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Award-winning independent literary press. Read independently.
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New from The Bibliophile: Announcing this year's contributors for the Best Canadian Essays, Poetry, and Stories anthologies! Congratulations to all of the writers selected 🎉
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Jade Wallace (they/them)
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Was quite surprised & delighted to find that my poem "We Go Down to the Sea of Myrrh," which opens with the ever so endearing line, "Molly, I hate your husband" (& which appeared in
@cv2magazine.bsky.social
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@tolu.ca
, Anita Lahey & Biblioasis.
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Duosuma
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Biblioasis
@biblioasis.bsky.social
⭐ is accepting submissions through Duosuma.
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Featured on Duosuma: Biblioasis
Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social ⭐ is accepting submissions through Duosuma. #WritingCommunity
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Jess H̓áust̓i
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Excited to have one of my poems uplifted in this collection! 🌿
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Sarah Wolfson
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So grateful to have a poem forthcoming in Best Canadian Poetry. Thank you to
@thewalrus.ca
for first publishing “And Then Came the Day” and to guest editor
@tolu.ca
for selecting it for this anthology.
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Misha Solomon
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Thrilled to have my "Meditations in an Emergency" in Best Canadian Poetry 2027. Kinda flabbergasted that this is the 3rd poem from my debut to appear in BCP. So grateful to
@biblioasis.bsky.social
, to Anita Lahey, and to
@tolu.ca
. And what a bonus that
@sarahwolfson.bsky.social
is in there with me.
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New from The Bibliophile: Announcing this year's contributors for the Best Canadian Essays, Poetry, and Stories anthologies! Congratulations to all of the writers selected 🎉
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In the ancient Welm Valley, something is shifting: the river is behaving oddly, while the arrival of spring, with its familiar rhythms, is shadowed by an undercurrent of unease. THE GIVEN WORLD by Melissa Harrison is available now for preorder!
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All Lit Up
7 days ago
+ non-fiction from
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Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s work has been translated into 27 languages, and international readers are raving! The trilogy's final installment, THE HEART OF MAN (transl. by Philip Roughton), will be available on June 16, 2026.
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This is tonight!
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blushy
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„Two hundred and eleven pages crowded to overflowing with words, but their passage is light, enthralling, seductive…Heaven and Hell embraces and defies the categories of story—adventure, historical, romance, ghost, metaphysical.“
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Book Post
14 days ago
New on Book Post: the incomparable Joy Williams on the “cold and alluring world” of Jón Kallman Stefánsson. Read here →
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Review: Joy Williams on Jón Kalman Stefánsson
A perfect little novel
https://books.substack.com/p/review-joy-williams-on-jon-kalman
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Margaret Cannon at
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called Don Gillmor's CHERRY BEACH "one of the best Canadian crime novels of this or any year". It's safe to say this book has people talking!
#cherrybeach
#dongillmor
#toronto
#crimenovel
#readindependently
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Alex Pugsley's SILVER LAKE received a fantastic review from John Warner in the Chicago Tribune over the weekend! "Terrific . . . At the heart of my enjoyment is the fact that Aubrey McKee is interesting and plain good company.”
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New from The Bibliophile: To celebrate Short Story Month, the folks here at Biblioasis have put together a list of our favourite collections. Check them out, and find some great new (or old) short fiction to enjoy.
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Catherine Khordoc, translator of BALDWIN, STYRON, AND ME, is a finalist for this year's French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Nonfiction! The prize honours excellence in French-to-English translations for literary works in fiction and non-fiction published in 2025.
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Judith Pereira
19 days ago
#crime
#thrillers
#mystery
for you to read including one from
@biblioasis.bsky.social
that I'm hoping to get to this coming weekend. BTW, don't forget that
festivalofauthors.ca/motive/
is on in June!
#books
#reading
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Six mysteries to read now
From Cherry Beach by Canadian author Don Gillmor to Guilt by Japanese novelist Keigo Higashino, you won’t be able to put these books down
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/books/article-six-mysteries-novels-cottage-season-thrilling-start/
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🎉🎉🎉Happy pub day to SILVER LAKE by Alex Pugsley! 🎉🎉🎉 The third standalone entry in Pugsley's ambitious Aubrey McKee series, SILVER LAKE is at once an artist's coming of age and a Hollywood satire with an authentic love story in the middle. Find it wherever you get your books.
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In her recent review, Joy Williams called HEAVEN AND HELL by Jón Kalman Stefánsson "a perfect little novel". The final installment of Stefánsson's "Trilogy About the Boy," HEART OF MAN, is available now for preorder. You can find the entire trilogy at
biblioasis.com
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CHERRY BEACH by Don Gillmor appeared in the Globe and Mail today! Margaret Cannon called it "one of the best Canadian crime novels of this or any year." Find the book through our website or at your local independent bookstore!
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New on The Bibliophile: John Metcalf shares a thoughtful essay on the works of Alex Pugsley, whose new novel SILVER LAKE—the third in the Aubrey McKee series—is out next Tuesday, May 19!
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Anthony Domestico
26 days ago
Not sure I've ever bought a book so fast as I just bought Heaven and Hell after reading Joy Williams's piece on it for
@bookpostusa.bsky.social
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Review: Joy Williams on Jón Kalman Stefánsson
A perfect little novel
https://books.substack.com/p/review-joy-williams-on-jon-kalman
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Jason Winders
26 days ago
David Macfarlane is a man for all seasons – but you’ll forgive him if he asks that baseball stick to the spring and summer, football to the fall, and hockey to the winter. Check out our chat for
#MiramichiReader
about his new book from
@biblioasis.bsky.social
.
miramichireader.ca/2026/05/on-s...
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The people have spoken... EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE by Ivana Sajko (translated from Croatian by Mima Simić) is a soliloquy of self-examination, upheaval, loss, hope, disillusionment, ambition and failure. Find the book at
biblioasis.com
or at your local independent bookstore!
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Thrilled to see that Jón Kalman Stefánsson's The Heart of Man, translated by Philip Roughton, just got a STARRED review from Kirkus!
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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Congratulations to Marcello Di Cintio, whose book, Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers, is a finalist for the 2026 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize and the 2026 Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction!
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OBLIVIOUS by Elaine Dewar (a Biblioasis book) was the subject of a recent CBC IDEAS podcast. The journalist and author finished writing the book days before she died by medically-assisted death. You can listen to the episode at the link in our bio.
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The Walrus
about 1 month ago
Government-run nutrition experiments didn’t just turn Indigenous residential school students into involuntary human subjects, writes Elaine Dewar. “Entire First Nations and Inuit communities [...] had been turned into objects of scientific curiosity.”
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Garth Martens
28 days ago
You can find or order my book from any local, indie bookstore. Or direct from the publisher
@biblioasis.bsky.social
here:
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Who Else in the Dark Headed There - Biblioasis
In his first collection since the Governor General’s–nominated Prologue for the Age of Consequence, Martens adds an autobiographical lens to his concerns about class and labour. A mother disappears. A...
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Happy US pub day to Elaine Dewar's OBLIVIOUS. An important investigation into the segregated Indigenous healthcare system in Canada, OBLIVIOUS is witness to Dewar's late-in-life realisation of her own settler obliviousness and journey of change. Available wherever books are sold!
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Garth Martens
28 days ago
A review of my new book, Who Else in the Dark Headed There, appears in the May 2026 issue of the Literary Review of Canada (
@reviewcanada.bsky.social
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Toronto friends: Join Flying Books and Biblioasis for the launch of Alex Pugsley's new novel SILVER LAKE! Pugsley, alongside the actors David Chinchilla, Blaise Crocker, and John Fitzgerald Jay, will read and perform scenes from the novel. Books will be available for sale and signing.
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BuriedInPrint
29 days ago
Christopher Bernard's The Hollow Beast (Trans. Lazer Lederhendler): I only wish that I could forget some of the scenes in this novel. (Which I mean "in a good way".)
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McCauley Bernard 34
Reviewed by Marcie McCauley
https://www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-bernard-34.html
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Mélikah Abdelmoumen
30 days ago
La folie se poursuit pour Baldwin, Styron and Me, qui vit sa best life aux States! Catherine Khordoc finaliste au prix de traduction 2026 de la French-American Foundation! Merci aux amis de
@biblioasis.bsky.social
d'avoir rendu cela possible. Et bien sûr à Rodney Saint-Éloi et à Mémoire d'encrier.
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OBLIVIOUS by Elaine Dewar has made the Canadian Non-Fiction bestseller list! #8 in the Globe's report, and #6 in the Star.
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A feature on the late Elaine Dewar (and her final book OBLIVIOUS) made The Globe and Mail this month!
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Copies of OBLIVIOUS are available at your local indie bookstore.
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Anne Trubek
about 1 month ago
Gonna put a badge on books that says “Human Errored“
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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
How Residential School Students Became Victims of Nazi Race Science Torn from loved ones, Indigenous children suffered brutal medical injustices BY ELAINE DEWAR 6:30, Apr. 25, 2026
thewalrus.ca/how-resident...
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How Residential School Students Became Victims of Nazi Race Science | The Walrus
Torn from loved ones, Indigenous children suffered brutal medical injustices
https://thewalrus.ca/how-residential-school-students-became-victims-of-nazi-race-science/
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Thrilled to see that Jón Kalman Stefánsson's The Heart of Man, translated by Philip Roughton, just got a STARRED review from Kirkus!
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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Gary Lovely
about 1 month ago
Very excited for this one, coming from
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New on The Bibliophile: Earlier this week, author Don Gillmor toured around Toronto bookstores to sign copies of his latest novel CHERRY BEACH, with our intrepid sales coordinator Hilary! Check out some of these places you can pick up a signed copy.
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Garth Martens
about 1 month ago
A poem of mine, Grandparents' House 1967, now appears in the latest issue of
@chronogram.bsky.social
. You'll also find this poem in my new book, Who Else in the Dark Headed There (
@biblioasis.bsky.social
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josh o'kane
about 1 month ago
Elaine Dewar learned last summer that she had just weeks to live. She wound up finishing her final investigative book on her deathbed. Here's the story of her final work and its shocking conclusion: of a Nazi connection to unethical studies on Inuit groups
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
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With weeks to live, Elaine Dewar finished her most personal book
Oblivious puts a spotlight on systemic harms that she and many Canadians never knew had afflicted so many Indigenous communities
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/article-with-weeks-to-live-elaine-dewar-finished-her-most-personal-book/
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Joseph Schreiber
about 1 month ago
Today's book mail. The final part of Jón Kalman Stefánsson's Trilogy of the Boy will be out in North America in June. Excited!
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Happy Canadian pub day to Elaine Dewar's OBLIVIOUS! Part memoir, part ethical inquiry, part investigation into the segregated Indigenous healthcare system, Dewar exposes the governmental and psychological machinery that allowed settler obliviousness to continue for so long...
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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:
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The Walrus
about 1 month ago
Canada ran a segregated Indigenous hospital system for thirty-five years—and most Canadians have never even heard of it. Author Elaine Dewar uncovers a parallel health network that was chronically understaffed, medically inferior, and rife with abuse.
https://ow.ly/t4Ln50YPwA7
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An excerpt from Elaine Dewar’s OBLIVIOUS appeared in The Walrus this weekend!
thewalrusca.substack.com/p/how-reside...
A reminder, for those in Toronto, that we’ll be honouring Dewar’s work at Massey College this Wednesday, April 29, at 6pm.
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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...
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