Ellie Arscott @elliearscott.bsky.social Illustrator, scenic artist, kid book collector, creator and stationery lover✨
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shelley thompson @shelleyat.bsky.social writer.director.actor. mother.
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Azby Whitecalf @wapimostosis.bsky.social Indigenous Illustrator ~ 27 ~ Painter~ Rainbow Lover~ Workaholic
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Andy Tolson (Author) @andytolson.bsky.social Children's book author 🇨🇦
• How to Kidnap a Mermaid
• How to Rescue a Unicorn
• How to Wrestle a Kraken
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Alex MacAskill @midnightoilalex.bsky.social Midnight Oil Print & Design House is the illustration, screen printing, and graphic design studio of Alex MacAskill.
Kjipuktuk (Halifax), NS, Canada
Grace Kennedy @gracekennwrites.bsky.social West Coast journalist with an East Coast journalism degree
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Words in @fvcurrent.bsky.social, Agassiz-Harrison Observer, North Delta Reporter, Cloverdale Reporter
New book from @nimbuspub.bsky.social coming Spring 2026
NeWest Press @newestpress.bsky.social Publishing Radically Rewarding Literature for Almost Fifty Years 
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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social The Fiddlehead is Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal.
Celebrating 80 years of literary foraging in 2025!
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Quebec Writers' Federation @officialqwf.bsky.social Supporting, connecting, and inspiring Quebec writers
Lyndsay Armstrong @lyndsayarmstrong.bsky.social Reporter-editor with The Canadian Press in Nova Scotia
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Department of History - Western University @westernuhistory.bsky.social Department of History, Western University, Lawson Hall 2201, London, Ontario, Canada #westernu #purpleandproud #ldnont
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Literary Magazines Canada Collective @litmagscan.bsky.social LMCC is a collective organization run by magazine editors and staff. We work to highlight the vital role of literary magazines in the publishing landscape. https://litmags.ca/
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University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social University of Alberta Press is a contemporary, award-winning publisher of scholarly and creative books distinguished by their editorial care, exceptional design, and global reach. https://ualbertapress.ca/
Nature Nova Scotia @naturens.bsky.social We are the federation of nature groups in Nova Scotia. We work to support networking, research, education, and advocacy initiatives for nature. www.naturens.ca
Caitlin Press/Dagger Editions @caitlinpress.bsky.social An independent Canadian publisher based in BC • Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry • Dagger Editions is our imprint for queer women-identifying writers.
Dundurn Press @dundurnpress.bsky.social Books and news from leading Canadian independent publisher, Dundurn Press. Read with us. These are your stories.
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The Kitchen Party @thekitchenparty.bsky.social A (Fictional) Atlantic Canadian Federal Party 🦞🛟🥔🎻
“Come by the hills to a land that’s fancy and free,
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We’ll drop the “Fictional” when we hit 100k followers…
Nova Scotia - What's New? @ns-wn.bsky.social "Nova Scotia - What's New?" is not a media outlet or affiliated with the Government of NS. No journalists/original content. Share open-source info from public channels, don't verify third-party materials. Images auto-added.
Writers In Trees @writersintrees.bsky.social Our goal is to support & empower emerging writers across Canada. Visit our website to learn more. https://writersintrees.com/
Figure 1 Publishing @figure1publishing.bsky.social We're new here, but not to publishing beautiful books👋
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Nocturne: Art at Night @nocturnehalifax.bsky.social Experience Kjipuktuk/Halifax transformed by artists 🌚✨ Nocturne: Embodied City, Curated by Annalise Prodor: Oct 15-18, 2025
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National Media Awards Foundation @canadamediaawards.bsky.social Since 1977, Canada’s 🇨🇦 most prestigious awards programs for magazine and digital publishing communities.
Depuis 1977, les programmes de prix les plus prestigieux du Canada 🇨🇦 pour les communautés de l’édition magazine et numérique.
Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social Sharing news about kids books from international publishers and domestic library and teacher conferences https://www.publisherspotlight.com
Sassy Lassie Vintage @sassylassievintage.bsky.social Sassy Lassie Vintage: Books, Art, Decor. Our seasonal brick-and-mortar shop is opening this spring in Albany, PEI. Items are available for purchase online via our website and Etsy. Our style is sassy, classy, and a little badassy.
TouchWood Editions @touchwooded.bsky.social An indie 🇨🇦 book publisher with a big love of eating, drinking, and diving into 📚 stories that expand and deepen our worldview.
Steve Skafte @steveskafte.bsky.social Ardent explorer of misplaced memories. Uninterrupted daily journal since 2007. These are excerpts from the full posts on Instagram, Facebook, Patreon, and Substack.
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Atlantic Book Awards @atlanticbookawards.bsky.social Celebrating excellence in Atlantic Canadian writing and book publishing!
Helen Creighton Folklore Society @hcreightonsociety.bsky.social The Helen Creighton Folklore Society is named in honour of folklorist Helen Creighton (1899-1989), who collected and published traditional music, stories and lore of Maritime Canada.
Bianca Schulze: The Children's Book Review @tcbrbookreview.bsky.social Founder of The Children's Book Review. Reader-writer-reviewer!
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The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore @thespanielstale.bsky.social Ottawa's proudest indie.
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1131 Wellington Street West, Ottawa.
Nova Scotia NDP @novascotiandp.bsky.social The Nova Scotia New Democratic Party and Official Opposition led by Claudia Chender.
Tidewater Books & Browsery @tidewaterbooks.bsky.social Tidewater Books has been in operation since 1995. Locally-owned and operated, we are Southeastern New Brunswick’s only general trade independent bookseller.
Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
BTPS - Baker & Taylor Publisher Services @btpubservices.bsky.social A leading book distributor of acclaimed indie presses from the US and around the world.
Nicole Munro @nicolemunro.bsky.social Journalist | Deputy managing editor, The Chronicle Herald.
📍Halifax, N.S.
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Canadian Scholars @canadianscholars.bsky.social Publishing independent, thought-provoking Canadian scholarship. https://linktr.ee/canadianscholars
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engl📚 @engl.ca a passion project to highlight Canadian and world literature in a fun way :) #booksky🇨🇦📚
academic deadlines banned in this space ↓
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Lindsay Gloade-Raining Bird @birdykinsreads.bsky.social Book hoarder, kidlit author (Snow Day out now from Nimbus Publishing), sometimes journalist.
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Nora @n0rr1e.bsky.social barista and writer
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Anna Smol @annasmol.bsky.social Professor Emerita Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, with interests in Tolkien Studies, medievalism, Old English, translation studies, fandom. 
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Somewhat Grumpy Press 🇨🇦 @somewhatgrumpypress.com Hybrid publisher founded 2020, in Dartmouth, NS, Canada. Check our catalog - twenty fiction titles available, various genres. https://somewhatgrumpypress.com/
Gaspereau Press @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers
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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social A free e-newsletter from Publishers Weekly that reports on children's and YA books. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/9Ubz9L
Lorri Neilsen Glenn 🇨🇦 @lorri.bsky.social writer (poetry/essays), editor, instructor, researcher, prof emerita, ex-poet laureate, RRMetis #womannotlady #NovaScotia #Ukings #MSVU #CanadaStrong 🇨🇦
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49th Shelf @49thshelf.bsky.social Fuelled by the largest collection of Canadian books ever assembled, 49th Shelf makes it easier to find your next great Canadian read. 
Running the Goat Books @runningthegoat.bsky.social A Newfoundland-based micropress specializing in children's books and letterpress-printed chapbooks.
Visit our bookstore and printshop in Tors Cove.
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Good Dog Books @gooddogbooks.bsky.social Indie bookstore in Bridgewater, NS. We host suggestion nights once a month 📚
Scrivener Creative Review @scrivener1980.bsky.social Scrivener is a literary journal published at McGill University in Montreal, founded in 1980. https://scrivenerreview.com/
Submit to issue 48: http://tinyurl.com/scrivener48.
Fire and Ash Publishers @fandapublishers.bsky.social Fire and Ash is an independent book publisher based in Toronto and Paris specializing in fiction and poetry. We have a taste for the eccentric and the playful, the entertaining and the speculative.
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Meet Us Halfway @meetushalfway.bsky.social Journal of Arts and Culture. Based in Epekwitk, Atlantic Canada.
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Ku'ku'kwes News @kukukwes.bsky.social Independent Indigenous News in Atlantic Canada
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social Official account for APTN News, our stories told our way.
Maureen Googoo (Mali'n Ku'ku'kwes) @mgoogoo.bsky.social Award-winning journalist
L'nu/Mi'kmaw from Sipekne'kati in Mi'kma'ki
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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social Comics and things
CNN @cnn.com Asking the hard questions and bringing unique perspectives from across the globe. This is CNN.
Sara Spike @saraspike.bsky.social Cultural historian of rural communities and coastal environments in Atlantic Canada. The ocean and the woods. Visual cultures. Senses. Fog. Flora.
Adjunct Prof, Dalhousie University.
Executive Committee, NiCHE.
PhD, settler, she/her
https://saraspike.ca
Strange Adventures Comix & Curiosities @strangeadventures.bsky.social Canada's Oddest Comic Bookshops!
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Sal Sawler @salsawler.bsky.social Author | Book Reviewer | Teacher
Books: Written and illustrated by humans.
Posts: Do not represent my employer.
Trident Booksellers & Cafe @tridenthalifax.bsky.social Cafe & Bookshop in Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Paul Hammond, but better @paulghammond.bsky.social Senior Artist at @maxinfernogames.bsky.social
Artist & Illustrator & whatever. (he/him) • NO AI • http://paulghammond.com
Second Story Press @secondstory.bsky.social Publishing diverse, inclusive, feminist books that entertain, educate, and empower. Follow us on Instagram & TikTok: @_secondstory
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Michelle Hébert (she/her) @hfxwordy.bsky.social Preorder "A Good Girl's Guide to Lying: Losing my Memory, Searching for Truth, & Confronting Complex Trauma"at https://linktr.ee/michellehebertwrites | Halifax/Mi'kmaqi
Woozles Children’s Bookstore @woozlesbooks.bsky.social Canada’s oldest children’s bookstore
A Place For & About Children
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https://atlanticbooks.ca/NSloyal
Acorn Press Canada @acornpress.bsky.social 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/
Bryanna Chapeskie @bryannac.bsky.social Freelance graphic designer + artist
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✨Tegan Thomas✨ @teganthomas.bsky.social
🎨 Illustrator & Animator 🇨🇦
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📚 Rep’d by Natascha Morris at The Tobias Literary Agency
On Paper Books @onpaperbooks.bsky.social On Paper Books is a locally owned independent bookstore. Find us at 311 Charlotte Street, Sydney, Unama'ki-Cape Breton.
Another Story Bookshop @anotherstoryto.bsky.social Indie bookstore in Tkatoronto. Radically supporting 2SQTBIPOC writers since 1987
#ownvoices kidlit and YA experts/ founder: Sheila Koffman
315 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto, Ontario M6R 2M6
hosting events throughout GTA
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
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Penguin Random House @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 
Stephens Gerard Malone @sgmalone.bsky.social Canadian novelist 🏳️🌈 🇨🇦 Two Boys in a Yellow Wood, Nimbus/Vagrant Press 2026
Shelf Life Books @shelflifebooks.bsky.social Independent bookstore in Calgary [Moh’kinstsis]. Open 7 days a week. Free local delivery. Dog friendliest. Find good books here. www.shelflifebooks.ca
McNally Robinson Booksellers @mcnallyrobinson.com Canada's largest, most eventful independent bookstore.
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The Wandering Albatross @walbatrossbookshop.bsky.social A tiny indie bookshop in Bloomfield, Ontario, Canada. Translated literature, travel, offbeat history, walking, geography, folklore & other interesting finds.
287 Bloomfield Main St, around the back. Open Friday - Sunday.
www.wanderingalbatrossbooks.com
Books on Beechwood @booksonbeechwood.ca 
Tattletales Books and Toys @tattletalesbooks.bsky.social We specialize in books for infants, toddlers, children, and young adults, along with top-quality resources for educators—all available at our store in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
www.tattletalesbooks.ca
Lunenburg Bound Books @lunenburgbound.bsky.social We are a family owned and operated independent bookshop in E'se'katik (lunenburg) Mi'kma'ki (nova scotia) We are working towards social justice and inclusivity, and trying to make a positive contribution to our community.
The Coast @thecoast.ca The best media outlet for Halifax, Nova Scotia, since 1993. https://www.thecoast.ca
Halifax Examiner @halifaxexaminer.ca Nova Scotia's independent news source.
@halifaxnoise @halifaxnoise.bsky.social the halifax group chat …
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Halifax Regional Municipality @hfxgov.bsky.social Official account for the Halifax Regional Municipality. Not monitored 24/7. Need help? Call 311 or email contactus@311.halifax.ca. Call 911 for emergencies.
Haligonia HRM Halifax News @handle.invalid Haligonia.ca is the largest social media source for news and information in Halifax Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada, with over 900,000 followers across all of our feeds. Hello!
Halifax ReTales @halifaxretales.bsky.social Retail & Restaurant news in HRM. Authentic to a fault Arthur Gaudreau HalifaxReTales@gmail.com sometimes I stray off topic, politics, footy, madness.
@stephenvernon.bsky.social @stephenvernon.bsky.social 
Invisible Books @invisibooks.bsky.social We make books.
Chat Noir Books @chatnoirbooks.bsky.social Indie bookstore in Northern Ontario.
Vancouver Writers Fest @writersfest.bc.ca Connecting people to exceptional books, ideas, and dialogue.
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Nova Scotia Museum @novascotiamuseum.bsky.social Telling Nova Scotia’s extraordinary stories.
Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social Canada's online magazine of book news and reviews. https://quillandquire.com/