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Arts and culture in Nova Scotia left reeling from 'unprecedented' cuts - Halifax Examiner "It's going to be absolutely devastating."

Arts and culture in Nova Scotia left reeling from 'unprecedented' cuts www.halifaxexaminer.ca/arts-and-cul...

What's On - Confederation Centre of the Arts Upcoming shows, exhibitions, and programs at the Confederation Centre of the Arts

There's always something happening at the Centre!
confederationcentre.com/whats-on/

Me, Maurice, and Carter…the boy who Jack was modelled after. Such a fun event! Thanks to all the kind souls who joined us. ;) The Sandcastle that Jack Built is available online and in bookstores. #judithgraves #readatlantic #mauricebernard @acornpress.bsky.social @picturebookseh.bsky.social

Book cover for Future Howl by Pat Lowther and Bliss Carman award-winning poet Sue Goyette ‬ (Gaspereau Press), with a letterpress wolf on a brown background. Sue Goyette’s poem Future Howl plots a fulsome radius of the experience of trauma and survival, one that encompasses much about living in the aftermath that skirts straightforward description and yet works in the frequency of courage and joy. Propelled by Goyette’s declarative voice, sense of humour and side-slipping imagery, each page of the poem is “a microdose of ars poetica” infused with intertextual and transformative guidance from the painter Bob Ross, the live-cam company of a pair of endangered red wolves, and a private-to-public reckoning that is grounded in this singular time. http://www.gaspereau.com/bookInfo.php?AID=0&AISBN=9781554472796

Book cover for Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness by Danila Botha (Guernica Editions), with a woman covered in orange glitter leaning her head back sensually, the image cut off at her lips, her hair a luscious fall along one side. This is Danila Botha’s third collection of short fiction. From the bullied twelve-year-old to the sculptor who builds a golem and fulfills her Holocaust survivor grandmother’s wish to protect her sister to a student who overdoses on opiates and meets an adult Anne Frank, these stories pulse with Botha’s signature empathy and originality. As in her previous collection, the Trillium- and Vine-nominated For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I’ve Known, this collection will make you laugh and cry, but above all it will make you feel less alone. https://guernicaeditions.com/products/things-that-cause-inappropriate-happiness

Book cover for children's book The Sandcastle That Jack Built by Judith Graves‬, illustrated by Maurice Bernard (The Acorn Press) with a boy in a backwards baseball hat building a sandcastle by the ocean. At once familiar and fresh, The Sandcastle that Jack Built is a lyrical and playful version of the traditional nursery rhyme. In this updated classic, Judith Graves’s beautiful text is perfectly accompanied by rich, vivid illustrations from renowned Island artist and sandcastle sculptor, Maurice Bernard. https://www.acornpresscanada.com/store/the-sandcastle-that-jack-built

Book cover for My Thievery of the People: Stories by Leila Marshy (Baraka Books), with a pensive person looking down and over their shoulder. From the highways of Cairo to the outports of Newfoundland, the soul-crushing cubicles of Montreal city work and the deceptive perils of the Quebec countryside, these brilliant short stories lay bare the workings of power and the small acts of both courage and compromise by which those on the margins defy them. Marshy’s distinctive style and untamed strength guides the reader in an electrifying high-wire act through the inner lives of refugees, queers in love and grief, wives, workers, and so many others fighting their way out from under. Beautifully cohesive across a stunning depth and range of setting and subject, no one is innocent in My Thievery of the People. https://www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/my-thievery-of-the-people/

5/18 #SmallPress #books #BookSky #DSPBposts 💙📚 @haikuboxer.bsky.social @suegoyette.bsky.social @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ‪‪@danilabotha.bsky.social @acornpress.bsky.social @judithgraves.bsky.social

Owl Promoting children's and YA books by Canadian authors and illustrators

When a child finally meets a barred owl only his grandfather has ever seen, it's a wondrous connection. OWL by Kara Griffin, illus. by K. Shawn Larson from @acornpress.bsky.social Thanks for sharing @nimbuspub.bsky.social Great for #STEM too canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2025/12/owl.... 👍🇨🇦📚

This Wednesday!

You're invited to a virtual reading with award-winning fiction author Susan White.

Register via Eventbrite to join us - it's free!

August 20th
7-8pm (Atlantic time)

#acornpress #authorreading #readatlantic #lgbtqliterature #historicalfictionnovel

Really enjoyed the performance of "The Creator's Plan" this afternoon at The Mack. Really beautiful work. @confederationcentre.com

Top half: 5 actors portraying a rabbit, a bear, a raccoon, an owl, and a deer | the creator's plan | dark stage with actors holding glowing moons Written by Richard Pellissier-Lush and produced in collaboration with The Mi’kmaq Heritage Actors. Please note that smudging/light smoke is an integral part of this show. *No performance on July 28. Performances between July 29 and August 1 will take place in Memorial Hall. The 2025 Charlottetown Festival is presented by Cavendish Farms. Developed with support from TD Ready Commitment. Photos by Simon Reid.

Actors on a stage portraying a rabbit, an owl, a raccoon, a deer, and a bear. The owl is drumming with a traditional Indigenous drum.

Six actors from The Creator's Plan on a stage, all with drums.

Two female actors in The Creator's Plan performing and portraying a smudging ceremony

Meet Owl, Rabbit, Bear, Raccoon and Deer, the woodland creatures featured in 🦉THE CREATOR'S PLAN. This interactive lunchtime show for children and families is about identity and self esteem. Entry is by donation.

📆 Monday-Friday @ noon until Aug 1
📍The Mack
➡️ confederationcentre.com/event/the-cr...

If you're on the Island, don't miss this performance based on The Creator's Plan, a picture book by Richard Pellissier-Lush, illustrated by Jessica Jerome, and published by us last fall.

Book: Kira’s Secret
Author: Orysia Dawydiak
Publisher: Acorn Press @digitallylit.bsky.social @robinseggsblue.bsky.social @acornpress.bsky.social

Book cover for Wrestling with Cadence: Essays on Writing and Intuition by Dennis Lee (Stonehewer), a writing craft book by the author of Civil Elegies and Alligator Pie. Title text on a solid blue background, with a music staff with regularly-spaced black dots and one white x where one missing dot should be. https://www.stonehewerbooks.com/upcoming

Book cover for Cheer by Laura Doyle Péan (Les Éditions de la Bagnole), a book of poems in French, with the word CHEER in white faded university-font against a solid blue background. https://editionslabagnole.groupelivre.com/products/cheer

Book cover for Dinosaurs of the Arctic by Dana Hopkins, illustrated by Aaron Edzerza, for ages 6-8 (Inhabit Media) https://inhabiteducationbooks.com/collections/nunavummi-reading-series/products/dinosaurs-of-the-arctic

Book cover for the children's picture book Follow the Goose Butt to Prince Edward Island by Beth Weatherbee, Colleen Landry, and Odette Barr (Acorn Press) with a goose wearing ca.1945 aviator shades and a white scarf flying over Confederation Bridge. https://www.acornpresscanada.com/store/follow-the-goose-butt-to-prince-edward-island

3/8 #SmallPress #books #BookSky #DSPBposts 💙📚 @acornpress.bsky.social

Book cover for Threshold: Stories by Carol Bruneau (Vagrant Press/Nimbus Publishing), with a vibrant painting of lupins and flowers lining an oceanside path. Nominated for the 2025 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. Contemporary short story collection exploring privilege, perspective, and contradiction from the celebrated author of Brighten the Corner Where You Are and A Bird on Every Tree. https://nimbus.ca/store/threshold.html

Book cover for children's book The Sandcastle That Jack Built by Judith Graves‬, illustrated by Maurice Bernard (The Acorn Press) with a boy in a backwards baseball hat building a sandcastle by the ocean. At once familiar and fresh, The Sandcastle that Jack Built is a lyrical and playful version of the traditional nursery rhyme. In this updated classic, Judith Graves’s beautiful text is perfectly accompanied by rich, vivid illustrations from renowned Island artist and sandcastle sculptor, Maurice Bernard. https://www.acornpresscanada.com/store/the-sandcastle-that-jack-built

4/10 Threshold: Stories by Carol Bruneau @cbruneau83.bsky.social (Vagrant Press/Nimbus Publishing @nimbuspub.bsky.social) & The Sandcastle That Jack Built by @judithgraves.bsky.social, illustrated by Maurice Bernard (@acornpress.bsky.social)

See alt-text! #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #CanadaDay

Join us to celebrate the release of Linda Stewart’s new novel Place of Miracles!

Date: Sunday, June 8th
Time: 2 - 4pm
Location: Plough the Waves Hall, Wood Islands Welcome Centre
13056 Shore Road, Wood Islands, PE
@lindajstewart.bsky.social #readatlantic #acornpress

Announcing THE SANDCASTLE THAT JACK BUILT, written by Judith Graves and illustrated by renowned Island artist Maurice Bernard. Part of Summerside's ARTS FEST 2025, organized by Wyatt Heritage Properties.

Tuesday, June 10
Lefurgey Cultural Centre
Time: 1pm – 2pm
@judithgraves.bsky.social #booklaunch

Hi - sharing news about our seasonal store opening in June!
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Sassy Lassie Vintage: Sassy, Classy, and a Little Badassy

Offering books, art, and vintage decor.

OPEN: WED - SAT
JUNE - AUGUST
11 - 4РМ
Albany, Prince Edward Island

It’s a busy book year for me and I’m super excited for my upcoming (Fall 2025) picture book release with @acornpress.bsky.social THINGS THAT STINK! This one is informative and stinking cute. Lol #kidlit #readatlantic #canscaip #picturebookseh #scbwicanadaeast

Book cover for the children's picture book Follow the Goose Butt to Prince Edward Island by Beth Weatherbee, Colleen Landry, and Odette Barr (Acorn Press) with a goose wearing ca.1945 aviator shades and a white scarf flying over Confederation Bridge. https://www.acornpresscanada.com/store/follow-the-goose-butt-to-prince-edward-island

Daily #SmallPress #books #DSPBposts: Follow the Goose Butt to Prince Edward Island by Beth Weatherbee, Colleen Landry, and Odette Barr (@acornpress.bsky.social) www.acornpresscanada.com/store/follow...

📚 Canadian small press hat-trick #2 📚 Under the fold, Canadian island small presses Acorn Press, Orca Book Publishers, and Stonehewer Books.

-and- 2. www.metafilter.com/208582/-Cana... on @acornpress.bsky.social, @orcabook.bsky.social, and Stonehewer Books.

#Booksky 💙📚 2/7

Hello Bluesky! I'm a Canadian author who loves all things feminist, fantastical, and folkloric. And books, books, more books.

The Globe and Mail has a list of "Six Canadian mysteries you won't want to put down" and A SEA OF SPECTRES by @nancymltaber is featured alongside other killer reads.

Watch for details on Nancy's next book, A Cove of Witches, releasing in 2026. #readatlantic #nancytaber #acornpress

If you’ve been having big feels lately…you’re not alone. The proof is in the wisdom and hope found in the words of our poets. Here’s to Poetry Month and to those who feed our souls with words from the depths their own. #readatlantic #peipoetry #poetrylovers #canadianpoetry #acornpress

Watch for six amazing Acorn Press titles being featured in PEI Living Magazine's upcoming Women in Business issue. Both Acorn Press and PEI Living Magazine are Canadian, female-owned and operated. Whoot!
#readatlantic #canadianpublishing #womeninspiringwomen #princeedwardisland #shoplocalcanada

Poster for event with author Deirdre Kessler holding a small animal, as well as three of her book covers, Darwin's Hornpipe, Afternoon Horses, and Lobster in my Pocket.

"Mark your calendars! Bookmark is excited to be celebrating Deirdre Kessler’s contributions to the PEI literary community on Thursday, March 20th at 7 pm at the UPEI. Admission is free & everyone is welcome."

#canadianauthors #readatlanticcanadianauthors #readatlantic #deirdrekessler #bookmarkPEI

Youth Book Reviews | Digitally Lit

Did you know? The Digitally Lit Youth Ambassadors are sharing their book reviews on the Digitally Lit website—and you can join too! 📚 Whether you're looking for your next great read or want to add your own review, check it out today: www.digitallylit.ca/book-reviews
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The 2025 Freedom to Read Week poster depicting an illustrated bee foraging flowers that look to be made from pages of books.

It's Freedom to Read Week in Canada and we support the intellectual freedom of authors, illustrators, journalists, publishers...and the right of readers to have access to their works.

Find out more: www.freedomtoread.ca

Hardship and Regret with a Silver Lining: Such a Winter’s Day by Susan White Reviewed by Laura Patterson

“White’s characters are real people that you pass every day on the street.” A review of the latest novel from Susan White, published by @acornpress.bsky.social www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/such-a-win...

Book: The Creator's Plan by Jessica Jerome Artwork & Richard Pellissier-Lush #PEIAuthor #CanLit tidewaterbooks

Today's Featured #CanLit #KidLit in-store is 'The Creator's Plan' by Jessica Jerome Artwork & Richard Pellissier-Lush (#PEIAuthor!) Beautiful & Loving! 💕🇨🇦📚

tidewaterbooks.ca #IndieBookstoreCA #ShopSmall #ThankYouForShopingLocal #Fallinlovewithlocal #SmallBusinessEveryDay @acornpress.bsky.social

Such a Winter's Day book standing upright on a wood crate with a brick wall blurred in the background.

Support Canadian authors and publishers you LOVE by simply reading their books. Like this one of ours…

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Read Canadian.
Your lives. Your stories. Our books.
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The Creator's Plan book standing upright on a wood crate with a brick wall background.

Support Canadian authors and publishers by simply reading their books. Like this one of ours…

The Creator's Plan - words by Richard Pellissier-Lush and art by Jessica Jerome

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Read Canadian.
Your lives. Your stories. Our books.
#readatlantic #acornpress #canlit #kidlit #booksforkids #mikmaq