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🚀 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.

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A 50 Books for 50 Years graphic featuring the cover of The Clarion by Nina Dunic. The cover features bold, graphic artwork with a textured, deep indigo background. There is an extremely close-up graphic of a section of a trumpet, and arcing around the image centered on the cover in tall, white, all-caps text is the title with the author’s name in smaller white font below. The text reads: “Literary Press Group of Canada, Celebrating 50 Years Supporting Literature. Invisible Publishing.”

🎺 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.

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Thanks very much for reading, Alex.

Dead Writers: Stories

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.

Michael Sikkema : Contemporary Vispo Conversations : Kate Siklosi, Dani Spinosa and Amanda Earl Small Press Intravues: Occasional Interviews with writers working and publishing in the small press ecosystem Interview #19: Kate Siklosi ...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Michael Sikkema : Contemporary Vispo Conversations : Kate Siklosi, Dani Spinosa and Amanda Earl / @invisibooks.bsky.social @timglaseteditions.bsky.social ;
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Red swirl graphic The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic The Sunburst Award 2025 Shortlist: Barnet, Frankie — Mood Swings (McClelland & Stewart) Hegele, Sydney — Bird Suit (Invisible Publishing) Hopkinson, Nalo — Blackheart Man (Simon & Schuster) Lubrin, Canisia — Code Noir (Alfred A. Knopf Canada) Smith, Clayton B. — A Seal of Salvage (Breakwater Books)

📣✨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.
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Most Anticipated: Our 2025 Fall Fiction Preview · Blog Post · 49th Shelf All the fiction you'll be falling in love with in the second half of 2025. 

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!

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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:

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The Northern: A Novel A novel concerned with sports, labor, growing up, and God, The Northern is a funny and heartbreaking book about the series of disappointments that characterize the progress of growing up.

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: Chasing Baseball Across Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales · Invisible Publishing by Dale Jacobs 240 pages / 8" x 5" Published 1 April 2025 SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / Essays & Writings Books

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...

10 Canadian poetry books to expand your mind. Canadian poetry—not actually written in maple syrup! Not entirely about beavers! (Although I have certainly written about beavers.) Canada is a complicated place, living in the shadow of the U.S., …

Got a chance to curate a list of 10 Canadian poetry books for Lithub!

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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:

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Book covers for 1. Cut Side Down, poetry by Jessi MacEachern ‪(Invisible Publishing), with the title text cut out of blue paper, revealing patterned red beneath. Cut Side Down feasts on books. Diving face-first into the bookcase, MacEachern calls up the pleasure and pain of influence in sumptuous, body-and-mind-bending poems. Here Virginia Woolf, Orlando, and companions attend salons hosted by Clark Coolidge and Renee Gladman, while Lorine Niedecker scolds Charles Olson in class. There are glimpses of the poet too—a lost boy in rural Prince Edward Island, a young woman in Montréal—as she concocts worlds and words. Immersed in a life of reading, and spying through the keyholes of fantasy, Cut Side Down melds lyric and conceptual experiment in a delightful banquet of autobiography, desire, invention, landscape and memory. https://invisiblepublishing.com/product/cut-side-down/ 2. Future Howl by Pat Lowther and Bliss Carman award-winning poet Sue Goyette (Gaspereau Press), with a letterpress wolf on a brown background. Sue Goyette’s poem Future Howl plots a fulsome radius of the experience of trauma and survival, one that encompasses much about living in the aftermath that skirts straightforward description and yet works in the frequency of courage and joy. Propelled by Goyette’s declarative voice, sense of humour and side-slipping imagery, each page of the poem is “a microdose of ars poetica” infused with intertextual and transformative guidance from the painter Bob Ross, the live-cam company of a pair of endangered red wolves, and a private-to-public reckoning that is grounded in this singular time. http://www.gaspereau.com/bookInfo.php?AID=0&AISBN=9781554472796

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!)

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Groundwork: The best of the third decade of above/ground press: 2013-2023 (Invisible Publishing, 2023) gets a mention at LitHub! Happy Canada Day! Yukon poet Dawn Macdonald was good enough to mention Groundwork: The best of the third decade of above/ground press: 2013...

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 ;
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Book cover, BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING, Peter Counter Invisible Publishing, 2020

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.
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Dark Entries: A Review of Dead Writers Read Miriam Richer's "Dark Entries: A Review of Dead Writers” in Issue 69: Spring 2025 of The Ex-Puritan, then check out the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

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.

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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...

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Hot Books for Hot Times · Lists · 49th Shelf You know how drinking warm beverages is supposed to help you acclimatize to extreme heat? Well, we think these books will do the same.

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

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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Cara-Lyn Morgan Cara-Lyn Morgan is a citizen of the Metis Nation and the descendant of enslaved people in North America.  She was born in Oskana, the area ...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Cara-Lyn Morgan / @invisibooks.bsky.social ;
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The cover of Andrew Forbes' The Diapause. The background is a solid dark green. In the middle, there is what looks like a wavy, circular chunk cut out of the background; it looks like the rings on a tree stump, except the middle appears to be stars on a black sky, with wavy purple lines joining points together

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...

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Jessi MacEachern's Cut Side Down Books about books

"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.

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Happy to send you an ARC!

Book: Diving Board by Tomás Downey, tr. by Sarah Moses

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

Happy to send you an ARC!

Thanks for sharing, Joseph! Diving Board is actually our third book in this revamped international translation list. Our first 2 came out in 2024: Yilin Wang’s The Lantern and the Night Moths and Barrack Zailaa Rima’s graphic novel Beirut (translated by Carla Calargé and Alexandra Gueydan-Turek).

A photo of writer Teri Vlassopoulos. She is a medium skin toned woman with long brown hair, wearing glasses and a deep red linen jumpsuit. She stands in a minimally-decorated room, leaning against a credenza, with eucalyptus branches in a vase behind her right side.

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).

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Day 4 of #UnreliableNarrator Horror Week!
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Book cover for Like One of The Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life (Beacon Press), with a maid in a blue dress and orange apron ironing red cloth, the drawing cut off at the neck. A new edition of Alice Childress’s classic novel about African American domestic workers in Harlem in the 1950’s, featuring a foreword by Roxane Gay. https://www.beacon.org/Like-One-of-The-Family-P1262.aspx

Book cover for Searching for Terry Punchout by Tyler Hellard (Invisible Publishing), with a blue shirt, headless, against a blue and red background, with title text in a yellow sunburst pattern. Garden State meets King Leary in this slapshot debut novel. Adam Macallister’s sportswriting career is about to end before it begins, but he’s got one last shot—a Sports Illustrated profile about hockey’s most notorious goon, the reclusive Terry Punchout—who also happens to be Adam’s estranged father. Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon Canada First Novel Award & Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. https://invisiblepublishing.com/product/searching-for-terry-punchout/

Daily #SmallPress #books: Like One of The Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life (@beaconpress.bsky.social) www.beacon.org/Like-One-of-...
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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!

A hand holding up three books in front of the sign to the Bookmark bookstore in Halifax. The books are Why Fish Piss Matters by Andy Brown, Encampment by Maggie Helwig, and Living Expenses by Teri Vlassopoulous

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!