Emma grew up in the far south of New Zealand and has lived in Cornwall for more than twenty years. Her publications include the short story collections Three Roads and The Lost of Syros and the novella Travelling in the Dark. She is the editor of Botanical Short Stories and co-editor of Cornish Short Stories. Her writing has won three awards, including the Society of Authors’ Tom-Gallon Trust Award, and has been published widely in literary journals.
Emma works as a ghostwriter, creative writing tutor, and mentor and has read her work at many events. She is currently writing a novel and working on a third short story collection.
Recent Publications
- BOTANICAL SHORT STORIES - The History Press, 4 April 2024
- Three Roads - Red Squirrel Press, 2022
- Travelling in the Dark - Fairlight Books, 25 June 2018
- Cornish Short Stories: A Collection of Contemporary Cornish Writing - The History Press, 2 April 2018
- The Lost of Syros - Cultured Llama Publishing, 4 July 2015
- Over the Dam - Red Squirrel Press, 13 April 2015
Awards and residencies
- The Hall and Woodhouse DLF Writing Prize - The Society of Women Writers and Journalists, 2019
- The SWWJ Elizabeth Longfors Poetry Award - 2014
- The Sara Park Memorial Short Story Competition - 2013
- The Society of Authors' Tom-Gallon Trust Award - 2011
- The SWWJ Thoedora Roscoe/ Vera Brittain Short Story Award - 2011
Current Events and Projects
- The Blossoming Word event at Penzance Litfest - 3 July 2024
- Botanical Short Stories book launch - at the Falmouth Bookseller, 2 May 2024
- Participant in the Women Speak Volumes workshops - a collaboration between Literature Works and Speaking Volumes Live Literature Productions 2023-4
- Commissioned short story ‘Perran in the Sands’ - March 2024, for Twelve Stories for Twelve Sections, a Cornwall National Landscape anthology
- Commissioned short story about the St Agnes AONB for a Cornwall AONB short story collection -
- Mentor for Literature Works Word Space programme - June 2022- February 2023
