Emma Marns

Christ.

Did you get home?

Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...

The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs — around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...

The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs — around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...

This week is my first @womensinstitute.bsky.social booking of 2026! I'll be at Hockley Village this Friday to talk about THE WALK, the Irish mother and baby home and the amazing women who bravely shared their testimonies.

If you're a member (or have a friend who is!), I'll see you there!

🟣⚪🟢 WHAT IS MY PHD ALL ABOUT? 🟢⚪🟣

I really enjoyed my first term of my PhD in Creative Writing at Essex - here's what it's all about and what I've been up to!

#votesforwomen #phd #phdlife #phdstudent

I feel like we’re living in a dystopian novel so dystopian that even if Huxley, Orwell and Bradbury had collaborated on a book, the three of them together couldn’t have dreamt this shit up.

Happy New Year gang! I'll be speaking at four branches of the Essex @womensinstitute.bsky.social in 2026 (so far). I absolutely LOVE these kind of bookings, I can't wait to see you there to talk all things THE WALK!

#authorevent #essex

THE WALK is about the Irish mother and baby homes of the 20th century, inspired by original journalism by Deirdre Finnerty for the BBC.

It is available in paperback (all good bookshops/online shops, not just Amazon!) ebook and audiobook for however you like your books! 2/2

Pleased to meet you 👋🏼📚

Hello everyone! I've had a few new followers this week so I wanted to introduce myself 🥰📚📝📰

I'm a former UEA, St Marys and TCD resident / student, author of THE WALK, proud mum of the loudest 3 year old on earth, freelance journalist and PhD candidate at @essexuni.bsky.social . 1/2

Imagine my surprise when

South Park writer buys ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ domain name Toby Morton now owns trumpkennedycenter.org, which advertises new year performance by the ‘Epstein dancers’ Donald Trump may be remaking the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts into a pool of his self-reflection, but a writer for South Park, the TV series that better reflects the obsessions and tendencies of the administration than any political pundit, has purchased the rights to trumpkennedycenter.org. Toby Morton, a TV writer and producer who has worked on the long-running and joyfully offensive sitcom, said he purchased the domain in August after predicting the president would change the name from the Kennedy Center to the Trump Kennedy Center after he installed himself as chair and stocked the board with loyalists. Continue reading...

South Park writer buys ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ domain name

Merry Christmas all! Thank you for all your support in 2025. I hope you all have a glorious time over the next few days with lots of magic, joy - and books! 📚

If you find this time of year difficult, my heart goes out to you, and help is available. Lots of love 😘

🎄🎁❤️🎁🎄

It's been 18 months since Dad went Home.

This was our final silly joke, in honour of the years of our lives spent not communicating our proper feelings, but exchanging Monty Python quotes instead - as the Lord intended, I'm sure.

ROMANI ITE DOMUM

"Brought peace?"
"Oh, peace - SHUT UP!"

The Peculiar Lives of the Admin Workers On my last day at East 15 Acting School, wherein I'd held the post of 'Academic and Operations Administrator' for five and a half years, I shouted out, "I was just a bloody admin, lads!" to a class fu...

I've just published an #article #blog on @linkedin.com about my peculiar life as 'Auntie Emma', the administrator for East 15's Southend campus. It was a lovely job I did for over five years and saw off a great many challenges - and some superstars in the making.

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Accessibility of literature is key 🗝️! I'm thrilled that four copies of THE WALK are happily floating around the Essex and Southend library systems, ready for you to borrow.

Support your local libraries! You can reserve a copy online to be sent to the library closest to you.

#BookSky

The NHS is failing women with ADHD like me – it’s now a feminist issue Time and again it is women who are left behind by a healthcare system that fails to spot the telltale signs of ADHD, says Kat Brown. If specialist NHS services across England are excluding patients by...

Women are left behind by a healthcare system that fails to spot the telltale signs of ADHD, says @katbrownwrites.com. If specialist NHS services across England are excluding patients by age or otherwise closing their doors to patients, it will ruin lives www.independent.co.uk/voices/adhd-...

I've been very busy reading lots of fabulous books recently, mostly to defeat my Goodreads 2025 Reading Challenge but also for that little thing I'm doing - the doctorate.

Head over to my Instagram @emmamarns_author to find out what I thought of these, and many more! #BookSky

Digested week: Sometimes it feels the clocks do nothing else but go back | Lucy Mangan Women need exclamation marks for good reason!! Plus, Andrew is losing everything he holds dear, including his house full of memories

Digested week: Sometimes it feels the clocks do nothing else but go back | Lucy Mangan

Lot's of extra interest in Ultra Women after the @bookieprize.bsky.social. You can get it anywhere there's books, including Amazon, Waterstone's, Hive. Ask your local bookshop to order. Our publisher also has 20% off to celebrate @lilycanter.bsky.social www.canburypress.com @lilycanter.bsky.social

CONGRATULATIONS!!! And quite right too.

"Hang on a moment while we log you out" is my villain's origin story.

🚨RECENTLY ADDED EVENT ALERT!🚨
I'm very excited to be invited along to the 'Tangent Ladies' Club' in Shenfield next spring. Although this is a closed event, remember I am available for and LOVE to do smaller events like this, Book Clubs, etc.

Let me know what you have going on! 📚

The audiobook of THE WALK is available on Apple Books as well as Audible (and is a few quid cheaper, too)!
Beautifully narrated by Erin Connolly, you can listen to the book as part of your Audible subscription, or purchase and download from Apple or Amazon.

books.apple.com/gb/audiobook...

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A photograph of László Krasznahorkai.

Congratulations to László Krasznahorkai! The Hungarian novelist has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art." #LaszloKrasznahorkai #NobelPrizeinLiterature #💙📚 #Booksky

Wouldn't we all.
Rest in power, wonderful Jane.

I am starting my PhD in Creative Writing at The University of Essex NEXT WEEK! I am so excited. Unbelievably, this is my fourth time enrolling at a university (BA, PGDip, MPhil completed!) and it has been quite a journey - read all about it.

emmamarns.com/phdo-or-die

I'm thrilled that four branches of Essex @womensinstitute.bsky.social have already booked me for 2026! I have loved going to meetings with these amazing ladies this year, and I'm thrilled to keep spreading education around The Walk and the tragic history it's based on. See you there! 💚💚💚💚

Just two more days until my final author event of 2025! (unless anyone wants to book me for another one... 😉). I'm really excited to see everyone at the Young At Heart Forum up in Stanway, Colchester this week to talk all about The Walk and the history behind it. See you youngsters there! 📖💜