Book stuff. Manager of expectations. Toronto. He/him.
www.casualoptimist.com
Reader/Writer/Remediated Goth. Acct mgr at Consortium Books, Minnesota MFA alum, poetry chapbook at Diode Editions. Boston expat in NE MPLS. Pronouns she/her.
Author of CHRYSALIS (2023) and A KISS OF CRIMSON ASH (coming May 2026)
Lawrence, KS purveyors of print on paper since 1987. What @sarahsmarsh.bsky.social calls a "Kansas cultural beacon." Visit us at 809 Massachusetts St.
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Founded in 2025, Pebble is a Chicago small press interested in nature, craft, regionalism, and obscure and unclassifiable excellence.
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With more than 4,000 members, we are proud to be the largest & longest-running library association in Canada.
Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
I sell books, I tend chickens.
small press + zine distro!
Tiohtià:ke // Montréal
transsexual-run // anti-ableist // pro-🇵🇸
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Salt | Est. 1999 | Independent & family-run.
Fiction (crime, historical, horror, literary), non-fiction, poetry & short stories.
Beautiful books you won’t forget. Available from all UK and Ireland bookshops.
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¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers
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Books and news from leading Canadian independent publisher, Dundurn Press. Read with us. These are your stories.
Links: https://campsite.bio/dundurnpress
✏️ Writer, photographer, walker
👁️ Optic Nerve (poems) published by Brick Books
🦑 Newfoundland / Ktaqmkuk
Essayist and poet. My book Vessel is out on January 13 with Assembly Press in Canada and the US. Australian, living on never-ceded Taungurung Country. President Mansfield Readers & Writers Festival.
Anansi publishes very good books. 📖
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Open Book is your connection to Ontario's vibrant literary scene. Posts via Kevin, Holly, and Sarah. Visit our website to learn more: https://open-book.ca/
Book publicist and writer in Toronto.
Making books, reading books, yelling about baseball (she/her)
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
Poetry editor at Coach House Books. Science writer at U of T.
Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive
electricliterature.com
Progressive politics, ideas & culture.
this.org
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Writing.
'The Orange Notebooks' in Electric Literature:
https://electricliterature.com/the-orange-notebooks-by-susanna-crossman/
'Home is Where we Start', Penguin
Words: Guardian, Aeon, Vogue...
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Human, author. Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living (@pressassembly.bsky.social). The Diapause (novel), McCurdle's Arm (novella) (@invisibooks.bsky.social). #SABR (Hanlan's Pt). He/him.
📍Peterborough, Ontario
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Canada's foremost publisher of theatre books since 1984
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twice a year since 1994 : the best of the small press in Ottawa,
lovingly organized/curated by rob mclennan
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Distributing indie books and advocating for small presses since 1985. Your next favorite book is from an independent publisher ❤️ 📖 cbsd.com
📧 Newsletter: https://bit.ly/cbsdmail
We are a small Canadian Poetry reviews site that also hosts poetry-related nonfiction essays by Canadian poets. https://the-wood-lot.ca/ Query us at: query@the-wood-lot.ca
Artistic Director Vancouver Writers Fest; New Yorker cartoon aficionado; fast walker. Views are my own but you could consider adopting them. Canadian made.
Canadian distributors of the best in independent publishing. Part of the Raincoast Distribution Group. 🇨🇦
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Small independent publisher 📍Windsor ON CAN
Beautiful Poetry | Fresh, Innovative Literature
A literary trade publisher, publishing poetry and fiction by Canadian authors since 1975.
Embark on a Journey to Discover Great Reads. We primarily review Canadian books & authors, but occasionally we cross some borders.
#CanLit #Miramichi #NB. (Posts by James M Fisher, Editor-in-chief)
https://theseaboardreview.ca
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.
Small queer press based in Tio’tià:ke. We publish literary works by emerging writers — books that reframe power and affirm life. We really want to keep gay book lovers satisfied. https://linktr.ee/metonymypress
Publishing diverse, inclusive, feminist books that entertain, educate, and empower. Follow us on Instagram & TikTok: @_secondstory
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Freelance writer, book nerd, interested and sometimes interesting. Toronto gone suburbs. Author of Send Me Into The Woods Alone: Essays on Motherhood.
Indie bookstore in Tkatoronto. Radically supporting 2SQTBIPOC writers since 1987
#ownvoices kidlit and YA experts/ founder: Sheila Koffman
315 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto, Ontario M6R 2M6
hosting events throughout GTA
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Books Booze Belles Balls | Publisher | http://littlepuss.net | We're a feminist press run by trans women | Buy PERSONA | Ecclesiastes 12:12-13
Author, professor, podcaster, drummer, dad.
www.nathanwhitlock.ca/
Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
writing, multimedia, music, art, Hamilton ON Canada
https://linktr.ee/garybarwin
“There’s a wisecrack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
A new and used bookstore in Hamilton, Ont. 181 Ottawa Street North.
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Poet, author, editor, literary advocate; Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre; former Poet Laureate of Calgary (2014-2016) and Banff (2022-2024) -- located in Treaty 7 territory, Banff, Alberta, Canada. He/him.
online at: www.derekbeaulieu.ca
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.
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.
he/him : white settler : managing editor, @arcpoetry.bsky.social : editorial assistant, @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social : opinions are my own : profile photo by Curtis Perry
possibles, infinites, gaps, nothings, in-betweens
new book in fall 2025 (Coach House Book)
Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University
https://ericschmaltz.com/
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, artist, editor, etc.
Author of Heliotropia (Brick Books 2024)
www.manahilbandukwala.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
mostly poet, preferably tree or rock
https://linktr.ee/aaronboothby
Still an author, still an editor, new book THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN out now, it might scare you
Bumbler, quitter of things, poet, and project management person (in that order). My new Collection, UNRAVEL, is a National Book Critics Circle finalist.
Opinions mine. https://bio.site/tolu.ca he/him
she/they | fiction writer | experimental filmmaker | poet | Author of Anecdotes @bookhugpress.bsky.social
Send My Love to Anyone: http://sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com
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Tabatha Southey is a freelance writer who is based, in Toronto. She/Her. Bylines Globe and Mail, Macleans, Foreign Policy, Elle Magazine, National Post, Toronto Life, Explore Magazine and more, author of three books. 🇨🇦
Literary Officer, Ontario Art Council. Former Inuit Art Quarterly, Quill & Quire, Centennial College. Freelance culture writer. Barracuda. (she/her) https://babyfishmouthed.substack.com
YVR's legendary independent bookstore. Est. 6/00. 'The pessimism of the intellect, the optimism of the will.' (Gramsci). 2025 Living Wage employer.
Established 2016, worker owned and operated since 2020. Always Carry A Book
Your queer and trans owned liberation bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin. We ship anywhere in the US.
Independent bookstore in Calgary [Moh’kinstsis]. Open 7 days a week. Free local delivery. Dog friendliest. Find good books here. www.shelflifebooks.ca
Ancient queen of tarts, queen of bone broth/Romany poshrat/ artist/writer/ gardener/ Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens, novella with Stelliform Press, 2025/ Nightshade, novel with Assembly Press, coming in 2026
Owner/operator @pressassembly.bsky.social. Bookmaker. Poet. Editor.
Publisher @pressassembly.bsky.social, lapsed poet, occasional tarot reader
An independent bookstore based in New York
Fiercely independent bookstore in Cambridge and Boston, MA
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Canada's oldest Speculative Fiction bookstore, founded in 1972. www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com. We are located in Toronto, Ontario.
Canada's largest, most eventful independent bookstore.
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not on here much now. find me elsewhere!
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Trade publishing's daily rundown, and sibling of the source of Deal Reports.
Booklover, blathering at http://www.bookgaga.ca - literary news, reviews, discussion, poetry posted daily (aka #TodaysPoem http://bit.ly/2J4ym4C), member of a thriving silent book club group (aka #SilentBookClub http://bit.ly/2NSBVtw) ... oh, and I crochet
Your Queer Spooky Bookstore x Small Press.
“A Good Story Will Haunt You”
👻🖤📚
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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/
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
Spooky ace essay boy. Author of BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING (Invisible Publishing, 2020). HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE (House of Anansi, 2023). https://peterbcounter.com/
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