Take a journey with our 68 writers—from 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