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Joanne Merriam
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Kjipuktuk|Halifax (formerly Tsalaguwetiyi|Nashville). Inventor #DSPBposts. Small press, murals, 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 poli. I turn tea into words: novel AETHER AND EGO (Inanna, fall 2026). Sign up for my newsletter at https://joannemerriam.com.
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Do you have a website? All I can find is the Penguin Signal imprint and the UK journal The Signal House Edition. :(
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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2/2 Should have done this for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation but I didn't have a job. (Just started at a new position on Friday!) Join me by finding your local First Nations community organization and donating. Here's the MNFC donation page: www.mymnfc.com/donation #mikmaki #hrm
Culture-Based Support for Urban Indigenous People - My MNFC
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November 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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We are thrilled to have you! 😊 If you haven't, check out our Indie Author Pop-Up! We're setting up a "bookstore" for indie authors only during the con!

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Vendor Applications - TriCon Halifax
Now open! The TriCon vendor hall will be located at the NSCAD Port Campus at 1107 Marginal Rd. The vendor hall will be open every day of the conference – from 3pm on Friday, May 15th 2026 to 1pm on Su...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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9/9 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @beingkirti.bsky.social ‬@tahasiddiqui.bsky.social @patrickgreaney.bsky.social @mitamahato.bsky.social @the3rdthing.press @ecwpress.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booklovers
Book cover for Arctic Play by Mita Mahato‬ (3rd Thing‬): A drama, a dirge, an expedition log, a series of poetic experiments, a comic book. Mapping an Arctic imaginary of beings and landforms onto a shifting stage of woven and layered papers, Mita Mahato conjures geographic and creative uncertainty as the necessary condition for navigating the climate crisis and its sorrows. https://the3rdthing.press/product/arctic-play/ Book cover for The Dissident Club: Chronicle of a Pakistani Journalist in Exile by Taha Siddiqui & Hubert Maury and translated by David Homel (Arsenal Pulp)‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-Dissident-Club‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ Book cover for An Astonishment of Stars: Stories by Kirti Bhadresa (ECW Press): A beautifully written short story collection that charts the lives of racialized women as they navigate their relationships, aspirations, and the burdens of memory and expectations. https://ecwpress.com/collections/books/products/an-astonishment-of-stars Book cover for Documentary Poetry by Heimrad Bäcker, edited and translated by Patrick Greaney‬ (Winter Editions): Austrian poet and photographer Heimrad Bäcker's essays, collected here along with a selection of his photographs and two of his documentary poems, explore the poetic, philosophical, and political stakes of his investigation into the memory of the Holocaust. https://www.wintereditions.net/product/documentary-poetry/
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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8/9 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @biblioasis.bsky.social @kevingrauke.bsky.social @bullshitlit.bsky.social @stevenlaffoley.bsky.social @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for What’s the Point? An Irreverent History of Point Pleasant Park by Steven Laffoley (Pottersfield Press‬)‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬: Here is a book of history in its most entertaining form: the story of Point Pleasant Park, a unique 190-acre collection of paths, ponds, and port-o-potties; flora, fauna, and fungi; battlements, monuments, and burial mounds all situated at the far south end of Halifax, Nova Scotia. https://nimbus.ca/store/whats-the-point.html Book cover for Yonderites by Kevin Grauke (Bullshit Lit): Kevin Grauke’s collection of short stories set in the made-up town of Yonder, Texas. “What if Sherwood Anderson had been born a century later, in small-town Texas instead of Ohio, raised on Lone Star beer and The Last Picture Show?”-Chris Haven, author of Nesting Habits of Flightless Birds https://www.bullshitlit.com/shop/p/yonderites Book cover for The Pages of the Sea by Anne Hawk (Biblioasis): On a Caribbean island in the mid-1960s, a young girl copes with the heavy cost of migration. When her mother emigrates to England to find work, Wheeler and her older sisters are left to live with their aunts and cousins. She spends most days with her cousin Donelle, knocking about their island community. They know they must address their elders properly and change their shoes after church. And during the long, quiet weeks of Lent, when the absent sound of the radio seems to follow them down the road, they look forward to kite season. But Donelle is just a child, too, and though her sisters look after her with varying levels of patience, Wheeler couldn’t feel more alone. Everyone tells her that soon her mother will send for her, but how much longer will it be? And as she does her best to navigate the tensions between her aunts, why does it feel like there’s no one looking out for her at all? Shortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize in Fiction. https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction/novel/the-pages-of-the-sea/ Book cover for Eros and Revolution by George Katsiaficas (Black Rose Books): Tying his intellectual concerns to social movements in South Korea, Germany and dozens of countries, historian and social theorist George Katsiaficas traces the evolution of history from the global eruption of 1968 and the Black Panther Party to the 1980 Gwangju Uprising and Occupy Wall Street. His theory of the Eros effect helps us to understand social movements as a logical unfolding of the practice of thousands if not millions of people as they rise up to change their lives. https://blackrosebooks.com/collections/new-forthcoming/products/b-eros-and-revolution-b-br-george-katsiaficas-br-pre-order
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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7/9 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @leematthewgoldberg.bsky.social @denibechard.bsky.social ‬@houseofanansi.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by Deni Ellis Béchard (House of Anansi)‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬: A haunting novel exploring AI and the meaning of human existence from the award-winning author of Cures for Hunger and Into the Sun. A Millions Most Anticipated Book of 2025. https://houseofanansi.com/products/we-are-dreams-in-the-eternal-machine Book cover for A Watch of Nightingales by Catherine Walker (Inanna): When Emily Carr leaves her restrictive home in Canada to study art in London, England, she longs to prove herself as an artist, trying to carve a path for herself towards financial security. But her dreams don’t receive a warm welcome, as her disapproving English relatives believe that the only respectable path for a woman is marriage. Before Emily can prove the worth of her artistic career, she falls ill and finds herself trapped in a sanatorium, forming an unlikely friendship with Beth, a Florence Nightingale nurse assigned to her care. As a web of intrigue and poisonings tightens around them, Beth and Emily find themselves in a race against time to prevent an attempted murder. https://inanna.ca/product/a-watch-of-nightingales/ Book cover for Time Fixers (Miles In Time Book 2) by Lee Matthew Goldberg (Wise Wolf Books). From the Author of Miles in Time comes the sequel, Time Fixers, where the past holds the key to saving the future.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ Fix the past, save your mom…and don’t fall for the enemy. 15-year-old sleuth Miles Hardy returns to quiet Frontier, Iowa—where cases are scarce and boredom runs deep. But when their mom’s mental health rapidly declines and she’s placed in a care facility, Miles and Simon make an impossible choice to travel back to 1999 to rewrite her fate. But the mission takes a dangerous twist when they discover their grandfather is working for the same ruthless corporation that once hunted the time machine—and he’s still after it. https://wisewolfbooks.com/2025/04/time-fixers-miles-in-time-book-2-by-lee-matthew-goldberg Book cover for Miles In Time by Lee Matthew Goldberg (Wise Wolf Books). Solve the mystery, save the future… 14-year-old Miles Hardy spends most of his time as an amateur Sherlock Holmes and running his detective agency with his good friend and loyal assistant, Kevin. However, in sleepy Frontier, Iowa, it’s been hard to snag a case bigger than finding some old lady’s missing cat—until Miles’ genius older brother, Simon the inventor, winds up dead. Using his knack for uncovering hidden truths, Miles stumbles upon a secret lab where his late brother created a groundbreaking time machine. Among the discoveries is a chilling video Simon recorded before his death, revealing his fear of being followed and a dire warning: if anything happens to him, Miles must use the time machine to uncover who is after the invention and stop them. The stakes couldn’t be higher—if the device falls into the wrong hands, the future itself could be at risk. https://wisewolfbooks.com/2025/03/miles-in-time-miles-in-time-book-1-by-lee-matthew-goldberg‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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6/9 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @dzshaw.bsky.social @kersplebedeb.bsky.social @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social @akpress.org @gmbchomichuk.bsky.social @ariel-gordon.bsky.social @greatplainspress.bsky.social @jakeswanwriter.bsky.social @galleon-books.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish
Book cover for Blood Letters by GMB Chomichuk and Ariel Gordon (Great Plains): When your entire family is caught up in a world war with flesh-eating fog and robotic monstrosities, the only question that matters is: what are you willing to do to survive? https://greatplainspress.ca/books/blood-letters/ Book cover for Loving Corrections by adrienne maree brown (AK Press): New York Times-bestselling author adrienne maree brown knows we need each other more than ever, and offers "loving corrections": a roadmap towards collective power, righting wrongs, and true belonging. https://www.akpress.org/loving-corrections.html Book cover for Grantrepreneurs by Jake Swan (Galleon Books): Nick, a young physician disillusioned with clinical work, moves from small province New Brunswick to big city Vancouver to take a research position with a medical startup, A.I. Plus Womxn’s Health Solutions. Nick quickly finds himself working in the company of “Grantrepreneurs” – rogues of the business world who have created a financing model based entirely on the exploitation of public grant and subsidy programs. https://galleonbooks.ca/our-list/ Book cover for Genealogies of Antifascism: Militancy, Critique, and the Three Way Fight by D.Z. Shaw (Kersplebedeb Publishing): Learning from the past to build a revolutionary antifascism for the present and future. https://kersplebedeb.com/posts/new-book-genealogies-of-antifascism-militancy-critique-the-three-way-fight/
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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5/9 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @jenwinsorauthor.bsky.social @genderhorizon.com @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social @commonnotions.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for the memoir Ship Moms by Jen Winsor (Breakwater Books). Lust, love, and pregnancy—hidden from the luxury and leisure of cruise ships, the lives of crew members play out below deck. Ship Moms is a collection of these beautiful, complicated, behind-the-scenes true stories of crew members and the babies they brought into the world. https://breakwaterbooks.com/products/ship-moms Book cover for Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 by M. E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi (Common Notions). By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse. https://www.commonnotions.org/everything-for-everyone Book cover for Midway: Poems by Kayla Czaga, a finalist for the 2025 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (House of Anansi). Honest, elegiac, characteristically strange, and frequently funny, Midway is an exploration of grief in all its manifestations. https://houseofanansi.com/products/midway Book cover for The Seaweed Blanket by Nancy Deas and illustrated by Mike Deas (Red Deer Press). When Maren and her younger sister visit lonely Aunt Pearl, they long to play in the sea but their aunt keeps them too busy until the dog accidentally gets out and a chase ensues. https://www.reddeerpress.com/Detail/0889957614
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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4/9 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @caitlinpress.bsky.social @nicolebreit.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for Bloom: Letters on Girlhood by authors Nicole Breit & Claire Sicherman (Caitlin Press), a timely memoir exploring how societal expectations shape identity, and how we can continue, at any age, to release the past. https://caitlinpress.com/Books/B/Bloom Book cover for I Make My Own Fun by Hannah Beer (which The Daily Mail called "a dark, crazed reversal of Notting Hill") (House of Anansi). The sinister side of celebrity fandom is inverted in this razor-sharp debut following the descent of the world’s most beloved movie star into a dark and disastrous obsession—perfect for readers of You and My Sister, the Serial Killer.  https://houseofanansi.com/products/i-make-my-own-fun Book cover for Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems by Fariha Róisín (Andrews McMeel Publishing). In the powerful follow up to her critically acclaimed debut collection, poet and activist Fariha Róisín is writing, praying, clawing, and scratching her way out of the grips of generational trauma on the search for the freedom her mother never received and the kindness she couldn’t give. https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/survival-takes-a-wild-imagination-poems/ Book cover for Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through: an essay by T. Fleischmann (Coffee House Press). How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s artworks—piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles—as a path through questions of love and loss, violence and rejuvenation, gender and sexuality. https://coffeehousepress.org/products/time-is-the-thing-a-body-moves-through
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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3/9 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @elainemwill.bsky.social @renegadeartsent.bsky.social @lanashupeauthor.bsky.social @teganthomas.bsky.social @nimbuspub.bsky.social @lydiconklin.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social @suecurrie24.bsky.social @commondeerpress.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish
Book cover for Songs of No Provenance by Lydi Conklin (Catapult). Joan Vole, an indie folk singer forever teetering on the edge of fame, flees New York after committing a shocking sexual act onstage that she fears will doom her career. Joan seeks refuge at a writing camp for teenagers in rural Virginia, where she’s forced to question her own toxic relationship to artmaking—and her complicated history with a friend and mentee—while finding new hope in her students and a deepening intimacy with a nonbinary artist and fellow camp staff member. https://books.catapult.co/books/songs-of-no-provenance/ Book cover for The Book Witch, the Wee White Dog, and the Little Free Library by Lana Shupe, ill. by Tegan Thomas (Nimbus). After travelling the world and collecting books from every country, the Book Witch is now settled at home with her wee white dog. She spends her days reading, surrounded by piles and piles of books. Life is good. Until one stormy day when a massive gust of wind blows a pile of heavy books over, landing on the Wee White Dog’s tail! Something must be done before tragedy strikes again. What can the Book Witch do with all these books? https://nimbus.ca/store/the-book-witch-the-wee-white-dog-and-the-little-free-library.html Book cover for The Last Band on Earth by author and illustrator Elaine M. Will (Renegade Arts). A dystopian horror story about music and mental illness. Nat and her bandmates in The Dead Layaways want to go on tour, but the demonic entities who run their city have other idea, not to mention the dark cloud that hangs over everything stifles their creativity. This ruined place is not their home, and they have no idea how they ended up here, or where “home” even is. Is there really nothing but endless wasteland beyond the city limits, as the demons claim? https://renegadeartsentertainment.com/product/the-last-band-on-earth/# Book cover for Fierce Voice by Susan Currie (Common Deer Press). Iz has everything she's ever wanted: she’s found the foster home of her dreams and is attending the prestigious music school she moved heaven and earth to get into. But secrets from her past keep threatening to spill into the present, and Iz is sure that her newfound loved ones will abandon her if they learn of her terrible history. Fierce Voice is the sequel to the White Pine Award nominee Iz the Apocaylpse. https://www.commondeerpress.com/books-1/fierce-voice
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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2/9 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @theotherali.bsky.social @inhabitmedia.bsky.social @adambunch.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social @sclly21.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for The Haunted Blizzard by Aviaq Johnston (Inhabit Media). A teenage girl walks home in a burgeoning blizzard, happy to have an unexpected snow day. Ignoring an Elder’s warning about the terror the blizzard holds, she finds herself alone in her home with an unseen presence stalking and tormenting her. What does it want? And will she survive? https://inhabitmedia.com/2025/04/16/the-haunted-blizzard/ Book cover for The Toronto Book Of The Dead by Adam Bunch (Dundurn Press). Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459738065-the-toronto-book-of-the-dead Book cover for The Monsters Are Here by Lori D'Angelo (ELJ Editions). Thirty stories which can be described as Kelly Link meets Bram Stoker and Nathaniel Hawthorne in a forest or an alternative universe with aliens. https://elj-editions.com/the-monsters-are-here/ Book cover for Tiri Is Scared of the Dark by Nadia Sammurtok and Rachel Rupke, illustrated by Ali Hinch (Inhabit Media). Tiri has a secret: he is scared of the dark. He doesn’t want anyone to find out, but as he spends the day with his friends, he learns they are each scared of something, too. Tuktu is scared of heights. Ukaliq is scared of swimming in deep water. Will Tiri be able to open up and face his own fear? See how the friends learn to support one another. https://inhabiteducationbooks.com/collections/arvaaq-books/products/tiri-is-scared-of-the-dark
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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joannemerriam.bsky.social Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · Oct 23
Day 2 of the new mural! I didn't get a time-lapse of day 1. #LivingRoomMural
November 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM