Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, and Gail Anderson-Dargatz are among the winners of the CBC Literary Award who have gone on to become some of the biggest names in Canadian literature. They and other past winners are included in Emergent Voices. For over twenty years, Robert Weaver has coordinated one of Canada's most important literary awards for emerging writers, the CBC Canadian Literary Awards. Weaver founded the awards and has been tireless in promoting them.

Les rites /Sean Virgo -- A matter of balance / W.D. Valfardson -- Natural history / Audrey Thomas -- The leaving / Budge Wilson -- A local hanging / Kent Thompson -- The passions of Lalla / Michael Ondaatje -- The other country / Gwendolyn MacEwen -- Bloodsong / Ernst Havemann -- An interview / Ernst Havemann -- Flitting behaviour / Carol Shields -- Mrs. Putnam at the planetarium / Janice Kulyk Keefer -- The wind / Janice Kulyk Keefer -- Queen of pentacles, nice of swords / Janice Kulyk Keefer -- Dreamland / Carol Windley -- The immaculate conception photo gallery / Katherine Govier -- The hanging gardens of Babylon / Caroline Adderson -- Peggy Lee in Africa / Patrick Roscoe -- Archaeology / Mary Swan -- Hoodlums / Irena Friedman Karafilly -- Elizabeth / Joan Givner -- The Chmarnyk / Caroline Adderson -- The girl with the bell necklace / Gail Anderson-Dargatz -- In the water, like this / Gayla Reid -- Bolero / Frances Itani -- Poached egg on toast / Frances Itani -- Satya / Shauna Singh Baldwin -- Where it comes from, where it goes / Bill Gaston.