Excerpt from How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart, an essay collection proposal by Florentyna Leow
Persimmon blossoms emerge in June, petite and cream-coloured, as though clusters of buttery pursed lips have sprouted all over the tree––or so I’m told. I can’t recall the persimmon tree in that garden ever flowering.
How to write a prose proposal for The Emma Press
If you’re feeling a little lost in putting together a prose proposal for your submission to The Emma Press open call, feel free to use the below template! Your Working Title Introduction: What is your book about?Is there a general theme or topic?
Excerpt from How I Met My Dead Grandparents, an essay collection proposal by Krish Jeyakumar
Over the next few months we will be celebrating the work of the shortlisted authors from our 2021 call for essay collections. Excerpts from their proposals will be showcased here on our blog. Excerpts have been left largely unedited, aside
The Emma Press launches gift wrapping service
We can now gift wrap your Emma Press order with our specially designed, locally printed wrapping paper and pop in a handwritten note on a matching postcard (you can tell us what to write).
Excerpt from Scrub, an essay collection proposal by Caroline Harris
They do this by snapping one of their vertebrae: breaking their own backbone to save their life. Like other UK reptiles, slow worms are protected under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act. It is an offence to intentionally kill
The Making of Sandsnarl
By Jon Stone, author of Sandsnarl “Village of dunes. Valley of slumber-dust. Sandsnarl is a settlement steeped in sand …”I drafted this introductory blurb when I was less than half-way through writing the manuscript for Sandsnarl. I’d already decided that I wanted to declare
Excerpt from Place Notes, an essay collection proposal by Laura Anne Brown
The third reservoir is the largest and rolls away in dark blue silk. I gulp it in greedily.
Excerpt from How To Love A Scar, an essay collection proposal by Rebecca Balfourth
Over the next few months we will be celebrating the work of the shortlisted authors from our 2021 call for essay collections. Excerpts from their proposals will be showcased here on our blog. Excerpts have been left largely unedited, aside
Excerpt from The Canned Memories, an essay collection proposal by Priska Astasari
Somehow, Ibu always ordered martabak special for me. Perhaps it is in the belief that the more eggs in the batter, the tastier the martabak will be.
Announcing the Short and Long listed Proposals: The Emma Press Call for Essay Collections
We are so thrilled to announce the shortlisted and longlisted proposals from our recent call for essay collections. We received 124 proposals overall. The proposals we decided to shortlist are all highly original in style and content, as well as considered
