Emma Claire Sweeney is delighted to help launch City Writes tonight at City, University of London. She will be reading from Owl Song at Dawn, and is looking forward to being joined by short story competition winners Evleen Mann, Lesley Jones, Eileen Church Riley, C. G. Menon. It is a particular honour to share a stage with… Continue reading City Writes: Launch Event
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Emma Claire Sweeney will be a guest speaker at the Personal Social Services Research Unit and LSE Literary Festival’s Viewing Autism Through the Arts Lens, part of the LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2017. She will be joined by journalist Jem Lester and the panel will be chaired…
If you have read and enjoyed Owl Song at Dawn, please do consider taking thirty seconds to vote for it as BookHugger Book of the Year. It’s a real highlight of my publishing experience so far to see Owl Song at Dawn on this ten-book shortlist along with novels by the likes of Emma Donoghue,… Continue reading Owl Song at Dawn Up For BookHugger Book of the Year
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As some friends already know, my partner and I have recently returned from a motorcycle tour of Spain (with him doing the driving, me sitting on the back). We saw all sorts of amazing sights: a school of jumping dolphins on the ferry crossing out and a whale on the…
I was delighted to review this remarkable memoir for The Independent on Sunday. Naoki Higashida, the severely autistic author of The Reason I Jump finds conversation almost impossible, but he writes by pointing to letters on a grid. Co-translators Keiko Yoshida and her husband, the Man Booker-shortlisted novelist David Mitchell, have a son whose autism is… Continue reading The Reason I Jump
I came, I saw, I tasted lots of good food & wine, but most of all I extended my writing skills, being pushed and challenged but also supported. Thanks Emma. – Bridget: a participant on A Writer Progresses I am delighted to have been invited back to Circle of Missé this summer, having already spent… Continue reading Circle of Missé
My Arts Council writing residency at Sunnyside Rural Trust has culminated in The Memoir Garden – a poetry collection that will be launched in Berkhamsted on 22nd May. I held monthly workshops and interviews over the course of a year, collaborating with participants to create and edit poems from their own words and reminiscences. The Memoir… Continue reading The Memoir Garden
The latest issue of Mslexia – a magazine for women who write – includes a feature by Emily Midorikawa and me. After The Times ran our piece on female writing friendships, we became interested in rivalry between women authors. As writer friends who have often collaborated together and competed against each other, this is… Continue reading Feature in Mslexia
A few months ago, my friend and fellow writer, Ben East, asked me why I write. I’ve been mulling over his question ever since. Given that writing has led me to eschew well-paid, permanent positions in favour of short-term contracts, and to turn down holidays in Lake Garda for weeks of hibernation in my shed,… Continue reading If I could read your mind…
I’m delighted to have been tagged in a ‘meme’, which is an online chain letter. Each week a new writer posts answers to questions about a work-in-progress. Novelist, Penny Rudge, and playwright and non-fiction writer, Samantha Ellis, have both handed on the baton to me. As well as being fantastically talented, Penny and Samantha are… Continue reading The Next Big Thing Meme: The Waifs and Strays of Sea View Lodge
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