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pulp MAG is Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s student-run literary and arts magazine. For more information, visit www.pulpmag.ca

Published tri-annually, it features work generated entirely by writers and artists from Kwantlen and the surrounding communities. Pulp maintains a high standard of quality for its submissions and spotlights a diverse range of sculptors, poets, graphic and fashion designers, authors, painters, comic artists, essayists, playwrights, filmmakers, humourists, satirists, and performance artists.

12/16/2025

Fall 2025 Poetry Spotlight: “Street Light Sprites” and “Forest Fairy” by Ava Popowitz
Ava R. Popowitz is a Creative Writing Major in her fourth year at KPU. She most recently appeared in Brave Voices, an open mic community’s chapbook (2025). She half self-published a chapbook, CORE, and received Second Prize for Senior Poetry in Surrey Libraries’ Youth Writing Contest. She also enjoys listening to art pop, setting up miniatures, or whatever creative pursuit she’s currently fixated on.

12/13/2025

Fall 2025 Poetry Spotlight: “Muse” by Simone Cui
Simone Cui is a 9th Grade student at the Vancouver Independent School of Science and Technology. She develops her writing style through poetry, short fiction, and memoir that questions morality, mortality, and human nature. Outside of writing, she enjoys creating art, playing clarinet, reading, and learning math and science.
Read her poem in the Fall 2025 issue, available now.

12/08/2025

Fall 2025 Poetry Spotlight: “tell me what it’s like” by Wren Ashenhurst
Wren Ashenhurst is a queer/nonbinary writer from Canada’s West Coast, currently practicing on the traditional and unceded territory of the Stó꞉lō people. Their work has appeared in Defunkt Magazine.
Our Fall 2025 issue is out now! Grab a copy at any KPU campus to see this season’s art, prose, and poetry.

11/15/2025

Our Fall 2025 issue is on its way, with Allen Forrest's "Near the End" as the cover. 🍂
The issue will be released later this November, featuring brand new art, poetry, and prose from our contributors. Copies will be available in print at all KPU campuses!
Want to see your work in our next issue? Spring 2025 submissions are still open until November 17—don't miss out!

11/01/2025

KPU FINA Grad Show Feature: Wenda Zhang
Wenda Zhang is from Shanghai, China, and is currently studying Visual Arts at KPU. With a strong passion for ink drawing and meticulous drawing, Zhang primarily focuses on these styles in artistic practice. Zhang believes that art exists to enhance people's happiness and strives to create works that bring joy and inspiration to others.

10/30/2025

KPU FINA Grad Show Feature: Stephy Zhang
Stephy Zhang was born and raised in Chengdu, China, and is studying at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, majoring in a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Zhang works in acrylic paint, often fusing female bodies with objects as forms of expression. Her art focuses on women’s growth, social issues, and survival dilemmas.

10/28/2025

KPU FINA Grad Show Feature: Kyle Chua
Kyle Chua is a multimedia artist, exploring themes of introspection, creative uncertainty and the tension between purpose and process. His work captures moments of ambiguity and uses painting as a way to navigate the in-between spaces of meaning, and identity. He graduated in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at KPU and is currently living and working in Burnaby.

10/27/2025

Spring 2026 submissions for prose, poetry, visual art, and new media have been extended to Monday, November 17. We'd love to see your work!
You can visit our website for more information on how to submit, guidelines, and contributor payment. Link in bio!

10/25/2025

KPU FINA Grad Show Feature: Tia Murray
Tia Murray is a multimedia artist from Surrey, British Columbia. Her art focuses on her emotions and how they translate outside of her body. Her biggest art inspiration is Yayoi Kusama with how big her pieces are and the process at which she creates her work. With her most current works consisting mainly of crochet, she finds the whole process meditative and can focus her whole attention on the one act.

10/23/2025

KPU FINA Grad Show Feature: Kacey Hughes
Kacey Hughes is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Surrey, British Columbia. Hughes has taken part in three artist residencies and exhibited in several galleries throughout the lower mainland. She was a recent recipient of the Kwi Am Choi Exhibition Scholarship and will be mounting a solo exhibition at PoMoArts in 2025.

10/21/2025

KPU FINA Grad Show Feature: Thomas Chanyungco
Thomas Chanyungco is a now graduated BFA and Music Minor student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Following a creative childhood at a young age, he learned Drawing, Digital Imaging and Photography to pursue his passion for art. Thomas’ work focuses on different themes such as personal experience, narrative, imagination, and self-identity.

10/18/2025

KPU FINA Grad Show Feature: Jocelyn Gosling

Jocelyn Gosling is graduating with a BFA in Visual Arts and minor in Counselling Psychology. Inspired by childhood memories, Jocelyn's paintings explore emotional connections within nature, inviting viewers to reflect on their experiences. In the future, she hopes to foster creativity, emotional growth, and healing through art in educational settings.

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pulp MAG is Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s student-run literary and arts magazine. Published tri-annually, it features work generated entirely by writers and artists from Kwantlen and the surrounding communities. Pulp maintains a high standard of quality for its submissions and spotlights a diverse range of sculptors, poets, graphic and fashion designers, authors, painters, comic artists, essayists, playwrights, filmmakers, humourists, satirists, and performance artists. For more information, visit www.pulpmag.ca

pulp MAG acknowledges our work is conducted on unceded ancestral lands of the Kwantlen, Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt and Kwikwetlem peoples. Unceded means this land was never relinquished for use by its peoples; peoples who have yet to receive justice or reparation for their loss of land rights, fishing rights and homelands.

Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) takes its name from the Kwantlen First Nation. We at pulp MAG encourage our readers and community to explore all the ways to further support decolonization; we support the efforts of Indigenous voices.