We're looking forward to being live in person at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) on May 11 and 12, where we'll be joined by graphic novel authors Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee (Death Threat), Gord Hill (The Antifa Comic Book), and Teresa Wong (Dear Scarlet).
If you're in Vancouver on May 18 and 19, please join us at VanCAF, the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival that takes place at the Roundhouse Community Centre. We'll be selling our graphic novels and comic books, and Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee (Death Threat), Gord Hill (The Antifa Comic Book), and Teresa Wong (Dear Scarlet) will be participating on panels and signing books!
We're thrilled that three of our titles have been named finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards: Death Threat by Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee; Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry, edited by Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme; and Scorpio Rising: A Queer Film Classic by R. L. Cagle.
The call for submissions for the next title in the VS. Books imprint edited by Vivek Shraya is now open, with a twist: a mentorship and publishing opportunity for BIPOC writers in Canada over the age of 50.
Tune in to Canada Reads, the great Canadian book debate, from March 4–7, 2024, when Shut Up You’re Pretty by Téa Mutonji will be championed by actor Kudakwashe Rutendo.
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!
In this video for the Writers' Trust of Canada, Tea Mutonji reads from her acclaimed story collection Shut Up You're Pretty.
Téa Mutonji, author of Shut Up You're Pretty, is profiled in the Toronto Star.
Shut Up You're Pretty, the debut short story collection by Tea Mutonji, is on the Canada Reads longlist for 2024!
Two debut poetry collections - Cicely Belle Blain's Burning Sugar and Jillian Christmas' The Gospel of Breaking - are finalists for the 2021 League of Canadian Poet Awards.