This August heat has us powering through our reading lists over here at Invisible HQ, so we’re already looking to re-stock our shelves with shiny new books for the fall. We thought we’d make your reading easier by rounding up lists by our favourite book recommenders: CBC Books Fall Preview gives you the “most exciting […]
Hey, remember when we asked you all to guess the Jays’ (and Bautista’s home run) record back in March? Well, the time has come to declare a winner! GRIFFIN CLARK has won two tickets to the Jays’ July 30 game against the Orioles. They’re pretty good seats, too! Thanks to everyone who played along. Bautista […]
HEY-O! We’re giving away two wristbands to Gridlock — one on Instagram and one on Twitter. The game is simple: follow us and retweet/repost with the hashtag #INVISIBLEGRIDLOCK to enter into a draw to win. We’re @invisibooks in all places. Winners will be randomly drawn and announced on FRIDAY MORNING (July 8). Gridlock Festival is […]
Last update of how things stand for the Blue Jays as of July 4, 2016 before we announce the winner next week: WINS: 46 LOSSES: 39 And here’s a reminder of the most popular guesses contestants made about where they think the Jays might be at in terms of wins/losses as of July 12, 2016: […]
Hey there, west coasters! Brent van Staalduinen is set to read from his debut novel Saints, Unexpected along with a couple of other excellent authors. Details are here: VICTORIA Date: Thursday, July 14, from 6-8pm Location: The Copper Owl, 1900 Douglas Street, Victoria (map) What: Readings by Brent van Staalduinen (Saints, Unexpected) and Laura Trunkey […]
Here’s an update of how things stand for the Blue Jays as of June 23, 2016: WINS: 40 LOSSES: 34 And here’s a reminder of the most popular guesses contestants made about where they think the Jays might be at in terms of wins/losses as of July 12, 2016: 44-47 47-44 48-43 49-42 50-41 51-40 […]
Hearty high-fives to all last night’s winners: Trillium Book Award: Kevin Hardcastle for Debris & Véronique-Marie Kaye for Marjorie Chalifoux Trillium Book Award for Poetry: Soraya Peerbaye for Tell: poems for a girlhood & David Ménard for Neuvaines And hearty thanks to the OMDC for managing such an excellent award and helping to promote books!
Don’t think we forgot about you, contest entrants! We’ve been waiting for the stats to accumulate, and for the next four weeks we’ll post updates every Tuesday morning with the latest Jays record and where all of you are at compared to it. So, without further ado, here’s an update of how things stand for […]
We are so super-duper thrilled to share that Andrew Forbes’s debut collection of short fiction, What You Need, is a finalist for the Trillium Book Award! Three cheers for Andrew! Three cheers for short stories! And three cheers for all the other excellent finalists! Get all the pertinent, non-Invisible-related info here.
Today was supposed to be the day we published the first book in Invisible’s new Throwback Books series. We’re publishing this post instead. One of the first things I decided to do after coming on board as Invisible’s publisher was to launch a new imprint. Throwback Books would reissue Canadian oddities now in the public […]