Téa Mutonji (Alia Youssef)

Arsenal Pulp Press is a two-time winner at this year’s Publishing Triangle Awards, which celebrate LGBTQ+ fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The Vancouver publisher was nominated for four titles across several categories.

Téa Mutonji took home the $1,000 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction for her short-story collection Shut Up You’re Pretty.

I Hope We Choose Love, by Kai Cheng Thom, was the winner of the $1,000 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature. The four-title shortlist for this prize, which honours new works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from the non-gender-conforming, non-binary community, was dominated by Canadian authors, including Hazel Jane Plante and Arielle Twist.

Prior to the pandemic, the winners were to be revealed at a ceremony in New York on April 30.