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Goose Lane Editions

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Canada’s oldest independent publisher, representing some of the best and brightest authors in the country. linktr.ee/GooseLane

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Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · yesterday

Take the first look at The Bird Healer’s Daughter by bestselling author Beth Powning! Releasing in April 2027, The Bird Healer’s Daughter is a richly imagined historical novel that follows a group of remarkable women as they fight for justice, equality, and a better future for women and children.

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · last wk.

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Officer Shimada and the Disappearing Girl by Will Ferguson, @gooselane.bsky.social & When is a Man by Aaron Shepard, @touchwooded.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookstagram

Book covers for 1.‬ Officer Shimada and the Disappearing Girl by Will Ferguson, Goose Lane Editions: In southern Japan, a young woman enters an elevator in a bar building late at night. But when the doors open, she has vanished. Fifteen years later, her younger brother Kaito has risen up the ranks to police inspector, still haunted by his sister’s disappearance. On a sleepy island in Okinawa, Kaito tracks down Mr. Shimada, a senior officer who once solved an impossible elevator crime decades earlier. The unlikely pair travels back to the city where Kaito’s sister first disappeared — to the very elevator where it occurred. Together, they retrace her steps and uncover the truth of what happened that night. https://gooselane.com/products/officer-shimada-and-the-disappearing-girl and 2. When is a Man by Aaron Shepard, TouchWood Editions: Paul Rasmussen is a young ethnographer and academic recovering from prostate cancer. Broken, he retreats to the remote forests and towns of the Immitoin Valley. As an outsider, he discovers how difficult it is to know a place, let alone become a part of it. Then, a drowned man and a series of encounters with the locals force him to confront the valley’s troubled past and his own uncertain future. https://touchwoodeditions.com/products/when-is-a-man

Samantha eff Jones @sjonespoet.bsky.social · 3w ago

Day 5 of the #SealeyChallenge. Devotional Forensics by Joseph Kidney, published by @gooselane.bsky.social. #Poetry #CanLit gooselane.com/products/dev...

The poetry book Devotional Forensics standing in front of a pink flowering vine. The book cover is white and red and features an icon with the face scratched out.

River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 4w ago

More literary love for a stellar spread of fiction we’re proud to be celebrating this year! Thank you to Quill & Quire for compiling an excellent autumnal preview. Go to the full list: quillandquire.com/omni/2026-fa... #readers #litfic #mustread

Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 4w ago

Night Birds by Margaret Sweatman, published by @gooselane.bsky.social, is an all-absorbing thriller, whose morally complex characters are called upon to reckon with the power that runs beneath their feet and the consequences of their own complicity. youtu.be/pqY3jm8V7Nc #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit

Reading: Night Birds by Margaret Sweatman

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 4w ago

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Night Birds by Margaret Sweatman, @gooselane.bsky.social & Event Horizon by Balsam Karam, translated by Saskia Vogel, @bookhugpress.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookstagram

Book cover for 1. Event Horizon by Balsam Karam, translated by Saskia Vogel, Book*hug Press: Seventeen-year-old Milde is from the Outskirts, a place beyond the mountains where the dirt is corpse-rich, where mothers and daughters, banished from society, make their living—without rights, access to care, or legal status. But Milde refuses to accept the order of things and, together with some friends, she revolts against the government’s injustice. Arrested, imprisoned, and tortured, Milde is eventually presented with a final choice: to be executed publicly or, as part of an experiment, to be launched into space, into a black hole called the Mass. She chooses the Mass, opting to face its fathomless depth and loneliness rather than hurt the morale of her weary allies back home. https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/balsam-karam/event-horizon-by-balsam-karam-translated-by-saskia-vogel/ and 2. Night Birds by Margaret Sweatman, Goose Lane Editions: A catastrophe on a mountain in Transylvania sends toxic cyanide hurtling through rivers and streams, destroying an ecosystem and killing hundreds. As the impact of the mining breach stretches beyond the country’s borders, it ensnares Farrar and Clio, a couple living on another continent, who begin to understand that their business interests are intertwined with enterprises more sinister than they’d realized. https://gooselane.com/products/night-birds

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 4w ago

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Old Man, The Boy, and the Dog by Kevin Kaukuarjuk Qamaniq-Mason, illustrated by Vinícius Xavier, @inhabitmedia.bsky.social & In This House Are Many Women and other poems by Sheree Fitch, @gooselane.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstagram

Book covers for 1. The Old Man, The Boy, and the Dog by Kevin Kaukuarjuk Qamaniq-Mason, illustrated by Vinícius Xavier, Inhabit Media: An Inuit retelling of an Aesop’s fable. A boy and his grandfather decide to gift a sled dog to the boy’s aunt. During their short journey they are met with comments by others in their camp. The dog isn’t strong enough; the boy isn’t gracious to his grandfather; the dog has too much work to do. What will the aunt say when they finally reach their destination? Ages 6-8. https://inhabitmedia.com/2026/01/23/the-old-man-the-dog-and-the-boy/ and 2. In This House Are Many Women and other poems by Sheree Fitch, Goose Lane Editions: Originally released in 1992 and re-issued with new poems in 2005, this raw, heartfelt collection explores the realities of women’s lives and the many kinds of shelter that women both create for themselves and give each other. This edition is now available once again, remaining as relevant today as ever. https://gooselane.com/products/in-this-house-are-many-women

Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · 4w ago

☀Staff summer picks ☀ Looking for an unforgettable thriller to spend the summer with? Alan, our Managing Editor, recommends David Bergen's Days of Feasting and Rejoicing. Dark, dangerous, and delectable, this novel will have you at the edge of your seat. Available at gooselane.com/DaysOfFeasting

River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · last mo.

The Quill & Quire — one of Canada’s premier digital magazines of the Canadian book trade—shared its fall preview for short fiction, poetry, and graphic novels and we’re thrilled to see four of the books we’ve been celebrating on the list. quillandquire.com/omni-categor... #poetry #shortstory

Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · last mo.

🍂Announcing our fall list! FICTION: 📕 Two Days in Mayaro by Pamela Mordecai 📙 Officer Shimada and the Disappearing Girl by Will Ferguson 📕 Your Breath in Charcoal by Nicholas Herring all books available to pre-order now at gooselane.com/new

Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · last mo.

🥾Calling all outdoors lovers 🥾 Plan your summer adventures with Hiking Trails of Cape Breton Island, out today! Canada’s East Coast is home to stunning nature, picturesque seaside communities, and endless opportunities for exploration. gooselane.com/HikingTrailsOfCapeBreton

A graphic with the text at the top reading "New from Goose Lane Editions. Happy Pub Day!" The graphic features two images, one of the author Michael Haynes, and the other of the cover of Hiking Trails of Cape Breton Island, 3rd Edition. There is a link at the bottom reading "gooselane.com/HikingTrailsOfCapeBreton.

Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tonight!!

KIRBY@itsakirby.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THIS MONDAY NIGHT (06 JUL) I have the grand good fortune to open in support of #LochBaillie 's exquisite @gooselane.bsky.social debut, RIVER RUNNING w #AmandaMerpaw + @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social Hosted by mostest, Jim Johnstone. RSVP @anotherstoryto.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ca/e/loch-baill...

Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The countdown is on for the Still Here Festival! This incredible event honours four centuries of Black heritage, resilience, and community in NB. The festival is accompanied by a book and exhibition, both launching at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery July 31, 5:00 pm. Learn more at stillherefestival.ca

James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Got my copy of a book I edited, published by @gooselane.bsky.social. Takao Tanabe is a great Canadian artist who will be celebrating his hundredth birthday in September.

Takao Tanabe: Inside Passage. A coffee-table-sized book featuring one of Tanabe’s paintings on the cover.

Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So excited for this 🤩

River Street@riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Coming soon 💫 Two Days in Mayaro — the new collection of short stories by acclaimed author Pamela Mordecai, forthcoming September 8, 2026 with Goose Lane Editions. Request a review copy! www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... @gooselane.bsky.social #shortstories

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Mega Milk: Essays on Family, Fluidity, Whiteness, and Cows by @meganmilks.bsky.social, @feministpress.bsky.social & Terrarium by Matthew Walsh, @gooselane.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Book cover for Mega Milk: Essays on Family, Fluidity, Whiteness, and Cows by Megan Milks, Feminist Press: An ABA Indie Next List Pick for January 2026. A sparkling, funny, and often wrenching portrait-in-essays on the dairy industry, queer intimacy, family, fluidity, whiteness, and cows. https://feministpress.org/collections/new-releases/products/9781558613584-mega-milk

Book cover for Terrarium by Matthew Walsh, Goose Lane Editions: Shortlisted, Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Longlisted, Nelson Ball Prize. Raw, confessional, and often messy, Terrarium continues Matthew Walsh’s exploration of Queer identity and desire against the lonely highs and lows of depression and addiction. In this new collection, Walsh begins where their debut collection, These are not the potatoes of my youth, left off. Writing in their trademark conversational style, Walsh wanders from Toronto parkettes “with remnants of magnolia leaves” to California, “a long/black cocktail dress the night lights/amethyst and citrine against the arm/muscle of the sea,” their voice intimate and exposed, a whisper between friends or lovers. And then, when they ruminate on influences and themes as diverse as the poetry of Frank O’Hara and Gwendolyn MacEwen, the vagaries of Instagram, and the reimagination of Miss Havisham in a Toronto bathhouse, they offer readers the opportunity to think deeply or laugh loudly, reaching out to close the gap between us. https://gooselane.com/collections/poetry/products/terrarium

Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Attention art lovers: Qillaniq is available now! This stunning book accompanies the 2026 edition of the International exhibition of Indigenous art at the National Gallery of Canada. Learn more, or order your copy now, at gooselane.com/Qillaniq

All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 3mo ago

+ non-fiction from @gooselane.bsky.social and @biblioasis.bsky.social

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Moon as Salted Lemon by @clayrebenz.bsky.social, @driftwoodpress.bsky.social & Non-Prophet by @quratdar.bsky.social, @gooselane.bsky.social/icehouse poetry. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Book cover for Moon as Salted Lemon by Clayre Benzadón (Driftwood Press): A debut collection of multilingual poetry of linguistic agility, compassion, wordplay, and intellect which queers language to inspire complicated truths. Shortlisted for Bisexual Poetry in the Lambda Literary Awards (winners announced June 12th): https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/. https://www.driftwoodpress.com/product-page/moon-as-salted-lemon

$Book cover for Non-Prophet by Qurat Dar (icehouse poetry/Goose Lane Editions): Shortlisted for LGBTQ+ Poetry in the Lambda Literary Awards (winners announced June 12th): https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/. Raw, reverent, and bursting with searing vulnerability, Non-Prophet canvases the electric tension between devotion and doubt to gods both personal and ubiquitous, and reflects on the natural and built worlds in their claims to the sacred. Winner of the inaugural Claire Harris Poetry Prize, Qurat Dar’s bold debut collection explores what it is to grapple with faith that’s “just another language you’re losing, or one you never learned to speak.” Weaving through the boundaries of language and form, Non-Prophet meditates on things “just mundane enough to be holy / just holy enough to be mundane” — the death of a bird, the cries of mid-nightmare prayers, the misplaced shame of what it is to bleed. Dar’s poems both rage and reconcile, holding gently the pieces of a fractured identity. https://gooselane.com/products/non-prophet$

49th Shelf @49thshelf.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Horror of Small-Town Childhood: The Chat with Jon Claytor, author of Nowhere @gooselane.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/05... #CanLit #GraphicNovel

The Horror of Small-Town Childhood: The Chat with Jon Claytor · Blog Post · 49th Shelf

Jon Claytor’s debut graphic novel Nowhere (Goose Lane) is a profound and often hilarious meditation on growing up in a world where monsters are real. ...

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Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"I appreciate Sweatman’s grappling with themes of environmental collapse and personal integrity, her vivid powers of description and development of complex characters." ❤️

Prairie Fire Magazine@prairiefiremag.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New book review! Check out Night Birds by Margaret Sweatman! Review by Janet S. Pollock. www.prairiefire.ca/night-birds-by-margaret-sweatman/

Cover of Night Birds by Margaret Sweatman

All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're sharing our Pride Month book picks, which include 8 new and recent books by LGBTQ+ authors, spanning fiction, poetry, memoir, and drama. Find them all here: alllitup.ca/8-fabulous-b...

A graphic labelled 8 Fabulous Books for Pride Month 2026. The featured book covers include Not All Dragons by David Ly, Soundtrack by Michael V. Smith, Village Dreams by Jay Quint, Kainchee Lagaa & Jhooti by Zaiba Baig, River Running by Loch Baillie, The Blue House by Sky Gilbert, The Last Caravan by Anna Byrne, and The Way Disabled People Love Each Other by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.

periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · 3mo ago

newly posted: Qurat Dar : What makes a good poem / @quratdar.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @canadianpoets.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/qura...

Qurat Dar : What makes a good poem

How does a poem begin? How does a poem begin? I was going to say a poem really begins when the poet begins because every poe...

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Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Two more readings coming up on our Atlantic tour. If you are in St. Andrews, join us at McGuire Chocolate with Bucca dell'Acqua books, or in Fredericton, at the Westminster Bookmark! @gooselane.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @melaniesiebert.bsky.social

Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Congratulations, Joseph!! What a deserving collection ❤️

Griffin Poetry@griffinpoetryprize.bsky.social · 3mo ago

✨ We are pleased to announce that Joseph Kidney (josephkidney.bsky.social), author of 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙨, is the winner of the 2026 Canadian First Book Prize! ✨ Join us in congratulating Joseph and his publisher, icehouse poetry / @gooselane.bsky.social!

Hollay Ghadery @hollay.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The act of mothering is open to anybody who wishes to engage in it: not just cis-women, biological females or, I believe, not just people who have children. Motherwork can be done by anyone who nurtures. These books prioritize nurturing perspectives and narratives. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/05...

Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Melanie and I kick off our Atlantic tour in Halifax this Tuesday at the Trident. A decade ago I was there with my first book, Twoism. It's awesome to return knowing how beautiful the city, poets and people are. @melaniesiebert.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Jon Claytor's Nowhere is a finalist for the 2026 Amazon Canada First Novel Award, co-presented by @thewalrus.ca! 🤩 Not only is this Jon's debut novel, it's also the first graphic novel to ever appear on the AFNA’s shortlist in its 50-year history. Learn more at gooselane.com/NowhereShortlisted

A gradient purple graphic titled "Nowhere Shortlisted for 2026 Amazon Canada First Novel Award." The body of the graphic contains two images, one of Jon Claytor and one of the book cover for Nowhere with the seal of the 50th anniversary of the AFNA shortlist. There is a quote above both images that reads "Writing, and living, can be a solitary experience full of uncertainty. To find connection with other writers and readers through this book makes all the silent hours, drawing, and writing, more than worth it."

BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Outcaste by Sheila James: the opening scene of the novel remains fresh in my mind, even many months later. www.thetemzreview.com/mccauley-jam...

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Reviewed by Marcie McCauley

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