Writers in BC
A starter pack of writers residing (or who once resided) in British Columbia.
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@kylemckillop.bsky.social
@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)
@christinamyers.bsky.social
Writer and weirdo, not necessarily in that order, on Canada's west coast. Books: Halfway Home (2024), List of Last Chances (2021), Big (2020). Forthcoming: Beyond Blue (2025?) and more. Events, contact, newsletter: https://linktr.ee/christinamyers
@arieswriting.com
Vancouver, Canada 🍁 Author (Sin City series, The Final Cut, Self Publishing for Canadians) currently working on a multi-book coming-of-age series I recently decided to rewrite and set in Canada because *gestures southward*. http://www.arieswriting.com
@theaaronchan.bsky.social
🌈Pro in disappointing my Asian parents. Books: THIS CITY IS A MINEFIELD & THE BROKEN HEART (2024) | linktr.ee/theaaronchan
@pwbwriter1.bsky.social
Vancouver writer of poetry, fiction, literary criticism & academic articles about the law. Lover of all things Italian & Irish. Most recent of five titles: The World You Now Own (2024); Idiolect (2021); & The Four-Faced Liar (2021). www.pwbridgman.ca
@allegorically.bsky.social
Teacher & poet. Author of the collections GOSPEL DRUNK (University of Alberta Press) and SHORT HISTORIES OF LIGHT (McGill-Queen's University Press).
@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!
@cowenwriter.bsky.social
Poet, writer, maker of things. Born and raised Vancouverite who now makes her home in Edmonton. Loves: books, cats, gardening, family, dark music and black coffee.
@keithmaillard.bsky.social
Keith Maillard is the author of fifteen novels, a book of poetry, and two of creative non-fiction. He teaches in the UBC's School of Creative Writing and is the 2024 winner of the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence in British Columbia.
@bronwentate.bsky.social
Poet, Creative Writing Prof at UBC in Vancouver. Writes a nice newsletter: https://bronwentate.substack.com/
@jessicaleemcmillan.com
Poet, teacher, music nerd | New/forthcoming poems in The Malahat Review, QWERTY, Pinhole Poetry, CV2, Canadian Literature, Consilience, The New Quarterly | BLM 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉🌻 www.jessicaleemcmillan.com
@raoulfernandes.bsky.social
Poet, dad, and library guy | (he/him) | Wrote a book called Transmitter and Receiver (Nightwood Editions) | Poetry editor for EVENT Magazine | lives on the unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ (Vancouver) raoulfernandes.com
@nicholson-sonia.bsky.social
Archivist/Author/Poet in #yyj. Own views. Using my words for good. Rep’d by @rachkmc.bsky.social. Web: sonianicholson.com
@jayesimpson.bsky.social
i’m like sorta a writer, sorta a dream girl (evil), i’m like kinda bisexual but like a whole lot crybaby. i’m pretty & some of u will have a crush on me & that’s okay, i’m just emotionally unavailable unless ur also bisexual // from SCN 🧡
@michaelvsmith.bsky.social
That writer performer filmmaker radical faerie professor curator consummate host and adorable gender-radical queerdo guy.
@hasannamir.bsky.social
Iraqi-Canadian Author & a very proud Baba . My latest book Banana Dream is out on a bookshelf near you !
@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.
@shashibhat.bsky.social
Fiction writer, editor of EVENT, CRWR faculty at Douglas College www.shashibhat.com
@lydiakwa.bsky.social
She/Her. Queer, racialized writer of fiction and poetry. Living and working on unceded Coast Salish territories in the county known as Canada.
@isabellawangbc.bsky.social
NOVEMBER, NOVEMBER (Nightwood fall 2025) | PEBBLE SWING (Nightwood 2021) 👇| CHOREOGRAPHY OF FORGETTING (in-progress) | Director Revise Revision St. | MA SFU Sociology | https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/IBellaShopCo | she/they/he
@roblucastaylor.bsky.social
Poet. Tacher. Editor. Interviewer. Festival Director. Plum memer. Not necessarily in that order. Usually found in Vancouver, Port Moody or Abbotsford, BC. http://roblucastaylor.com/
@eleekg.bsky.social
bostony. vancouvery. poet laureate of Vancouver, Canada as of Jan ‘25 for 3yrs. eleekg.com It’s pronounced ELLY!
@ethorkel.bsky.social
Writer of CNF/fiction, instructor at Emily Carr U and writing consultant. Recent bylines at The Walrus, University Affairs, etc. She/ her https://linktr.ee/ethorkel
@eatonhamilton.bsky.social
Writer/ author 10 books. Guernica, The Sun, Gay Magazine, Salon, Missouri Review etc. Wretched disappointment in all things life-like. They/them.
@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
@catwrites604.bsky.social
Author of poetry chapbook ZIPLESS (845 Press), finalist for two Bisexual Book Awards. Chinese Canadian. Banff Centre and Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio alum. Tin House ‘25. she/her/hers Vancouver, Canada linktr.ee/cat_writes_604
@dannyramadan.com
He/Him- 🏳️🌈 - Syrian-Canadian author Crooked Teeth, The Foghorn Echoes, The Clothesline Swing, and The Salma Books. Lambda winner 🏆. Governor General Finalist 🏆. Former refugee. I don’t bite, unless you ask nicely! https://linktr.ee/dannyramadan
@ivancoyote.bsky.social
Writer, storyteller, performer. Author of Care Of, Tomboy Survival Guide, Rebent Sinner and 10 other books. Kindling chopper, berry picker, snow shoveler, Yukoner. I like to build things. PLAYLIST is the name of my new show. www.ivancoyote.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. they/them
@sterritt.bsky.social
Investigative journalist. Author of national bestseller #Unbroken. Land Back podcast host. TV reporter at CBC. https://greystonebooks.com/products/unbroken
@kimbolan.bsky.social
Award-winning Canadian journalist at the Vancouver Sun/Postmedia covering organized crime. Canucks fan since 1970. kbolan@postmedia.com 604-219-5740 WhatsApp/Signal
@jensookfonglee.bsky.social
Still an author, still an editor, still a podcaster, new book THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN out soon, it might scare you
@toluini.bsky.social
Bumbler, quitter of things, poet, and project management person (in that order). New Collection: UNRAVEL (McClelland & Stewart, 2025). Opinions mine. https://bio.site/tolu.ca he/him
@pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
narrator & protagonist of her own life | echolalia echolalia (Brick Books, 2024) website: janeshi.org
@davidlywrites.bsky.social
dragon-hearted writer • cephalopod • “lee” https://linktr.ee/davidlywrites 🐲 NOT ALL DRAGONS out spring ‘26 🐍 Mythical Man 🦑 Dream of Me as Water 😈 Queer Little Nightmares
@jmcelroy.bsky.social
Vancouver journalist. Currently decompressing after going to 52 countries in 52 weeks. Strives to tell unique stories. http://moremcbarges.ca http://instagram.com/justindmcelroy
@rjjago.bsky.social
Journalist. Entrepreneur. Kwantlen FN, Nooksack Tribe. rjago.substack.com
@nalohop.bsky.social
Award-winning author of prose & comics, maker of food and small objects she/her/hers http://nalohopkinson.com
@yilinwriter.bsky.social
Writer. Poet. Editor & translator, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing 2024). Clarion West '21. ace 🏳️🌈. linktr.ee/yilinw
@kylemckillop.bsky.social
He/him. ELA teacher, poet, sharer, decolonizer. Past president: BC Teachers of English Languge Arts, Surrey English Teachers' Assn, Royal City Literary Arts Society. May contain gluten &/or joy. https://linktr.ee/kylemckillop