New on The Bibliophile: We share part of an interview between Elaine Dewar and friend and journalist Marci McDonald, about Elaine's final book OBLIVIOUS. Plus, don't miss next Wednesday's launch of OBLIVIOUS at Massey College - details in here: digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/the-mechan...

I recently read Ivana Sajko’s Every Time We Say Goodbye (trans from Croatian by Mima Simić). Long, flowing prose of the narrator’s thoughts as he travels by train and considers migration, relationships, and his own childhood. More on IG: www.instagram.com/p/DXZfZDsjhK... @biblioasis.bsky.social

Every day is exciting at @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social , but yesterday brought a special thrill: the latest edition of bookseller trading cards from @biblioasis.bsky.social! Among the fine purveyors featured is our own @jamescrossley.bsky.social. Beauty way to be!

New on The Bibliophile: Our publicist Ahmed interviews ON SPORTS author David Macfarlane, while offering up the book as the perfect commercial-break read during this weekend's playoffs. digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/our-seasons

Mark Anthony Jarman's new collection of stories, SMASH & GRAB, was reviewed in the LRC! reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202... "As much as the outside world may disturb, in these pages, readers will find a rich inner life on full display."

Happy Canadian publication day to Don Gillmor's CHERRY BEACH—a smart, captivating detective novel set in Toronto. It's available now at your local indie bookstore! #TheBooksellersList #IndieBookstore #BookLovers #BooksellersPicks #CanadianBookstagram #biblioasis #dongillmor #readindependently

"Every sentence sings with emotional resonance and is imbued with the protagonist’s regret...a master class in both economy of language and expansiveness of feeling."—Wendy J. Fox on Ivana Sajko's EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE, featured in Electric Lit's top 15 most exciting indie titles of the season!

Hey! My publisher sent out their newsletter this morning in which you can read four of the poems from my new book. Check it out through the link below.

Hey Windsor friends. Check out our @palimpsestpress.bsky.social author event at @biblioasis.bsky.social bookshop June 10th at 7pm. #windsorOntario #bookevent #canlit

Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of Christophe Bernard's The Hollow Beast (pub. @biblioasis.bsky.social)! ...By rotating through perspectives of the originators and the descendants...The Hollow Beast recalls other larger-than-life Québécois novels... www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-ber...

Happy pub day to WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE by Garth Martens, pictured here among other poetry collections in the Biblioasis warehouse! If you're in Kelowna, Garth Martens will be launching his book TONIGHT at Benvoulin Church, 7PM!

The Spring 2026 Booksellers' List is Bursting with Canadian Reads! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/04... @touchwooded.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social #CanLit

New on The Bibliophile: Our publicist Dominique introduces CHERRY BEACH alongside a brief interview with the author, Don Gillmor! Plus, don't miss the Toronto launch of the book next month at The Supermarket: digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/night-shif...

Join me tomorrow for a National Poetry Month event hosted by @malahatreview.bsky.social and Planet Earth Poetry, where I will read from my new book alongside poets @louieleyson.bsky.social and Elizabeth Bachinsky.

CHERRY BEACH by Don Gilmor is a Spring 2026 selection for The Booksellers’ List, published by @biblioasis.bsky.social!

Happy to be back in @thetyee.ca this weekend with a piece about enjoying sports, not enjoying the deleterious effect sports gambling is having on most everything, and really enjoying David Macfarlane’s new book “On Sports.” Thanks to @jackie-wong.bsky.social for the supreme edits, as per usual.

An excellent essay by Cole Nowicki about David Macfarlane's new book ON SPORTS

On April 29th, at 6PM, at Massey College, we'll be celebrating the life's work of Elaine Dewar—and launching her latest book, Oblivious: Residential Schools, Segregated Hospitals, and the Use of Indigenous Peoples as Slaves of Race Science. Please RSVP, if you can. We hope to see you there!

Another writing first: I'm going to have a poem in Best Canadian Poetry! "We Go Down to the Sea of Myrrh," which originally appeared in @cv2magazine.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue, will be reprinted in the forthcoming 2027 anthology.

My first review for WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE. Read it in full here: thebcreview.ca/2026/04/01/2...

New on The Bibliophile: Start off National Poetry Month with a selection of poems from Garth Martens' WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE (April 14)! Plus, some thoughts from our publicist Dominique on engaging with darkness and difficult texts. digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/in-strange...

Congrats to the finalists for the 2026 Alberta Literary Awards, including LPG members @arsenalpulp.bsky.social, @biblioasis.bsky.social, @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social, @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, @cormorantbooks.bsky.social, @ecwpress.bsky.social, Freehand Books

Thank you to The BC Review and Harold Rhenisch for a thoughtful, careful reading of Garth Martens’ forthcoming poetry collection, WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE. The link to the full review: thebcreview.ca/2026/04/01/2...

ICYMI I wrote about this novella about a man fleeing his past in hopes of starting anew. @biblioasis.bsky.social A catalogue of farewells: Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko, translated by Mima Simić roughghosts.com/2026/03/30/a...

A catalogue of farewells: Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko, translated by Mima Simić @biblioasis.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/03/30/a...

New on The Bibliophile: Our publicist Ahmed introduces ON SPORTS by David Macfarlane, featuring a seasonally appropriate excerpt from the book on watching a baseball game. ⚾📚 digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/the-sound-...

The Zombie Round begins today as Leon Hendrix dons the judge’s robes in the 2026 Tournament of Books, presented by @fieldnotesbrand.bsky.social! www.tournamentofbooks.com/2026/the-pas...

Happy Canadian pub day to David Macfarlane's ON SPORTS! 🎉 A personal, passionate, witty, nostalgic account of why we love sports and the disappointing ways gambling, greed and spectacle are ruining them today. Find it wherever you get your books. www.biblioasis.com/shop/non-fic...

THE PASSENGER SEAT advances to the semi-finals!

Congratulations to LPG members @biblioasis.bsky.social and @coachhousebooks.bsky.social who made the shortlist for the 2026 Writers' Trust of Canada Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing!

Thrilled to see TWO Biblioasis books have been selected as finalists for the 2026 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing: Don Gillmor's ON OIL and Ira Wells' ON BOOK BANNING!! Read more about the prize and what the jury had to say about both books here: www.writerstrust.com/awards/shaug...

Announcing finalists for the 2026 #ShaughnessyCohen Prize for Political Writing: ◢ On Oil by Don Gillmor ◢ Encampment by @maggiehelwig.bsky.social ◢ On the Ground by Brian Stewart ◢ On Book Banning by Ira Wells ◢ Women Who Woke up the Law by Karin Wells writerstrust.com/ShaughnessyCohen

Russell Smith talks with us about his latest novel, SELF CARE (@biblioasis.bsky.social), an unlikely love story between two mismatched strangers exploring love & loneliness. Read our full interview where Russell speaks to what makes for good dramatic tension at: alllitup.ca/i-want-the-s...

Exciting new mail today + scissor-safety concerns from my 2.5-year-old daughter. My second collection of poetry, Who Else in the Dark Headed There, is available in bookstores April 14. Preorder your copy today at your local bookstore of choice or through my publisher @biblioasis.bsky.social.

An excellent analysis and discussion of Vijay Khurana's debut novel THE PASSENGER SEAT. We're glad to see it advance to the next round in the Tournament of Books!

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...

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...