Here's the next in a series of Canadian small press roundups.

🍁 I’ve listed a number of Vancouver’s Arsenal Pulp Press titles in small press roundups before. They put out a dozen or more books/year of literary fiction, graphic novels, nonfiction, and poetry. Their titles include:

• the CBC Canada Reads 2025 long-listed books All Our Ordinary Stories by Teresa Wong and Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew
• Beaver Hills Forever by Conor Kerr, whose last novel was a finalist for both the Giller and the Atwood Gibson prizes
• Perfect Little Angels by Vincent Anioke, which was a finalist for the 2024 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for a debut book by a LGBTQ2S+ writer
• Graphic memoir The Dissident Club: Chronicle of a Pakistani Journalist in Exile by Taha Siddiqui & Hubert Maury and translated by David Homel
• YA novel with a protagonist with OCD A Drop in the Ocean by Léa Taranto
• Asian-Canadian children's picture book Eddy's Shadow Puppets by Karina Zhou
• i cut my tongue on a broken country by poet Kyo Lee
• A Perfect Day for a Walk by the Water: Exploring Vancouver's Shores by Bill Arnott, a finalist for the 2025 Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
• Post-Man: Essays on Being a Neurodivergent Non-Binary Person by Alex Manley
• Staying Power: On Queerness, Inheritances, and the Families We Choose by Zena Sharman
• This Book Is a Knife: Radical Working-Class Strategies in the Age of Climate Change by L.E. Fox
• Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love by Sarah Leavitt, a finalist for the 2025 Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes
• Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves by Andrea Currie, just nominated (pdf) for the 2025 Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award
• and two on CBC's The best Canadian fiction of 2024: Bad Land by Corinna Chong and Bad Houses by John Elizabeth Stintzi.

🍁 With more than 2,500 Canadian-authored titles in print, Dundurn Press publishes fiction titles that speak to diverse and international audiences. CBC recommends their titles Annapurna's Bounty: Indian Food Legends Retold by Veena Gokhale, A Different Hurricane by H. Nigel Thomas, and The Road to Goderich by Linda McQuaig, and Torontonicity recommended The Toronto Book Of The Dead by Adam Bunch.

📖 Their literary imprint, Rare Machines, published Devouring Tomorrow: Fiction from the Future of Food edited by A.G. Pasquella and Jeff Dupuis, Alphabet Soup: A Memoir in Letters by A. Gregory Frankson, CBC-recommended The Hypebeast by Adnan Khan, and Naniki by Oonya Kempadoo, which was a 2024 GG finalist in fiction and longlisted for the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.

🍁 House of Anansi publishes books for all ages. Titles include:

• Soon to be released books include the Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2025, In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World by Toronto-based music journalists Adam Feibel and Matt Bobkin, a definitive biography, John Candy: A Life in Comedy by Paul Myers, The Golden Daughter: My Mother’s Secret Past as a Ukrainian Slave Worker in Nazi Germany by former journalist Halina St James, a translation of the winner of the 2011 Robert-Cliche First Novel Award and finalist for the 2012 GG for French-language Fiction, The Hand of Iman by Ryad Assani-Razaki, I Make My Own Fun, an unhinged romp of a novel through fame, obsession, and fandom by Hannah Beer (which The Daily Mail called "a dark, crazed reversal of Notting Hill"), and As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories edited by Terese Mason Pierre and including stories by Trynne Delaney, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, and Chinelo Onwalu.
• CBC recommends their titles A Daughter's Place by Martha Bátiz, Everything is Fine Here by Iryn Tushabe, The Immortal Woman by Su Chang, The Riveter by Jack Wang, and We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by Deni Ellis Béchard
• CBC Canada Reads 2025 long-listed Girl Runner by Carrie Snyder
• Midway: Poems by Kayla Czaga, a finalist for the 2025 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
• 2024 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People finalist Focus, Click, Rewind by Amanda West Lewis (Groundwood Books)
• 2024 GG winners: Scientific Marvel by Chimwemwe Undi (poetry) and Skating Wild on an Inland Sea by Jean E. Pendziwol and Todd Stewart (Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books, under their imprint Groundwood Books, which was also a 2024 finalist for the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award)
• and 2024 GG finalists: Do You Remember? by Sydney Smith (non-fiction, under Groundwood Books), The All + Flesh by Brandi Bird (poetry), and The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart by Astra Taylor (non-fiction).

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Where to Buy: Directly from the publisher typically supports small presses the most, and then there's All Lit Up, managed by The Literary Press Group, a non-profit association of Canadian literary publishers. Bookshop gives Metafilter a small (but real) commission as an affiliate, so if you’re in the States, start there. Local independent bookstores can be found at Bookmanager (Canada and USA), Indie Commerce (USA), or Red de Librerías Independientes de México/Network of Independent Bookstores in Mexico (obvs Mexico). And around the world.