emerge 16: The Writer's Studio Anthology (emerge: The Writer's Studio Anthology

by Cynthia Sharp, Renée McTavish, Kitty Widjaja

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.

326 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 22, 2016

About the author

Cynthia resides on the west coast, where she enjoys the beauty of nature. Her poetry has appeared in many literary journals and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology. A full member of The League of Canadian Poets and The Writers' Union of Canada, she had a wonderful time as the City of Richmond's 2019 Writer in Residence, as well as being one of the judges for the 2020 Pandora's Collective International Poetry Competition. She is the literary editor of Poetic Portions and the author of Ordinary Light, a first-prize winner in the SCWES Book Awards as well as in the International Impact Book Awards in Sustainability and Contemporary Poetry. She also wrote Rainforest in Russet, The Light Bearers in the Sand Dollar Graviton, and The Zen of Poetry, an updated re-release of How to Write Poetry. Her work is available from the Ingram catalogue in bookstores throughout the world and on Amazon.