2025 Festival: October 20–26
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84. Emerge

84. Emerge

Join us at this free event to celebrate the latest work from The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University, and their anthology series’ twenty-fifth anniversary! emerge 25: The Writer’s Studio Anthology collects the work of this year’s graduating class. Hear readings from those who have participated in the illustrious studio, and insights from the writers who mentored them along the way. Find out more about the practices that fuel creative work, and see the results of those practices in the form of new work from exciting emerging voices. It’s an immersive celebration of new talent and established community. 

Hear from these featured readers:

Eden Hoey
Howard Smith
Lejla Pekaric
Alyssa Sy de Jesus
Crystal Williamson
Sally Rudolf
Gordon Cornwall

Sylvia Tran
Sabrina Vellani
Sterling
Megan Poliquin
Alexis Jacklin
Cynthia Chan
Liberty Craig

Jennifer Greenhorn
Drunk Off Heart Condition
Elias Everett
Amy Kelly
Stevi Martyniuk
Zhenni Wu

    Presented in collaboration with SFU’s The Writers Studio, and in partnership with Peliplat.


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