Winner of the Claire Harris Poetry Prize, Qurat Dar’s debut collection NON-PROPHET (@gooselane.bsky.social) is our featured collection in today's Poetry in Motion. Enjoy two poetry readings by @quratdar.bsky.social from her book right here: alllitup.ca/poetry-in-mo...

🚨LAST CALL🚨 It's the final day to enter the giveaway for Night Birds! Capitalism, climate disaster, and complicity come crashing down around morally complex characters in this all-absorbing thriller by multi-award-winning author Margaret Sweatman. Head to gooselane.com/NightBirdsGiveaway to enter!

The "wonderfully strange and absolutely gripping" Days of Feasting and Rejoicing by David Bergen should absolutely be on everyone's radar 👀😍

Win this memoir from @denibechard.bsky.social by following us and liking the post at www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=... Easy! @gooselane.bsky.social Ends Sunday!

"Since all we have are old stories, you can either mistakenly believe that something new is without precedent, falling into old traps, patterns, and clichés of false novelty, or you can acknowledge and understand the old thing in order to do something new with it."

Congratulations to Signs of Life by Sarah Cox on being a finalist for the Lane Anderson Award in the adult category! @sarahkcox.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social

✨GIVEAWAY✨ Intense, visceral, and agile, Night Birds is an all-absorbing thriller, whose morally complex characters are called upon to reckon with the power than runs beneath their feet and the consequences of their own complicity. Open until Feb. 12 gooselane.com/NightBirdsGiveaway

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The @gooselane.bsky.social Claire Harris #poetryprize is open until 31st March. Manuscripts should be 48-100 pages. Free to enter. Top prize is $1,000, a contract for the publication under the icehouse poetry imprint + public readings in at least 3 Canadian cities. gooselane.com/pages/claire...

Canada Reads 2026 longlisted author PP Wong joins us for #writersblock & talks about her second novel, SLICE THE WATER (@gooselane.bsky.social), the grounding power of nature, & the impact of spending years writing one protagonist. Read the full interview at: alllitup.ca/writers-bloc...

"An unsettling read. Its assured and concise prose draws the reader in to wallow in its anxious moodiness, and Bergen’s examination of its boldly dark material inspires deep questions about the human condition, about how we judge right, wrong, and what exists in between."

Poetry in Transit spotlight: Joseph Kidney✨ @gooselane.bsky.social We spoke with Joseph Kidney and the other Poetry in Transit 2025-26 poets on place, transit, and community. Read here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p... #PoetryInTransit #ReadLocalBC #BCPoet #BCPoetry

🚨NOW OPEN🚨 The Claire Harris Poetry Prize is now open for submissions! The biennial prize will be awarded to a full-length debut poetry collection by a writer who is Black, Indigenous, or from another racialized community. Details at gooselane.com/ClaireHarrisPoetryPrize

Canada Reads season is here and we're beyond thrilled to share that Slice the Water by PP Wong has been longlisted for CBC Books' #CanadaReads2026! Congratulations, PP — we're so excited! ❤📚

🚨 OPENING SOON 🚨 Attention poets! Mark your calendars because the Claire Harris Poetry Prize will be opening for submissions this Friday, January 9! For more information, eligibility, and how to submit, head to gooselane.com/ClaireHarrisPoetryPrize

1/2 bonus #SmallPress #books: Devouring Tomorrow & its contribs @agpasquella.bsky.social ‬ @jeffdupuis.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social @eddyboudeltan.bsky.social @catebush.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from GET LIT (a.k.a., me). We talk to David Bergen about his latest, Days of Feasting and Rejoicing. An apt holiday title... No CFMU this week due to holidays but on all the usual podcasting platforms and here: tinyurl.com/3esupkk5 @gooselane.bsky.social

These are some upcoming dates and authors for our Instagram Live Writers' series, The First Thirty. Hope you'll hop into our chats. @ecwpress.bsky.social @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social #barakabooks

Who knows books better than the people that make them? Here's a round up our gift guide, from our book lovers to yours. Check out all our staff picks at gooselane.com/holiday

This is your explicit permission to skip that holiday party you don't really want to go to and stay home to read instead

"I think the role of the writer (and artists in general) is to surprise us with our own capacity for feeling." ❤️

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Photography fanatics, it's finally here! 📸 We're excited to release Collective States: Worlds of Photography at the Art Gallery of Ontario, co-published with @agotoronto.bsky.social themselves! Learn more or order your copy at gooselane.com/CollectiveStates

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Win this inspirational book about life and food from author Lindy Mechefske at www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=... Ends Sunday! @gooselane.bsky.social

Have you checked out our top fiction of 2025? The only thing better than this wide-ranging list of excellent Canadian fiction is that every single title on it is up for giveaway! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/12... @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @nimbuspub.bsky.social #CanLit

Tuesday poem #662 : Jessie Jones : Concurrent girlhood / @gooselane.bsky.social ; dusie.blogspot.com/2025/12/tues...

Catherine's most recent book is the story collection Skin, published by @gooselane.bsky.social. The Ottawa Review of Books called Skin “a haunting and beautifully crafted collection that solidifies Catherine Bush’s reputation as a writer of immense talent.” podcasts.apple.com/kg/podcast/c...

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: A Perfect Day..., Bill Arnott (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social): arsenalpulp.com/Books/A/A-Pe... & The Gift Child, Elaine McCluskey (@gooselane.bsky.social): gooselane.com/products/the... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #booktok #booklovers

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🌟THIS WEEK ONLY🌟 Now until midnight on Black Friday, all orders over $55 will receive a free Goose Lane tote bag and FREE SHIPPING in Canada😍 Take advantage of this limited time deal to cross the book lovers off your list - or treat yourself to a new book, you deserve it 💝 Shop now: gooselane.com

in which i offer recommendations for 49th Shelf: new/recent titles by Anna Swanson, Qurat Dar, Isabella Wang, Melanie Dennis Unrau, Gillian Sze, Jumoke Verissimo, Hajer Mirwali + Sadiqa de Meijer, / @49thshelf.bsky.social @talonbooks.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social ; 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/11...

Ricepaper's Executive Editor and multi-genre writer, Allan Cho, interviews PP Wong, author of the new novel, Slice the Water -- a dystopian thriller, a speculative fiction, and a coming-of-age story ricepapermagazine.ca/2025/11/writ... #asiancanadian #diversityLIT

🚨 The Great Canadian Art Book Sale is almost over 🚨 Don't miss your chance to get some of our most stunning art books for 50% off! Exclusive this week: all orders over $55 ship free and include a free Goose Lane tote bag 😍 Shop the collection while you can: gooselane.com/sale

Love me some Walsh & friends bustin' out to Mariah on a ferry. #SMLTA THE MOCKLER @themockler.bsky.social interviews @gooselane.bsky.social poet, MATTHEW WALSH sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/there-are-...

For the book club that doesn't shy away from hard topics, Bad Indians Book Club is a deeply insightful book that examines works about history, science, and gender as well as fiction that aims to challenge the way we think about Indigenous lives and their stories.

Happy PWHL season opener day!!!! If you haven’t read Breakaway yet by @kdonk.bsky.social what are you waiting for? Incredible book 💕 Inspiring NB author! @gooselane.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hocke...

Today, we honour the lives of the individuals lost to violence, hate, and prejudice. It is not enough, however, to remember the lost; we must do all we can to protect the living. GLE reaffirms our commitment to stand with the transgender community, listen to their voices, and share their stories.

Congratulations to the wonderful Nina Berkhout for This Bright Dust winning the Ottawa Book Award for English Fiction! 🏆 From the jury: "Told with infinite tenderness and poetic grace, Nina Berkhout’s prose makes the intimate feel epic...This Bright Dust is an unforgettable novel."

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😍 NEW ART BOOK 😍 Today, we're celebrating the release of BOAT by Katherine Knight, co-published with WORK BOOK! Out of the museum and into the wild, Knight’s photographs imagine model boats reconnected to their stories and sites of origin. gooselane.com/BOAT

🚨 We're so excited to launch our biggest sale of the year! Now until midnight on Black Friday, you can buy select art titles for an incredible 50% off! 🚨 Shop the collection: gooselane.com/sale Note that orders placed through this sale are exempt from our usual free shipping for orders over $55.

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🚨 Announcing: The Great Canadian Art Book Sale! 🚨 On November 1, we'll be launching our biggest sale yet: a whopping 50% off select art books! Get ahead on gifts this year — or treat yourself, you deserve it — while giving your wallet a break. More information to come - stay tuned! 🤩

JESSIE! #thefool @gooselane.bsky.social gooselane.com/blogs/news/e...

The Canadian Jewish Literary Awards Winners’ Gala is this Sunday at the Al Green Theatre, at 2:00! This event is free but registration is required – and there’s still time! To secure your spot, head to app.amilia.com/store/en/mil...

TWO WEEKS FROM TONIGHT #PoetryThrouple HIEMSTRA @jessicajoyhiemstra.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social KIRBY @knifeforkbook.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social LAVENDER @gaspereaupress.bsky.social MONTREAL 05 NOV 7PM ARGO BOOKSHOP @argobookshop.bsky.social argobookshop.ca/events/48585

So many fantastic finalists! We're so proud to see Michael Trussler's 10:10 and Douglas Walbourne-Gough's Island among them ❤️