If you're a new writer starting to engage with the SFF community or just want to find out great people making great art, this pack will help you! (This list is far from complete and I intend to make other ones)
Third of several starter packs of Canadian speculative fiction writers that I follow on BlueSky. Mix of short story writers and novelists. No particular order. Just breaking the groups up to make them manageable.
Poets living in and/or from the place colonially known as Canada.
A starter pack of the writers and poets featured in Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume Three
I do love this genre of what life could look like. We need a new story, that allows us to imagine life beyond our fossil fuel driven economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk
A starter pack of transmasculine authors writing in adult genres. No publishing requirements. Please ask if you'd like to be invited!
Science fiction & fantasy editors from mags, publishers, and freelance spaces! All formats and genres and areas welcome -- YA, poetry, children's, short fiction, long fiction, etc.
Science fiction and fantasy writers who identify as trans. This list is at 150/150 and unfortunately can't accept anybody new.
Writers, editors, publishers, community organizers, & other SFF pros in the CanSpec (canlit + spec fic) space !
starter pack for close friends
Indie authors of scifi, fantasy, and horror to follow!
Canadian authors of scifi, fantasy, and horror
Letβs get connected and share our books, art, and more! Thereβs nothing like a supportive network of disabled creatives!
Speculative poets for all your SpecPo needs
Mostly science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comics creators.
This Starter Pack is for authors and writers. We are doing this Starter Pack in honor of Stephen King's birthday, today.
A place to find that person you just heard on a panel. If you're a panelist, vendor or volunteer at Can*Con in Ottawa in 2025, please tell me if you'd like to be added. It's opt-in, but if you've somehow been added and don't want to be, please let me (Kate) know and I'll remove you.
Queer writers of queer short fiction