Trident Booksellers & Cafe

A blue card with "KAFFEEKLATSCH" running up the left side has a picture of a cappuccino over the names and credits of seven authors: Amal El-Mohtar, Julie Czerneda, Isaac Fellman, Terese Mason Pierre, Tiffany Morris, Jennifer Giescrecht, and David Demchuck.

Enjoy free coffee & casual conversation with a writer & 3-7 friends @tridenthalifax.bsky.social!

We will be opening sign-ups for kaffeeflatsches ON TUE, FEB 17th! Space is limited with each writer & will be booked on a first-come, first-serve basis to registered attendees only.

Events - TriCon Halifax Blue Pencil Café Sign up for a one-on-one session with an attending editor! Bring a 2-3 page sample or just your questions, and receive feedback, advice, and insight! Spaces with each editor will be l...

Blue Pencil Cafe sessions are now open for sign-ups!

These 1-on-1 sessions with an editor are an opportunity for you to pitch a book, submit a small sample for review, or simply pick their brains! Spaces are limited, & will be assigned on a first-come, first-serve basis.

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REMINDER! We're opening signups for pitch & crit sessions on MONDAY (Feb 2nd)! Slots are first come, first serve, so make sure you are registered and ready! 🖊️

Application deadline Feb 28th 2026!

The artist selected will be given the space to display 6-15 works of your choice (whatever we can fit on the walls!) & to offer them for sale at a very low commission rate. The work would stay up for May and June 2026. We're flexible, let us know what your needs and expectations are!

Feel free to interpret this call as widely as possible: we love to see experimentation, work that trancends genre and medium, and bold ideas. Marginalized, inexperienced, and unconventional creators are encouraged to apply.

A poster with a green and white background (art by Calcifer Poolar) reads "Fabulist Art Wanted" with the call for applications in black text.

Artist wanted! In conjunction with @tricon-hfx.bsky.social this May, we're looking to exhibit a Nova Scotia artist who works with fabulist, speculative, or otherwise fanciful themes!

If you are interested, please email tridenthalifax@eastlink.ca with an introduction & link to your work.

A blue card with a line drawing of an open book with eyes reads "Book Launches Wanted!"

Now accepting book launch proposals!

Got a new book? Celebrate with us at TriCon! We will be scheduling launch parties all weekend in the WFNS atrium, with a variety of refreshment options. Read, sign books, & mingle with friends new and old.

Email triconhalifax@gmail.com with details!

Sign-Ups Begin @ TriCon! Happy Snow Day, everyone! For the two or three of you lucky enough to live somewhere untouched by this storm: Happy Monday. The ball is rolling on all kinds...

TriCon Newsletter #2: In Which We Summarize Current Action Items

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A green poster reading "Neon Sign Comedy" shows the storefront of Trident Booksellers & Cafe as well as the event details.

Neon Sign Comedy with Luba Magnus returns!

Feat. Brandon Michael, Bita Joudaki, Kyle Carpenter, Roz Kennery, & comedian/author Bryn Pottie!

When: Thurs, Jan 29th 2026 @ 7pm
Where: Trident Booksellers & Cafe, 1256 Hollis St, Halifax

$10 at the door or via www.eventbrite.com/e/neon-sign-...

Local readers looking for a hardcopy of the book can pick one up at @tridenthalifax.bsky.social but you are welcome to source your own copy any way you like!

No sign up necessary, but feel free to comment to let us know you'll be reading along! Maybe you'll find a reading buddy. 📖☕️

A blue card reading "Imaro Book Club" features the cover of the novel Imaro in a circle, captioned by a description of the book club event.

A stack of "Imaro" by Charles Saunders is displayed on a dark wood bookshelf.

Welcome to the Imaro Book Club, reading Charles Saunder's iconic epic, Imaro!

Read alone or join the TriCon Discord to chat as you go. Then, during the con, come to a live book club session w/ Jon Tattrie to discuss the work.

Be part of upholding Saunders' legacy as a black Nova Scotian writer!

We have copies of the New Yorker that you can read in the cafe, if the paywall is keeping you out. I feel like this one will resonate with all of us who are a certain kind of person...

TriCon Halifax: All the Basics! Hello all, and thank you! Since announcing the inaugural TriCon and opening registration, we have been so honoured by the support and enthusiasm we’ve...

TriCon Halifax: State of Affairs

Welcome to our first newsletter, in which we cover the basics. More detailed news to come--please sign up for our newsletter @ Buttondown to stay in the loop!

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Get em while they're hot.*

* These will always be hot

The 2026 Nova Writes Competition is open for submissions until JAN 22!

NS emerging writers, send us your submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or writing for children. All entries receive feedback and winners are published in our annual anthology.

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Three small cups of coffee on a tray.

Hey Halifax: now serving flights of our new, in-house roasts! We've got Trident Blend, Italian Roast, and a double Macchiato for $5, bags for $20, and refills for $1.50. It's a good day to come in and caffeinate with a discerning palate!

This made me wonder about Hal-Con. And I'm happy to relay that Hal-Con also bans AI "art"

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An image of a neon red sign, a cup of espresso and a bowl of coffee beans is overlaid with the announcement "Trident Tasting Party!" and related details.

Next Thurs, Jan 15th, come celebrate the (re-) launch of the Trident Roastery with an all-day Tasting Party!

Come try a flight of our house roasts for $5, or take a bag of coffee home with your flight for $25!

We will also be introducing our new loyalty cards. Buy 10 bags of beans and get 1 free!

A blue card with an illustration of a black tshirt covered in pink question marks reads "Mystery Shirt Design Reveal On Dev. 22" along with TriCon branding.

2 days left on Early Bird pricing!

We have Early Bird TSHIRT pricing in effect now too! Pre-order your TriCon shirt sight unseen for only $20 until Dec. 21st. We will reveal the design from Sorry Sacha on the 22nd, when the price will go up to $30!

(They look SO GOOD. 🔥)

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Absolutely, these are going to be in stock indefinitely!

A stack of white cafe mugs with the Trident logo in blue on a dark wood bookshelf.

A single white mug with a blue Trident logo in someone's hand.

Just in time!!! We've got new cafe mugs, and they're for sale too! 😍 A lil bigger, a lil chunkier than the old model, for a few extra ounces of caffeine in your morning. 👌

Not to mention the easiest $20 last-minute Christmas gift for the cafe-bookstore lover in your life! ☕️🎄

A blue card featured a photo of a woman in a red jacket alongside the cover of This Is How You Lose the Time War.

With 5 days left for Early Bird Registration, we have to gush about our Author GoH, Amal El-Mohtar!

Author of This Is How You Lose the Time War, The River Has Roots, and soon Seasons of Glass and Iron, Amal will be participating in programming as well as a mainstage event.

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Poster features a dimly lit sitting room with two people in vintage dresses sitting by a fireplace. The text reads "Haunted Holidays: Readings by horror writers. Dec 22, 7 pm. Trident Booksellers & Cafe. Brittni Brinn, Peter Brinn, Elliott Gish, Sarah Hawthorn, Tiffany Morris, Vanessa Penney."

Join us for a night of festive frights at @tridenthalifax.bsky.social on December 22! Everyone is welcome to attend this free event!
Featuring myself, @elliottgish.bsky.social , @tiffmorris.bsky.social , @slhawthorn.bsky.social , @atillythehun.bsky.social , & Vanessa Penney!

A blue card with the white and yellow text: "TriCon is for writers and creatives at all stages of their careers!" underscored with a pink arrow indicating a thread to come.

A blue card with yellow and white text listing types of writers who might enjoy TriCon.

A blue card with yellow and white text listing types of writers who might enjoy TriCon.

A blue card with yellow and white text listing types of writers who might enjoy TriCon.

Is TriCon for me? If you are asking yourself, the answer is yes! TriCon is a conversation and an exploration: it will be what we bring to it. With this community, that means a lot!

Early Bird pricing on weekend passes & tshirt ends on December 21st. Register now!

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One week left!!

Weekend pass pricing will go up to $125 on December 22nd, and shirt preorder pricing will also go up. We will be sharing our tshirt design at that time and we are SO THRILLED with it. You're gonna love it!

Let's go!

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A copy of As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories and a white mug on a saucer with latte foam set on a wood grain table.

Very excited to start reading As the Earth Dreams. As always, @tridenthalifax.bsky.social provided the book and caffeine fix I needed! 💜📚☕

Advertisement for Haunted Holidays, an author event at Trident Booksellers and Cafe on December 22 at 7PM.

Come hang out with us at @tridenthalifax.bsky.social on December 22 for some seasonal scary stories!

Blue card showing outlines of ticket stubs and the text "Earlybird Ticket Deadline Dec. 21, 2025" with TriCon details.

One month left for Early Bird tickets! The all-weekend pass is just $85, and mystery t-shirt pre-order, $20! Prices on both will go up Dec 21st.

3 days of panels, workshops, lectures, launches, and networking with other writers & creatives in speculative genres? Yes plz!

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Additional fun fact: Saunders lived in an appartment above Trident Halifax! Our literary and speculative credentials are baked into the rafters...

Early bird registration for TriCon ends on the solstice! Are you a writer of sffh? Join us next May for this & much more!

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