Raoul Fernandes

In his foreword to emerge 16, Raoul Fernandes, author of Transmitter and Receiver, says: “The writers in this anthology show such bravery and risk-taking. Sometimes it’s the courage to have a character commit a tragic irreversible act with a gun in a forest. Or... asking a simple question in a prose poem—is my blue your blue?—can be a startling move.”

emerge 16 includes contributions from the Writer's Studio' students currently being mentored by Kevin Chong (Fiction), Hiromi Goto(Speculative Fiction), JJ Lee (Creative Non-Fiction), Meredith Quartermain(Poetry) and program director Wayde Compton. New this year are contributions from students who completed the inaugural year of The Writer’s Studio Online program in June 2016 mentored byEileen Cook (YA/Speculative Fiction), Claudia Cornwall (Creative Non-Fiction), June Hutton (Fiction) and Fiona Tinwei Lam (Poetry).

CONTRIBUTORS:

Raoul Fernandes — Foreword

Non-Fiction
  Elaine Cross — Bodies in Motion
 Clara Cristofaro — This Bird
 Amelia Teresa Hirota — Unlikely Love
 Ben Ross — The Greatest
 Lindsay Beckett — The Distance Between Us
 Yaron Sidney Butterfield — From Far and Wide
 Jacob Enns — The Grieving Ride
 Azmina Kassam — The Final Hour
 Eric Macnaughton — The Box
 Natasha Barber — Meanderings of a Bizarre Year
 Carolyn Bentley — Magic Hour
 Lakshmi Iyer — Life Lessons
 Lucía I. Terra — The Best Line of Defence
 Jennifer Simon — The Runaway
 Katrine Cardew — The Squeaky Door
 Sara Hansen — Hay and Leather
 Tara Cullis — Old Town: Lax Galts’ap

Speculative and YA fiction
  Emma Cleary — Sea Monster
 Nick Clewley — The Weight of Us
 Helen Platts-Johnson — The Fine Art of Living
 Judy Bicep — The Good Ghost
 C. Bruce Johnson — The Numinous Waning Season
 Kitty Widjaja — The Garuda Child
 Renée McTavish — On Dance Floors
 Crystal Soto — Where Have the Kids Gone?
 Grace Konn — Einstein Girl
 Alessia Yaworsky — The Business of Dreams
 Jocelyne Gregory — All the Dogs Are Dancing
 Lisa Voisin — Brigid the Amazon
 Cynthia Sharp — Marcie of the Stars
 Akem — Chakara Tea House
 K.H. Lau — Arbutus
 Ken Johns — Lost in Time
 Sarah Katyi — Only in Belmont Park

Poetry and Lyric Prose
 Heather Louise Walmsley — four poems
 Ivy Pharness — two poems
 Carole Harmon — two poems
 Zoe J. Dagneault — two poems
 Donna May Cross — It Was a Perfect Fall Day
 Jan Klimas — four poems
 Adriane Giberson — three poems
 Christina Boschmann — two poems
 Quinn Anderson — four poems
 Emily Olsen — four poems
 Sylvia Symons — two poems
 Lisa Milne — three poems

Fiction
  Jackie L. Carmichael — The Catch
 Loghan Paylor — Transubstantiation
 Jasmine Frances Sealy — Green Line
 Emmet Matheson — Saddle in the Rain
 Coranne Creswell — The Trophy
 Sandi Myrlene — Frozen in Time
 H.C. Phillips — Object,–Obsess,–Compulse,–
 Martina Wolff — Retail Kings
 Liz Laidlaw — Finding Lotusland
 Jennifer F. Santucci — The Camphor Tree
 Leslie Comrie — These Are the Things That Change You
 Michel Beaudry — Storm Crossing
 Christine Lai — Colour Beginning