Pownal Street Press

06/16/2026

Publisher dreams do come true. 🏴‍☠️
When Mo and Gen started Pownal Street Press, a lot of things felt possible. Publishing a Phoebe Gilman book was not on the list. And yet, here we are.
It is a genuine honour to bring Pirate Pearl back into the world — a new edition of a timeless classic from one of Canada’s most beloved children’s authors. If Jillian Jiggs has a place on your shelf, make room for Pearl. Phoebe’s bold, big-hearted pirate girl sails the seven seas stealing treasure only to give it away just as fast. Irresistible illustrations, a girl who does things her own way, and a heart as big as the ocean.
Pirate Pearl is available now at your local bookstore, or pick up a copy in person at The Chocolate Chicken in Charlottetown — Phoebe’s gallery .gilman

06/16/2026

✍🏼** PEI Writers & Creators** ✍🏼

📚Pownal Street Press is rooted in Prince Edward Island. We believe in the importance of local literary culture — and the writers who shape it. Will you join us on the bookshelf?

📝We are seeking original nonfiction work, collections of poetry and prose, or books for children.

📢💟 We are a social purpose publisher: we exist to rise give to brave stories, and to be a voice for community and connection.

🪻Please read our full guidelines on our website. Accepting submissions until the end of lupin season (that’s June, obviously;)

06/06/2026

06/02/2026

🪴Welcome All New Followers🪴

✨  We are Gen and Mo, and we are happy to share a little about our publishing biz with you today. In 2021, we started our journey together as co-founders of Pownal Street Press. Gen is the 🤓Publisher: she focuses on production, marketing and sales.  As the 📝 Editorial Director 📝, I work with authors on creative process, strategic direction of their manuscripts — and of course, making sure that authors are ready to meet their moment! ✨

🎉 Pownal Street Press is a purpose driven publisher. We exist to tell brave stories, and to be a light for community and connection. We love the messy middle, astrology, and pizza parties on Friday nights with the 5 children that we are raising between us (let’s be real, they’re raising us!) 🍕

All this month , we are doing a traditional call for submissions.  If you have a manuscript that is ready to be shared with the world, we are here for it! Bring us work in three of our main genres: nonfiction, poetry and kids.

✨ How to Submit ✨ Take a minute to read our submission guidelines (link in bio)  to ensure your work is a good fit for our press (as in, do you love astrology and pizza too?) If so, email your completed manuscript to [email protected] with the subject line “Traditional:[genre]”.

Looking forward to meeting you, on and off the page!

Sincerely, Gen and Mo

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05/22/2026

✨ TRADITIONAL SUBMISSIONS OPEN JUNE 1 ✨

Come grow with us! Pownal Street Press is opening submissions once again for nonfiction and children’s picture books — and we’re looking for brave stories. 🌿

We’re currently seeking: memoirs & narrative nonfiction, poetry collections, meaningful children’s books, fresh perspectives and untold stories

Stories that celebrate:
📖 culture
📖 relationships
📖 connection to land & community
📖 identity, personhood & self-realization
📖 creativity, transformation & the human experience

Especially on our wish list:
✨ travel writing
✨ motherhood & neurodivergent parenting memoirs
✨ spiritual awakening & yoga philosophy
✨ experimental poetry
✨ children’s stories about being self-development and being yourself

🚫 No AI-generated manuscripts or illustrations
🚫 No anthropomorphic children’s books at this time

Submissions open June 1-30th, 2026.
Details + guidelines at the link in bio. ✨

.kw.loughlin .mo.duff

05/22/2026

✨ TRADITIONAL SUBMISSIONS OPEN JUNE 1 ✨

Come grow with us! Pownal Street Press is opening submissions once again for nonfiction and children’s picture books — and we’re looking for brave stories. 🌿

We’re currently seeking: memoirs & narrative nonfiction, poetry collections, meaningful children’s books, fresh perspectives and untold stories

Stories that celebrate:
📖 culture
📖 relationships
📖 connection to land & community
📖 identity, personhood & self-realization
📖 creativity, transformation & the human experience

Especially on our wish list:
✨ travel writing
✨ motherhood & neurodivergent parenting memoirs
✨ spiritual awakening & yoga philosophy
✨ experimental poetry
✨ children’s stories about being self-development and being yourself

🚫 No AI-generated manuscripts or illustrations
🚫 No anthropomorphic children’s books at this time

Submissions open June 1-30th, 2026.
Details + guidelines at the link in bio. ✨
Header art by Claire Victoria Art + Illustration

PSP is excited to open our doors once again to traditional submissions this June. When selecting new titles for our traditional stream, our publishing mandate is to focus on stories that celebrate diversity in culture and relationships that connect people to the land, and tie us closer to our commun...

05/21/2026

🏆 Big news from Pownal Street Press 🏆

Kindling Hope: Daily Passages from Darkness into Light by Zhen-Ru has won two awards at the 38th annual IBPA Book Awards — recognized in both the Poetry and Inspirational categories.

A huge congratulations to author Zhen-Ru and translators Amrita Translation Foundation and Kacy Lin. This collection of meditative passages from the renowned Buddhist teacher is a daily companion in insight, kindness, and forgiveness — a reminder that we have the potential to grow beyond our greatest aspirations.

Our thanks to the community and the 170+ judges who champion the very best of independent publishing. To be honoured among such company is a real gift to our small press.

📖 Kindling Hope is available wherever books are sold.

🔗 Full announcement at the link in bio