emerge 15

The thirty-six writers of the 2015 Writer’s Studio — under the mentorship of Kevin Chong, Hiromi Goto, JJ Lee, Meredith Quartermain, and Wayde Compton — present their work in the Studio’s fifteenth annual anthology, emerge 15. This year’s guest editor, poet and short story author, Matt Rader, welcomes you into the diverse and vibrant worlds they have created. Fiction and poetry, lyric prose and narrative non-fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, and steampunk: it’s all here.

Enter their stories. Linger over their images. Let their words delight, unsettle, nourish, stir, and entertain.

BONUS MATERIALS

The ebook for emerge 15 contains colour photos from our fundraiser. 

CONTRIBUTORS:
Matt Rader — Foreword
Heather Marshall — The Heights
Wanda-mae Anderson — three poems
Joana Coman — Zigzag Girl
Kathleen Marigold — an excerpt from Memory Markers
Sen H.H.S. — an excerpt from The Abandoned
Shazia Hafiz Ramji — three poems
K.P. Daly Morris — Duane
Lynn Easton — Rounding Third
Peggi Peacock — Feet, an excerpt from Mind Share
Annette LeBox — two poems
A.J. Lin — Where Do We Go Now?
Mark Bondyra — The Month of Smelling the Best You’ve Ever Smelt
DG Thiel — four poems
Lucia Marguglio — Lying For a Cause
Ryleigh Walsh — How I Cut Off My Right Foot
Brittany Bjorndal — four poems
Alex Bezeredi — The White Stag
Margot Spronk — Handover, an excerpt from Late Effects
Leah Sharzer — four poems
Valerie Chalker Whitfield — To Tanzania, an excerpt
Emily E.A. Stringer — Hovel By the Riverside, an excerpt from Wolfhound
Kiri Sawyer — Failing the Bechdel Test
Cristina I. Viviani — Pattern
KT Wagner — Storm Maker, an excerpt
Veeno Dewan — When the Big One Hit, an excerpt
Susan MacRae — The Survivor Tree, an excerpt
Sarah Rauch — A Smattering
Rebecca A. Coates — Mlle Zemfira Conducts a Séance, an excerpt from The Operatrix
Evan Holmes — Zero Avenue, an excerpt
Jennifer Griffin — two poems
Rebecca Jamieson — Untitled Novel, an excerpt
TK Sohal — A Memorable Birthday, an excerpt
Sarah M. Stephen — Winston and Alice Connect an excerpt from Crime in Time
Sonay Cheema — three poems
Christina Myers — The Last Road Trip, an excerpt
Zuri H. Scrivens — After the Dust