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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

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Jonathan Dunphy @hamiltonandhockey.bsky.social · Jul 9

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

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Confederation Centre of the Arts @confederationcentre.com · Jul 11

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...

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

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · Jul 13

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.

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thebookishworm.bsky.social @thebookishworm.bsky.social · May 27

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

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · May 31

3/8 #SmallPress #books #BookSky #DSPBposts 💙📚 @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

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · Jul 1

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

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

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · May 25

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

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · May 21

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

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Sassy Lassie Vintage @sassylassievintage.bsky.social · May 12

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

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Judith Graves @judithgraves.bsky.social · May 13

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

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · May 14

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...

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · Apr 29

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

#Booksky 💙📚 2/7

📚 Canadian small press hat-trick #2 📚

Under the fold, Canadian island small presses Acorn Press, Orca Book Publishers, and Stonehewer Books.

www.metafilter.com

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Nancy Taber @nancymltaber.bsky.social · Apr 12

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

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · Apr 12

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

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · Apr 10

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

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · Mar 11

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

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · Feb 28

"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

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.

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Digitally Lit @digitallylit.bsky.social · Feb 26

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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Youth Book Reviews | Digitally Lit

www.digitallylit.ca

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · Feb 26

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

The 2025 Freedom to Read Week poster depicting an illustrated bee foraging flowers that look to be made from pages of books.

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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · Feb 14

“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...

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

Reviewed by Laura Patterson

www.theseaboardreview.ca

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Tidewater Books & Browsery @tidewaterbooks.bsky.social · Feb 18

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

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

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Uncle Rico Dynamite @unclericodynamite.bsky.social · Feb 13

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · Feb 14

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.
www.acornpress.com
#readatlantic #acornpress #supportlocal #canlit #historicalfiction #lgbtq🌈

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

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Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social · Feb 10

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

The Creator's Plan book standing upright on a wood crate with a brick wall background.

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