by Emma-Jane Barlow | Jun 2, 2021 | Blog
Tomorrow is my 28th birthday. And like I do every year, I am writing a birthday eve blog post. This is something that I like to do, to reflect on my life for the past 365 days. 28. Sometimes I feel like I fit into the mould of “old soul”, I have been...
by Emma-Jane Barlow | Jun 2, 2020 | Blog
Another year has passed. It has become a tradition for me to reflect on my life for the past year, the night before my birthday. Tomorrow I turn 27. It’s a strange world that we are living in right now. With a global pandemic, lockdowns across the world and an...
by Emma-Jane Barlow | May 29, 2020 | Blog
Last year I entered a Mental Health Poetry competition with Make Our Rights Reality (MORR), my poem Did You Know made it in the top 25 and the prize was for my poem to be published in an anthology. The digital anthology has been released, the physical anthology will...
by Emma-Jane Barlow | May 15, 2020 | Blog
We are living in uncertain times at the moment. What better way to unite people than with the power of poetry? One of my writer friends had an idea to create a pandemic poetry collection and raise money for charity. She asked me if I wanted to contribute and of course...
by Emma-Jane Barlow | Sep 8, 2019 | Blog
What am I searching for? This is a question I am currently asking myself but I don’t have the answer. For as long as I can remember, I have been chasing success. Studying, learning, training, getting qualifications, searching for the ‘perfect’ job....
by Emma-Jane Barlow | Aug 11, 2019 | Blog
For the last few years I have been writing poems about my life. I always planned to create a poetry collection but it wasn’t until recently I decided to group them together and start editing. Darkness and Light is a collection of emotionally-driven poems about...
