Her work has been published in literary journals in England, New Zealand and Australia. She is co-editor of Cornish Short Stories: A Collection of Contemporary Cornish Writing which was shortlisted for a Holyer an Gof Award 2019.Įmma's short stories have won the Sara Park Memorial Short Story Competition 2013, the Society of Authors’ Tom-Gallon Trust Award 2011, and the Society of Women Writers and Journalists’ Theodora Roscoe/Vera Brittain Award 2011. Her short story collection The Lost of Syros was long-listed for the Edge Hill Prize 2015. It was long-listed for the Not the Booker Prize 2018 and selected as a Big Issue Summer Read 2018. Her novella, Travelling in the Dark, won the Hall and Woodhouse DLF Writing Prize 2019.

Her latest publication is Three Roads, a collection of fourteen short stories. She is editor of Botanical Short Stories, an anthology of contemporary writing about plants and flowers due from The History Press in 2024. Emma's short stories have won the Emma was born and grew up in the far south of New Zealand. She is co-editor of Cornish Short Stories: A Collection of Contemporary Cornish Writing which was shortlisted for a Holyer an Gof Award 2019.

Travelling in the Dark by Emma Timpany - 9781912054480 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Her latest publication is Three Roads, a collection of fourteen short stories. Travelling in the Dark by Emma Timpany, 9781912054480, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. As delays and diversions force her to return to well-known places from her youth, Sarah reflects on the relationships with her family and the events of the past that have shaped her present. She is editor of Botanical Short Stories, an anthology of contemporary writing about plants and flowers due from The History Press in 2024. Travelling back to her home town with her young son, Sarah is ready to face up to what she ran away from 10 years ago. Emma was born and grew up in the far south of New Zealand.