by Emma-Jane Barlow | Jun 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
Photo by bongkarn thanyakij on Pexels.com A few months ago, I was pondering the idea of posting my poetry online. For me, poetry has always been a solitary activity. I would scribble rhymes and metaphors onto paper, close my notebook and I would never read it again,...
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 | 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...
by Emma-Jane Barlow | Aug 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
I think this is the most confident I have ever felt about my writing. I currently have 8,000 words of my first novel drafted, it doesn’t sound a lot compared to the 80,000 word mark I am hoping to achieve but for me it is a big accomplishment. I tend to bore...
by Emma-Jane Barlow | Jul 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
I know I haven’t posted in a while so here we go. First of all, I’ve made some progress with my book! I’ve finished the first draft of my prologue and started the first six pages of my first chapter but I’ve realised recently, that I...