The small queer press is a continuous 2025 book club at The Pond aiming to uplift queer published works from smaller -mostly indie- presses focusing on diverse stories of LGBTQIA+ life and people.

The book club will run in 2-3 month cycles, each quarter focusing on a different press.

In February through April we start exploring the works from Arsenal Pulp Press with reading "Perfect Little Angels" by Vincent Anioke:

In this beautifully imagined story collection, largely set in Nigeria, characters seek love in different permutations from teachers, parents, dead partners, and even God. Perfect Little Angels is a nuanced exploration of masculinity, religion, marginalization, suppressed queerness, and self-expression through the lens of (un)conditional love.

Arsenal Pulp Press is a book publisher in Vancouver, Canada, printing literary fiction, nonfiction and poetry; books on social issues; gender studies; LGBTQ2S+ and BIPOC literature; and books in translation. Their interest lies within literature that engages and challenges readers, and which asks probing questions about the world around us. (https://arsenalpulp.com/)

*no reader commitment!*
- read the book, or start reading it
- show up to the discussion
- no sign ups needed
- you can go to one, or some, or all
- book club is held monthly
- 2-3 month cycles highlighting a different queer press
- facebook events will be available
- the books are available at The Pond
- the books are in english, mostly fiction

If you want to join the bookclub remotely, or track your reading for these books, here is a Storygraph challenge for funsies: https://app.thestorygraph.com/.../5d644c2d-5013-4636-a0f1...