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Feb 8

Trees Trees Trees

The story I'm currently working on is set in a forest, so I've been writing a lot about trees. This is what my research looks like...

Emily

Sep 12, 2020

Art, Rocks and Forests

How artworks by Ilana Halperin and Katie Paterson have influenced my writing and imagination.

Emily

Jun 18, 2020

Stories, Monsters & Anti-racism

Thinking about the stories told in our classrooms and our streets, in relation to Pet by Akwaeke Emezi and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Emily

May 17, 2020

My Conservation Hero

For Open the Door Festival, I write about freshwater pearl mussels and one of my conservation heroes.

Emily

May 15, 2020

Call, yap, speak, sing, glow...

Did you know that green monkeys have different alarm calls for leopards and snakes? Or that honeybees communicate through a waggle dance?

Emily

Apr 27, 2020

"The End"

I have finished the first draft of Book 2, and remembered a lot about how I write in the process...

Emily

Apr 6, 2020

A prize longlist!

The Girl Who Lost Her Shadow is longlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2020!

"I'm Little My and I bite because I like it!"

Emily

Mar 30, 2020

"I'm Little My and I bite because I like it!"

Find out why I dressed up as Little My for World Book Day 2020!

Do you know your Vampire Squid from your Sea Swallows?

Emily

Mar 24, 2020

Do you know your Vampire Squid from your Sea Swallows?

Are you scared of the deep sea? Do you have a favourite sea creature? And can you tell a Vampire Squid from a Sea Swallow...?

Emily

Mar 23, 2020

My First Blog Tour

See some blog posts and interviews from my very first blog tour!

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