Writers and Authors in Canada
Writers and authors of fiction and creative nonfiction in "Canada" -- and friends! Let's get the party started!
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@theghostpine.bsky.social
@storiedselves.bsky.social
writer. researcher. flutist. teacher. stitcher of stories. https://linktr.ee/sonjaboon
@jaelrichardson.bsky.social
Author, Executive Director - The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD)
@wordsweaver.bsky.social
EVERYTHING IS FINE HERE (House of Anansi, 2025) available now from your favourite indie bookstore. Native of Uganda transplanted to the Canadian Praries on Treaty 4. Iryntushabe.com
@dmsinclair.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Television writer ("Mojo Swoptops", "Chilly Beach") and novelist ("A Hundred Billion Ghosts"). Currently on a quest to discover a new vowel, thus far unsuccessful.
@cestima.bsky.social
Author of THE SYRIAN LADIES BENEVOLENT SOCIETY (2023) and forthcoming LETTERS TO KAFKA (Sept9/25!) Bylines: The New York Times, The Walrus, Observer, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Vice, Chatelaine, and more. Free Palestine. Free Lebanon.
@kellypedro.bsky.social
Winner CRAFT '24 Flash Prose Prize • SmokeLong Fellow '24 • ROOM Fiction Prize shortlist • Words: PRISM international, The New Quarterly, Cleaver, Archetype, Bending Genres, Flash Frog, Fictive Dream, 100 Word Story, Moon City Review, Tahoma Literary Rev.
@yaraelsoueidi.bsky.social
Writer. Music Journalist. Montrealer. Millennial. Your favourite It-Girl. Always depressed, never bland. www.yaraelsoueidi.com
@elisabethdem.bsky.social
Writer and daredevil. (Mostly writer.) I write scary stories and also other stories. See more of what I’m talking about: https://elisabethdemariaffi.substack.com/
@nourabinakhoul.bsky.social
Supplication out on PRH now. Short fiction in the Walrus, Hazlitt. EIC at Maisonneuve.
@emmadonoghue.bsky.social
writer of fiction (The Paris Express, Learned by Heart, Haven, The Pull of the Stars, The Wonder, Room, etc), films, plays...
@taras-grescoe.com
Author of Straphanger | Words NY Times Nat Geo Smithsonian WSJ | Latest book Lost Supper | Talks: http://taras-grescoe.com/contact https://www.highspeed.blog (Transit, trains, bikes) https://linktr.ee/tarasgrescoe Agent: www.skagency.com
@jennyanne.bsky.social
Writer and editor. Author of Land Mammals and Sea Creatures (ECW, Spring 2018) and some short fictions.
@heigeboehm.bsky.social
Author of 'Secrets in the Shadows,' https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/secrets-in-the-shadows/9781553805724.html?searchType=products&searchTerm=undefined host of the podcast "A WRITER’S LIFE," and writing instructor at Crow Story House.
@jeffreyluscombe.bsky.social
Bestselling author. Called one of 'fictions brightest new stars' by Huffpost. GenX, SoberAF🇨🇦 🏆 TO REFRAIN FROM EMBRACING chosen a Best Book of the Year 🏆 SHIRTS AND SKINS chosen Best Summer Read ⭐️ 2x Hamilton Literary Awards & Prism Fiction Prize finalist
@paigevryan.bsky.social
Avid metaphor maker, prone to rabbit holes 🕳️ 🐇 Words in The Hopper, Tiny Seed Journal, Plants & Poetry Journal, and others | Best of the Net 2025 nominee
@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
@derekkunsken.bsky.social
Scifi author. Stories in Asimovs.com, Clarkesworldmagazine.com, Analogsf.com. Asimov and Aurora Award winner. Agented by Kim-Mei Kirtland. He/Him. The House of Saints: https://geni.us/TheHouseOfSaints Web: derekkunsken.com
@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
@jtennant.bsky.social
Writer, editor, broadcaster, pop culture enthusiast. Host of the GET LIT SHOW and author of The Captain of Kinnoull Hill and River, Diverted https://tinyurl.com/2vydhc3p
@thecarolynfe.bsky.social
🇵🇭 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 Award Winning & Dora nominated Multi-lingual Actor, Singer, Writer, Fountain Pen Addict, Bookworm, Old Not Outdated, Proud Pinay. https://linktr.ee/TheCarolynFe
@dpmasca.bsky.social
Author of | COCONUT DREAMS🌴🥥 | 100 CHAPATIS & 🥭THE MANGO MONSTER🥭 |✍🏾spec novel | Goan | tea & fruit lover | www.derekmascarenhas.ca
@middlenameeinar.bsky.social
Pushes pen and strums guitar. Keeper of an Aussie Shepherd. Arsenal junkie. https://www.andrewsteinmetz.ca
@teresawong.bsky.social
Canadian cartoonist and author of graphic memoirs DEAR SCARLET (2019) and ALL OUR ORDINARY STORIES (2024). Comics in The Believer, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and The Walrus. I'm Nobody! Who are you?
@chadgalucas.bsky.social
Dad, writer, tall person | award-winning middle grade author | chadlucaswrites.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
@nathanwhitlock.bsky.social
Author, professor, podcaster, drummer, dad. www.nathanwhitlock.ca/
@larrylivermore.bsky.social
Author of Spy Rock Memories and How To Ru(i)n A Record Label. Montreal Anglophone striving to become adept (or at least less inept) in français and 中文.
@lizjohnston.bsky.social
She/her. Writer, book nerd & editor. liz-johnston.ca. THE FALL-DOWN EFFECT forthcoming in 2026 from Book*hug Press.
@eleanorfuller.bsky.social
Winner Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction 2023; finalist Fiddlehead Short Fiction Prize 2023 & Cambridge Short Story Prize 2024. Edith Wharton WiR 2024. Words: The Waxed Lemon, The Moth, Malahat, The New Quarterly & other lovelies. CCA-funded sabbatical!
@catebush.bsky.social
Author of Skin: Stories, out in April 2025. The novel Blaze Island (2020), and other novels. Writer, professor, dog walker, nature lover. www.catherinebush.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
@stephengrahamking.bsky.social
Queer space opera writer, black and white street photographer, disabled cancer survivor. Aspiring mensch. He/They. Pew pew pew. I can words! https://linktr.ee/stephengrahamking
@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
@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
@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
@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.
@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.
@whatisapoem.bsky.social
Experimental Poet—Experimental Lit Prof—Experimental Musician Curator @ bpNichol.ca — Literary Arts Residency Lead @ The SETI Institute
@farzanadoctor.bsky.social
Author of 7 books: fiction, poetry, self-help Activist and Reg Social Worker/Psychotherapist 🇵🇸📚🌈🐾
@theoward.bsky.social
Writer. Fetal Irish emigrant. Looking beyond the peephole of rage. 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 http://instagram.com/londontheo
@kevinmacdonell.bsky.social
Writer and lifelong diarist. Nova Scotia, Canada. Creative nonfiction, personal essays. Recent/forthcoming: Malahat Review, Queen’s Quarterly, Grain, Rural Delivery, Globe & Mail. Member of board of directors of the Writers’ Federation of NS. He/Him
@krwbooks.bsky.social
The wart on the frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of Canadian Literature. www.krwilson.ca No A.I.
@clairecameron.bsky.social
Author of How to Survive a Bear Attack — out now in Canada @knopfca and U.S. in September 2025 | I write about wild things, I run & I read https://www.claire-cameron.com
@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
@kateheartfield.com
Novels: Mercutio (2026). The Tapestry of Time. The Valkyrie. The Chatelaine. The Embroidered Book. Games. Assassin's Creed books. Former journalist. University instructor. Ottawa, Canada. She/her. Trans rights or gtfo 🏳️🌈 https://kateheartfield.com
@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.
@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
@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
@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)
@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 .
@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
@angelacaravan.bsky.social
writer, poet - angelacaravan.com small press publisher - bellpressbooks.com
@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.🍉
@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
@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.
@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
@lenemacleod.bsky.social
Quiet Horror/Dark Fiction author. +sometimes editor, artist, poet FRINGES of GREY now available https://books2read.com/u/4NVxA9 eic @frostzonestories.bsky.social 👻🎸🎵👽💀🎥🍁🇨🇦 https://linktr.ee/lenemacleod
@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.
@charlenecarr.bsky.social
Novelist. Mother. Hiker. Author of Hold My Girl and the upcoming We Rip the World Apart . . . and a bunch more.
@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)
@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
@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.
@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. ☸️Ⓥ�
@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
@andrewpyper.bsky.social
Novelist. Author of The Residence, The Demonologist, Lost Girls. Also writes under pen name Mason Coile: WILLIAM (2024), EXILES (2025).
@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.
@marinaendicott.bsky.social
Writer THE OBSERVER, THE DIFFERENCE, a few others http://marinaendicott.com
@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
@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.
@cadenceweapon.bsky.social
Polaris Prize winning rapper, former Poet Laureate of Edmonton, high plains thrifter linktr.ee/cadenceweapon
@michellecyca.com
it's "see-sa" senior editor @thenarwhal.ca writer @thewalrus.ca adjunct prof @ubcjournalism.bsky.social journalist, nêhiyaw, mom, roller skater she/her ✌️michellecyca.com
@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
@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
@greatdismal.bsky.social
Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
@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. it's giving nominative determinism. alexmanley.com
@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
@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
@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.”
@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.
@sonalchampsee.bsky.social
Writer, procrastinator, fake therapist Writer Therapy, the newsletter: http://sonalchampsee.substack.com
@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. 🥚
@domenicahope.bsky.social
Writer, loud talker, perky terror | Poetry: GOOD WANT (Coach House Books, 2024) ❤️🔥 + ALL DAY I DREAM ABOUT SIRENS (2019) 🌊
@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/
@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
@juliemannell.bsky.social
Award-winning author of fiction/poetry/memoir/criticism. Editor. Journalist. Columnist. Professor. Forthcoming novel is titled little girls. Niagara child.
@premeemohamed.com
Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Hugo, BSFA, BFA, Locus, Crawford award finalist. 📚🪲 Rep: Michael Curry. www.premeemohamed.com
@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
@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. 🏳️🌈
@nashls.bsky.social
Publisher @pressassembly.bsky.social, lapsed poet, occasional tarot reader
@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 🏳️🌈🇨🇦