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 […]
Joan MacLeod, Leonardo da Vinci and the Value of Persistence
Governor-General Award winning playwright Joan McLeod once advised me to spend time with your work every day. She sets aside mornings to write, and will […]
Kris Sayer’s Tatterhood now available
We are hugely excited to let you know that the full-sized version of Tatterhood: Unwanted Vistors is available! Multi-talented seamstress, swordswoman and sequential artist Kris […]
CC Humphreys New Novel Coming Soon: Plague
Author. Actor. Swordsman. That’s the title of CC Humphreys’s website. http://cchumphreys.com He’s got a new novel coming out on July 15th. Watch for Plague —and for […]
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 […]
Scene Cuts: What Can You Teach Me Today, Lee Child? Part 2
How can a writer cut scenes to raise tension and keep the reader up late at night? Returning to A Wanted Man, I notice that […]
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 […]
Writing History, With Swordplay
I’m looking at Dorothy Dunnett’s brilliant, swashbuckling Race of Scorpions, a novel that turns about the 15th Century dynastic war in Cyprus. She is wise […]
George McWhirter to judge the Magpie Poetry Award
Who better to judge our inaugural Magpie Award for Poetry, than Vancouver’s inaugural Poet Laureate, George McWhirter? The much-lauded poet, novelist, translator and editor has […]
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 […]