Welcome to a New Year! I hope yours brings health and happiness, making up for the last few years perhaps. At the least, I hope you achieve the things you want to achieve - whatever that may look like. For me, I’d like to finally get On Solar Winds out there for people to read. … Continue reading One Word (IWSG January)
Hello, world. I’m briefly sneaking out from my virus-smothering blankets (yep, that virus) to say so-long to October. And cheer a little for my newest published short story. And We’ll Throw Your Ashes to the Wind is a post-apocalyptic story of a mother and child, journeying across their West Australian landscape to the ocean, following … Continue reading And We’ll Throw Your Ashes To The Wind
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir Hilltop Road, Walpole. CC-BY-ND-2.0 Emma Gill Last week I went to Walpole, Western Australia, to the Valley of the Giants. Known for the world’s largest-girth living eucalypts, the red tingle trees, I spent several days among the forest and coastline of this … Continue reading In The Heart of Trees
January, 2010. A British backpacker stepped off a tall ship in Campbell’s Cove, fresh from sailing tourists around Sydney harbour. Barefoot, wearing the full pirate attire of her new job, she set off through city streets to the NSW State Library, clutching a letter with her new ‘address’ (care of the ship’s owner), intent on … Continue reading In Praise of Libraries
I'm so excited! Today is release day for Where the Weird Things Are: a travel guide to the freaky and fantastic of Australia and Aotearoa. https://twitter.com/DeadsetP/status/1527521004620197893?s=20&t=kDXkHlwmw_gOYxZPfTur1g Chock-filled with the promised freaky and fantastic, this speculative fiction anthology features the work of fourteen authors from Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand), myself included. I'm incredibly humbled and … Continue reading New publication: Weathering
EMMA LOUISE GILL 