Awards Nomination Season: the 2025 Round Up!

Nominate Your Favourites!

In 2025, Pulp Literature Press published a novel, a short story collection, and four issues of literary goodness for our loyal readers. In these issues we aimed to find new voices, celebrate reliable talent, and as always, bring genre-bending ideas to the forefront of our reader base. As it is now awards season, it’s time to celebrate – and nominate – our favourite stories from the last year.

As a multi-genre publisher, we try to nominate our authors for as many awards as we can. But for fan-based awards we rely on you, our readers who are also members of organizations like the CSFFA and SFWA, and attendees of World Con, World Fantasy, and other conventions, to nominate your favourites. 

To help you sort out eligibility, here’s a list of what we’ve published this year (with the exception of reprints) sorted by genre.

Asterisks (*) indicate Canadian authors and artists. For lists of specific author identities, such as women writers or self-identified BIPOC and LGBTQIA2S+ writers, please email us at info(at)pulpliterature.com.

2025 Pulp Literature Publications

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror 

Short Story Collection

Barhopping for Astronauts by Leo X Robertson

Novella

‘Their Grandfather’s Chair’ by JM Landels – serialized in issues 45-48*

Novel Excerpt

Take My Hand: Enter Night by Mel Anastasiou*

Short Stories

Issue 45, Winter 2025

‘Grillo, the Story of a Cricket’ by George McWhirter*
‘Baba Yaga and the Bear’ by Gregg Chamberlain*  
‘How to Write a Novel in Ten Days During the Zombie Apocalypse’ by Jakob Drud
‘Life After Bifurcation’ by Soramimi Hanarejima

Issue 46, Spring 2025

‘The Storm Tastes of Freedom’ by Finnian Burnett*
‘Chardi Kala for the Modern Dirtbag’ by Kiran K Basra*
‘The Myth of the Familiar’ by EC Dorgan*
‘Playdate’ by Patrick Barb 
‘The Orangery’ by Mark Gallacher 
‘The Mall We Deserve’ by Shanley Kearney

Issue 47, Summer 2025

‘Killing Time’ by Leo X Robertson
‘Waheela’s Whistle’ by Scotty Olsen*
‘Frequency Eight’ by Sophie Ganic*
‘Carl’s Hope’ by August van Stralen*
‘The Trippy Trip to Triton’ by Angelique Fawns*
‘Coin Girl’ by Cadence Mandybura*
‘Bonfire Night’ by Katherine Weeks
‘The Last Twenty-Four Hours’ by Rosanna Elves*

Issue 48, Autumn 2025

‘The Tales of Fanon and Gavroche’ by Renée Sarojini Saklikar*
‘The Curse of the Chattering Skull’ by Lena Ng*
‘Downwelling’ by D Marmara 
‘M4R1NR’ by Mike Carson*

Mystery, Crime, and Thriller

Novels

Stella Ryman and the Search for Thelma Hu by Mel Anastasiou*

Novel Excerpts

The Extra Takes the Castle by Mel Anastasiou, serialized in issues 46 & 48*

Short Stories

‘The Suicide Mission’ by KR Segriff, Issue 46, Spring 2025*
‘When We Die’ by Tyner Gillies, Issue 47, Summer 2025*
‘I Can’t Tell You That’ by William Kitcher, Issue 48, Autumn 2025*

Contemporary, Literary, Historical, and Humour

Novelette

‘Let Me Tell You a Story’ by Mel Anastasiou, Issue 47, Summer 2025*

Issue 45, Winter 2025

‘The Past as Foundation for the Family Home’ by Shelley Lavigne*
‘The Art of Tear Eating and Other Non-predatory Behaviours’ by Cheryl Skory Suma*
‘Blue Wax Paper’ by Adam Fout

Issue 46, Spring 2025

‘Darth Vader vs Testicular Cancer’ by Michael Carson*
‘Providence’ by Emily Groot*

Issue 47, Summer 2025

‘The Dark Mute’ by Lee Nash 

Issue 48, Autumn 2025

‘The Light Pool’ by Mitchell Toews*

Poetry 

Issue 45, Winter 2025

‘Pholoe’ by Dan MacIsaac 
‘Ragnabeðtími: Bedtime of the Gods’ by DA Cooper

Issue 46, Spring 2025

‘Apiography: A Fragment’ by Sandra Kasturi*
‘Hideaway’ by Angelle Mcdougall*
‘What Else Am I Wrong About’ by Nicole Moen*
‘My Dad John (Jack to Mom) Gives Medical History’ by Callista Markotich*

Issue 47, Summer 2025

‘The Solarists’ by Jesse Keith Butler*
‘Alagoas Foliage-Gleaner’ by Brian Palmu*

Issue 48, Autumn 2025

‘Widening Circles’ by Pattie Palmer-Baker
‘Shutter speed’ by Angela Rebrec*
‘Unread Books Air Their Complaints’ by Elizabeth Cockle*

Artwork and Graphic Short Stories

Illustrations

Mel Anastasiou, interior illustrations, issues 45-48*

Cover Art

Solstice Ritual by Herman Lau, Issue 45*
Towton by Steve R Gagnon, Issue 46*
Surfacing by Jenn Ashton, Issue 47*
Selfie by Akem, Issue 48*
Barhopping for Astronauts cover by Kate Landels*
Stella Ryman and the Search for Thelma Hu by Kate Landels*

Graphic Shorts

‘Say Cheese, Jesus, Please’ by Rina Piccolo, Issue 45*
‘Sick Pay’ by Helena Pantsis, Issue 47
‘If I Could Hide Away Anywhere’ by Sierra Louie, Issue 48*

 

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