‘Selfie’: New Cover Art by Akem

Myth and Mystery

Selfie by cover artist Akem welcomes us into the myth and mystery of Pulp Literature Issue 48, Autumn 2025.

This work marks Akem’s fifth cover for Pulp Literature! Help us to celebrate this stunning cover and the entrancing issue that it binds at our triple launch, happening November 30th from 2-5pm at Café Duello in Vancouver.

Selfie

Selfie by Akem

 

And, here’s a look at what you’ll find in Issue 48 …

Follow cover artist Akem’s Selfie into myth and mystery with ‘The Tales of Fanon and Gavroche’ by feature author Renée Sarojini Saklikar.

Make connections over seemingly impossible gulfs with ‘Downwelling’ by D Marmara and ‘M4R1NR’ by Mike Carson, and discover what the nighttime holds in Mel Anastasiou’s ‘Moonlight Over Paradise Gardens’ and Part 4 of ‘Their Grandfather’s Chair’ by JM Landels.

Fly away with a gorgeous mischief of three very different Magpies by Pattie Palmer-Baker, Angela Rebrec, and Elizabeth Cockle, and then come home to nest with Sierra Louie’s elfin adventurer in ‘If I Could Hide Away Anywhere’.

Have a stiff drink with Melissa Ren at ‘The Midnight Diyu’, or pick a potion with Lena Ng in ‘The Curse of the Chattering Skull’, while you mingle uncomfortably with strangers in Mitchell Toews’s ‘The Light Pool’ and William Kitcher’s ‘I Can’t Tell You That’.

Pre-order Pulp Literature Issue 48, Autumn 2025 here!

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Join us on November 30th from 2-5pm at Café Duello!

We will be launching not one, not two, but THREE books. Come out to help us celebrate the release of Barhopping for Astronauts by Leo X Robertson, Stella Ryman and the Search for Thelma Hu by Mel Anastasiou, and Pulp Literature Issue 48 featuring Renée Sarojini Saklikar and more!

Author readings, signings, and all forms of celebration await! RSVP to this free event here.

This launch will also feature the Fran Skene Memorial Art Auction. This is your chance to own a piece of SFF art history, with artwork from Jane S Fancher, Rick Berry, Lisa A Free, Margaret Organ, Wendy A Schultz and many many more! The in person launch will contain sculptures and more 2D artwork not included in the online auction. Be sure to come and check it out!

Looking to bid on other items? Our Keep the Presses Rolling silent auction and fundraiser is open until November 29th. View everything on offer here and help to support our printing costs for the new year! Find editorial feedback, book bundles, vacation spots, classes and experiences, and more on offer!

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Akem

Akem is a writer, an illustrator, and an artist in animation. She illustrated Brown Sugar Babe, a picture book about the beauty of dark skin, in 2020. Her fantasy stories can be found in Augur Magazine and Polar Borealis. Akem’s story ‘Shotguns and Jinn’ appears in Pulp Literature Issue 25, and her cover art graces issues 16 (Seabus), 18 (Windseeker), 23 (Greetings), and 35 (Collector). To see her personal and published artwork, visit akemiart.ca.