Team
Emerging Writers is growing!!!
Originally just a one-person outfit composed of founder and host Jess Taylor, EW now has readers and volunteers that help make everything run smoothly.
Meet The Team!
EW is run entirely by volunteers. Here they are.
Volunteers, thank you for giving EW your most valuable resource: your time.
Current Organizers and Hosts
Mahak Jain
Mahak Jain is the author of the picture book Maya, which was a CBC Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, and a CCBC Best Book for Kids and Teens starred selection. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in The Journey Prize Stories 28, PRISM international, The New Quarterly, Joyland Magazine, The Humber Literary Review, and Room Magazine. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph. Born in Delhi, she has also lived in Dubai, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Montreal. She currently resides in Toronto.
Marcia Walker
Marcia Walker’s writing has appeared in Prism international, Room, Event, Antigonish Review, University of Toronto Magazine, The Globe and Mail, CBC radio and The Broken Social Scene Story Project by House of Anansi. She has been shortlisted for Prism’s fiction and non-fiction prize and was a finalist for the Lascaux Fiction award. Her play, Recess, was part of Nightwood’s Write From the Hip playwright development program and the 2016 Groundswell Festival. She is the 2016-2017 Jessie London Writer-in-residence.
Previous Team Members
Jess Taylor – Founder, host, fiction and poetry curator
Photo credit Brian St. Denis
Sofia Mostaghimi – Associate fiction curator
Jessica Bebenek – Associate poetry curator
Amanda Childs – Social Media/PR Representative
Hannah Peck – Special Projects Assistant
Ralph Kolewe – Show photographer
Past Volunteers
Jessica Bebenek (show photographer for over a year), Marsha Courneya, Victoria Hetherington, Thomas Dearnley-Davison, Lauren Mitchell, Jeremy Hanson-Finger, Jane Ozkowski, Suzanne Sutherland, Naomi Freeman, Zani Showler, Daria Garvrilina, Vicki Zhang, Bardia Sinaee, Matthew Walsh, Stephanie Coffey, Steve Cassidee (DJ for EW party shows), Nicole Royer. THANK YOU.
Hi Jess:
We are a group of 7 amateur poets that work together under the banner of Bunker Lane Press. We would appreciate an opportunity to read our poems at Duffy’s Tavern in September or October of 2014.
What would be the best way for us to submit our works and communicate with you?
Thanks,
Rod Sherkin
Hi Rod,
To submit, go to our submittable page: http://ewreading.submittable.com. Also attend a show sometime to get a feel of the performance style and to introduce yourself!
Best,
Jess