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@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).
@fcoscarella.bsky.social
Canadian/Artist/Author of the modern-day fantasy epic - Of Myth and Men: The White Night a "must-read for fantasy aficionados" with original characters immersed in an alternative history! SEE my characters, hand-made costumes & artwork @ ofmythandmen.com
@miverr.bsky.social
Renowned author, singer, pianist, music composer. If not me, then no one else. Soon, you will know my name. THE HIDDEN FACE is the metaphysical mystery book that STUNNED even people who didn't like reading! Get it here: https://a.co/d/4lRdJee
@rinapalumbo.bsky.social
Ph.D. (JHU - history); Italian-Canadian expat. Writer, Editor, avid reader. Writing in Hopkins Review, Identity Theory, Ghost Parachute, et al. https://rinapalumbowriter.com/ EIC Third Street Review https://third-street-review.org/
@babblefishie.bsky.social
Independent parent. Progressive feminist who believes in community and kindness
@palimpsestpress.bsky.social
Small independent publisher 📍Windsor ON CAN Beautiful Poetry | Fresh, Innovative Literature
@robertbohan.bsky.social
Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é Buy my work here: https://robbohan.etsy.com
@themockler.bsky.social
she/they | fiction writer | experimental filmmaker | poet | Author of Anecdotes @bookhugpress.bsky.social #ArmsEmbargoNow Send My Love to Anyone: http://sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com https://linktr.ee/kathrynmockler | https://www.kathrynmockler.com
@ellipticalnight.bsky.social
mostly poet, preferably tree or rock https://linktr.ee/aaronboothby
@ianli.bsky.social
Chinese-Canadian writer, poet, economist, and developer (he/him) words in Nightmare Magazine, Orion's Belt, Small Wonders, and much more. Codexian. https://ian-li.com
@paulvermeersch.bsky.social
Human poet/artist. New book NMLCT: POEMS from ECW Press this Sept. Professor at Sheridan College. Senior editor at Wolsak and Wynn. Editor-in-chief at The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing. wererabbit on Bandcamp. https://linktr.ee/paulvermeersch
@lynnesargent.bsky.social
Writer. Philosopher. Sky-dancer. They/She. Codexian. Author of A REFUGE OF TALES. Poetry Editor at Utopia Science Fiction https://linktr.ee/LynneSargent
@thisisannick.bsky.social
Poet Latest: Votive (Gaspereau Press, 2024) Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022) #GGBooks2022 Murmurations, No Meeting Without Body, five from hem, Brotherly Love: Poems of Sappho and Charaxos annickmacaskill.com
@juliapoly.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Communication & Media Studies, Memorial University, Newfoundland | Feminist Archives & Tech | Artist Archives & Networks | Digital Archives | Critical DH | Curator-poet-critic | they/she
@jasonvpurcell.bsky.social
SWOLLENING (2022, Arsenal Pulp Press) | Treaty 6. | they/them | http://jasonpurcell.ca
@thescreambean.bsky.social
author of SÃONI CYCLE & PLURALITIES. coparent to The Shale Project. poet, editor, dice goblin enabler, gender menace. returning to society after an 18 month hiatus from being a human being.
@razovsky.bsky.social
Writer, editor, publisher, writing instructor. 2023 Trillium Book Award winner. 2019 Harbourfront Festival Prize winner. Author of The Book of Grief and Hamburgers — and 21 other books of poetry, fiction, memoir, and essay.
@jestintzi.bsky.social
Cult-classic queer and Grendel’s emergency contact. Call me JES. [They/She] 📚: BAD HOUSES (stories), THE CHILDREN OF GULGA-KRÜ (mini-comic), MY VOLCANO (novel), VANISHING MONUMENTS (novel), JUNEBAT (poems), & various chapbooks. linktr.ee/jestintzi
@kissmachine.bsky.social
Author of books, comics, weirdness. Tiny Aussie Shepherd's devoted human. Toronto --> Vancouver. Teach creative writing at University of British Columbia (Canada) https://emilypohlweary.com/ Latest novel: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/H/How-to-Be-Found
@eschmaltzzz.bsky.social
possibles, infinites, gaps, nothings, in-betweens new book in fall 2025 (Coach House Book) Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University https://ericschmaltz.com/
@margolapierre.bsky.social
Freelance literary editor, poet, writer. UBC MFA fiction candidate. Editor @ Arc Poetry Magazine. Neuroqueer 🏳️🌈She/her. White settler living in Algonquin Anishinaabe territory. i of vii collective. margolapierreeditor.com.
@mahaila.bsky.social
Co-Editor for The Sprawl Mag Poet Water-Kin (2024) with Metatron Press Enter the Hyperreal (2024) with above/ground press Seed Beetle (2025) with Stelliform Press Mahailasmith.ca
@ceeeejohnson.bsky.social
he/they : white settler : managing editor at Arc Poetry : board member for Ottawa Arts Council : i of VII : opinions are my own : profile photo by Curtis Perry
@conyerclayton.bsky.social
Poet/Writer/Editor from KY living in Canada | Latest 📚 But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. | Senior Editor @augursociety.bsky.social | Fiction & Essays in The Ex-Puritan, This Magazine, and more | conyerclayton.com | they/them
@aetheblkpoet.bsky.social
Poet, educator, foodie, Hollins grad based in Baltimore, MD. Author of chaps you were supposed to be a friend (2020), black has every right to be angry (2023), red line (2024) & CHARM(ed) (2024) | full-length: A Family Thing (2024)
@darusha.ca
they/them Award-winning Nebula-nominated SFF author A fifth of @darklylem.com Member of @manyworldsforum.bsky.social Rep: @chelseabigbang.bsky.social Aotearoa New Zealand Latest: Transmentation | Transience All: https://darusha.ca Pic: Erica Poole
@nikkireimer.bsky.social
Your favourite Baba Yaga's favourite Baba Yaga. Digital comms in higher ed, MA in Comms student, grief writer, cat guardian. Latest book: No Town Called We (Talon Books, 2023) Poet, artist, white queer non-binary disabled settler in Treaty 7.
@ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social
Poet, critic, etc. Author of Sunny Ways (2023), Coast Mountain Foot (2021), Fortified Castles (2014), Fake Math (2007/2022). Bluesky user #71209.
@paineyre.bsky.social
roller derby, running, sometimes cycling. Writer: tend (Book*hug) + more. Former book designer. PhD student. Lover of garden crafts. Honestly, mostly cats. CorusKate.com
@lisarichter.bsky.social
Poet, writer, and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada (she/her). Author of Nautilus and Bone (2020), winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry, and Closer to Where We Began (2017). www.lisarichter.org
@robmclennan.bsky.social
poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc. out now: On Beauty: stories, (University of Alberta Press) https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
@rsalazar.bsky.social
haunted swamp femme, PhD // author of sulphurtongue (2021) & antibody (2025) // (she/they) 🇨🇴🤎🇵🇸
@zoewhittall.bsky.social
TV writer/novelist. My latest books: No Credit River, Wild Failure, & The Fake. The Best Kind of People was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Canadian Screen Award winner. Available to staff on your TV show. https://linktr.ee/Zoewhittall
@sheribenning.bsky.social
Writer | Field Requiem (Carcanet), The Season's Vagrant Light: New & Selected (Carcanet), et al. | Words in The Paris Review, The TLS, PN Review, Poetry Review, Brick, et al. https://www.sheribenning.com/
@amazonsyren.bsky.social
Unusually Tall. Queer, leather femme. Poet, pagan, glamazon, and kitchen witch. Not-so-secretly a sea monster. (She/Her) https://allisonlarmstrong.wixsite.com/writer
@helendestroy.bsky.social
Witch, bitch, and full-time disaster. Trans, genderqueer, bisexual, dyke poet. Member of the poetry collective VII www.helen-robertson.com
@ajdolman.bsky.social
They/she. Writer, editor, goldstar #bisexual. Shhh...I'm reading. Poetry collection Crazy / Mad: https://www.gordonhillpress.com/products/crazy-mad
@yourmonstergf.bsky.social
Scriptwriter @ Highdive | CM @ Strange Scaffold | sphynx dad, poet, goblin | they/them Works: TMNT: Tactical Takedown, CRDM3, I Am Your Beast, Ultimate Chicken Horse, Tears of Metal, and many more 💀
@sawpoet.bsky.social
They/he - Poet, playwright, librettist, founder of @queerslam & musical saw player. "Why I Was Late" with @BrickBooks ReLit award winner.
@eleekg.bsky.social
bostony. vancouvery. poet laureate of Vancouver, Canada as of Jan ‘25 for 3yrs. eleekg.com It’s pronounced ELLY!
@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
@kevinspenst.bsky.social
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!
@inkstainedwreck.ca
SSHRC funded PhD Candidate in English at The University of Calgary The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/all/products/the-years-shall-run-like-rabbits Words in Clarkesworld, ARB, The Ex-Puritan
@amiwarmer.bsky.social
Human person and poet. Anti-shepherd's pie, pro-dogs in jackets. She/her. Living on unceded Coast Salish Territory in Vancouver, British Columbia 🏔️
@sharonberg.bsky.social
Poetry: 3 books/ 3 chapbooks; Short Fiction: 1; CNF: 1 FN history 2020 IPPY Nonfiction Award/ Finalist: 2022 International Book Awards Resident Interviewer at The tEmz Review (London, ON, Canada) https://sharonbergauthor.wixsite.com/my-site #fiction #poet
@kipress.bsky.social
Mostly teach college writing and herd teenager. Four long-forgotten books of poetry including Types of Canadian Women (Gaspereau) and Exquisite Monsters (Turnstone). Originally Albertan, long time in Winnipeg.
@katerilanthier.bsky.social
Poet, teacher, editor. Author of Siren (Signal Editions, Vehicule Press, 2017) and Reporting from Night (Iguana, 2011).