emerge 17: The Writer's Studio Anthology (emerge: The Writer's Studio Anthology (SFU)) - Softcover

Drag kings and sea monsters, switchblade travellers and teacup ghosts—these stories and poems are a mixture of the mundane and the bizarre. Here you’ll find true tales of a son’s death and a girl’s first heartbreak, stories that range from the minutely personal to the transcendently universal. Words are only words until the writer, like an alchemist, blends them with sweat and self-reckoning to create something out of the ordinary. A community of 62 writers combine their words in emerge 17. emerge 17 includes contributions from TWS students mentored by Kevin Chong (Fiction), Eileen Cook (YA/Speculative Fiction), Claudia Cornwall (Creative Non-Fiction), Hiromi Goto (Speculative Fiction), JJ Lee (Creative Non-Fiction), Fiona Tinwei Lam (Poetry), Jen Sookfong Lee (Fiction), Betsy Warland (Poetry) and program director Wayde Compton. CONTENTS Gurjinder Basran — Foreword SPECULATIVE and YA FICTION T. M. Baldwin — Becoming Crow Lis Jakobsen — The Golden Scarab of Bloor Street S. L. Shields — Cedar Tatiana Lee — Fisherman’s Friend Thomas Onstott — Banshee’s Tale Michael Zibauer — The Barmaid’s Adventure Stephanie Gray — Lockhart and Teague Robyn Drage — The Gift Cynthia C. Huijgens — The Novice Collector Samantha Balliet — Bridge World Elecia Chrunik — How the Earth Went from Flat to Round Shilpa Raju — Ties Leslee Silverman — If It Weren’t For You Kids Michelle Stack — Circle Time from Hell Neda Tanha — Mother’s Day Tanya Boteju — Naya in Costume FICTION Neha Puntambekar — Smoke Rings Adriana Louis — Gilded Lorna Carley — Love Again Maureen Butler — The Dance Kathryn Lee — Interval Scott Lear — A First Year in High School Patrick Lucas — Everything You Know Is Wrong Christy Dunsmore — Rose to the Occasion Leslie West — The Year of Other Men Megan Abele — Art and Story Chelene Knight — Junie Josh Keefer — The Bus Stop Gentlemen Sharon Miki — Night Shift Alyssa Hanada — Matched Socks Reese Kim Carrozzini — Two excerpts Urith Hayley — Crocodiles and Crocuses Gina-Lily D’Attilio — Swagger Carlie Blume — Where the Lions Are POETRY and LYRIC PROSE Fatima Amarshi — Two poems Sarah Amormino — Three poems Leslie Jenneson — Four poems Kurt Trzcinski — Five love poems Cara Waterfall — Three poems Natasha Sanders-Kay — The Pool Stephen T. Berg — Three poems Viola Prinz — Four poems Graham McGarva — The Estrangers—1971 Junie Désil — Broken Mak Berry — Five poems Paolo Marcazzan — Two poems Christine Leviczky Riek — Five poems from The Water Moth NON-FICTION Kimberley Phillips Boehm — Leaping into the Warm Air Daniela Cohen — These Walls Rebecca Fleck — A Shift in India Crystal Dalman — Crossroads Amanda Deitz — His Eyes. Her Eyes. Jo Dworschak — Mitch and the Kid Lynn Harrison — Meet the Abrasive Leader Alissa Messner — The Spinster Cat Lady: An Anthropological Approach Becky Block — Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places Jennifer Heron — Hey, Bug Lady! Diana Carter — Lights in the Rain Tara McGuire — It’s Between Him and Me Stephanie Candiago — Bonded by Smoke Barry Truter — Underground All the Way Thi Tran — Of Mom and Men