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Glass Bookshop

Glass Bookshop is Edmonton's independent bookstore that centres daring writing, underrepresented writers, and independent publishers. Now open in Latitude 53.

01/19/2024

The staff & custie picks gleaming like jewels in the light. 😍 Come check out what we’re obsessed with and add your own pick to the table. Ask us how!

Photo 1: stacks of books lined up on a white table with white staff or custie picks sheets peeking out of the top of them.

Photo 2: a photo of How to Lose the Time War, a light turquoise cover with a red cardinal on it, with a staff picks sheet from Moriah and Makda peeping out that reads: “the actual embodiment of ‘be gay, do crime,’ … but with time travel!”

Photo 3: Emily Riddle’s The Big Melt, with its green and purple cover, between stacks of books with red and orange covers.

Photo 4: One of Julie’s staff picks, Worn, nestled among other titles, with a staff picks sheet tucked inside that reads, “will change the way you think about clothing forever.”

Photo 5: A copy of The Shade Tree with a custie pick sheet from Sadie tucked in, who writes, “it’s a really good book & my mom wrote it!”

01/14/2024

We’re not making it to the shop today, babies! Back to regular hours on Tuesday. Stay warm and stay safe and take care of each other.

ID: a photo of the bookshop’s bookshelves through frosted glass. The text overlaid in light blue reads “closed due to cold, Sunday, January 14”

01/13/2024

❄️ Reduced hours this Saturday! We’ll be here until 4 pm and then will be off to take a snowy nap! ☃️

ID: The snowy window of Glass Bookshop which features a pink romance book on the left side of the frame titled Love in Winter Wonderland in the centre a blue and white hardcover book called Snowy Nap by Jan Brett whose cover has a sweet illustration of a little hedgehog bundled up for a winter nap.

01/12/2024

To our dear community: we are absolutely overwhelmed by the way you have shown up this week. .harm.reduction has let us know that they are at capacity for donations right now, so we are pausing donation acceptance at the shop. You have truly warmed our hearts, and we are so grateful to be in community with you. 4B is always accepting donations via e-transfer, if you are looking for more ways to help. We are in awe of you all, and you have our endless gratitude and solidarity.

ID: a blue and white image seeking warm weather donations with black text overlaid that reads: Donations paused! Thank you!

12/22/2023

Wanna find us over the holidays? Here’s everything you need to know before we go hang out with the elves!

ID: a green square with white text that reads: Glass Bookshop Holiday Hours: December 24: 12-3, December 25-26: Closed, December 28-30: Regular hours, December 31 - January 1: Closed.

12/13/2023

Sending big love and congrats to our friend for making the Canada Reads longlist! To celebrate, Jessica is going to be signing copies of BAD CREE that come in between today and December 24 (books will be available for pick up or delivery in the new year, but could make cute IOU gifts for the holidays)! Just head over to our website to place your order and we’ll take care of the rest!

ID: a Black woman wearing cream and white and a black mask and a white woman wearing a white shirt, a vest, a black toque and a black mask stand against white bookshelves holding tall stacks of Jessica Johns’s Bad Cree, which is red with white bold text.

12/06/2023

RESCHEDULED! Join us and our friends at .harm.reduction on Tuesday, December 19 at 7 pm for another naloxone training session hosted by 4B! We will be collecting cold-weather gear for 4B to distribute to community members as well as cash donations to support the work of 4B. Please come out! Use the link in our bio to register.

ID: a teal graphic featuring an illustration of four people gathering and greeting one another. The text reads: Naloxone training and info night. We will be collecting cold-weather gear for 4B to distribute to community members. Please bring new mittens, hats, etc. With 4B Harm Reduction Society, Tuesday, December 19 at 7 pm.

12/01/2023

TODAY! Swing by the shop at 6 pm for a reading from THE ALL + FLESH by the brilliant , ft. special guest ! Don’t miss this cozy evening of poetry (and then head to ’s SCHMOOZY event at DC3 right after)!

ID: a white hand holds two copies of Brandi Bird’s The All + Flesh over a wood floor. The cover shows a painting of a sun scape, with bright yellow on the top that fades into red and then into dark shades at the bottom of the cover. The person holding the books wears a black leather jacket, brown cords, and black boots.

11/29/2023

Join us and our friends at .harm.reduction on Thursday, December 7 at 7 pmfor another naloxone training session hosted by 4B! We will be collecting cold-weather gear for 4B to distribute to community members as well as cash donations to support the work of 4B. Please come out! Use the link in our bio to register.

ID: a teal graphic featuring an illustration of four people gathering and greeting one another. The text reads: Naloxone training and info night. We will be collecting cold-weather gear for 4B to distribute to community members. Please bring new mittens, hats, etc. With 4B Harm Reduction Society, Thursday, December 7 at 7 pm.

11/25/2023

just a thank-you on small business saturday for supporting us and keeping us here 🥹🩵

ID: a photo of the interior of the store. In the back is a white wall with a wooden shelf of spined books and a white table stacked with books to the right of the shelves. In the foreground are more stacks of books on white tables. The caramel wood floor peeks through and a lavender light fixture from above lights the scene.

11/24/2023

Come by the shop on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 at 6 pm to celebrate and the launch of THE ALL + FLESH! We’ll have a cozy little reading and book signing in shop that you won’t want to miss.

Brandi Bird’s long-anticipated debut poetry collection, THE ALL + FLESH, explores the concepts of health, language, place, and memory that connect its author to their chosen kin, blood relatives, and ancestral lands. By examining kinship in broader contexts, these frank, transcendent poems expose binaries that exist inside those relationships, then inspect and tease them apart in the hope of moving toward decolonial future(s). Bird’s work is highly concerned with how outer and inner landscapes move and change within the confines of the English language, particularly the “I” of the self, a tradition of movement that has been lost for many who don’t speak their Indigenous languages or live on their homelands. By exploring the landscapes the poet does inhabit, both internally and externally, Bird’s poems seek to delve into and reflect their cultural lineages—specifically Saulteaux, Cree, and Métis—and how these transformative identities shape the person they are today.

BRANDI BIRD is an Indigiqueer Saulteaux, Cree, and Métis writer and editor from Treaty 1 territory. They currently live and learn on the land of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam peoples. Bird’s poems have been published in Catapult, The Puritan, Room Magazine, and others. They are a fourth year BFA student at the University of British Columbia, but their heart is always yearning for the prairies.

ID: a photo of Brandi Bird, with long dark hair and bangs wearing a black shirt and a black leather jacket giving a peace sign in front of a building with a painted mural. The text reads: Brandi Bird, the all + flesh, Friday, December 1, 6 pm, Glass Bookshop.

11/22/2023

Tick tock! It’s almost advent season and we still have a handful of Short Story Advent Calendars on hand, for adults and for kids! Local legends work hard putting these together and they’re the highlight of our holidays, so get yourself a copy before they’re gone! 🎁

ID: A wooden shelf against grey tiles is stacked with green and red Short Story Advent Calendars on the top and bottom and blue and maroon Kids’ Short Story Advent Calendars in the middle.

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9553 76 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
T6C0K1

Opening Hours

Wednesday	11am - 7pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Website

http://www.glassbookshop.com/

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