Hello everyone, and Welcome to this issue of eMerge! It seems as though time has flown since Covid arrived. As Groucho Marx once so eloquently put it, “Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.” Once again, creativity and innovation abound in this issue. This creativity is given wings by our Executive Director and staff at the Colony and affirmed by a phenomenal Board of Directors. Our alums and champions continue to provide the Colony with support, financial and/or emotional, which is esteemed by our writing community.

A Reminder: Submissions to eMerge, for the publishing year 2022, will be open on August 1, 2021, until October 1, 2021.  So, you have TWO full months to deliberate, plan, write, fusticate (a combination of fuss and explicate, where you find yourself involved in excruciating detail over the appropriate word to use in a piece you are writing, instead of writing!) and ruminate over the work you wish to submit.

We genuinely love to read all of your submissions and appreciate your efforts and courage in sharing a piece of yourself with eMerge and our reading audience. The caliber of work submitted continues to amaze and reaffirm our beliefs in the power of the written word. Your work is what we believe to be one of the foundations of becoming human and why we continue to provide a sanctuary for writers from all over the world.

The Dairy Hollow Echo, an anthology of prose and poetry taken from selections of eMerge, will be out by September (hopefully)! The goals of this publication were twofold: 1) provide a printed platform for many of our previously published authors and 2) raise money for our Scholarship Fund and eMerge. All proceeds from the sale of the Dairy Hollow Echo will go toward these two worthy projects.

Until Next Time,
I Remain,
Just another Zororastafarian Editor who thinks that stressed spelled backwards is desserts, is not a coincidence!