CanLit Starter Pack
Canadian and Indigenous authors and publishers.
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@sofip.bsky.social
@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
@alexicon.bsky.social
non-binary writer/editor. author of The New Masculinity (2023), translator of Made-Up (2021), working on Post-Man (2025), editor at AskMen. nominal determinism in human form. alexmanley.com
@emilyschultz.bsky.social
Producer and writer. Novels: Brooklyn Kills Me, Sleeping with Friends, Little Threats, The Blondes. Magazines: Medium Cool, and prev. Joyland. Brooklyn 🏳️🌈 www.themediumcool.com www.emilyschultz.com
@bobbifrench.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Psychiatrist turned novelist. Author of THE GOOD WOMEN OF SAFE HARBOUR (HarperCollins Ca). Big mouth, bigger heart. #PWD bobbifrench.com Rep: Hilary McMahon of WestWood Creative ·
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
New here. Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire. UBC Professor of Climate Justice. 🔗 naomiklein.org 📬 news.naomiklein.org/newsletter
@nathanwhitlock.bsky.social
Author, professor, podcaster, drummer, dad. www.nathanwhitlock.ca/
@andrewpyper.bsky.social
Novelist. Author of The Residence, The Demonologist, Lost Girls. Also writes under pen name Mason Coile: WILLIAM (2024), EXILES (2025).
@natehendley.bsky.social
Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1. Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d My website: www.natehendley.ca
@emmadonoghue.bsky.social
writer of fiction (The Paris Express, Learned by Heart, Haven, The Pull of the Stars, The Wonder, Room, etc), films, plays...
@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
@rollwithheather.bsky.social
Author, Publicist, World Fantasy Award Nominee, Cat Lover, Feminist (she/her but they/their is good too!)
@peterbcounter.com
Spooky ace essay boy. BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING (2020). HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE (2023) available now: https://houseofanansi.com/products/how-to-restore-a-timeline
@njcullen.bsky.social
She/her. Writer of poetry & fiction. Sometimes a proofreader. Ridiculous about my dog. Most recent: NOTHING WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE, THE WESTERN ALIENATION MERIT BADGE, both with Wolsak & Wynn. 🏳️🌈
@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.
@bevrosenbaum.bsky.social
Freelance developmental editor, formerly at Harlequin and McGraw-Hill Ryerson. Rates and testimonials on website. Also a YA author. Kirkus called I'm Good and Other Lies 'important'. Yay, me. http://bevkatzrosenbaum.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
@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
@nataliezed.bsky.social
Author of HENCH. She/her. Spec fic, videogames, heavy metal, horror, MMA, comics, TTRPGs, LARP. CanLit Tank Girl. Extremely unlikely. Rep'd by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid.
@agawilmot.bsky.social
Author (lit, horror, surrealism), editor, painter, communications professional. Represented by K2 Literary. Ace, nonbinary trans woman—they/she. 🏳️⚧️ "Withered," ECW Press Spring 2024 http://agawilmot.ca https://k2literary.com/authors/aga-wilmot/
@shawnmicallef.bsky.social
Local tosser Books author (New: Stroll!) Toronto Star column writer Spacing Magazine co-founder U of T instructor Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place. Links to books, etc: https://linktr.ee/shawnmicallef 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼
@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
@davebidini.bsky.social
Publisher @westendphoenix Rheostatics. Author of 13 books. Hockey Nomad. Movies. Also: Ballpoint Agency.
@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
@spencergordon.bsky.social
Sometimes author. Wrote A HORSE AT THE WINDOW (House of Anansi Press, coming June 2024), CRUISE MISSILE LIBERALS (Nightwood Editions) & COSMO (Coach House Books). Founded The Puritan (now Ex_Puritan). Former prof, now writer/editor in social policy. ☸️Ⓥ�
@bookhugpress.bsky.social
Book*hug Press is a radically optimistic Canadian-owned publisher working at the forefront of contemporary book culture.🍁
@palimpsestpress.bsky.social
Small independent publisher 📍Windsor ON CAN Beautiful Poetry | Fresh, Innovative Literature
@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
A charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Hamilton, Ontario.
@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
@nycterosea.bsky.social
Writer, editor, critic, leftist & co-founder of MA|DE. Poetry collection Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There (Guernica 23), novel ANOMIA (Palimpsest 24), collaborative poetry collection ZZOO (Palimpsest 25). 🌈 https://jadewallace.a
@waub.bsky.social
Latest novel MOON OF THE TURNING LEAVES is available via Random House in Canada and William Morrow in the USA
@fparker.bsky.social
SSHRC-funded PhD @ UNB Fredericton, author of Giller-nominated WHAT WE BOTH KNOW (M&S 2022) and forthcoming auto-novel HI, IT'S ME, out September 2024 Debut poetry collection SOFT INHERITANCE available through Palimpsest Press https://shorturl.at/bjPX1
@juliatausch.bsky.social
Fiction & food writer. Cat lover. Friendly mold enthusiast. Here is my newsletter about some of that stuff: tausch.substack.com
@rahela.bsky.social
@christinajcooke.bsky.social
Author of BROUGHTUPSY | Winner, Journey Prize | Finalist, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize | shit-talker & snack monster | all snark & unpopular opinions 100% mine | https://linktr.ee/christinajcooke
@charlenecarr.bsky.social
Novelist. Mother. Hiker. Author of Hold My Girl and the upcoming We Rip the World Apart . . . and a bunch more.
@caseyplett.com
I wrote On Community, A Dream of a Woman, Little Fish, A Safe Girl to Love, and co-edited Meanwhile, Elsewhere. I'm the Publisher at LittlePuss Press and teach at Ohio University. https://linktr.ee/caseyplett Athens, OH / Windsor, ON
@amandaleduc.bsky.social
Disabled writer, dreamer, dog mom. Space enthusiast. Lover of chocolate and stories, student of wonder and grief. New novel, WILD LIFE, out now. Might say things here…might not. To be continued! amandaleduc.com
@margaretatwood.bsky.social
Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
@farzanadoctor.bsky.social
Author of 7 books: fiction, poetry, self-help Activist and Reg Social Worker/Psychotherapist 🇵🇸📚🌈🐾
@wordsandguitar.bsky.social
Mohawk from Six Nations. Writer and Editor. Pro wrestling and makeup enthusiast. Horror and nail polish fanatic. She/her. Lit agent: Ron Eckel Speaking agent: rob AT transatlanticagency.com. AND THEN SHE FELL. A MIND SPREAD OUT ON THE GROUND.
@sydhegele.bsky.social
Author of The Pump (2021) Bird Suit (2024) Bad Kids (2026) @invisibooks.bsky.social