Arsenal Pulp Press

07/30/2025

Congratulations to Sarah Leavitt, Lambda Literary Award finalist in the category of LGBTQ+ Comics for her memoir SOMETHING, NOT NOTHING: A Story of Grief and Love!

07/08/2025

At Arsenal Pulp Press, we

06/18/2025

Join us at the launch of the Read Local BC eBookshelf, an innovative collection showcasing the best of BC-published ebooks for library patrons, on Thursday, Jun 19 at the Burnaby Public Library (McGill). Featuring readings by Wayde Compton and Candie Tanaka!

06/07/2025

Congratulations to By Teresa Wong for winning not one but TWO Alberta Literary Awards for her beautiful graphic memoir ALL OUR ORDINARY STORIES - the Memoir Award and the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction! ❤

06/06/2025

Congratulations to Vincent Anioke, Danuta Gleed Literary Award runner-up for PERFECT LITTLE ANGELS!

Congratulations to 28th Annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award runners-up Vincent Anioke for Perfect Little Angels (Arsenal Pulp Press) and Nicola Winstanley for Smoke (Buckrider Books) Wolsak and Wynn Publishers. 🎉✨📚

📖 Of Vincent Anioke’s Perfect Little Angels, the jury said: “The stories in Perfect Little Angels demonstrate remarkable range and depth. Each life contained within is immersive and unexpected, their desires sharply felt, the larger thematic concerns — the nature of violence, fragile masculinity, tradition, and class — grounded with vivid specificity. This is a debut from a writer already in full command of his power.”

📖 Of Nicola Winstanley’s Smoke, the jury said: “With unforgettable characters that come alive off the page, Smoke will stay with you long after reading. Linked by young voices struggling to find their way in the world, these screams of youthful angst ring heartbreakingly true. This collection is seamlessly constructed by a talented hand.”

Please join us in congratulating this year's runners-up, finalists, and winner! Read the full announcement: https://bit.ly/3ZMstxR 🔗




Photos of Vincent Anioke and book cover Perfect Little Angels. Photo of Nicola Winstanley and book cover Smoke. TWUC logo. Danuta Gleed Literary Award 2024. Runners-up.

Photo of Vincent: Samuel Nwaokpani. Photo of Nicola: Chris Palmer.

06/04/2025

Danuta Gleed Literary Award and Dayne Ogilvie Writers’ Trust Award finalist Vincent Anioke at the Toronto Public Library on June 10! Book sales by Another Story Bookshop

Award-winning Nigerian-Canadian author Vincent Anioke discusses Perfect Little Angels—his powerful debut short story collection exploring masculinity, religion, marginalization, suppressed q***rness and self-expression through the lens of (un)conditional love. In conversation with writer, translator and multi-arts curator Nedra Rodrigo.

📅 Tuesday, June 10 at 7 pm
📍 Toronto Reference Library, Beeton Hall

Books available for purchase from Another Story Bookshop—have yours signed by the author at 6 pm!

Reserve your free tickets: https://ow.ly/lloC50W2VEm

05/31/2025

We

05/28/2025

! Come out to see Lea Taranto launch her beautiful new YA novel A DROP IN THE OCEAN in conversation with Drew McEwan at Another Story Bookshop this Thursday, 7 pm!

05/20/2025

Congratulations to Greg Kearney, whose novel AN EVENING WITH BIRDY O'DAY is a finalist for The Leacock Medal for Humour!

05/20/2025

🌊 New! A DROP IN THE OCEAN by Lea Taranto is an engaging YA novel about a girl in treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder that combats the dehumanizing stigma around mental illness.

Sixteen-year-old Mira Durand has just been checked into the secure unit of the Residency Adolescent Treatment Centre for obsessive compulsive and comorbid disorders. Four years of being passed around different psych wards like a hot potato have only worsened her OCD and anorexia. Her brutal, religious compulsions, which she believes keep her mom safe, make her less of a clean freak and more of a freak freak. No wonder her only friend is her journal.

At the Residency’s Ward 2, Mira discovers that her shrink is a fellow fantasy nerd and that her wardmates have enough of their own high-risk behaviours to tolerate hers. The complex friendships she forms with them (including a first love), the slow trust she builds with her treatment team, and the outside and family visits she earns give her things to look forward to beyond the drudgery of her compulsions. But it takes visiting Gung Gung, her dying maternal grandfather, for her to realize that to truly live, she must fight the cognitive distortions at the heart of her compulsions.

Based on the author’s personal experience, A DROP IN THE OCEAN is a gritty, humanizing portrait of living with mental illness.

⭐️ “A brave, beautiful novel that will speak to teens everywhere who struggle with mental health challenges. Mira is a compelling character, privy to a darkness that adults don’t always see but so many teens will immediately recognize. She’s also creative, romantic, funny, and kind, the literary BFF you never knew you were waiting for. This book is a gem.” —Annabel Lyon, author of CONSENT

👉 Out now in Canada & the US. Get your copy at your fave local bookstore, or order direct from Arsenal Pulp Press: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/A/A-Drop-in-the-Ocean

🇨🇦 Shop local: https://www.indiebookstores.ca/book/9781551529813/