Emma Timpany

Emma Timpany

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Emma grew up in Dunedin in the far south of New Zealand and has lived in Cornwall for almost twenty years. Her publications are the short story collections Three Roads, The Lost of Syros and Over the Dam, and a novella, Travelling in the Dark . She is co-editor of Cornish Short Stories: A Collection of Contemporary Cornish Writing, a bold and striking new anthology which showcases Cornwall’s finest contemporary writers. Her short stories have won three awards, including the Society of Authors’ Tom-Gallon Trust Award, and have been published in literary journals in England, New Zealand and Australia.


She works as a ghostwriter and mentor, teaches creative writing and has read her work at many events including Port Eliot and Penzance Literary Festivals. Emma is currently writing a novella, The Crossing, and a short story collection about art and ghosts.

Recent Publications
  • 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
  • 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
  • Talk and reading, Penzance Litfest - Life at the Crossroads, 7 July