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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!

Close-up photo of the cover of 'On Sports' by David Macfarlane, against a light-brown wood tabletop. In white text over the image reads: Our seasons An interview with David Macfarlane, author of On Sports

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.

Headshots of authors Sadiqa de Meijer, Blair Trewartha, and Andre Narbonne with book cover images and event details.

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

The cover of The Hollow Beast, by Christophe Bernard. It's a stylized and very angular black-and-white drawing of the title, with swirling black-and-white lines curving behind it

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 · Blog Post · 49th Shelf More than half of the picks this time are Canadian, and five of these are published by Canadian presses. 

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

Photo of the front cover of Don Gillmor's novel 'Cherry Beach' against a wooden table. In white text over the image reads: Night shift with the bicycle cops: An interview with Don Gillmor, author of Cherry Beach. The Bibliophile.

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.

The cover of Cherry Beach by Don Gilmor with The Booksellers' List selection seal.

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...

A photo of two copies of the poetry collection, Who Else in the Dark Headed There by Garth Martens: one on an angle with the back cover up, and the other facing front cover-up on top of it. In white text over the image reads: In strange company Poems from Who Else in the Dark Headed There by Garth Martens. The Bibliophile

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...

A graphic labelled "2026 Alberta Literary Awards finalists, LPG members" with 16 longlisted book covers.

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...

A catalogue of farewells: Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko . . . I want to record all this, I want to write down that everything is all right, the end of the world is behind us anyway, no machine guns in sight, only the signs of another oncoming flood, it’…

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
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A catalogue of farewells: Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko . . . I want to record all this, I want to write down that everything is all right, the end of the world is behind us anyway, no machine guns in sight, only the signs of another oncoming flood, it’…

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...

Photo of the book On Sports by David Macfarlane, face out in front of a stack of other copies laid golden-spines out. In white text over the image reads: The sound of the crowd: Welcoming baseball season with an excerpt from On Sports by David Macfarlane. The Bibliophile.

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 Passenger Seat v. The Burning Heart of the World — The Tournament of Books Leon Hendrix kicks off the Zombie Round at the 2026 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.

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!

A graphic labelled "LPG shortlist, 2026 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing" with three book covers: Don Gillmor's On Oil; Ira Wells' On Book Banning; and Maggie Helwig's Encampment. The Writers Trust logo is at the top right hand corner.

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

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