CanLit Starter Pack
Canadian and Indigenous authors and publishers.
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@sofip.bsky.social
@cleung.bsky.social
"Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight" Writer. Educator. Wondrous Woo (2013) That Time I Loved you (2019) The After (Forthcoming)
@jeffdupuis.bsky.social
Writer, editor, hiker. Author of the Creature X Mysteries from Dundurn Press.
@leventhology.bsky.social
Writer in Winnipeg, Treaty 1. Author of Sweet Affliction (Invisible Publishing), occasional teacher, frequent pickler. Avatar is a detail from a Marcel Dzama painting. She/her
@dpmasca.bsky.social
Author of | COCONUT DREAMS🌴🥥 | 100 CHAPATIS & 🥭THE MANGO MONSTER🥭 |✍🏾spec novel | Goan | tea & fruit lover | www.derekmascarenhas.ca
@anakanaschofield.bsky.social
Award winning author of novels Bina (NYRB, Knopf Canada, Fleet), Martin John and Malarky (Biblioasis) www.anakanaschofield.com Agent: Wylie Words in NYT, Guardian, Irish Times, Globe and Mail etc. Buy my books for everlasting life. Hoops.
@daviddemchuk.com
Fine writing for foul minds. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Butcher’s Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. #NSFW. https://linktr.ee/ddemchuk
@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 🧡
@skimber.bsky.social
Author of 14 books: "The Phelan Feud: The Bitter Struggle for Control of a Great Canadian Food Empire," "The Sweetness in the Lime," "Alexa: Changing the Face of Canadian Politics," "Bitcoin Widow," etc. Cohort Director, University of King's College MFA.
@arjun.bsky.social
Writer. Latest novel, The Reeds, out now. Proud Montrealer/Fier Montréalais. Beer league hockey. Habs. Board member Access Copyright. A "Certified Elder.” Brand/content consultant. Host a podcast about the future of magazines. https://linktr.ee/arjunbasu
@mbatiz.bsky.social
Mexican-Canadian writer, professor & translator based in the Greater Toronto Area. Book, music & animal lover. Mother of three. “A Daughter’s Place,” my first novel, is ready to preorder through your favourite bookseller! Published by House of Anansi Press
@swanmichaels.bsky.social
Writer: DO YOU REMEMBER BEING BORN? 💐 (2023), THE WAGERS (2019), US CONDUCTORS (2014) • Founded 🎶 http://saidthegramophone.com • http://www.byseanmichaels.com • he/him
@saleema.bsky.social
Writer (TV, novels, musicals). Toronto & Montreal. Books: SONGS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, BONE & BREAD, MOTHER SUPERIOR. TV: MURDOCH MYSTERIES. Former columnist, game writer, narrative designer, person who liked being online.
@beingkirti.bsky.social
she/her Author of An Astonishment of Stars (ECW Press 2024)✨💕✨ Living and writing in Calgary - Treaty 7 www.beingkirti.com
@grigorylukin.bsky.social
Ally, author, filmmaker, nomad. Proud resident of Quebec City. 🇨🇦 Rep'd by Brandy Vallance of Barbara Bova Literary Agency. Be the cryptid you want to see in the world. 👽
@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
@barbararadecki.bsky.social
Novelist (THE DARKHOUSE, MESSENGER 93), Screenwriter, Creative Writing Instructor at UofT SCS, agent: Sam Hiyate @TheRightsFactory 🇨🇦
@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.
@sickpoettheory.bsky.social
chronically ill poet person 🃏🔪🔪 The Only Card in a Deck of Knives (Wolsak & Wynn, 2020)
@whatisapoem.bsky.social
Experimental Poet—Experimental Lit Prof—Experimental Musician Curator @ bpNichol.ca — Literary Arts Residency Lead @ The SETI Institute
@theghostpine.bsky.social
Writer, reader, punk | MFA UBC | He/him Books: Temporary Palaces (House of Anansi, Spring 2026); Ghost Pine: All Stories True (Invisible)
@nourabinakhoul.bsky.social
Supplication out on PRH now. Short fiction in the Walrus, Hazlitt. EIC at Maisonneuve.
@emilymandel.bsky.social
Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
@s17-c.bsky.social
Writing Canadian fiction, about a time travelling family band, an ode to Canadian music and a look at how history repeats itself, and the healing power of music.I love to run.
@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.
@metuiteme.bsky.social
Writer, editor, terrifying bog witch, werewolf of productivity 💀🍁 Ottawa dweller w prairie roots and maritime daydreams. she/her Three spooky YA books on shelves now! Latest: THE ONES WHO COME BACK HUNGRY Rep: Jacqui Lipton + Lane Heymont @ Tobias
@ajdolman.bsky.social
They/she. Writer, editor, goldstar #bisexual. Shhh...I'm reading. Poetry collection Crazy / Mad: https://www.gordonhillpress.com/products/crazy-mad
@clairerossdunn.bsky.social
Writer of many things, including TV, film, theatre and books. My novel, At Last Count, via Invisible Publishing, is a Globe and Mail Best. www.clairerossdunn.com
@fishgottaswim.bsky.social
a devotee of essays, novellas, hybrid writing, rivers, trees. 17 books. Let A Body Venture At Last Out of its Shelter forthcoming (Thornapple Press, 2026). North American half of fishgottaswimeditions.com theresakishkan.com
@laurenbdavis.bsky.social
Sober author of, most recently EVEN SO, THE GRIMOIRE OF KENSINGTON MARKET, THE EMPTY ROOM, OUR DAILY BREAD, THE STUBBORN SEASON Repped by David Forrer at Inkwell Management, NYC Www.LaurenBDavis.com
@teresempierre.bsky.social
Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur Society. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, FIYAH, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her. www.teresemasonpierre.com Author of MYTH, House of Anansi, 2025 https://houseofanansi.com/products/myth
@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
@pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
narrator & protagonist of her own life | echolalia echolalia (Brick Books, 2024) website: janeshi.org
@judreb.bsky.social
I am a feminist writer activist and educator in Toronto working on my next book. Last one was Heroes in My Head.
@domenicahope.bsky.social
Writer, loud talker, perky terror | Poetry: GOOD WANT (Coach House Books, 2024) ❤️🔥 + ALL DAY I DREAM ABOUT SIRENS (2019) 🌊
@karensmythe.bsky.social
Writer. Author of novels This Side of Sad (Goose Lane, 2017) and A Town with No Noise (forthcoming from Palimpsest Press, 2025).
@melisfluous.bsky.social
SFF & literary | Chinese-Canadian Tin House | senior editor @augursociety.bsky.social | audio producer @khoreo.bsky.social | publicity @psychopomp.com linktr.ee/MelissaRen melissaren.substack.com
@garybarwin.bsky.social
writing, multimedia, music, art, Hamilton ON Canada https://linktr.ee/garybarwin “There’s a wisecrack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
@johnsemley3000.bsky.social
writer and researcher, covering books, films, and psychoactivity, in no particular order. a pocket full of spare change and anger unlimited.
@sawpoet.bsky.social
They/he - Poet, playwright, librettist, founder of @queerslam & musical saw player. "Why I Was Late" with @BrickBooks ReLit award winner.
@sjonespoet.bsky.social
Earth scientist. Poet. Editor. Black Canadian & white settler. 🪨🌊 Geology, Arctic, carbon cycle, hydrology, geohumanities. Greyhound enthusiast. ✍🏼 Attic Rain, NeWest Press. Likes jokes. English, rusty French, learning Suomi 🕸 https://linktr.ee/JonesYYC
@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
@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
@kjaiello.bsky.social
Award-winning writer ✍️ | author of THE MONSTER AND THE MIRROR (@ecwpress 2024) | bibliophile 📚 | gamer 🎮
@gaspereaupress.bsky.social
¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers ¶ http://linktr.ee/gaspereaupress
@juliemannell.bsky.social
Award-winning author of fiction/poetry/memoir/criticism. Editor. Journalist. Columnist. Professor. Forthcoming novel is titled little girls. Niagara child.
@katerilanthier.bsky.social
Poet, teacher, editor. Author of Siren (Signal Editions, Vehicule Press, 2017) and Reporting from Night (Iguana, 2011).
@debdundas.bsky.social
Toronto Star Opinion Editor, former Books Editor; author "On Class"; Book #2 "Adoption Stories" in the works. Interests: books, social justice, class, politics. Make me laugh! Pitch me ddundas@thestar.ca.
@radiantpress.bsky.social
An indie press on the prairies. Submissions open Sept. 1 to July 1. We publish fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction.
@tabathasouthey.bsky.social
Tabatha Southey is a freelance writer who is based, in Toronto. She/Her. Bylines Globe and Mail, Macleans, Foreign Policy, Elle Magazine, National Post, Toronto Life, Explore Magazine and more, author of three books. 🇨🇦
@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
@manahil.bsky.social
Writer, artist, editor, etc. Author of Heliotropia (Brick Books 2024) www.manahilbandukwala.com
@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
@nashls.bsky.social
Publisher @pressassembly.bsky.social, lapsed poet, occasional tarot reader
@carlzoilus.bsky.social
Music critic for Slate, freelance writer/editor/etc in Toronto (and available for work!), author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, founding associate of Trampoline Hall.
@stuberman.bsky.social
Producer at COMMOTION on CBC Radio One; writer for Pitchfork, Stereogum, the Toronto Star; author of THIS BOOK IS BROKEN: A Broken Social Scene Story + TOO MUCH TROUBLE: A Very Oral History of Danko Jones. stubermania.substack.com / hamontlive.substack.com
@anndouglas.bsky.social
Author of 26 non-fiction books, including NAVIGATING THE MESSY MIDDLE (a book about midlife). Trying to teach myself how to write my first novel. Passionate about democracy and social justice. http://anndouglas.ca
@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.
@shashibhat.bsky.social
Fiction writer, editor of EVENT, CRWR faculty at Douglas College www.shashibhat.com
@trinyfinlay.bsky.social
Queer & genderfluid settler poet & writer 🏳️🌈 Prof at UNB Fredericton (English & Creative Writing)📚Author of Myself A Paperclip etc. she/they 🫖🧶🌊
@carolynsmart.bsky.social
Poet, editor, obsessive walker, grieving, talks to trees. New book coming 2026 from Book*hug. carolynsmartediting.ca
@idontlikemundays.bsky.social
A guy who works in children’s publishing, author of The Dead Kid Detective Agency. Sometimes he draws. (he/him)
@adriennekress.bsky.social
Author/Actor/Filmmaker striving for sensational wonderfulness. She/her. MG/YA author - THE EXPLORERS & #BENDY books! #FNAF: RETURN TO THE PIT out now! TICKET TO RIDE: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY out now! https://linktr.ee/adriennekress
@kateblair.bsky.social
British-Canadian YA author of A MIST OF MEMORIES, TRANSFERRAL and TANGLED PLANET + THE MAGPIE’S LIBRARY (MG), out with DCB/Cormorant. WE BURY NOTHING coming in fall 2025. She/her
@kellysthompson.bsky.social
Kellysthompson.com Author of #memoirs STILL, I CANNOT SAVE YOU (2023) & GIRLS NEED NOT APPLY (2019). Instructor at King’s U nonfiction MFA. Canadian Forces Veteran. Bull terrier mom. Dreamer. Ally & safe space She/Her
@jimmunroe.net
He/him. SF novelist/filmmaker at http://jimmunroe.net ~ Producer/Narrative designer ~ Co-founded Hand Eye Society, now Game Arts International Network and Toronto Games Week ~ Designed IF tool http://texturewriter.com
@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.
@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.
@smkasman.bsky.social
Torontonian, artist, writer, Bloordalian, fond of Bloordale Beach, creator of all kinds of stuff, including a book about everyone's favourite mall, the Galleria.
@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
@mcarthurmooney.bsky.social
Poems, jokes, and fiction. Recently: Frank's Wing (poems, 2023). Next: The Northern (novel, 2025). Occasionally: The Beaverton, others. https://mcarthurmooney.carrd.co/
@mattcahill.bsky.social
Novelist (Radioland, The Society of Experience, both w/ @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social) / short fiction / essays. Agent: Kelvin Kong, K2 Literary https://k2literary.com/ Former film/TV post supervisor, currently Registered Psychotherapist in private practice
@kgrubisic.bsky.social
Writer, poet, literary translator. Sweet of tooth and hard of head. Resident of a beautiful planet. She/her. 📍Tio'tia:ke/Montréal.
@douglasmcintyre.bsky.social
One of Canada’s pre-eminent independent book publishers.
@nalohop.bsky.social
Award-winning author of prose & comics, maker of food and small objects she/her/hers http://nalohopkinson.com
@tarasidhoofraser.bsky.social
Author of WHEN MY GHOST SINGS from Arsenal Pulp Press. tarasidhoofraser.com
@kkuitenbrouwer.bsky.social
Writer. Wait Softly Brother (Giller longlist), All the Broken Things (nominated for Canada Reads, Toronto Book Awards), Perfecting, The Nettle Spinner (nominated for Amazon First Novel Award, ReLit Prize), Way Up (Danuta Gleed Award). UToronto Prof.
@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
@hollay.bsky.social
Writes. Mothers. Neurodiverges. Poet Laureate of Scugog Township. 📚: Fuse (CNF), Rebellion Box (poems), Widow Fantasies (stories). Co-host of HOWL on CIUT 89.5 FM. Host of 105.5 HITS FM Bookclub. NBN host. www.hollayghadery.com
@ecwpress.bsky.social
We're an independent Canadian publisher of fiction, sports, poetry, pop culture, wrestling, business, science, and memoir. https://ecwpress.com/
@arsenalpulp.bsky.social
Leading 🇨🇦 indie publisher of LGBTQ2S+ & BIPOC stories | Literary fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, poetry, and YA & children’s books 📚🏳️🌈 📙 arsenalpulp.com | linktr.ee/arsenalpulp
@danilabotha.bsky.social
Author of Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness (Guernica 2024) A Place for People Like Us (Guernica 2025) For All the Men... reissue (Guernica 2025) Short story and fiction enthusiast. Humber School for Writers faculty.
@jennyanne.bsky.social
Writer and editor. Author of Land Mammals and Sea Creatures (ECW, Spring 2018) and some short fictions.
@davidarobertson.bsky.social
2-time Governor General’s Literary Award winner, podcaster, public speaker, Editorial Director at Tundra Books.
@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/
@agpasquella.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, editor. Words in McSweeney’s, Utne Reader, Joyland, Broken Pencil & more. Author of the Jack Palace crime series. Newest book: WELCOME TO THE WEIRD AMERICA. Next up: DEVOURING TOMORROW
@meakoopa.bsky.social
international bestselling pervert • writer: DAYSPRING, AVENGERS ACADEMY • film programmer • phd • any pronouns http://linktr.ee/meakoopa lycan sub scribe. DAYSPRING - out now! dayspringbook.com
@razorfemme.bsky.social
Writer, performer, facilitator, somatic coach & dreamer. Author of FIERCE FEMMES & NOTORIOUS LIARS, I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE, FROM THE STARS IN THE SKY TO THE FISH IN THE SEA, and FALLING BACK IN LOVE WITH BEING HUMAN. https://linktr.ee/kaichengthom