Canadian Indie Publishers and Authors

@beedokfern.bsky.social

Freelance Author and Artist. Canadian trans Gal. https://linktr.ee/fernvbedek https://beedok.itch.io/ https://www.amazon.com/stores/Fern-Bedek/author/B0BM8HMBP5 https://www.patreon.com/beedok

@wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

A charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Hamilton, Ontario.

@brennabaileybooks.bsky.social

Queer Canadian romance author as Brenna Bailey ~ Fiction editor for indie authors of fantasy and romance ✨🇨🇦

@mollyrookwood.bsky.social

Jewish romance writer; sci-fi, fantasy, and romance editor; university writing coach; Jane Austen enthusiast in Halifax, Nova Scotia ✍✡️📚 Repped by Christina Miller at Nancy Yost Literary Agency Find me professionally at www.rookwoodediting.com She/her

@babellec.bsky.social

https://babellec.com/ Award-winning #Author | #Producer of 🎶 #music | 📖 SOMEONE'S STORY #YA #Drama | 📖 PULSE #Dystopian #Scifi #Horror

@augursociety.bsky.social

Stories for the futures we need | SFF and dream realism | Canadian, Indigenous & worldwide creators | Pub @kercoby COO @suntorya CPO @teresempierre https://linktr.ee/augurmag

@kaiewrites.bsky.social

Canadian dark speculative author 🖤🇨🇦Words in: STRANGE HORIZONS, FANTASY, LIGHTSPEED, PULPHOUSE, MYSTERION, NOSLEEP &more | @cwillbc.bsky.social president | CWC educator | #ecopunk #bodyhorror #monsters #gothic #dystopian #sff https://kaie.space/tree

@leesadean.bsky.social

CWRT instructor, editor at Black Bear Review, community arts. Author of 2 books and some chapbooks; book 3 forthcoming from Gaspereau 2026. Lots of 📕ish tattoos. On Sinixt Territory in BC. www.leesadean.ca

@jenfalkner.bsky.social

she/her Author of SUSANNA HALL, HER BOOK (Fish Gotta Swim Editions) and ABOVE DISCOVERY (Invisible Publishing) Trying to learn Welsh, obsessed with standing stones linktr.ee/jenfalkner

@stelliform.press

Award-winning SFFH & literary books engaging with environmental justice. Now: THE JAGUAR MASK, ZEBRA MERIDIAN and YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD. www.stelliform.press.

@shanonsinn.bsky.social

Author and comic illustrator. Folklore journalism. Publisher of Black Cat Books.

@blackcatbooks.bsky.social

We publish YA-leaning genre stories by mid-level writers and comic artists from across Western Canada.

@kimberbannerman.bsky.social

Mystery author by day, swamp witch by night. http://www.kbannerman.com

@sjshank.bsky.social

Writer of the grim fantastic Dark Fantasy // Historical Horror 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐊𝐍𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐒: http://mybook.to/Knave sjshank.com

@mikejwrites.bsky.social

Dad of twins. Lecturer at UofT (English). Man United (and footy) fan. Boardgames and TTRPGs. Writer/author. He/him. https://www.michael-johnstone.com My most recently published short story is at https://www.heroicfantasyquarterly.com/?p=3035

@ecwpress.bsky.social

We're an independent Canadian publisher of fiction, sports, poetry, pop culture, wrestling, business, science, and memoir. https://ecwpress.com/

@runningthegoat.bsky.social

A Newfoundland-based micropress specializing in children's books and letterpress-printed chapbooks. Visit our bookstore and printshop in Tors Cove. https://linktr.ee/runningthegoat Find Marnie at her personal account: rtgbooks.bsky.social

@cormorantbooks.bsky.social

Cormorant books is a Canadian independent book publisher of fiction and nonfiction. We’ve been publishing diverse Canadian voices since 1986.

@nimbuspub.bsky.social

📍 Halifax, NS Publishing award-winning Atlantic Canadian books since 1978, and okay-ish Bluesky posts since right now. https://linktr.ee/nimbuspub

@highwaterpress.bsky.social

Powerful Voices. Unforgettable Stories. Independent, Canadian, and woman-owned. Find #IndigenousBooks and teacher guides for K–12 on our website.

@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/

@ourmankoto.bsky.social

SF/F Writer | Aurora Award winner | World Fantasy Award finalist | Editor, Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, SFWA Nebula Award Showcase anthologies | Ansible Press | Tesla: The Life & Times Podcast | 🇨🇦+🇺🇦

@jonolfert.bsky.social

Stories in Analog, On Spec, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. History's eighth or ninth most prolific writer of speculative paleofiction. Polling and policy by day. http://jonathan-olfert.carrd.co

@breadsonja.bsky.social

Born to Lose—Live to Win. Find my short fiction in NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY #2 and #4! https://breadsonja.wordpress.com/

@obrackenbury.bsky.social

https://www.patreon.com/soimwritinganovel Author / Screenwriter / NESS Magazine Editor. NSI Totally Television alumnus. Podcast Host: So I'm Writing a Novel, Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection. (He/Him)

@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social

Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling. https://newedgeswordandsorcery.com/

@andrewvargaauthor.bsky.social

YA Historical Fiction author of the Jump in Time series. Total History Geek. Canadian. www.andrewvargaauthor.com #TimeTravelAuthors Starter Pack: https://tinyurl.com/yk68h2nd #HistoricalFiction Starter Pack: https://tinyurl.com/5n8cnfk5

@quillandcrowpublishinghouse.com

Independent. Rebellious. Dreadful. | Publisher of dark fiction/nonfiction | The Dark Poet Society | Roost for Crows | Women Owned/Operated @cassandralthompson.com 📚 https://linktr.ee/quillandcrow

@leeburton.bsky.social

ottur | edtur | Books is good / CanCon. Me places -> https://linktr.ee/leeburton.author

@palimpsestpress.bsky.social

Small independent publisher 📍Windsor ON CAN Beautiful Poetry | Fresh, Innovative Literature

@maryrajotte.bsky.social

Ink-slinging ✒ insomniac w/a penchant for penning nightmarish tales of Gothic folk horror🦇 Frightmarish: a Gothic Litzine. Debut novel The Bone Key out now linktr.ee/maryrajotte 🇨🇦

@pulpliterature.bsky.social

Genre-busting fiction. Short stories, poetry, comics, and novels you can't put down. Good books for the price of a beer!

@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

@undertow.bsky.social

Indie press in Canada. World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award, HWA Specialty Press Award, and British Fantasy Award-winner. Endearingly weird. (Posts by Michael Kelly) https://undertowpublications.com/

@madeprojects.bsky.social

MA|DE (est. 2018) is a collaborative writing entity, the joint authorship of Mark Laliberte + Jade Wallace —> Debut poetry collection, ZZOO, now available for preorder: 5 covers to choose from! Out in Feb 2025 … https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/zzoo-made

@originobscure.bsky.social

Artist/Author/Designer • Book Fiend • Clutter Cultist • Collaborationist • Curiosity Hunter • Gentle Extremist TM — Co-founder of MA|DE (debut collection ‘ZZOO’ out Feb ‘25) — http://ma-de.ca + @madeprojects.bsky.social

@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

@littleghostsbooks.bsky.social

Your Queer Spooky Bookstore x Small Press. “A Good Story Will Haunt You” 👻🖤📚 www.littleghostsbooks.com

@shelleylavigne.bsky.social

Fine purveyor of moist literature, usually queer horror. they/them. Books: ENAMOURED: A TRIPTYCH (Summer 2025), THE FLESH OF THE SEA (2024), SICK! (2023, re-release 2025) Stories in 3-Lobed Burning Eye, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Gamut, and others.

@lormaggot.bsky.social

(giz·luh·sn) 34 • they/he goop lord • 🇨🇦 wrote INSIDE OUT, edited BOUND IN FLESH THE FLESH OF THE SEA w/ Shelley Lavigne 1/3 member of GOOP TROOP SUNLIGHT MAGGOT PRINCE current hyperfixation re4r SOON - COSMIC DYKE PATROL

@joannepaulson.bsky.social

Author, editor, journalist. Created in Canada. Collects coloured rags and throws away food. https://www.jcpaulsonwriter.com/

@taggartrehnnauthor.bsky.social

Author of vampire, SFF / scifi & spy thrillers. Find me on Amazon amazon.com/author/taggartrehnn or taggartrehnn.com . Also, all around jokester on spare time. 🚫DM only if I know you.🚫Based in Toronto, Canada.

@vjallison1974.bsky.social

Artist, award winning romance author, and animal person. Thrift store fanatic. Trigeminal and occipital neuralgia warrior. Asexual. Graphics artist and book cover artist. Nova Scotia, Canada. Music lover. #Romancelandia DMs OFF! NO GEN AI HERE. NO CRYPTO!

@edgeoerin.com

A SK/BC boy who now kayaks in NS. Multi-genre Author, Nature, History, Fitness, & Food Lover. My next book will be Hatchet's Law (book 2 of a trilogy). 🇨🇦 CANADIAN CREATIVES STARTER PACKS! Métis. 🚫 DM. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 Elbows up! 🇨🇦📎

@trevorjadams.bsky.social

Canadian, Nova Scotian. Advocate Media senior editor/copy chief, Saltscapes magazine writer, occasional freelancer. Author of Long Shots (Nimbus Publishing). 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰

@kevin-gallant.bsky.social

Canadian Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙‍♂️ https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9 Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤 https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX

@galleon-books.bsky.social

We're a small but ambitious publishing house in Atlantic Canada, specifically New Brunswick. Www.galleonbooks.ca

@kurellian.bsky.social

Trans queerdo. Nebula Finalist author. Wrote I NEVER LIKED YOU ANYWAY (Lethe Press), WHEN I WAS LOST (Trepidatio), and THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS (Lethe Press). Got more stories, essays, and poems at JordanKurella.com. He/Him. GenAI is right out.

@jamestheballadeer.bsky.social

Novelist, short-story scribe, poet, editor, reviewer, comic-book aficionado, selenophile. Librarian-adjacent. Town & Train, small-town Canadian horror novel & Fear Itself short-story collection from Lethe Press. In indie stores & on the amazons.🍀🩷💜💙🌈

@peggyblair.bsky.social

Retired lawyer, Ottawa-area mystery author, small publisher, level 6 boxer, doctorate in law, Have a TV watching dog. #ElbowsUp! www.reboundpress.com!

@tychebooks.bsky.social

A Canadian small-press specializing in science fiction, fantasy, and related non-fiction. www.tychebooks.com Calgary, AB She/Her

@renegadeartsent.bsky.social

Award winning Small Press graphic novel & comic book publisher, family run, operating from a secret mountain lair in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Our fiction reveals more truth than just the facts ever could. https://renegadeartsentertainment.com

@armouredfoxpress.bsky.social

We are a small Canadian publishing company specializing in anime & anthropomorphic literature. https://armouredfoxpress.wixsite.com/website

@bannisterpress.bsky.social

A Canadian small press with a focus on stories worth telling. 🇨🇦 We publish speculative fiction and regional local history by award-winning writers. Bannisterpress.com Toronto.

@misfitstudios.bsky.social

Canadian small press RPG company in operation since 2003. We publish role-playing games in digital (PDF) and print-on-demand. We also sell stock art. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/101/misfit-studios?affiliate_id=34429&src=BlueSky

@primepressbooks.bsky.social

Small Canadian publisher focused on anthologies.

@ninetenpub.bsky.social

Publisher of books by Canadians about how to make things and how things are made. 🇨🇦🧶🧷🧵✂️📐🪡🎨🔨 https://shop.ninetenpublications.ca

@jasullivan.bsky.social

🇨🇦 Horror Writer, Movie Addict, & Paranormal Investigator Pansexual/Genderqueer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ *they/them*

@travisearl.bsky.social

He/Him Canadian writer of science fiction and horror. Movie lover/analyst. Humanist. Intersectional environmentalist. OCD. NDP. Equality for all. Check out my newsletter: The Horror of Our Times https://the-horrors-of-our-times.beehiiv.com/