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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.

10/06/2025

This summer, pulp MAG is proud to collaborate with the KPU Fine Arts Grad show to showcase this year’s graduates' pieces. Starting the lineup is Claudia Shen.
Claudia Shen has exhibited widely since 2022, earning the “Award of Merit - Student” from FVPG twice. She has also received multiple scholarships and participated in several student residences. Claudia’s work explores human existence, life and death, emotions, and society, revealing the deep connections between individuals and the world.

10/04/2025

Summer 2025 Visual Art Feature: Diego Minor Martínez

Diego Minor Martínez is a writer, photographer, filmmaker, and musician from Tlaxcala, México. Their work centers on representing Latino 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. Their piece “Hemorragia” features as this issue’s cover, joined by “Spring” and “Doubting Myself” in our visual art section.

09/29/2025

Summer 2025 Prose Feature: "How a Girl Becomes a Witch" by Lily Lum
Lily Lum is a third-year student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, who is majoring in Creative Writing. She loves both reading and writing, particularly in the fantasy genre. Her goal is to one day write novels that will inspire others, just as they inspired her. “How a Girl Becomes a Witch” is our only prose piece this issue, so be sure to check it out!

09/26/2025

Summer 2025 Poetry Feature: "This Poem Is Filled With Spiders" by Bridget Heine

Bridget Heine is in her fourth year at KPU. When she isn't writing (or thinking about writing), Bridget enjoys horseback riding, cuddling with her pets, and playing a normal amount of Legend of Zelda. She returns to pulp MAG in our Summer 2025 with her piece “This Poem is Full of Spiders.”

Visit our website to read her work!

09/22/2025

Summer 2025 Poetry Feature: "The Clouds" by Sabrina Vellani

Returning poet Sabrina Shabana Vellani is an Indo-Canadian poet and actor from the Lower Mainland. Her poetry has been published in multiple magazines. Her poem, “The Clouds,” and her artist interview are available online now on our website.

09/19/2025

Summer 2025 Poetry Feature: "Persistence of Memory" by Micah Favel

Micah Favel is a poet hailing from Alberta but residing in Toronto. Much of her writing focuses on queerness and her mixed Plains Cree and settler Scottish identity. Her work has previously appeared in the Ex-Puritan, QT Literary Magazine, and elsewhere.
Read her poem and interview on our website: https://www.pulpmag.ca/

09/15/2025

Summer 2025 Poetry Feature: "Christmas Anthem" by Amez Rasoul

Amez Rasoul is a half Kurdish half Chinese fourth year student at KPU. Her passions are writing poetry and short stories. She particularly writes about mental illness, childhood, identity, family, and recently, horror. She hopes that one day she’ll be able to publish a book of poetry.

Check out “Christmas Anthem,” available online in our Summer 2025 issue!

09/13/2025

Our Summer 2025 issue is finally live on our website, featuring “Hemorragia” by Diego Minor Martínez as the cover. In addition to prose, poetry, and visual art, this issue includes a gallery of artwork from the KPU Fine Arts Grad Show.
This issue is online only, meaning it can be accessed any time, so no need to pick up a copy in person. Read it in the Archive section of our website: https://www.pulpmag.ca/archive/. Featured artist interviews will also be available soon!
Stay tuned for future contributor and graduate features. 👏

09/03/2025

Our submissions for the Spring 2026 issue are open!
We accept unpublished pieces of prose, poetry, visual art, and new media from current residents of Canada, especially current KPU students. Contributors are paid $20 per poem, $15 per page of prose, $20 per piece of art, and $20 per new media piece.
To view our submission guidelines, visit our website: https://www.pulpmag.ca/submission-info/. Have a question that isn’t answered in the guidelines? Feel free to send us a DM, or email us at [email protected].

08/31/2025

In addition to our Managing Editor position, pulp MAG is seeking volunteers for our Junior and Senior Design Editor Role. Design editors work together to design the magazine’s layout, create promotional material such as posters, and more.
If you’re a KPU student or alumni with knowledge in graphic design who wants to contribute to the school’s literary and art community, email us at [email protected]

08/29/2025

We are looking for a new managing editor!
As the managing editor, you will be in charge of leading and organizing the pulp MAG team. You will guide magazine production through processes such as submission review and editing, layout, and printing. You will also oversee the magazine’s schedule, responding to emails, conduct meetings among the pulp MAG staff, and more.
If you’re a KPU student with a passion for leadership and literature, send us an email at [email protected] . We hope to hear from you soon!

05/01/2025

All of our Fall 2025 submissions have now been extended to June 1st. Send us your work at https://www.pulpmag.ca/submission-info/.

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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.