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Neil Gaiman

will eventually grow up and get a real job. Until then, will keep making things up and writing them down.
1,721,148 followers |

Doug Coupland

Never left art school
408,872 followers |

Margaret E. Atwood

author
323,640 followers |

Cory Doctorow

Writer, blogger, activist. If you want a reply, use email. Blog suggestions here: http://boingboing.net/submit/
237,142 followers |

Arjun Basu

Author, writer, editor, Shorty Award winner (though I'm not that short), foodie, husband, dad. Creating Twisters, 140-character short stories.
148,093 followers |

William Gibson

79,527 followers |

John Most

I'm a poet.
36,798 followers |

Joey Comeau

I write A Softer World, and books! When someone says, That's gay, the best response is Yes, I like it too!
12,373 followers |

Joel Crary

A middle-class white male with an opinion. Imagine that.
7,190 followers |

Mathew Timmons

harriet_poetry is the group Twitter feed of the Poetry Foundation's blog. Every so often a new poet takes over. This month features Mathew Timmons.
6,809 followers |

sonnets

Shakespeare's Sonnets, one a day. Run by @DavidAugust
5,628 followers |

Christian Bok

Experimental Poet
4,845 followers |

Sean Cranbury

Vancouver writer, broadcaster and digital strategist. Health care, media and publishing. Cat wrangler.
3,432 followers |

Carl Wilson

Globe and Mail. Zoilus. Backtotheworld. Let's Talk About Love (33 1/3 series). And so forth.
2,799 followers |

Ivan Coyote

writer, storyteller, performer, Yukoner, doglover, cook.
2,785 followers |

Zoe Whittall

Author of Holding Still for as Long as Possible, Bottle Rocket Hearts, Precordial Thump. I am as old as Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album. I tweet about my cats.
2,503 followers |

Ami McKay

- author of The Birth House (and forthcoming, The Virgin Cure) scribbler, edu-punker, 19th Century New York enthusiast, and believer in mythical pear trees.
2,374 followers |

Elizabeth Switaj

poet, photographer, fictionista, @irishpages Assistant Managing Editor, PhD candidate writing on Joyce. Magdalene & the Mermaids available from spdbooks.org
2,291 followers |

NatalieZed

Wordsmith & Metal Ambassador. Writer, poet, metalhead, rock critic, geek, gamer, gourmand, sadomasochistic, feminist. Supervillain. http://about.me/nataliezed
2,237 followers |

Nikki Reimer

Cranky writer of poetry & criticism. After 8 years in Vancouver I'm packing up the cats & heading to Calgary. Better change my background pic.
1,650 followers |

Darren Wershler

professor, recovering poet, writer, warrior of the cosmic void
1,604 followers |

Lynn Coady

Profaner; carpal tunnelist; writer of The Antagonist, a novel.
1,592 followers |

Marcus McCann

Law student; activist; civil libertarian; thumb-busting boardgamer.
1,380 followers |

Kate Sutherland

Writer, blogger, and sometimes runner.
1,354 followers |

Charles Bernstein

Attack of the Difficult Poems, All the Whiskey in Heaven
1,319 followers |

saleema n.

writer, napper, 2008 Journey Prize winner
1,298 followers |

Emily Schultz

editor of Joylandmagazine.com & Joyland eBooks; author of Heaven is Small, and a new novel with Doubleday in 2012. I like movies & comedy.
1,245 followers |

rob mclennan

writer, publisher, critic, events organizer, rogue scholar; author of 20+ books of poetry, fiction + non-fiction;
1,233 followers |

Dani Couture

An unmade bed. A bear in the yard. A full fridge. An empty cupboard.
1,223 followers |

Sean Dixon

Sometimes right. Often ronk.
1,190 followers |

Clint Burnham

teacher and writer; latest book: The Only Poetry That Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing
1,151 followers |

derek beaulieu

experimental writer / university instructor. author of seen of the crime: essays on conceptual writing
1,134 followers |

Emily Pohl-Weary

My day is never underway until the mailman passes by.
981 followers |

DaveMcGimpsey

Montreal writer. Author of Sitcom and Li'l Bastard. Columnist for EnRoute and Matrix magazines. NY Giants fan.
939 followers |

Silas White

@NightwoodEd publisher, #SD46 board chair & an elected trustee director (certainly not spokesperson) at @BCPSEA.
890 followers |

Jon Paul Fiorentino

Author of Stripmalling, Indexical Elegies, The Theory of the Loser Class, and the forthcoming Needs Improvement. Editor of @MatrixMagazine
879 followers |

Robrt Chrysler

Ecstasy Art Revolution Surrealism Post-Reality
860 followers |

jkdegen

Canadian novelist and poet, arts funding public servant, believer in the future of the book.
857 followers |

"Papa" Hemingway

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
765 followers |

sachikomurakami

Author of The Invisibility Exhibit (Talon 2008) and Rebuild (Talon 2011). Poetry editor for @InsomniacPress. Co-host of Pivot Readings at the Press Club.
691 followers |

peterdarbyshire

Author of Please and The Warhol Gang.
646 followers |

Geof Huth

A writer and archivist, mostly a poet of words and shapes.
631 followers |

Michael Bryson

Short story writer, literary blogger, policy wonk. Dad. Husband. Leafs fan. Tragic dreamer. Founder of @danforthreview.
614 followers |

Gillian Sze

I wrote Fish Bones and The Anatomy of Clay. I co-edit @branchmagazine. I'm looking for my master signifier. These tweets have short shelf lives.
611 followers |

Kasey Mohammad

Poet, Painter, & Patriot
601 followers |

Billeh Nickerson

Two parts poet, one part curler, with a sprinkle of bon vivant.
531 followers |

Vanessa Place

La violence c'est ce qui ne parle pas.
517 followers |

Jake

Poet. Dataphile. Uncertainist. Salaryman.
512 followers |

George Murray

Poet and raconteur, editor of Bookninja.com
497 followers |

Stuart Ross

A writer, editor, writing coach & sad sack.
493 followers |

Elizabeth Bachinsky

poet. offering first lines only, as they come.
484 followers |

Karen Press

Write and teach, teach and write. Chase toddler. Occasionally sleep. Inelegant disclaimer: my tweets reflect my personal views and not those my employer.
478 followers |

Rebecca Rosenblum

I'm a writer, an editor, and a person who likes a lot of things.
472 followers |

Christine McNair

space cadet | book doctor| scribbler | heloise or hester | pilot of the airwaves | writer | bookbinder | conservator | typophile | radio show host ╚╦╩═╬♥╬═╩╦╝
468 followers |

Bowering

Born in the nude., brought up in Oliver, BC. Educated in Ontario. Wrote a lot of books.
408 followers |

Travis Nichols

Pamphleteer and shut-in. Back up dancer to imaginary 64-piece T. Rex cover band.
403 followers |

Daniel Allen Cox

Author of novels
374 followers |

Jonathan Ball

writer, filmmaker, scholar
347 followers |

Brenda Schmidt

A writer, artist, birdwatcher and ecoblogger who prefers the tweets in the forest. Bring it on, Hermit Thrush. Bring it on, Winter Wren. Go Leafs!
314 followers |

Rob Thomas

writer/editor, marathoner, ferret fancier and serial dad.
283 followers |

cris cheek

poet, live writer, photographer, sound composer
278 followers |

Stephen Henighan

Novelist & short story writer, journalist, translator & prof of Latin American literature.
259 followers |

Robert Earl Stewart

My second collection of poetry, Campfire Radio Rhapsody,was published by Mansfield Press in spring 2011.I'm in a band called Waker Glass.
225 followers |

Helen Hajnoczky

poet and killer http://snarebooks.wordpress.com/books/poets-and-killers-by-helen-hajnoczky/ librarian in training
179 followers |

Matthew Tierney

- lines from poets I'm reading, posted without consent but with admiration
166 followers |

Heather Mirassou

A writer and a poet,
124 followers |

Pearl Pirie

blogs at pesbo, Humanyms, EatenUp, looking on the Bri side, and 40-word years. been to www.beenshedbore.com ?
122 followers |

Corey Frost

115 followers |

Sheila Murphy

112 followers |

Max Middle

Performance poet and event organizer
18 followers |

Wanda O'Connor

16 followers |

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