New on the Bibliophile: Our publicist Ahmed interviews Ivana Sajko, author of EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE. Also included is a brief video from Ivana as she reads an excerpt from the novel. digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/every-sent...

2 VERY different, but both still VERY Canadian books for you! Sacred Rage: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781771... The Hollow Beast: portersquarebooks.com/book/9781771...

happy 'every time we say goodbye' eve to those who celebrate! #booksky 💙📚

April 15! Garth Martens’ first book since his GG nominated debut—he has travelled a long way. With @biblioasis.bsky.social: www.biblioasis.com/shop/forthco...

New from the Bibliophile: We're back from an eventful trip to Pittsburgh for Winter Institute! Publisher Dan Wells writes on the perils of shipping books, meeting with some excellent booksellers across the border, and more. digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/there-and-...

Some news. I have a new book of poetry out this April with @biblioasis.bsky.social. It's called Who Else in the Dark Headed There.

Today on GET LIT! We talk with Marcello Di Cintio about his book, Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or on pods or here: tinyurl.com/3kj4xk2t @marcellodicintio.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social

Happy pub day to Mark Anthony Jarman's short story collection SMASH & GRAB! A copy of the book has been touring Italy with its author. 🐱

"Some people are closed shells, grey and nondescript on the surface, easily judged, but then there's possibly a glowing core inside that few come to know, sometimes no-one." Jón Kalman Stefánsson (The Sorrow of Angels) translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton @biblioasis.bsky.social

sick with excitement about this one

It's ARC central here at Biblioasis! 📚👀 Our publicists are unboxing advance copies of Richard Kelly Kemick's DECADENCE, Melissa Harrison's THE GIVEN WORLD, David Macfarlane's ON SPORTS, and Jón Kalman Stefánsson's THE HEART OF MAN.

NEWS: BENBECULA by Graeme Macrae Burnet on the longlist for the Highland Book Prize 2025 Congratulations Graeme! 📚 🌑🌕🌑✨ Read more: blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/benbecu...

Surprise - Biblioasis is open for poetry manuscript submissions! 📢✍️ Our reading period will remain open until Sunday, May 31. Our poetry editor is eager to kick off some spring reading, so if you have a collection ready, send it our way! Guidelines for more details: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

We're revisiting some old favourites and new-to-some novels and stories from the @biblioasis.bsky.social backlist. Check them out here: alllitup.ca/press-playba...

NEWS: Graeme Macrae Burnet’s BENBECULA longlisted for the 2026 @walterscottprize.bsky.social for Historical Fiction! Congratulations Graeme! 📚 🌑🌕🌑✨ Read more: blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/benbecu...

Latest book mail. Coming out from @biblioasis.bsky.social in March.

With the help of BookNet Canada's #librarydata, here're the 50 books from indie lit publishers Canadians borrowed most in January 2026. Feat. a top 10 from: @cormorantbooks.bsky.social, @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, @ecwpress.bsky.social, @arsenalpulp.bsky.social.

A moving tribute and a call to action Via @biblioasis.bsky.social digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/a-certain-... (Also, a remarkable new book due in April for your TBR)

New on The Bibliophile: Publisher Dan Wells revisits the archives of Elaine Dewar, and shares his thoughts on the impact of writing and the state of Canadian cultural life. digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/a-certain-...

Mark Bourrie’s Ripper takes Poilievre seriously. Instead of focusing on his smarm and snark, his thin skin and casual cruelty, Bourrie composed an urgent narrative about creeping right-wing authoritarianism. albertaviews.ca/ripper-pierre-poilievre @biblioasis.bsky.social #ABpoli #BookSky

New books 👀🍒 What better way to start off the week than with a fresh batch of ARCs for Don Gillmor's novel CHERRY BEACH?

New on The Bibliophile: This week, we're celebrating some excellent recent awards news. Join us in congratulating our authors on their well-deserved successes—and keep your fingers crossed for two still on shortlists! digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/awards-sea...

A starred Kirkus Review for Mark Anthony Jarman's forthcoming short story collection SMASH & GRAB! ⭐ Continuing to chronicle the lives of the wayward and unlucky, SMASH & GRAB confirms its author as one of the most adventurous guides to the absurdity of twenty-first century existence.

‼️ one of my most eagerly anticipated books of 2026. my excitement is so palpable it feels medically concerning #booksky

We extend our congratulations to Mark on this well-deserved honour!

Look what just came in the mail! The first batch of finished copies of EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE, the new novel by Ivana Sajko, translated by Mima Simić. Copies will be in stores by March 3rd, but you can preorder it today! www.biblioasis.com/shop/forthco...

We’re thrilled to share that Mark Bourrie, author of the RBC Taylor Prize-winning BUSH RUNNER, CROSSES IN THE SKY, and RIPPER, has been recognized with the 2025 Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media: The Pierre Berton Award! 🎉

Congrats to NEAR DISTANCE for making the finalists' list for the NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize! 🎉🎉

Congrats to Hanna Stoltenberg and Wendy H. Gabrielsen for making the National Book Critics Circle longlist for translation! 🎉 The shortlist will be announced tomorrow, Jan. 20

New on The Bibliophile: We're back and recovered (mostly) from the holidays—what better way to start off the new year than by welcoming our first books of 2026? Our publisher Dan introduces three books by Mark Jarman, Ivana Sajko, & David Macfarlane! digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/biblioasis...

When a book lingers in my mind after I finish reading it and when I’m considering re-reading it, I have no hesitation in recommending it to others. See my review of BENBECULA by Graeme Macrae Burnet: schatjesshelves.blogspot.com/2025/11/revi...

Good luck to @biblioasis.bsky.social !

10. 'love novel' by ivana sajko (tr. mima simic) brief yet explosive! a darkly hilarious and exhilaratingly uncomfortable novella that answers the question "are the cishets doing okay?" with a resounding and emphatic "lmao. no. they are not okay. they are in shambles" #WITmonth 💙📚

Sajko's Every Time We Say Goodbye forthcoming from Biblioasis in March!

"Flashlight" by Karen Solie, from Best Canadian Poetry 2025 (@biblioasis.bsky.social), edited by Aislinn Hunter.

More books that made an impression in 2025. Steven Heighten is a short story master, along with Matthew J. Trafford. “Sacred Rage” and “Runs in the Blood,” great titles from @biblioasis.bsky.social and @arsenalpulp.bsky.social . #CanLit #shortstory

A reviewer called this "the most important book in the world." Hyperbole aside, it's hard to disgree. With foreign journalists banned from #Gaza, these four diaries of young & youngish Gazan women uncover the genocide that responsible journalism might have shown us. (@biblioasis.bsky.social)

Please do me a solid and pick up a Ray Robertson’s DUST for the music lovers in your life. There’s also a part one called Lives of the Poets (with Guitars). He’s one of my best pals in real life and a huge-hearted lovely man.

New on The Bibliophile: The final part of our Biblioasis Holiday Book Guide, with a look back at the year from publisher Dan Wells. Plus, our 2026 Subscription Clubs are now available, with a special new addition! digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/the-biblio...

We're so thrilled to see Near Distance longlisted! 🎉 Congrats to translator Wendy Gabrielsen, and Hanna Stoltenberg!

SACRED RAGE by Steven Heighton has been reviewed in the Literary Review of Canada! "Although Heighton’s life ended too soon, his work will certainly endure . . . [I]f there is any justice in this literary world, Heighton’s legacy will be his love of language, evident on every page."

Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of Anne Hawk's The Pages of the Sea (pub. @biblioasis.bsky.social) in Issue 33! This is not a debut which displays *only* promise: it secures all the elements of fine fiction to the page with compassion and conviction. www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-haw...

The Biblioasis 2026 Subscription Clubs are here! And alongside our Fiction, Nonfiction, Surprise, and Choose-Your-Own Clubs, we're announcing a new addition: the Limited Editions Club, featuring uniquely designed editions of five forthcoming titles! 📚🎉 www.biblioasis.com/product-cate... 1/4

Graeme Macrae Burnet's BENBECULA is on the Washington Post's list of new books you should all add to your shelves this December! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

@publisherswkly.bsky.social describe's Garth's new book as follows: "Set in 1980s–1990s northern Alberta, this collection reckons with maternal loss, childhood violence, and rural life." Who Else in the Dark Headed There will be out with @biblioasis.bsky.social this April. 💪 2/2

Our producer and principle poet Garth Martens (@garthmartens.bsky.social) is featured here in Publisher Weekly's 2026 industry lookahead for his upcoming new book, Who Else in the Dark Headed There... 👇 1/2 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

“The frozen eyes of my villagers are bright with desire; their houses are consumed by radiance.” Richard Kelly Kemick tells the story of when he sold his wife’s clothes to build a Christmas village in his parents’ basement: thewalrus.ca/playing-god/

"When did we make the decision to keep living together? Both never and constantly. We didn’t formally sit down and commit ourselves to sharing an address, for better or for worse, in sickness and in health." —Richard Kelly Kemick for @macleans.bsky.social macleans.ca/society/livi...

I didn't do a "favourite books" post last year, as I was judging a prize, so here are some of my favourite books from 2024 and 2025 combined. Read them and be happy! (If it's hard to read, the titles and authors are in the alt text.)

It is one of my favorite reads of the year!💜