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.
Becoming Unbecoming, the brilliant graphic memoir by British artist/author Una, has been named one of the best comics of the decade by The Comics Beat.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of the Lambda Literary Award-nominated novel Sketchtasy, is looking for submissions to a new non-fiction anthology entitled Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis, to be published by Arsenal Pulp Press in fall 2021.
Rebent Sinner, Ivan Coyote's eleventh book with Arsenal Pulp Press, has been named to the Toronto Star's list of the Top Ten Books of 2019.
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.
Dear Scarlet, Teresa Wong's acclaimed graphic memoir about postpartum depression, has been longlisted for CBC's 2020 edition of Canada Reads!
We're thrilled to announce that Kai Cheng Thom's essay collection I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World has been named a Stonewall Honor Book for the Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award by the American Library Association. The award was announced at the ALA's Midwinter conference in Philadelphia in January 2020.
Congratulations to Ivan Coyote, winner of the 2020 Freedom to Read Award from the Writers' Union of Canada!
Kimiko Tobimatsu is an employment and human rights lawyer by day. Kimiko Does Cancer, based on her own experience, is her first book.
Keet Geniza is a Filipinx-Canadian illustrator and comic artist. Born and raised in Manila, she moved to Toronto in 2006 and has since immersed herself in zines and comics as a way to document her struggles ...