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Joanne Merriam
@joannemerriam.bsky.social
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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Reminder: #bookish folks, starter packs for small press:
* Canadian: go.bsky.app/D4YKenp * USA: go.bsky.app/S4HKBuC * Rest of world: go.bsky.app/S5N1WAY * Academic: go.bsky.app/EoXRRgy * plus, #Writers' orgs: go.bsky.app/2uiSCde aaand I post #SmallPress #books under #DSPBposts. 📚🌍 🌈📚 #Booksky 💙📚 🪐📚
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: two from yesterday's #Metafilter post: www.metafilter.com/211014/Books...: All-Negro Comics (@imagecomics.com) imagecomics.com/comics/relea... & Feasts of Good Fortune (Sasquatch Books): sasquatchbooks.com/books/feasts...
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish See alt-text.
November 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Jackal, Jackal by @tobiogundiran.com ‬(@undertow.bsky.social): undertowpublications.com/shop/jackal-... & Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa, trans. Jennifer Feeley (@feministpress.bsky.social): feministpress.org/products/978... Alt-text=details. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Miles In Time & Time Fixers (MIT2) by @leematthewgoldberg.bsky.social (Wise Wolf Books): wisewolfbooks.com/2025/03/mile... & wisewolfbooks.com/2025/04/time... See alt-text for descriptions.

#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Getting in gear to become just insufferable about Halifax food and used bookstores leading up to @tricon-hfx.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Reposted by Joanne Merriam
What kind of programming will you find at TriCon? All kinds of stuff, like the Blue Pencil Cafe!

Sign up for a 1-on-1 session with an editor! Spaces are limited, & sign-ups open December 22nd!

Featuring @englelaird.bsky.social, @mythaxis.bsky.social, and @heartlines-spec.com, with more to come!
November 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Late in the day daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: two CBC Massey Lectures through @houseofanansi.bsky.social: @astra.bsky.social’s The Age of Insecurity & @alexneve.bsky.social’s Universal: houseofanansi.com/collections/...

#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Just received in the post: my poem “Signal Flares” is in this issue. #BlueUnicorn #poetry #poetrycommunity
November 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Reposted by Joanne Merriam
Thank you for including Fierce Voice by @suecurrie24.bsky.social 👏
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This is a bop!
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
1/6... I've fallen behind on the #DSPBposts books I planned to feature, as I've been moving and spackling and painting and unpacking and such. (Also finishing edits for Aether and Ego!) So here's a bunch of #SmallPress #books to check out.

💙📚 #BookSky #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish
November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
1/2... A few spooky daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Book Witch... by @lanashupeauthor.bsky.social, ill. @teganthomas.bsky.social (@nimbuspub.bsky.social) & The Last Band on Earth by @elainemwill.bsky.social (@renegadeartsent.bsky.social).

#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
October 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Reposted by Joanne Merriam
Vendor applications are now open for TriCon 2026!

We are looking for vendors showcasing anything that writers might love!Applications will be open until February 1st.

PLEASE READ our policies before applying. We have separate opportunities for Indie Authors!

tricon-halifax.com/vendors/
October 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Reposted by Joanne Merriam
I’m grateful for this re-anthologizing, even if the poem Joanne selected for me is ANCIENT.
1/27... Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Best Canadian Stories 2026 (selected by Zsuzsi Gartner) and Poetry (Mary Dalton), both @biblioasis.bsky.social - and a thread of writing online by some of the folks in these anthologies (although mostly not the pieces in the anthologies). #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
October 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
1/27... Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Best Canadian Stories 2026 (selected by Zsuzsi Gartner) and Poetry (Mary Dalton), both @biblioasis.bsky.social - and a thread of writing online by some of the folks in these anthologies (although mostly not the pieces in the anthologies). #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Arctic Play by @mitamahato.bsky.social (@the3rdthing.press) the3rdthing.press/product/arct... & Documentary Poetry by Heimrad Bäcker, ed/trans @patrickgreaney.bsky.social (Winter Editions) www.wintereditions.net/product/docu... #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
October 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I voted! (U.S. House District 7 special election: ballotpedia.org/Tennessee%27...) Go @aftynbehn.bsky.social #Hopium #vote #voting
October 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: A Watch of Nightingales by Catherine Walker (Inanna) inanna.ca/product/a-wa... & We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by @denibechard.bsky.social (@houseofanansi.bsky.social)‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ houseofanansi.com/products/we-... #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
October 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Reposted by Joanne Merriam
CanCon is a lovely literary conference in Ottawa (or Kanata, greater Ottawa), very friendly, and TriCon in Halifax is going to be similar with the added bonus of being in my part of the country. Why not come?
October 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
October 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Day 2 of the new mural! I didn't get a time-lapse of day 1. #LivingRoomMural
October 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is very sad.
With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.
October 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM