Shayda Kafai is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. As a queer, Mad, femme of colour, she commits to enacting the many ways we can ...

Amber Dawn (My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems) and Eve Lazarus (Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City's Hidden History) are finalists for the 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prizes!

Editors David Ly (Mythical Man) and Daniel Zomparelli (Everything Is Awful and You’re a Terrible Person) are looking for submissions of poetry and short fiction for a new anthology dedicated to the queerness of monsters, to be published by Arsenal Pulp Press in fall 2022.

Editor Joshua Whitehead talks to Shelagh Rogers on CBC Radio's "The Next Chapter" about Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction.

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.

We are thrilled to announce that three of our books have been named as finalists for the 2020 Governor General's Literary Awards: Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi (fiction), Rebent Sinner by Ivan Coyote (non-fiction), and Render by Sachiko Murakami (poetry)!

Two Arsenal books have been named finalists for the Amazon First Novel Award, presented by The Walrus: Vanishing Monuments by John Elizabeth Stintzi and Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi!

Congratulations to Jillian Christmas, author of The Gospel of Breaking, who has been named the 2021 winner of the Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award from the League of Canadian Poets!

Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, edited by Joshua Whitehead, has won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Anthology!

Jul Maroh is the author of the graphic novel Blue Is the Warmest Color, the New York Times bestseller that was made into an acclaimed and controversial film that won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or ...