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Emma Elizabeth Threlfall (b.1982)

Writers Profile

Writing was an interest that came about in a perculiar way, as Emma was not very academic, in her mind, she was a very average student at school, college and university and always talks of that experience as 'coming in through the back door.' But at the age of fourteen having moved out of her home in Poulton Le Fylde in an unconventional way and going through the riggers of addolescence she was beginnig to have a very difficult time at school, becoming very withdrawn, nervous and depressed. She had always had ideas about things in her head but it was the depression that made her become more of a contemplater and deep thinker. She would see things of television and always want something a little bit more. They never seemed to write things that she was interested in seeing. So out of pure frustration she began writing in the very early beginnings of it all, scripts, very simplistic formats as she had no real idea of how to write one properly. Then as the depression seemed to get worse around the age of fifthteen to seventeen thats when she began to write poetry. Again they were just thoughts and musings on paper as she had never been shown how to write in form, so the very early poems were very child like and ill written. But she kept writing, knowing there was so much in her that she had to get out on paper. Later she attended evening classes where she could hone her craft to make it greater than before. There she met people with a common interest for the first time and shared many happy times meeting in pubs during the summer breaks, for writer's meetings, and would go along to poetry nights in other pubs where Emma would shyly get up on the microphone and read out her work to fellow poets in the local area.

Having written over 100 poems and numerous scripts, stories and publisher rejections over a ten year period she decided it was time to get her work into motion. She collected her best and most loved poems putting them all together for the first time in her first book to be published called Constant, Dear & True - A Collections of Poems. (which can be bought from Blurb.com - http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/531463) The collection explores all kinds of forms such as sonnets, villanelles, pantoums, couplets and free verse, as well as exploring many different subjects such as love, life, death and hope. Her other works include Novellas and short stories such as: Between You Me & The Irish Sea, The Master & The Servant, Tsunami Memoirs and novels such as Malakia Makoli - The Life Story and working on a chidrens book called Maestro Mitzi and The Magical Musical Instruments (who's illustration will be provided by her brother Andrew).

She hopes that future brings many book sales and more books including a novel.