Emma Purshouse is an award winning writer. She writes fiction and poetry. She performs her work the length and breadth of the UK. Emma is an experienced workshop facilitator and poetry competition judge. Her notable achievements include a 3rd place in the National Poetry Competition, winner of the International ‘Making Waves’ Spoken Word Competition, and multiple slam wins. Emma is a previous winner of the Rubery Book Award for her children’s poetry collection which she co-produced with illustrator Catherine Pascall Moore.
Emma works with poetry collective Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists to provide opportunities for writers and performers across the wider West Midlands.
www.emmapurshouse.co.uk
List of Publications
Poetry
The Nailmakers’ Daughters – Emma Purshouse, Marion Cockin, Iris Rhodes (Offa’s Press)
Close (Offa’s Press)
It’s Honorary, Bab (Offa’s Press)
Unsung (Offa’s Press)
Children’s Poetry
I Once Knew A Poem Who Wore a Hat – Emma Purshouse and Catherine Pascall Moore (Fair Acre Press)
Fiction
Dogged (Ignite Books)
​Paul McDonald is our resident judge. He judged our first ever short story competition and edited the subsequent anthology entitled, The Tipping Point. He set the standard for what was to follow in the years after in which the quality only ever increased.
He taught modern literature at the University of Wolverhampton for twenty five years, heading its creative writing programme for over a decade. He is an award winning author of eighteen books, including three novels and three collections of poetry.
His most recent books include:
Don't Use the Phone: What Poets Can Learn from Books,
60 Poems
Allen Ginsberg: Cosmopolitan Comic.
