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Fall 2026 Prose Spotlight: Shelly Kawaja
Shelly Kawaja’s debut novel, The Raw Light of Morning, won the BMO Winterset Award and was a finalist for the NL Fiction Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Riddle Fence, Horseshoe, The Humber Literary Review, The Dalhousie Review, and PACE. Kawaja is an alumnus of the University of British Columbia, Humber School for Writers, and Memorial University of Newfoundland. She lives in Corner Brook where she is working on her second novel.

Who’s ready for our Fall 2026 issue? 🍂 Issue 39 is out now! This issue’s cover features Arjun Kalsi’s “Peace, Not Hate.” Pick up a printed copy at any KPU campus, or read it online in our digital archives (link in bio).
Want to be published in our next issue? Submissions for our Spring 2027 issue are open until November 1. Head over to our website to submit: https://www.pulpmag.ca/submission-info/

Thank you to everyone who stopped by our table at KPU's welcome week and helped us create a poem! It was great to meet all of the new students. We hope to see your work published in the mag👏

Come visit our table at Word Vancouver on September 19! Get the chance to meet members of our staff, ask questions, and pick up some free goodies and copies of the magazine. 👀 We hope to see you there!
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Spring 2026 submissions are now open, closing on November 1st! We're looking for visual art, poetry, and prose from Canadian creators. Follow the link in our bio to submit, or visit our website @ https://www.pulpmag.ca/.

Summer ‘26 Visual Art Spotlight: Tatiana Catalina
Tatiana Catalina is a Calgary based artist whose work takes inspiration from Traditional style tattoos. Serving in the Canadian Armed Forces directly influenced one of her defining pieces — a panther surrounded by flowers — where bold pigments and soft florals coexist in striking balance. During her service, she was introduced to Traditional tattoos through the shared culture of expression among navy sailors, drawing inspiration from bold lines and symbolic imagery, which she translates into acrylic paintings.

Summer ‘26 Visual Art Spotlight: Diego Minor Martinez
A returning contributor at pulp MAG, Diego Minor Martínez is a writer, photographer, filmmaker, and musician from Tlaxcala, México. Their work centers on representing Latin American culture and highlighting the challenges faced by immigrants. Diego is the recipient of the 2019 FIC Monterrey Scholarship from Vancouver Film School. Currently, they serve as a Student Assistant at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, where they are pursuing a Bachelor of Arts with a Major in Creative Writing.

Summer ‘26 Visual Art Spotlight: Michela Ross
Michela Ross is a writer with an insatiable need to dabble in almost every other kind of art. Her work also features as this issue's cover.

Summer ‘26 Visual Art Spotlight: Anna Po
Anna Po is an emerging artist working in monotype, collage, and mixed media. Her Dancing Flowers series (2025) began as a way to preserve and rework prints with striking color and texture that felt incomplete on their own. Using recycled materials—including discarded prints, ghost prints, and fabric offcuts—she create layered abstract compositions that explore movement of fragments and the potential of overlooked materials, with an emphasis on reuse and reducing waste.

Summer ‘26 Prose Spotlight: Jean Paul Vizuete
Jean Paul Vizuete is a Vancouver-based Panamanian writer and filmmaker specializing in speculative fiction. He holds degrees from Universidad del Cine in Argentina and Vancouver Film School, and serves as Programming Director for the HAYAH International Short Film Festival. His storytelling explores mental health and the human condition, as seen in his novel The Elven Messenger and his film Memory (2025). He is currently developing the TV series Arpía, winner of the 2024 Panama National Film Fund, the feature Between the Sky, and his next novel, The Light Thief. His next short film, A Friend, is slated for release in 2026.