Lindsay Wong's debut memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family has been shortlisted for the $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction.
Joshua Whitehead's debut novel Jonny Appleseed is longlisted for the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Larissa Lai talks about her new novel The Tiger Flu -- her first in sixteen years -- in Quill and Quire's November 2018 cover story: “There was an openness and a willingness to free-fall that I miss. This has been a fundamentally different experience in writing.”
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice has been named one of the 10 best books of 2018 by Broadly, Vice's website and digital channel dedicated that centers the lives of women, non-binary, and LGBTQ people.
In this podcast from Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reads from her acclaimed novel Sketchtasy along with Porochista Khakpour, who reads from her powerful memoir Sick.
We're excited to have four Arsenal books on the Globe and Mail's prestigious "Globe 100" list of the best books of 2018: Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead, Little Fish by Casey Plett, Sodom Road Exit by Amber Dawn, and The Woo-Woo by Lindsay Wong!
Larissa Lai's visionary feminist sci-fi novel The Tiger Flu, about a community of parthenogenic women waging war on the patriarchy, is featured over at one of our favourite sites, Autostraddle.
All hail Sketchtasy! NPR names Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's incendiary novel one of the best of 2018: "Sketchtasy is a powerful firecracker of a novel; it's not just one of the best books of the year, it's an instant classic of queer literature."
2018 has been a wild, nonstop ride for us at the press - and we are grateful.
Lindsay Wong's acclaimed memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family has been longlisted for the 2019 edition of CBC's Canada Reads!