Given the capitulatory pressure / temptation experienced by corporate media and institutions, there has arguably been no greater moment in recent history for us all to increasingly, vocally and materially support independent media.

Happy publication to The Pugilist and the Sailor—the debut novel from Toronto author Nadia Ragbar, published by Invisible Publishing.✨ invisiblepublishing.com/product/pugi... The Pugilist and the Sailor is available wherever books are bought or borrowed. #canlit @invisibooks.bsky.social

Thanks to @tobiascarroll.bsky.social for highlighting Tomás Downey’s Diving Board, publishing Oct 7 in a beautiful(ly disturbing) translation by Sarah Moses (Die, My Love, Tender Is the Flesh, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird, and The Unworthy).

Nina Dunic’s Suddenly Light officially publishes today. invisiblebooks.substack.com/p/nina-dunic...

The Lantern and the Night Moths, translated by @yilinwriter.bsky.social My final #WITMonth read for this year – 3 of the 5 poets in this collection are women. I'm particularly taken with the work of Xiao Xi, but it's all so gorgeously done. Do yourself a favour and read this! 💙📚

We're looking ahead to fall: crunching leaves, spiced coffees, and the six books on our 2025 Fall Preview list, chosen by ALU staff and ready to be added to your TBR: alllitup.ca/the-all-lit-...

In honour of the official start of spooky season, please allow me to boost my horror essay collection, BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING. It's got Ouija boards, it's got chainsaws, it's got demons and cannibals and oceans of blood. It's available wherever you get books. invisiblepublishing.com/product/be-s...

Check out debut Toronto author Nadia Ragbar and her forthcoming novel, The Pugilist and the Sailor (Invisible Publishing, September 16, 2025), featured in the Toronto Star! ⭐️ 🥊 🌊 Read the feature: tr.ee/QJS73VtaNK DM us to request a review copy! @invisibooks.bsky.social

ANNOUNCING: the ottawa small press book fair, autumn 2025 edition: November 22, 2025 / @bookhugpress.bsky.social @arcpoetry.bsky.social @smallpressalmanac.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social ; smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

Link to our website, where I am going to try and post all my reviews. Reem Gaafar's debut novel, A MOUTH FULL OF SALT from @invisibooks.bsky.social ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ junctionreads.ca/junction-wri...

🚀 Discover the books that launched some of Canada’s most exciting literary careers! These early-career reads made a lasting impact, and we’re sharing them in celebration of the Literary Press Group’s 50th anniversary. Want to explore more? ➡️ alllitup.ca/fifty-for-fi... #lpg50 #canlit

🎺 The Clarion by @ninadunic.bsky.social (@invisibooks.bsky.social) Winner of the 2024 Trillium Book Award, this quietly powerful novel explores sibling bonds, ambition, and the ache of unrealized dreams. alllitup.ca/books/the-cl... #lpg50 #canlit #canadianbooks #canadianauthors

If, like me, you are always looking for strange stories that are haunting, suggestive and atmospheric, Dead Writers will not disappoint. The writing at a sentence level here is so good. Really enjoyed these stories of literary uncanny.

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Michael Sikkema : Contemporary Vispo Conversations : Kate Siklosi, Dani Spinosa and Amanda Earl / @invisibooks.bsky.social @timglaseteditions.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/08/mich...

📣✨The Sunburst Award Society is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Award. We are delighted that the five-book shortlist highlights the scope and stellar quality of contemporary Canadian literature of the fantastic published in 2024. www.sunburstaward.org/node/144

It's here! Our 2025 Fall Fiction Preview with titles from @scribnerbooks.bsky.social @nimbuspub.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/07... #CanLit

The Pugilist and The Sailor is the debut novel by Nadia Ragbar, forthcoming from Invisible Publishing! The story conjoined twins, Bruce and Dougie. Dougie is an amateur boxer. Bruce is a bookkeeper… Request a review copy: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... @invisibooks.bsky.social

Baseball fans: I have three indie-published Canadian books for you to spend time with this summer. #CanLit The Northern by @mcarthurmooney.bsky.social from @ecwpress.bsky.social. ecwpress.com/products/nor...

Makeshift Fields by @tigerpride.bsky.social is a fun travel tour of baseball in Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales by a noted Tigers fan from @invisibooks.bsky.social. invisiblepublishing.com/product/make...

Got a chance to curate a list of 10 Canadian poetry books for Lithub! lithub.com/10-canadian-... @talonbooks.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social @douglasmcintyre.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @newestpress.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social

I had an excellent time speaking with Andrew Forbes about his furiously beautiful novella, McCurdle’s Arm (Invisible Publishing, 2024) on The New Books Network. Listen in: newbooksnetwork.com/mccurdles-arm #baseball @invisibooks.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

5/10 Cut Side Down, poetry by Jessi MacEachern @jessisays.bsky.social (@invisibooks.bsky.social) & Future Howl by Pat Lowther and Bliss Carman award-winning Sue Goyette @suegoyette.bsky.social (@gaspereaupress.bsky.social). (Photo from CSD launch!) See alt-text! #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #CanadaDay

Groundwork: The best of the third decade of above/ground press: 2013-2023 (Invisible Publishing, 2023) gets a mention at LitHub! / @invisibooks.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/07/grou...

BOOK #43, 2025 BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING, Peter Counter (2020) Wonderful collection of horror-related essays. Rarely are such writings so intimate; Counter is fearless at linking traumatic events to his passion for the genre. This book legitimately made me cry. #booksky 💙📚 @invisibooks.bsky.social

I had the honour of writing on DEAD WRITERS for @ex-puritan.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to read and review @invisibooks.bsky.social's mesmerizing collection of horror-tinged novellas. ex-puritan.ca/dark-entries...

In this NBN episode, I chat with Reem Gaafar about her phenomenal Island Prize 2023-winning novel, A Mouthful of Salt, published in Canada by Invisible Publishing. Tune in here: newbooksnetwork.com/a-mouth-full... @invisibooks.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

You know how drinking warm beverages is supposed to help you acclimate to extreme heat? We think these books will do the same. Hot books for hot times with titles from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @fernpub.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social @wwnorton.com #CanLit 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Cara-Lyn Morgan / @invisibooks.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/06/12-o...

Read @nyurtsaba.bsky.social's review of @utilityofboredom.bsky.social's The Diapause (pub. @invisibooks.bsky.social)! Andrew Forbes’s novel The Diapause is one of those books one begins reading and does not stop reading until way past their bedtime... www.thetemzreview.com/yurcaba-31.h...

"There needs to be a term that’s like “fan fiction” but for poetry." New review of Jessi MacEachern's delightful book about books, Cut Side Down. reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/p/jessi-mace... @invisibooks.bsky.social

Canadian indie press Invisible Publishing is introducing its first translated release this October—a collection of "disturbing" short stories from Argentinian writer Tomás Downey, translated by Sarah Moses. @invisibooks.bsky.social

In today's #writersblock interview, Teri Vlassopoulos tells us about how writing never leaves you, how she celebrates when a book is done, and how the difficult-yet-common experience of infertility factors into her new novel, LIVING EXPENSES (@invisibooks.bsky.social). alllitup.ca/writers-bloc...

Day 4 of #UnreliableNarrator Horror Week! @titanbooks.bsky.social @berkleypub.bsky.social @tonyanuci.bsky.social @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social @sagapressbooks.bsky.social @duttonbooks.bsky.social @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social @gravesidepress.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social

Daily #SmallPress #books: Like One of The Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life (@beaconpress.bsky.social) www.beacon.org/Like-One-of-... -and- Searching for Terry Punchout by Tyler Hellard (@invisibooks.bsky.social) invisiblepublishing.com/product/sear... #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky

Congratulations to @andotherstories.bsky.social, of whom we’re great admirers, on their International Booker Prize win for Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi. Thrilled to see a small press win with a book originally in Kannada, written and translated by women. And short stories!

Always thrilling to pick up my pre-orders! Especially an all-Canadian indie line up! Looking forward to reading Andy Brown's Why Fish Piss Matters from Vehicule, Maggie Helwig's Encampment from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, and @terivlass.bsky.social's Living Expenses from @invisibooks.bsky.social!

Jessi MacEachern, Cut Side Down / @jessisays.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/05/jess...

newly posted: rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social : Cut Side Down, by Jessi MacEachern / @jessisays.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/05/rob-...

newly posted: Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social : Making Translation Visible: An Interview with Yilin Wang / @yilinwriter.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/05/jero...

"Minutes later she flies low over the alley, hunting. Swerves into a backyard and below view. A raptor is never late." #TodaysPoem #poetry from Boom by E. Martin Nolan from Still Point (2017 @invisibooks.bsky.social) bit.ly/3NvxDGa

Fun read by @meredithambrock.bsky.social on @49thshelf.bsky.social re her new book, She's A Lamb, pub by @ecwpress.bsky.social. So happy she mentioned At Last Count published by @invisibooks.bsky.social in there, too. Can't wait to read the new book, Meredith.🙂 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/04...

It was an absolute delight to launch alongside Zane Koss, who travelled from Guelph & gave a fantastic reading from his new poetry collection COUNTRY MUSIC from @invisibooks.bsky.social & to hear poems from cherished London local & fellow @palimpsestpress.bsky.social author David Barrick.

Ruby wants you to know that trans women are women, trans men are men. And she'd like words with people who want to deny humanity to our friends.

Turning Pages features return guest @tigerpride.bsky.social today, discussing Makeshift Fields (@invisibooks.bsky.social ). Always great to talk baseball with Dale. Tune in to UMFM in #winnipeg or listen online: umfm.com/programming/...

I will be taking my poetry book CUT SIDE DOWN (@invisibooks.bsky.social) on a mini reading tour of Ontario and the Maritimes. Please join me in Guelph, Toronto, and Dundas on Easter weekend (Apr 17-20) or Fredericton, Charlottetown, and Sackville later this month (Apr 28-30).

"Tomorrow is another day with you, but it's also one day less. There are still so many undiscovered streets" #TodaysPoem #poetry Poem For a Dog by by Michael e. Casteels from The Last White House at the End of the Row of White Houses (2016 @invisibooks.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/ywvwc9wn

Zane Koss, Country Music / @littlesparrows.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/04/zane...

A morning at my desk, working my way through Zane Koss’ Country Music, new from @invisibooks.bsky.social // @littlesparrows.bsky.social

Living Expenses by Teri Vlassopoulos, forthcoming with Invisible Publishing, May 13, 2025. Request a review copy: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... More about the book : invisiblepublishing.com/product/livi... #litfic @invisibooks.bsky.social

Delighted to announce that @tigerpride.bsky.social's latest book, Makeshift Fields: Chasing Baseball Across Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales, which our Managing Editor co-edited for @invisibooks.bsky.social, is available for pre-ordering. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/chas... #BritishBaseball