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

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• Publication Date: October 12, 2017
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