Isabella Wang is a Writers’ Trust Rising Star!

We're thrilled to announce that Isabella Wang, the author of the poetry collections Pebble Swing and the forthcoming November, November is one of five Writers’ Trust Rising Stars in 2025. The Writers' Trust Rising Stars program is a dynamic career development initiative that recognizes five Canadian authors at the onset of their careers who are poised to produce exceptional and enduring creative work. WT Rising Stars are selected, endorsed and mentored by five prominent Canadian authors.

Wang was selected by Joseph Dandurand, who said about Wang’s work:

“Isabella Wang is an amazing young writer of beautiful, thought-provoking pieces. Her first published book, Pebble Swing, is full of cherished and wonderous poems. Her academic studies have given her the opportunity to read, edit, and meet other authors while developing her own writing. Even though she is young, she has lived the life of a poet and developed the ability to create exceptional poetry out of everyday reality and glorious imagination. Wang demonstrates immense promise as she constructs more of herself. There will be great poetry created by such creativity and resourcefulness. Wang is a remarkable and outstanding poet with a bright future, and we are forever grateful for her gift.”

Isabella Wang is the author of the chapbook On Forgetting a Language and Pebble Swing, which was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. She has been shortlisted for Arc’s Poem of the Year Contest, The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry and Long Poem Contest, and the Minola Review’s Inaugural Poetry Contest. She was the youngest writer to be shortlisted twice for The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest. Wang’s poetry and prose have appeared in over thirty literary journals and five anthologies including, most recently, The Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us: New Chinese-Canadian Writers Fiction. She lives in New Westminster, British Columbia, where she directs her own nonprofit editing and mentorship program Revise-Revision Street. 

Wang's forthcoming collection, November, November, will be published by Nightwood in September 2025 and is available for pre-order now!