Canada's largest independent used bookstore: 20,000 sq.ft filled floor to ceiling with everything from vintage to today's bestsellers.
www.russellbooks.com
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
writing, multimedia, music, art, Hamilton ON Canada
https://linktr.ee/garybarwin
“There’s a wisecrack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
Visual art, writing
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them ♿️ 😷🇨🇦 AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic, MG
UK Sunday Times bestseller, Guardian BOTY, Guernica, The Sun, NYT, Salon, Globe+Mail, Macleans, BAE Notables, BASS Notable, BAX, 10 books, won CBC fiction x2; on Patreon at HamiltonArt.
Writer, writing teacher. Upcoming novel on women codebreakers in WW Two. The Paper Birds. Summer 2025! Professor of Creative Writing, University of Saskatchewan
Writer. Poet. Public Speaker. Inspire Ideas. Cultivate Diversity. Build Inclusion. Views here are my own.
Toronto ex-pat now living in
Treaty 1 Territory 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🏳️⚧️💜
Settler under deconstruction.
Field Interviewer for Toronto-Centre and downtown with Statscan 2002-2005 and still alive to talk about those
peculiar demographics.
MK ULTRA/abuse
psychology
Music
Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Inexplicable Canlit artefact 🇵🇸
Founder of Paper Covers Rock festival, and the Rochambeau Artist Collective. I dig conceptual quilting and textile art, cold ocean dips, & empowering creative voices.
📍Salt Spring Island 🇨🇦
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Fuelled by the largest collection of Canadian books ever assembled, 49th Shelf makes it easier to find your next great Canadian read.
Pianist. 🎹🔥 Sansei 🔻三世クィル
Toronto Reading Series
March 8: Rebecca Hirsch Garcia
(On Zoom)
March 12: Margo LaPierre
March 19: David Bergen
(Instagram Live)
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Book person — read them, bind them, fix them, write them. I like type. Author of Conflict (2012) and Charm (2016) & Toxemia (poetic non-fiction) from Book*hug (fall 2024). President of CBBAG. Former co-organizer of the Ottawa Promise Walk for Preeclampsia.
a project on literary influence: http://themanygenderedmothers.blogspot.ca
Archivist/Author/Poet in #yyj. Own views. Using my words for good. Rep’d by @rachkmc.bsky.social. Web: sonianicholson.com
Sheffield, UK. Dreamer. Metalhead. General nuisance. Co-owner of Northodox Press. 🎶I like big books and I cannot lie🎶
Mystic author diving into divine love & tech wonders. Passionate about Korea & Sci-Fi. Let's unravel the universe together!
#JustLoveHer #Mystic #Tech #Korea
Author of the #book 'Just Love Her'.
👇👇👇 Visit the website for more
https://razmihal.com
Poet, novelist, children's picture book author. Associate Professor Emerita UBC School of Creative Writing. Canadian. www.rheatregebov.ca 🇨🇦
Independent Vancouver book publisher. anvilpress.com
i wanna be the very best
like everyone ever was
to follow them is my real test
to waste time is my cause
i will travel across the sky
catching brain damage
teach followers to understand
the brainrot that's inside
For The Wild Sonnets books & downloads: www.wildsonnets.com
For The Wild Sonnets YouTube Channel (150+ videos): https://www.youtube.com/@wildsonnets
I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
Writer, Editor. Most recent book forthcoming is RECKLESS.
I write about race, equity and the impact of colonization. In particularly on children of the African/Caribbean diaspora adopted into white families.
Literary magazine publishing the best new poetry & prose for over 50 years. Details on subscriptions, submissions, contests and more at http://eventmagazine.ca
Shares content about the great outdoors.
Loves old-growth trees and boreal forests.
Please drive carefully around cyclists! 🚲
🇦🇺 journalist in Copenhagen 🇩🇰via 🇹🇭
Fiction writer represented by Naher Agency. Also answers to Aunty Isa.
Jeg lærer dansk og vil gerne kunne tale flydende som 👑Mary.
Digital art director. Visual artist. Poet. Fiction writer.
Surreal and satire.
Visit my not-so-official website: https://leonardzinovyev.ucoz.com
Facebook
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Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/leonardzinovyev/
Gen X writer and sometimes musician based in Vancouver (Canada). Pen name. https://toveblack.ca/about/
Editor - New Nottingham Journal
Literary editor - Leftlion Magazine
Words in Radio Times, Under the Radar, Nottingham Post
Writer-in-residence with Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature '24
Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist. Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc. I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek. Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player. Work w/me: DavidLeavitt@gmail.com
linktr.ee/david_leavitt
🇨🇦Writer/Poet/Pushcart Prize Nom. Former kids mental health social worker. Exercise nerd. ‘90s indie rocker. WIP=midlife memoir. Carbon-conscious. Green thumb. Ally. Kindness matters website: laurasergeant.com 🌈 ♿️
Artistic Director Vancouver Writers Fest; New Yorker cartoon aficionado; fast walker. Views are my own but you could consider adopting them. Canadian made.
• work @ ai startup
• made a few websites / games
• friend from ssbm / fgc / manifold
Author
📚 105 HIKES In and Around Southwestern British Columbia • NEW 2ND EDITION
⭐️ 36 new hikes • Now in bookstores!
🔗 Where to buy: https://105hikes.com
Writer/Prof/Other. They/Them. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/jbattis
dragon-hearted writer and poet • emotionally a cephalopod • “lee”
https://linktr.ee/davidlywrites
🐲 NOT ALL DRAGONS out spring ‘26
🐍 Mythical Man
🦑 Dream of Me as Water
😈 Queer Little Nightmares
She/they. Writer, script doctor, pug person. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
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
Author, Father, Professor, MBA, Photographer, Concerned Human in NJ.
I support fellow writers.
www.JRBale.com
I do not respond to DMs.
The Self-Pub Hub (Indie Book Site)
Submissions open now:
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Book tours:
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Connecting people to exceptional books, ideas, and dialogue.
📚 Special Events Year-Round
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PME-ART
The Air Contains Honey
Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Polyamorous Love Song
Rich and Poor
Authenticity is a Feeling
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
Poet; Bookseller; Baker; Human belonging to Duke (dog) and the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher (cat).
Author of:
Public Transit
Interidal: Poems from the Littoral Zone
Staff Picks for Invertebrates (forthcoming, Guernica Editions, 2026).
Canadian/Artist/Author of the modern-day fantasy epic -
Of Myth and Men: The White Night
a "must-read for fantasy aficionados" with original characters immersed in an alternative history! SEE my characters, hand-made costumes & artwork @ ofmythandmen.com
Renowned author, singer, pianist, music composer.
If not me, then no one else. Soon, you will know my name.
THE HIDDEN FACE is the metaphysical mystery book that STUNNED even people who didn't like reading! Get it here:
https://a.co/d/4lRdJee
Ph.D. (JHU, History); Italian-Canadian expatriate. Writer, Editor, avid reader.
Writing in Hopkins Review, Identity Theory, Ghost Parachute, et al.
https://rinapalumbowriter.com/
Independent parent. Progressive feminist who believes in community and kindness
Small independent publisher 📍Windsor ON CAN
Beautiful Poetry | Fresh, Innovative Literature
Poet | Writer | Translator | Haikuist
Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
Buy my work here: https://robbohan.etsy.com
she/they | fiction writer | experimental filmmaker | poet | Author of Anecdotes @bookhugpress.bsky.social
Send My Love to Anyone: http://sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com
https://linktr.ee/kathrynmockler | https://www.kathrynmockler.com
mostly poet, preferably tree or rock
https://linktr.ee/aaronboothby
Chinese-Canadian writer/poet/economist/developer | he/him | works in Nightmare, Strange Horizons, Year's Best Canadian F&SF, +more | SFWA, Codexian
https://ian-li.com
Human poet/artist. Latest book NMLCT: POEMS from ECW Press. Professor at Sheridan College. Senior editor at Wolsak and Wynn. Editor-in-chief at The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing. wererabbit on Bandcamp. https://linktr.ee/paulvermeersch
Writer. Philosopher. Sky-dancer. They/She. Codexian. Author of A REFUGE OF TALES. Poetry Editor at Utopia Science Fiction
https://linktr.ee/LynneSargent
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
Assistant Professor Communication & Media Studies, Memorial University, Newfoundland | Feminist Archives & Tech | Artist Archives & Networks | Digital Archives | Critical DH | Curator-poet-critic | they/she
SWOLLENING (2022, Arsenal Pulp Press) | Treaty 6. | they/them | http://jasonpurcell.ca
author of SÃONI CYCLE & PLURALITIES. coparent to The Shale Project. poet, editor, dice goblin enabler, gender menace. on here sporadically!
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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.
Writer, archaeologist | In Al Jazeera, Poetry Ireland Review, Strange Horizons, Banshee, F&SF, Best Canadian Essays 21' | Curating a repatriation @UniExeter | MA QUB, PhD UChi | They/She 🏳️🌈 Sicilian-Irish-Egyptian
Arts Council of NI 2025
Pre-eminent unknown trans writer and Grendel’s emergency contact. Call me Jes. [They/She]
📚: BAD HOUSES, MY VOLCANO, VANISHING MONUMENTS, JUNEBAT
Next: GUEST SERVICES AT THE MUSEUM OF SEXUAL DEVIANCE (novel, spring 2028).
linktr.ee/jestintzi
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
possibles, infinites, gaps, nothings, in-betweens
new book in fall 2025 (Coach House Book)
Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University
https://ericschmaltz.com/
Freelance literary editor, poet, writer. UBC MFA fiction grad. Editor @ Arc Poetry Magazine. Mad & queer. 🏳️🌈She/her. White settler living in Algonquin Anishinaabe territory. i of vii collective. margolapierreeditor.com.
🔗 Linktr.ee/margolapierre
Co-Editor for The Sprawl Mag
Poet
Water-Kin (2024) with Metatron Press
Enter the Hyperreal (2024) with above/ground press
Seed Beetle (2025) with Stelliform Press
After All This Hurt (2025) with Bywords
Mahailasmith.ca
he/him : white settler : managing editor, @arcpoetry.bsky.social : editorial assistant, @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social : opinions are my own : profile photo by Curtis Perry
Not here much! -- Writer from KY in Canada | 2025 MacDowell Fellow and @TinHouse.bsky.social Scholar | 3rd book coming 2026 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social | Senior Editor @augursociety.bsky.social | conyerclayton.com | they/them
Poet, educator, foodie, based in Baltimore, MD.
Author of chaps you were supposed to be a friend (2020), black has every right to be angry (2023), red line (2024) & CHARM(ed) (2024) | full-length: A Family Thing (2024)
aetheblkpoet.com
they/them
Nebula Award winning SFF author
A fifth of @darklylem.com
Member of @manyworldsforum.bsky.social
Rep: @chelseabigbang.bsky.social
Aotearoa New Zealand
Books: https://darusha.ca
Pic: Erica Poole
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.
Poet, critic, etc. Author of No Depression in Heaven (2025), Sunny Ways (2023), Coast Mountain Foot (2021), Fortified Castles (2014), Fake Math (2007/2022). Bluesky user #71209.
PhD student (trauma-informed pedagogies). Runner (2x 26.2, 6xHM). Roller derby pivot. Writer (tend, Leak, Jammer Star). Former book designer. Lover of gardens. Honestly, mostly cats. CorusKate.com
Poet, writer, coffee addict based in Toronto
New book: Sublunary, forthcoming @ualbertapress in Spring 2026
www.lisarichter.org
poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press)
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/
https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan
http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
haunted swamp femme, PhD // author of sulphurtongue (2021) & antibody (2025) // (she/they) 🇨🇴🤎🇵🇸
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
Writer | Field Requiem (Carcanet), The Season's Vagrant Light: New & Selected (Carcanet), et al. | Words in The Paris Review, The TLS, PN Review, Poetry Review, Brick, et al.
https://www.sheribenning.com/
Unusually Tall.
Queer, leather femme. Poet, pagan, glamazon, and kitchen witch. Not-so-secretly a sea monster. (She/Her)
https://allisonlarmstrong.wixsite.com/writer
Witch, bitch, and full-time disaster. Trans, genderqueer, bisexual, dyke poet.
Member of the poetry collective VII
www.helen-robertson.com
They/she. Writer, editor, goldstar #bisexual. Shhh...I'm reading. Poetry collection Crazy / Mad: https://www.gordonhillpress.com/products/crazy-mad
Int. Scriptwriter @ Highdive (Netease) | sphynx dad, poet, goblin | they/them
Works: I Am Your Beast, Ultimate Chicken Horse, Tears of Metal, and many more 💀
They/he - Poet, playwright, librettist, founder of @queerslam & musical saw player. "Why I Was Late" with @BrickBooks ReLit award winner.
bostony. vancouvery. poet laureate of Vancouver, Canada as of Jan ‘25 for 3yrs. eleekg.com It’s pronounced ELLY!
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
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!
SSHRC funded PhD in at UCalgary.
THE LIBRARY COSMIC: Stories
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THE YEARS SHALL RUN LIKE RABBITS
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