"Tell me a story" — Emergent Voices presents 13 stories to satisfy the yearning no one outgrows. Selected by Robert Weaver from CBC Canadian Literary Awards winners, these stories helped to launch the careers of some of Canada's best-known authors. Recent stories are abridged for the 15-minute Between the Covers program, whereas earlier stories vary in length up to the full 28 minutes of Anthology. Among the stories in Emergent Voices are "Satya," by Shauna Singh Baldwin, narrated by the author herself, a former PBS radio host; "The Passions of Lalla," by Michael Ondaatje, narrated by Henry Kromer; and "Mrs. Putnam at the Planetarium," by Janice Kulyk Keefer narrated by Nonnie Griffin.

Robert Weaver was Canada’s pre-eminent literary impresario. He joined the CBC in 1948, and for almost four decades he guided the most significant cultural programs in the country. His radio programs, especially Anthology, provided an encouraging yet rigorous forum for story-writers, as did the Tamarack Review, of which he was a co-founder and the inspiring force. In 1979, he founded the Canadian Literary Awards, co-sponsored by the CBC and various partners, including the Canada Council for the Arts and Saturday Night, which since 1994 has published the winning stories. As well as organizing the Canadian Literary Competition, Robert Weaver was fiction editor of Saturday Night. He edited many anthologies, including six editions of Canadian Short Stories and The Anthology Anthology: A Selection from Thirty Years of CBC Radio’s “Anthology.” He co-edited two editions each of The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature and The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English, and he was the editor of Mavis Gallant’s collection The End of the World and Other Stories.

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"Let these voices transport you."

<i>Atlantic Books Today</i>

"A pleasant flow — the tapes would be equally listenable-to in one long gulp on a car ride, or one story at a time."

<i>Quill & Quire</i>