This special 20th anniversary anthology invites you to journey outside yourself: float in a capsized rowboat, downward-dog through a yoga studio adapting to covid-19, reflect on the legacy of residential schools, find purpose on the Camino de Santiago, and make peace with your raccoon neighbours. These are stories of ego, loss, birth, renewal—the salient issues of our time.

In emerge 20, stories in fiction, narrative non-fiction, speculative fiction, young adult fiction, poetry, and lyric prose isolate the everyday tales of human resilience and solidarity that will leave you wanting more from these emerging writers.

CONTENTS
Betsy Warland—Foreword

FICTION
Dora Joella Prieto—The Last Wisdom Tooth
Elliott Gish—Grey Dog
B. B. Randhawa—The Woman Who Thought She Was a Cow
Teminey Beckers—My Name Is Badger
Dora Larson—The Apartment
Prachi Kamble—World Class Education
Barbara Cameron—Unconsecrated Ground
Angela Kruger—Hotel Blue: Stories
Frederic Sahyouni—The Fragrant Harbour
Colleen Doty—All About Isaac
Libby Soper—The Anniversary Cake
eve nixen—Two stories
Sarah Phillips-Thin—Grasping at the Pineapple
Francesca Mauri —The Day of Her Disappearance
Anya Wyers—Romilegal: Downtown
Uttara Krishnadas—Infectious
Judy Dercksen—Not the Namib Desert
Magnus Lu—Ten Days of Undoing
Stephanie Peters—The Upset
DK Eve—Lunch Shift at the Castle Café
Tanya Belanger—The Last Stop
Višnja Milidragović—Happy Hour
Rebecca Chan—An Unnatural Widow
Hugh Griffith—The Snake Club
Sandra Sugimoto—Sisters
Christina Kruger-Woodrow—Lie Fallow

NON-FICTION
Katie Lewis—Nuts
William W. Campbell—Amusia and Ravel's Boléro
Kim Spencer—Two pieces
Lori Greenfield—The Tuesday Ladies
Emily Chan—Living in Ms. Shauna Roberts's Apartment
Justyna Krol—System Failure
Emma Brady—The Bedroom
Nancy Jin—Guifang
Deborah Folka—Dessert in the Desert
Shenul Dhalla—Hope for a Cure
Christine Pilgrim—Goodbye
Maryanna Gabriel—Get Thee to a Nunnery
Ola Szczecinska—Big Sur
Calvin McShane—Catching the Way Zendo
Margaret Miller—Two pieces
Anne Rosenberg—Two pieces
Kate Covello—Disruption and Innovation: Yoga Teacher Training After covid-19
Ankush Chopra—Stay the Course

SPECULATIVE AND YA FICTION
Jenn Marx—Electric Blue Tongue
Jess Wesley—The Curse of the Fairy Queen
Hannah Costelle—The Dressmaker of Drumchapel
Diane Dubas—Enough
Clare McNamee-Annett—We Are Doing Fine
Libby McKeever—What Came Before
Katherine Fawcett—Ursula Medium
Sky Regina—We Are Apricots
Tim J. O'Connor—Kath's Party
Erin Pettit—Gilded City
Elizabeth Page—Price of Privilege
Daniel Ortiz Rubio—Purple Stain
Sofia Pezentte—The Blameless One
Stephanie Charette—To Hunt the Mountain
Léa Taranto—Kiss the Ground
Susan Taite—Glimmers
Jack Murphy—Hyper Neon Cowboy
Bailey Bjolin—Dome
Danica Longair—Hope Is a Necessary Delusion
Robert Weber—The End Is ... Mundane?

POETRY
Alana Cheyne—Three poems
Ela Przybyło—Two poems
Anna Lee-Popham—Three poems
Brandon Houston—Can I Pray for You
Kuldeep Singh—Five poems
Pinki Li—To the Family of Raccoons Who...