Flash Fiction Contest Opens!
When I grew tall enough to stand at eye-level with the hummingbird feeder that my grandmother hung on her porch, I would put on the […]
Articles by Susan Pieters
Head to Toe
JJ Lee, our brilliant Issue 2 author of “Built to Love”, is launching a new CBC radio show this morning! The topic is fashion, but […]
Contest Jitters
Do you have a love-hate relationship with contests? Do you get cold feet before hitting ‘submit’? I used to. After all, turning writing into a […]
Author Spotlight: JJ Lee
Our magazine is dedicated to breaking boundaries of fictional genres and encouraging established authors to go boldly where they have never gone before. This blog […]
Writing Circles
Our last newsletter contained an invitation to join the Pulp Literature editors in our personal writing session, so here’s a description of the process which […]
Trust Your Reader
To celebrate the start of our first Magpie Award poetry contest, let me honour Max Plater, a poet from my very first writer’s group who […]
The Joy of Editing
Yes, I spent Valentine’s Day at my computer editing. No, I don’t feel guilty about this. My husband likes to see me on an editor’s […]
Groundhog Day
As a teen, I lived in my journal. My words were the real me, my true existence, and if I ventured out into other lands, […]
Good Drivers Wanted
I once drove a friend home from a dinner party, and though I wasn’t sure where she lived, I drove confidently for five minutes before […]
From Candlelight to Spotlight
T. S. Eliot described poetry as being overheard. Most writers agree that pure sentiments come in private, with the tentative, wavering focus of a single […]