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THE ACORN PRESS is based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada and is the Island's longest-running traditional publishing house. We specialize in stories that have PEI interest and global appeal. https://www.acornpresscanada.com/
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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
August 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Really enjoyed the performance of "The Creator's Plan" this afternoon at The Mack. Really beautiful work. @confederationcentre.com
July 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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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
July 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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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.
July 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Book: Kira’s Secret
Author: Orysia Dawydiak
Publisher: Acorn Press @digitallylit.bsky.social @robinseggsblue.bsky.social @acornpress.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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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
May 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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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)

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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
July 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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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
May 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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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
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May 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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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
May 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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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
May 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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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...
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
May 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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-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.
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April 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Hello Bluesky! I'm a Canadian author who loves all things feminist, fantastical, and folkloric. And books, books, more books.
April 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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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
April 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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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
April 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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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
March 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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"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.
February 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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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
February 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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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.
February 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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“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
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February 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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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
February 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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February 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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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.
February 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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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.
February 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM