emerge 18

Take a journey with our 68 writersfrom rural Mexico in the '60s to Tehran in the '70s, to the suburbs of Vancouver in the '80s, and to other planets in the distant future. Within these pages you will encounter a feathered heart, door-to-door salesbees, and a breathing house. In emerge 18 new and published authors present their fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry and lyric prose, speculative fiction, and young adult stories.

emerge 18 includes contributions from TWS students mentored by Kevin Chong (Fiction), Eileen Cook (YA/Speculative Fiction), Claudia Cornwall (Creative Non-Fiction), Hiromi Goto (Speculative Fiction), Stella Harvey (Fiction and Personal Memoir), JJ Lee (Creative Non-Fiction), Jordan Abel (Poetry), Jen Sookfong Lee (Fiction), Betsy Warland (Poetry) and program director Wayde Compton.

CONTENTS
Carleigh Baker Foreword

NON-FICTION
Julie Gordon Learning to Listen
Ann Wilson Becoming
Vicki McLeod Long Night, with Flowers
Paula Wellings Two Fish in a Tank
Joanna Baxter Wrecked
Carolyne Montgomery Tsusiat Falls
Maura Wong OMG!
Emi Sasagawa Selfish Love
Nicole Jess Pedestal
Evie Gold A Determining Train Ride
Marian Dodds The Man in the Cinnamon Suit
Stewart Dickson The Story That Never Ends
Sriram Iyer The Busyness of Unemployment
Averill Groeneveld-Meijer Circus
Tamara Jong The Will
Nadia Ashley "Say Goodbye to Daddy"
Maureen Duteau Old Hands
Georgia Swayze Daddy Issues
Joseph Onodi The Bicycle

FICTION
Lynn J. Salmon Loss of the Sea Dragon
Dayna Mahannah This Girl Jane
Gillian Tregidgo Seagull
Debbie Bateman Your Body Was Made for This
Jonathan M. Bessette Freud to Frisco
Felix Wong Chinese Funerals Are Weird
Shane Leydon Three Flags
Kate Flannery The Rat
Matt Brandenburg Bone Chandelier
Avalon Bourne The Other Woman
Isabel Spiegel Refuge
DeeDee LeGrand-Hart White Lion
Dianne Carruthers Schadenfreude
Griffin Tedeschini Sticktown
Ann Svendsen The Man Who Came Through the Window
Karla Kosowan The Lady in the Cake
Spencer Lucas Oakes Team Building
Kathleen Kerwin San Domenico
Erica Hiroko Two pieces

POETRY
Tamar Rubin Tablet Fragments
Sareh Donaher Five poems
Deborah Harford Five poems
Rowen EB Three poems
April Lewis Knotting Memory
Alex Duncan A Relationship in Three Parts
Brad Akeroyd Two poems
Sabyasachi Nag Three poems
Katie McGarry Three poems
Sarah Mostaghel Five poems
Megan Frazer Mended
Lorne Daniel Three poems
Razielle Aigen Mountains
Erin Brown-John Matthew

SPECULATIVE and YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Brook Warner Jensen Baking with Betsy
Benjamin Thiede Stay Out of the Tall Grass
D. R. Spicer Application Reboot
Wendy Naava Smolash The Institute
Spencer Miller Forever in Warfare My Heart Is
Yuki Abovearth Chariot
Lula García Patos
Kimber Anderson Mystery of the Jack of Diamonds
Zahida Rahemtulla Julio's House
Miraya Engelage The Crescent
Elise Thiessen Green Eyes
Samara Malkin Porcelain
K. J. Kwon The Bully
Koreen Heaver Grounded
Lorraine Erickson The Night
Rory Andrew Stevens Fission

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