Tea Mutonji's debut novel Shut Up You're Pretty and Kai Cheng Thom's essay collection I Hope We Choose Love both appear on The Walrus' list of the Best Books of 2019, as selected by other Canadian authors.

Four Arsenal titles appear on Autostraddle's list of the best queer books of 2019: Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee's Death Threat, Kai Cheng Thom's I Hope We Choose Love, Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme's Hustling Verse, and Arielle Twist's Disintegrate/Dissociate!

Autostraddle has released its list of 30 new queer and feminist books to get excited about this fall, and it includes two of our own: Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry and I Hope We Choose Love.

UPDATE (March 12/20): Due to health concerns over the Corornavirus, the Growing Room festival has been cancelled.

Books by Ivan Coyote, Tea Mutonji, Kai Cheng Thom, and Arielle Twist, as well as an anthology edited by Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme, appear on the recommended reading lists of several of our favourite authors, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada.

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Xtra interviews Lambda Literary Award winner Zena Sharman about her new book The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health.