‘Surfacing’: New Cover Art by Jenn Ashton

Awakening Summer

Surfacing by cover artist Jenn Ashton invites us into the world of Pulp Literature Issue 47, Summer 2025.

About this work, the artist says, “The painting was part of my personal reconciliation process of coming home to my Skwxwú7mesh First Nation community. As a result of residential schools, my family lost their culture, and I was raised on the outside. Over the past two decades, my family and I have come home, and this process resulted in many different creative expressions through art and writing.”

Surfacing

Surfacing by Jenn Ashton

And, here’s a look at what you’ll find in our summer issue …

Cover artist Jenn Ashton awakens summer spirits with Surfacing. But where serenity resides, so too does the risk of isolation, as seen in ‘Killing Time’ by feature author Leo X Robertson.

Across time and space, the threat of silence looms in ‘The Dark Mute’ by Lee Nash and ‘Frequency Eight’ by Sophie Ganic. Meanwhile, magic and music flood the worlds of ‘Waheela’s Whistle’ by Scotty Olsen and ‘Their Grandfather’s Chair, Part 3’ by JM Landels.

Welcome the end along with a new beginning with ‘When We Die’ by Tyner Gillies and ‘Carl’s Hope’ by August van Stralen. Then join authors Angelique Fawns and MH Callway for two difficult journeys with very different destinations in ‘The Trippy Trip to Triton’ and ‘The Lost Diner’.

Revel in short forms with poetry by Brian Palmu and Jesse Keith Butler and flash fiction from Bumblebee winners Cadence Mandybura, Katherine Weeks, and Rosanna Elves.

At last, round out this issue with ‘Let Me Tell You a Story’, a new novella from Mel Anastasiou, and Helena Pantsis’s graphic short ‘Sick Pay’.

Get Pulp Literature Issue 47, Summer 2025 here!

Jenn Ashton

Jenn Ashton is an award-winning Squamish author, visual artist, and filmmaker. Her book of short stories, People Like Frank, and Other Stories from The Edge of Normal (Tidewater Press, 2020) was a finalist for the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award, and her short story ‘Hungry’ won in 2024. Jenn is an authenticity reader for Penguin/Random House USA, where she completed work on Killers of the Flower Moon, and she also works for Knopf Doubleday and Cengage Canada. When she is not writing, painting, or teaching, she enjoys cedar and wool weaving, making regalia, and watching short films. She currently studies history at the University of Edinburgh.