Author of Pardon Our Monsters, The Cloaca, and Who Needs What. Signed, personalized copies available at the local Value Village
@michaelvsmith.bsky.social
That writer performer filmmaker radical faerie professor curator consummate host and adorable gender-radical queerdo guy.
@kenharvey.bsky.social
Writer (Book of Casey Adair, University of Wisconsin Press), Bennington MFA, basset dad, Canadian & US citizen, LGBTQ+. Home is Toronto. Loves Madrid, film, theatre, literature, dogs, progressive politics, classic sitcoms. Visit kenharvey.net 🏳️🌈🇨🇦
@lindasvendsen.bsky.social
Ain’t nothing like a Dane. Fiction: Marine Life, Sussex Drive. TV: Human Cargo, couple more. Columbia: MFA; Harvard: Bunting; Stanford: Stegner. Always Canuck
@colenowicki.com
Wrote some books, publish others. https://colenowicki.com/ A weekly newsletter about skateboarding, the internet, and other means of escape: https://simplemagic.ca/
@harrisonmooney.bsky.social
Author of INVISIBLE BOY: A Memoir of Self-Discovery, winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and BITTERSWEET: A Memoir of Recovery, coming fall 2026 from Greystone Books. Associate editor at The Tyee. 🥚
@traceylindeman.bsky.social
Reporter, author, teacher, punk, PhD student. Montreal forever. I wrote BLEED: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in #Endometriosis Care (ECW 2023). Now working on book #2! 📍Chicago https://linktr.ee/traceylindeman
@tmziniuk.bsky.social
Editor, writer, media-maker, parent. Past lives in activism and community radio. Likes: menus, comics, lists, farmers markets, good poetry, bad TV. By day: managing editor @ Xtra Magazine
@sorayaroberts.bsky.social
culture writer. contributing @defector.bsky.social. in my humble opinion: my so-called life (ecw, 2016). new book in the works (liveright/norton). sorayaroberts.com
@cadenceweapon.bsky.social
Polaris Prize winning rapper, former Poet Laureate of Edmonton, high plains thrifter linktr.ee/cadenceweapon
@adelebarclay.bsky.social
writer, editor, creative writing instructor | she/they | author of If I Were in a Cage I'd Reach Out for You (Nightwood, '16) & Renaissance Normcore (Nightwood '19) working on: cnf, fiction, poetry
@marinaendicott.bsky.social
Writer THE OBSERVER, THE DIFFERENCE, a few others http://marinaendicott.com
@apihtawikosisan.bsky.social
Award-losing national bestselling Métis author of "Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit in Canada", from manitow-sâkahikan/Lac Ste. Anne in so-called Canada. Trying to debunk myths. She/her/wiya https://linktr.ee/apihtawikosisan
@niigaanwewidam.bsky.social
Writer, educator, editor. Cdn columnist of year (Wpg Free Press, 2018) & Governor General award winning author of Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre (McClelland & Stewart, 2024)
@geekyjules.julessherred.com
Cookbook CRIP UP THE KITCHEN out now. Disabled+autistic+gay+trans. Pro food photographer. Author. Natural bodybuilder back in school to become Registered Health & Nutrition Counsellor Rep: Sarah N. Fisk Out on sub with YA julessherred.link Duncan, B.C.
@marcellodicintio.bsky.social
Journalist and author of five books, including Driven: The Secret Life of Taxi Drivers, Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense, and Walls: Travels Along the Barricades. Currently writing about the lives of migrant workers in Canada.🍉
@angelacaravan.bsky.social
writer, poet - angelacaravan.com small press publisher - bellpressbooks.com
@tammyarmstrong.bsky.social
Poems/fictions. * Currently busy with animals, forests, and folklore * Barnes and Noble Discover Prize Finalist * PEARLY EVERLASTING out with HarperCollins * Represented by Rachel Letofsky-CookeMcDermid .
@aobate.bsky.social
hello it's me, I'm a bird and a writer, etc (author of “Evie of the Deepthorn”; PhD in annihilation; more here: www.andrebabyn.com)
@askaufman.bsky.social
author & medieval scholar | rep. by @sambfarkas.bsky.social THE TRAITOR OF SHERWOOD FOREST is out now with Penguin Books! Order links & more at https://linktr.ee/amyskaufman
@lacouvee.bsky.social
Writer and poet with a love of green spaces, dedicated to conservation efforts in Campbell River. Likʷal̓a language learner. Words in Book of Matches Isele Magazine, PaddlerPress AntiHeroinChic, among others. janislacouvee.com
@lesliegreentree.bsky.social
Author of four books, most recently the #shortstories NOT THE APOCALYPSE I WAS HOPING FOR (2022). Avid reader. Occasional essayist. Photo snapper. Lover of trees, dogs, rust and pollinators. Sign up for my newsletter at www.LeslieGreentree.ca
@florencechien.com
✒️ Fantasy & Historical Fiction Author 🗡️ THE REVENANT OF SUROLIFIA (2026 Rising Action) 🍂 HOLLOW WHISPERS OF THE WIND (Ch 1 in Uncharted Mag) 🌊 @smallpitch.org 💫 Rep: @maraalyse.bsky.social 📍 Toronto, CA • She/Her 🌐 https://florencechien.com
@spiderlilly.bsky.social
Co-editor, Caribbean Pantheology. Fiction at Year's Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2022. 2022 Reader's Choice Winner, Apex Magazine. Latest in FUMPTRUCK. #amquerying Tonya.ca