Arsenal Pulp Press

Arsenal Pulp Press Leading 🇨🇦 indie publisher of LGBTQ2S+ & BIPOC stories. We publish literary fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, poetry, and YA & children’s books. 📚🏳️‍🌈

We ❤️ q***r books! Since 1991, when Arsenal Pulp Press began publishing gay and le***an literature in Canada on a regula...
06/01/2026

We ❤️ q***r books! Since 1991, when Arsenal Pulp Press began publishing gay and le***an literature in Canada on a regular basis, we have been dedicated to celebrating, amplifying, and honouring the stories of our QTBIPOC and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities.

It has been a privilege to work with authors, festivals, booksellers, and readers who have forged new paths and possibilities as well as built spaces for subsequent generations of artists to put their stories to paper. We take great pride in the books we’ve published and hope you’ll take great pride in reading them. 🌈

From now until the end of June, save big on incredible 2SLGBTQIA+ reads during our annual Pride Month sale:

👉 Take 30% off + free shipping on any & all 2SLGBTQIA+ titles, both in print & forthcoming (with a min. order of $30 or more) on https://arsenalpulp.com/ *

Use coupon code at checkout: PRIDE

*Free shipping to Canada & the US, regular postal rates only. Offer expires on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. PT.

Congratulations to Léa Taranto - her YA novel A DROP IN THE OCEAN is a Forest of Reading White Pine Award Honour Book!
05/15/2026

Congratulations to Léa Taranto - her YA novel A DROP IN THE OCEAN is a Forest of Reading White Pine Award Honour Book!

PIZZA BEFORE WE DIE is a heart-wrenching personal account of the ongoing devastation in Gaza by an ordinary citizen who ...
05/05/2026

PIZZA BEFORE WE DIE is a heart-wrenching personal account of the ongoing devastation in Gaza by an ordinary citizen who bears witness to the undoing of his community and homeland.

The human tragedy unfolding in Gaza has been made all the more tragic by the widespread denial and apathy expressed by much of the rest of the world. Here is an urgent first-hand account of life and death in Gaza, written not by a war correspondent, but an ordinary citizen whose life was upended when the genocide began.

In the midst of the chaos, Hassan Kanafani began posting about his daily experiences on Reddit. Three activists, moved by his words, started collecting his posts without a clear plan—only the conviction that his story needed to be seen and the hope that somehow, it might help raise funds for him. By chance, those posts found their way to award-winning author Yasuko Thanh, who helped Hassan frame them for a book.

Hassan’s missives are a vivid, heartbreaking account of war and its toll—on families, on children, on innocent civilians. These are stories of hunger, survival, and death. These are stories that demand to be heard. And yet, stories like these are not being told: Mainstream media has largely remained silent. Foreign journalists are barred from Gaza. Local journalists are being killed. In this vacuum, Hassan’s voice breaks through out of the darkness and into the light.

PIZZA BEFORE WE DIE is literary journalism at its rawest and most urgent—clear eyed, unflinching, and deeply humane. Hassan captures the unspeakable horror of the tragedy in Gaza with restraint and precision, never sensationalizing, always bearing witness. It is a work of raw power and emotion, and a reminder that in the midst of chaos and tragedy, our shared humanity remains intact.

A portion of proceeds from the sale of PIZZA BEFORE WE DIE will be donated to Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres.

🌟 “A raw work of witness from the ground level of a genocide.”
—Omar El Akkad, author of ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS

👉 Out now in Canada and the US. Get your copy from your favourite local bookstore, or order direct from Arsenal Pulp Press: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/P/Pizza-Before-We-Die

THE LIFE OF A CREATURE by Nadja Lubiw-Hazard is an astonishing debut story collection about the interconnection between ...
04/28/2026

THE LIFE OF A CREATURE by Nadja Lubiw-Hazard is an astonishing debut story collection about the interconnection between humans and animals navigating love, loss, and healing.

Creatures swim, slither, and soar their way through this stunning short story collection about the inextricable nature of humans and animals that celebrates and bears witness to our fellow creatures and to the complex emotional terrain of our own lives.

A woman’s personal trauma and anxiety are intertwined with the lives of the feral dogs abandoned in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. As a le***an love affair unravels, the secrets of a gift-giving crow are revealed. The life of a veterinarian is told through the animals that she has loved and that she has tried to save. A dying man dreams of returning as a vulture after death. The plight of sea turtles on the brink of extinction weaves through a mother's devastation over the loss of a daughter.

Beautiful in its renderings of human experience, THE LIFE OF A CREATURE is a tender and haunting book imbued with the deeply sensory intimacies of the animal world.

🌟 “A beautiful and complex book. The stories weave through the emotional terrain of death and love and of the roles that animals play in our lives, their intertwined relationship to us. I don't think I've ever read a book quite like this one.” —Deb Olin Unferth, author of BARN 8

👉 Out now in Canada and the US. Get your copy from your favourite local bookstore, or order direct from Arsenal Pulp Press: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-Life-of-a-Creature

Happy Earth Day! 🌎At Arsenal Pulp Press, we care about the environment. Here are a few things we’re doing to try to redu...
04/22/2026

Happy Earth Day! 🌎

At Arsenal Pulp Press, we care about the environment. Here are a few things we’re doing to try to reduce our carbon footprint:

• Optimizing our page counts to reduce paper waste
• Experimenting with typesetting to minimize excess pages
• Printing on paper made with 100% sustainable recycled fibre content whenever possible
• Printing domestically as much as possible

New! DRAG THING by Gabe Montesanti is a defiant yet tender memoir about drag culture and bipolar disorder that reveals t...
04/21/2026

New! DRAG THING by Gabe Montesanti is a defiant yet tender memoir about drag culture and bipolar disorder that reveals the hard-earned truths of being q***r in the American Midwest.

Montesanti recounts her immersive entrance into St. Louis drag culture performing as Fender Bender, a drag king who ultimately transforms into a “drag thing” (a performer who defies classification altogether).

Exploring the fluidity of gender and identity through parody and honest self-exposure, Montesanti learns about binding and the art of facial hair and contouring, and she designs and constructs her own elaborate costumes with minimal budget and maximal imagination. As she clambers for success on the stage with sn*******ng intensity and copes with estrangement from her family of origin, she fights for her sanity—for her life—in her battle with treatment-resistant bipolar disorder, until her drag persona and her rapid cycling mania become indistinguishable from each other.

DRAG THING is a raucous, invigorating story of breakdown and self-invention, delusion and authenticity, set against a backdrop of anti-q***r, anti-trans violence in which drag becomes a symbol of endangerment, glamour, and rebellion. Punctuated throughout with the author's drawings that bring “thingness” to life, DRAG THING is an anthem to the hard-won survival of a singular spirit.

🌟 ”I couldn’t put this book down! DRAG THING is an electrifying, poignant, and fiercely tender journey into the intimate world of drag and mental health. Gabe pulls us deep into the raw, vibrant core of q***r life—where chosen family, drag artistry, and survival collide in the face of a world that continues to marginalize and misunderstand.” —Julián Delgado Lopera, author of FIEBRE TROPICAL

👉 Out now in Canada and the US. Get your copy from your favourite local bookstore, or order direct from Arsenal Pulp Press: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/D/Drag-Thing

Today is ! BC Book Day celebrates the cultural and economic contributions of British Columbia's publishers and their di...
04/21/2026

Today is ! BC Book Day celebrates the cultural and economic contributions of British Columbia's publishers and their diverse range of independently published books and magazines. Together with our authors, illustrators, booksellers, librarians, reviewers, sales reps, and many more, we help to bring BC stories to life. Read Local BC

We're thrilled that our books and authors received SIX BC and Yukon Book Prize nominations this week!🎉BUZZKILL CLAMSHELL...
04/15/2026

We're thrilled that our books and authors received SIX BC and Yukon Book Prize nominations this week!

🎉BUZZKILL CLAMSHELL by Amber Dawn (Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize)
🎉A DROP IN THE OCEAN by Léa Taranto (Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize)
🎉OF FLOATING ISLES by Kawika Guillermo (Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes)
🎉SEARCHING FOR SERAFIM by Ruby Smith Díaz (Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize + Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes)
🎉THIS BOOK IS A KNIFE by L.E. Fox (Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes)

See link in comments. Congratulations to all the finalists!

New! SUPER CASTLE FUN PARK is a wild, beguiling novel about isolation, technology, and raising the dead by Daniel Zompar...
04/14/2026

New! SUPER CASTLE FUN PARK is a wild, beguiling novel about isolation, technology, and raising the dead by Daniel Zomparelli.

The dead want to speak to you. But are you ready to hear their words? SUPER CASTLE FUN PARK explores a group of people tending wistfully to their precarious lives. Dario is an aimless pessimist staying at a themed hotel who is tasked with the care of his aunt at the end of her life. Jeremy is Dario’s anxious boyfriend who is trapped in his home, plagued by disturbing visions. Chelsea is an ornery medium who spends her free time on her phone trolling a group of misfits in an online game. Each of them is at the precipice of change, and the people they are interconnected to, including the dead, will be there when it happens.

Moving seamlessly between quiet melancholy, wry humour, and the supernatural, SUPER CASTLE FUN PARK is a novel that defies expectations: a tragicomic, very human story about isolation, ghosts, technology, and our deep, abiding need for connection.

🌟 “I love this book. With writing that feels halfway to mysticism, like a blurting, flowing down from a mystic who also happens to be incredibly funny. This book squints in the bright light of reality and moves with the tidal pull of how we are haunted and how we haunt ourselves, what washes up and gets in our way, restricts our movements (or creates how we dance around what is disconcerting or inexplicable to us). It’s exciting, dry, and bright in its humour and unlike any literary voice I've ever read.” —Jenny Slate, author of LIFEFORM and LITTLE WEIRDS

👉 Out now in Canada and the US. Get your copy from your favourite local bookstore, or order direct from Arsenal Pulp Press: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/S/Super-Castle-Fun-Park

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