Coming Soon...STUCK BUMBLEBEE Poetry Challenge.
7 days of poetry prompts, poetry tips,& prizes offered by the poets themselves! Register April 13th
Write 7 poems in 7 days! Hosted by me and @jpuglow.bsky.social Subscribe to Joyce's Substack for daily posts.
Details: www.booksbycindy.com/poetry
First review! 🦕🦖
I can’t wait for this workshop! Thanks for hosting, @corkworldbookfest.bsky.social!
#GIVEAWAY
To celebrate the launch of #PictureBooksEh 2026, we’re giving away 4 manuscript crits & many PBs! Details on website below. To enter:
1. Follow @picturebookseh.bsky.social
2. Like + repost this post (extra entry for tagging a friend)
3. Winners announced Mar. 27 at 9 am #kidlit #cankidlit
Rallies are being held…voices are needed. Let’s reverse the arts and culture cuts made in Nova Scotia.
Arts and culture in Nova Scotia left reeling from 'unprecedented' cuts www.halifaxexaminer.ca/arts-and-cul...
Arts and culture in Nova Scotia left reeling from ‘unprecedented’ cuts
By @philmoscovitch.bsky.social
Large text reads “KidLit & YA Book Launches Nov. 17-23, 2025.” Smaller text says “Is your book launching this week? Reply to this thread with info and a link to your Bluesky post.” Bottom line reads “Bluesky launch thread 2025-Wk47 created by @debbieohi.com #KidLit #PublicationDay #BookBirthday.” Bright graphic background shows confetti, ribbons, and candies.
Promo graphic for KidLit Launches threads. Illustration shows multiple hands of different skin tones holding up an open book with a pink heart above it. Text below reads “#KidLitLaunches” with art credit to debbieohi.com.
Weekly #KidLitLaunches thread: Do you have a #KidLit or #YALit book launching this wk? Or do you want to help boost someone else's #PublicationDay #BookBirthday? Reply below with info + link to the post.
Only for books launching Nov.17-23, 2025 #2025-Wk47 (see below for other launch threads).
A few fall pieces I finished recently…
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
I knew creating this book/art/vintagy space would be a fun challenge, but it’s become the very best kind of soul food. If you’re in PEI, check us out: @sassylassievintage.bsky.social
New on #Bibliovideo! See all the highlights of Canadian Children's Book Week 2025.
Watch: youtu.be/P9Qt-dbYlhE
Thanks for sharing!
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
On a red background, we see the gutsywalk.ca and crohn's & colitis logos, the book Kenzie's Little Tree by Alison McGauley & Emilie Leduc, a picture of Alison's Gutsy Walk page and the text, "Order KENZIE'S LITTLE TREE at alisonmcgauley.com. ALL profits go to Crohn's & Colitis Canada. Donate to my walk at gutsywalk.ca. Thank you."
Please sponsor my Gutsy Walk to help find a cure for #IBD
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Please purchase a copy of KENZIE’S LITTLE TREE (ppl in KW / Cambridge area) through my website with ALL profits going to Crohn’s & Colitis CAN: www.alisonmcgauley.com/contact
#kidlit
Thanks, Karen!
Posted @withregram @cbcbooks
Check out this list of Canadian books for children and teenagers to read this summer — and listen to The Next Chapter’s kids panel of CBC Books producer Lucy Mann lucyalicemann and Canadian author and podcaster Bee Quammie @beequammie who highlight a few of their faves!
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
Thanks for sharing!
Check out all the fun activities at the Arts Fest! Like my book launch with Maurice Bernard for The Sandcastle that Jack Built. Tomorrow, June 10, 1-2pm at the Lefurgey Cultural Centre! #sassylassievintage #ReadAtlantic #booklaunch #kidlit #picturebooks
The lovely Miss Winter who looks amazing in the almost-summer-golden-hour sun. #mybffhaspaws
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
It's almost book launch party time! THE SANDCASTLE THAT JACK BUILT is having its birthday party as part of the Summerside ARTS FEST 2025.
June 10
1-2pm
Lefurgey Cultural Centre
Summerside, PE
I know it's a Tuesday afternoon, but...take a beach day with us! 📕🏖️😎
@picturebookseh.bsky.social
