Cover Reveal: Buttercups and Beach Rocks by Reilly Fitzgerald

Summer Nostalgia

For Pulp Literature Issue 51, a sea glass-coloured sky welcomes us into our summer issue. Get your first glimpse of this issue under the cover of Reilly Fitzgerald‘s Buttercups and Beach Rocks. Admire the colours of summer here, and be sure to order your copy of Issue 51, Summer 2026 to read all the writing contained within.

Buttercups and Beach Rocks

Buttercups and Beach Rocks by Reilly Fitzgerald

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll find in Issue 51 …

Beneath a sea glass–coloured sky, enter our summer issue with the cover of Buttercups and Beach Rocks by Reilly Fitzgerald. Here, feature author Gary Geddes asks us to confront the reality of our world with three profound poems.

Fire consumes the pages of ‘Twenty to Eleven’ by Dante Luiz and ‘Wildfire’ by Marianne Hoffard. Meanwhile, ‘The Price of Portals’ by Tais Teng, ‘Down the Pipe’ by Cara Masten DiGirolamo, and ‘The Flight’ by Z Silver dream of elsewhere.

Poetry by Oladosu Michael Emerald, Kath Healing, and Petra Chambers invites us to sit with silence, and winning stories by Jane Young and David Anderson honour this year’s Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest.

Finally, return home alongside familiar favourites with new instalments of The Shepherdess by JM Landels and The Extra Takes the Castle by Mel Anastasiou.

Get your copy of Pulp Literature Issue 51, Summer 2026 here!

Reilly Fitzgerald has been creating art since he was a teenager in the 1980s and developed his often colourful, bold, expressionistic style while painting the picturesque scenery of his home province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Reilly has had many challenges in his life, including being born with a malformed dominant right hand and arm, and developing debilitating chronic back pain and osteoarthritis as an adult. Following his formal education in art and art history, he illustrated children’s books, provided art for educational posters, and developed logos and paintings for book covers and puzzles.

Buttercups and Beach Rocks was inspired by a scene in Hibbs Cove, Newfoundland. Children at play is a subject that Fitzgerald returns to as he tries to capture the innocence, ingenuity, and imagination of childhood activities, from flying homemade newspaper kites in summer skies, to jumping into fresh fallen snow off the mountains of cleared snow built up over winter, copying ice pans blown toward shore in the spring, or walking on stilts made from scraps of lumber on autumn days. He is sure that these simple activities disguise a complexity only apparent in children’s imagined world of play.

To see more of Reilly’s work, visit Reilly Fitzgerald, Artist, on Facebook or view his work for sale at Fitzgerald Gallery and Arts Studio in Clarenville, NL. fitzartnl.com.