Speculative fiction gives us blueprints for worlds full of hope, joy, justice, and revolution for people of all genders. Join us March 18-22, 2026: sirensconference.org
The mission of the SSBA is to recognize and promote independent and small press authors writing exceptional speculative fiction.
Founded by @lnholmeswriter.bsky.social
Cofounded by @millieabecassis.com
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Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca
Creating Battlemaps, Map Assets & more for TTRPGs!
https://www.tomcartos.com/my-links for more info.
He/Him
Publisher of Icons Superpowered Roleplaying. Find all of our products on @DriveThruRPG! https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/4166/ad-infinitum-adventures
Tomesmith Press is a collaboration of three queer friends sharing their love of TTRPGs. We provide resources and tools for GMs, players, and world-builders alike!
https://tomesmithpress.com/
Indie retro gaming book publisher. Creators of the Video Game Maps series, Pixel Art Metroid, History of Rygar, and much more.
Web: https://retrogamebooks.com
Contact: retrogamebooks@gmail.com
Discord: https://discord.gg/WRrqn8ZP
Born in the wilds of West Quebec. Writer. Director. Cat herder. Dog companion. Authentic hillbilly bloodlines. Future 6th Generation Farmer. Distant relative of famous Mulligan Golf Dude! Opinions mine.
editor, author, and oxford comma advocate || easing back into professional-adjacent sosh meeds with occasional fandom yodelings || she/her || https://linktr.ee/katherinemonasterio
Author. Linguist. Scholar of interdisciplinary subjects.
✒ Understands about semicolons
🐺 Monster enthusiast
🕹️ Games @spaceboat.bsky.social
🎵 Metalhead
📖 34 books published
🎙️ Legends and Lectures / Archaeoscoop
https://www.patreon.com/newshortstories
Poet, fantasy author, fae critter perpetually looking to live a little slower. One half of The Shale Project.
We're an Indigenous-led grassroots movement taking a stand to end gender based violence. We Are All Medicine
Working on it.
Mostly books and chocolate.
The official feed for the Writing About Dragons and Sh*t Podcast! Hosted by Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis. New episodes every Wednesday.
discord.gg/MdSVsfpTzu
SFF writer—Year’s Best Canadian SFF, Fantasy Mag, THIS Mag. @SFWA. Banff Sci-fi ‘25. 6X Aurora Finalist. Loves fairy tales, comics, video games, D&D.
Publisher @augursociety — Augur Mag, Tales & Feathers Mag, Augur Books.
Contact me @ www.kerrycbyrne.com
Writer of Many Things, Dad of Many Creatures.
Editor & Managing Director at @augursociety.bsky.social & @talesfeathers.bsky.social. Fiction in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Small Wonders, Heartlines, Haven Spec, & more. he/him
www.andregeleynse.com
ah-riel, she/her. usually on mastodon @arielkroon@wandering.shop. settler scholar on the haldimand tract. one half of @solarpunkpresents.bsky.social.
www.arielkroon.ca
#academia #spoony #solarpunk
Stormchaser, meteorologist, volcano explorer. I have an interesting life. You’ll see me on the Weather Network doing things that I really don’t recommend anyone else doing … 🌋🌪️🦈⛈️ Also Warhammer. From time to time.
D.A. Straith (they/he) 🍉 Toronto-adjacent fiction person and beginner plant parent - nonbinary trans & queer settler - work in Augur, Fusion Fragment, On Spec - querying! - straith.carrd.co
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
Publisher at Flame Arrow Publishing, SFF Author at David M. Snow, Book Coach and Teacher at Spark Word House
The Ace Of Knives eBook out now! https://books2read.com/TheAceOfKnives . Fiction in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2022. #amquerying Tonya.ca
He/Him | Podcast Host / Producer | Webcomic Writer | #ADHD | Profile Art by Luke McKay
temporary obsessions, writer, stories in Apex, Lightspeed, khōréō, The Baltimore Review etc, editor at Otherside Spec, Clarion West '25, agent: Keir Alekseii @ ALA
rukmanragas.com
Writer. Revenant. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) Colombo/New York. https://vajra.me
Engineer | Writer | Editor
Enjoyer of Equations, Ideas & Assorted Nonsenses
Hugo, Nebula, Locus & Caine Prize finalist
My novel Shigidi out now: http://tinyurl.com/Shigidi
i write stories for myself and 2 other people to lose their minds over
BLACK AS DIAMOND IS OUT NOW!
purchase: https://nebulouswrites.com/#bad
newsletter: https://shorturl.at/LPYfi
rep: @emilykaitlin.bsky.social
Award-winning author, poet, Hugo Award-nominated editor
MOJORHYTHM & NINE BAR BLUES
MARVEL'S Black Panther: PANTHER'S RAGE novel
AFRICA RISEN and TROUBLE THE WATERS
NYTimes bestselling collab w/ Janelle Monáe on THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN
Writes and draws comics and other things.
✒️🎨LU & REN'S GUIDE TO GEOZOOLOGY (May 27, 2025)
🎨ANTARCTICA: THE MELTING CONTINENT (2022)
https://linktr.ee/angelahsieh
Director of The Secret of St Kilda and Hugo-winning Podcast Editor for Strange Horizons
Editor - https://thewritesong.co.uk
https://thesecretofstkilda.carrd.co/
strangehorizons.bsky.social
Cafe & Bookshop in Halifax, Nova Scotia
https://tridenthalifax.ca
TriCon is Atlantic Canada's literary conference for speculative fiction. TriCon 2026 will be held May 15th-17th, 2026 at The Westin Nova Scotian.
https://tricon-halifax.com
Aerospace engineer, award-winning writer and editor. Born in Hong Kong (香港). Made in Canada (加拿大). www.aerospacewriter.ca
I'm an award winning writer, artist, and tarot card reader. I'm also disabled, neurodivergent, Pagan, married, gay, Nonbinary and fabulous! I'm a baker and proud cat dad! I may or may not respond to DM's. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦♿️🐈⬛️✍️🖌🎨 Learn more at http://www.jamiesonwolf.com
📖UC Merced writing professor & TTRPG Educator
🎧More Than Metal podcast
🚀 @AbraxasPrecipic.bsky.social #TheExpanse #RPG
👕 @CauldronNTower.bsky.social
📚Academic Librarian
🎼Vinyl collector
📝Dysgraphic
linktr.ee/onlyplaywizards
#TheExpanse #RPG actual play stream
First & Third Wednesdays, at 6pm PST on twitch.tv/onlyplaywizards
linktr.ee/abraxasprecipic
Assistant Editor at Tor Publishing Group. Buying fiction that’s strange, uncanny, heartwarming, and delightful. My opinions are my own.
Writer Assistant
50% of Dig Me Out Podcast
Author of some books
Long suffering Buffalo Bills fan
he/him https://linktr.ee/timminneci
SFF author. Muddling through the pre-apocalypse. CSFFA SFWA. She/her. 🐙🐾
Unceded Algonquin territory. 🇨🇦 Debut 2025: THE MIDNIGHT PROJECT with Poplar Press (Wolsak & Wynn). Rep’d by Sara Megibow. Views my own.
www.christyclimenhage.com
Awesome podcast where we interview authors, game designers, actors, TV personalities and more. Also an affiliated twitch stream.
https://www.epicrealmsmedia.com/
We want to invite the SFF fandom world to ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Amiskwacîwâskahikan), also known as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in 2030… www.edmontonin2030.org
Freelance Web/WordPress Developer for Authors and Publishers
TTRPG Enthusiast
SF/F Writer
Now building a conspiracy-themed browser game called Veiled City
https://www.clockpunkstudios.com/
https://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/
https://veiledcity.com/
La 1re librairie•café•bar bilingue à Montréal
Romance & imaginaire
Montreal’s 1st bilingual bookstore•café•bar
Romance & spec fic
📚☕️🍸♥️🗡️🤖🦇
https://www.joiedelivres.ca
Interviews with SFF and Horror writers, editors, community members, and activists. Writing/Progressive politics. Pushing back on social norms with an eye towards hope. Team Bear 🐻 https://itgodp.libsyn.com
Fantasy illustrator for TTRPGs, book covers and character comms!
https://linktr.ee/hannahelizabetharts
hannahelizabetharts@gmail.com for work enquires
Actor/Writer/Producer. ♿️.
DM/Dungeoneer.
Words: Candlekeep Mysteries, 2024 DMG, Haunted West, Dreams And Machines.
Art Description: Draw Steel.
twitch.tv/dreamwispjen
linktr.ee/dreamwisp
Accessibility in Gaming Resource Guide: https://bit.ly/3QSqfJE
Our goal is to turn you from someone who wants to play TRPGs into someone who wants to run them.
TTRPG Designer. Shark lover.
Writer, Game Designer. contact: hello@mcdmproductions.com
IndieQuest is a celebration of the indie and obscure. For nearly 5 years we've been building a list of indie game recommendations called, the Quest Log!
indiequestpod.com
Hosts:
- blinkoom.bsky.social
- captaindrachma.bsky.social
- JoshLeslie.bsky.social
all pronouns . assistant to Cameron McClure . literary agent at Donald Maass Literary Agency . closed to unsolicited queries, but check back https://maassagency.com/dylan-haston/ https://QueryTracker.net/query/3919
Acicular appendages, keyboard protuberance. SFF writer. Published in Clarkesworld, Fireside, Analog, Uncanny, Nature Futures, Vice Motherboard Terraform, Star*Line, MIT Press. Codexian.
Website: https://daxiaolinspires.wordpress.com/
twice a year since 1994 : the best of the small press in Ottawa,
lovingly organized/curated by rob mclennan
https://bsky.app/profile/robmclennan.bsky.social
member of https://bsky.app/profile/smallpressalmanac.bsky.social
The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦
👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org
Over 10,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️
New books added daily.
• Join the Discussion: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n
• Support: https://thevideogamelibrary.substack
Developer and publisher of roleplaying games and card games, including Shadows Over Sol, Age of Ambition, Against the Dark Yogi and more!
Website: https://tabcreations.com
Kickstarter: https://buff.ly/4dYdgi2
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tabcreations
writer, artist, gardener, hugger of cats - DEATH ON THE CALDERA coming out June 17, 2025 from Titan Books!
TTRPG Publisher - kidsintheatticgames.com
Jef & Jon. Hosts of the System Mastery podcast and more. Reviewing old TTRPGs, bad movies, Star Wars novels, and whatever else we get opinionated about.
Authors of Düngeonmeister and The Düngeonmeister Cookbook
We are an independant TTRPG publisher with over 25 years of experience telling great stories through tabletop roleplaying games. Check out our community hub at https://atomicthinktank.com/!
The Expanse RPG Fan Community.
https://expanserpgcommunity.com/
Gaming is community!
Also on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/expanseroleplaying/
Writer, game designer, publisher, history nerd, punk, and anti-fascist. Founder & President of Green Ronin Publishing. My last name rhymes with famous.
https://ko-fi.com/chrispramas
Krista D. Ball is an award winning Canadian author who hasn't met a potato she didn't like.
Krista's motto: don't let the randos steal your joy. She posts on reddit: she's been called worse by better than you.
kristadball.com for books, contact, etc.
Manager of Bakka Phoenix Books in Toronto. She/her. Mostly lurks and will post occasional cat photos and food pics.
🌷 Lead character designer
🌷 LA based Canadian
🌷 haleyroseportfolio.com
I love historical fashion, cats and plants 🌱
Progressive politics, ideas & culture.
this.org
x.com/thismagazine
linkedin.com/company/this-magazine/
We make tabletop RPGs for Scion, the Trinity Continuum, They Came From..., and licensed games like Realms of Pugmire, Chronicles of Darkness, and Exalted. https://linktr.ee/theonyxpath
Writer, librarian, practice adult, forever mentor...
Writer of novels and lorekeeper of video games. Michif living in Treaty 6. No kings, only kin.
Book 1 of the Kin Trilogy (coming 2027)
Seventhblade (out now!)
www.tonialaird.com
Novelist (Radioland, The Society of Experience) / short fiction / essays.
Agent: Kelvin Kong, K2 Literary
Former film/TV post supervisor, currently Registered Psychotherapist in private practice
Haunting the margins
BAFTA US Member | Ex-Monolith Prod. | Twitch Partner | Sponsored by LogitechG | Rivals of Waterdeep & Black Dice Society Alum | Into the Mother Lands RPG Creator & CD |TakeThis Board Chair| She/They
https://linktr.ee/cypheroftyr
twitch.tv/cypheroftyr
Writing sci-fi and horror in Mi'kma'ki/Nova Scotia.
MISPLACED out now with @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social
She/they
brittnibrinn.com
Scrivener is a literary journal published at McGill University in Montreal, founded in 1980. https://scrivenerreview.com/
Submit to issue 48: http://tinyurl.com/scrivener48.
Writer and Science Communicator. she/her
👻 NIGHTMARE FUEL (Nightfire)
🧬THE SCIENCE OF ORPHAN BLACK (ECW Press)
Updates only for the time being!
Harrison Young mentors Knoxville-local playwrights in this annual program! 🪜
2025 playwright: Helena Jordan!
www.nextrungpro.com
Publishing Radically Rewarding Literature for Almost Fifty Years
SFF author & Egyptologist. Loves tiny 🫖, 🦋 & 🐙.
Stories out in The Were-Traveler‘s „Women Destroy [Retro-] Sci-Fi“ edition, „Mirror, Mirror“, „Crunchy With Ketchup“, „Wyngraf #4“, „The Pelagic Zone: Uncharted Waters“, New Myths #70, GigaNotoSaurus 07/2025.
UNDISPUTED Wizard of the Coast |
@BDaveWalters on every Social Media platform | http://TheUndisputedAcademy.com | Victor on #LAByNight | Lead Designer MotherlandsRPG |
Navi & Shawn Drake | Indie TTRPG Design and Publishing @ A Couple of Drakes | Perpetrators of Court of Blades, Dead Belt, HEDGE, the DISASTER/games, and others still.
Snag our games @ acoupleofdrakes.itch.io
Become a patron @ patreon.com/acoupleofdrakes
Illustrator - Designer - Publisher
patreon.com/StockArt
kidsintheatticgames.com
BAMF Podcast - focused on TTRPGs and comics. Also: donuts
TTRPG Artist and Writer
Patreon: patreon.com/JacobBlackmon
NSFW Patreon: patreon.com/BlackmonESite
Black feminist writer, scholar & educator | Exploring Blackness, cultural performance, & imagination as a tool for liberation | Prof. of Comm. & Global Studies UNC-CH | Director SOHP | Listener, storytelling, memory-worker | Mom, Daughter, Wife
Call of Cthulhu RPG licensee. Publisher of The Arkham Gazette, the Dare, & Other Horrors. Yog-Sothoth.com diaspora.
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https://sentinelhillpress.com/
Literary agent and co-owner of CookeMcDermid Agency. MPub from SFU. Punk. Settler. He/Him.
Director, @joiedelivresmtl.bsky.social bookstore/café/bar + literary agent (Canadian spec lit in FRENCH) at Omada Agency • 📚🌻🍷✈️🏳️🌈
📍 Tiohtià:ke / Montréal with husband Ilya / @troudememoire.bsky.social and our two cats
Digital and traditional artist / game dev 🖤
https://linktr.ee/Hannahrose1124
Art is a lie in service of the truth. He/Him.
Narrative/Creative Director
Current: Narrative Director on @ArsNotoriaGame, OTAA, and NDA(s)
Prev: Senior Narrative Designer @ Tencent/Timi on Delta Force
portfolio: http://www.chadbriggs.com
Book review blog and podcast. Member of Certain POV Podcast Network. Robin (they/them). 🏳️🌈 #NoAI
booksthatburn.carrd.co
mast.booksthatburn.com
linksthatburn.com
Gazan MA Boost; Help nurse Ahmed stay alive: https://chuffed.org/project/130260
Narrative Director & Writer || Life is Strange: Double Exposure, True Colors, Before the Storm || WoTC: Journeys through the Radiant Citadel || she/her
British. OSR. BLOGGIES 2023 Winner ("Reinventing the Wilderness" series).
blog: sachagoat.blot.im
SFF/middle-grade fiction/satire writer. Strategy/marketing consultant. Bagel the Dog's emotional support human. Dadjoke teller. Sentence-fragment lover. Disabled with #MECFS She/her effieseiberg.com/stories (or @effies@wandering.shop on Mastodon)
Co-chair of Keycon 42, RPG and board game writer/designer, voice actor, budding novelist, humourist, and definitely not a supervillain.
A literary series featuring diverse writers. The 2nd Wednesday of every other month, at Glad Day & livestreamed on YouTube. Funded by Ontario Arts Council.
brocktonwriters.com
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
one vile task after another. author of The Marigold, WASTE, All We Want is Everything, and co-author of The Handyman Method.
EARTH FILLED WITH BLOOD - a novel forthcoming from Gallery Books in 2027.
www.andrewfsullivan.com
🌱 CEO, Climate & Nature Solutions; Chair UN Net Zero.
🇨🇦Former Minister of Environment & Climate
🏃♀️Author, Run Like a Girl
Order your copy today ⬇️
www.catherinemckenna.ca
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