Hello! I am a writer, educator, project coordinator, and the community founder/curator of Colchester WriteNight, living in Essex.
My writing passion includes writing short vignettes and flash fiction for performance, but I have recently completed my first novel. I submitted this and a reflective commentary for a PhD in Creative Writing and have just become a Doctor!
Currently I work for Essex Book Festival, and teach at the University of Essex, ACL Essex, and a primary school.
A few writerly testimonials:
‘…this collection of stories, tales … displays a high level of literary ability, deep curiosity, and engaging self-awareness… The stories have a really mature clarity and plainness, a simplicity that’s never simplistic’
Glyn Maxwell
‘Powerful, subtle and ambitious stories which develop carefully from well-observed details into rich inhabitable worlds.’
Phil Terry
‘Emma’s stories are spare, in touch with the common world, while having a poetic and witty subtext. Her fiction retains its seeming lightness of tone, but often touches on the moral issues of the everyday and the subtleties of caring and loyalty. You feel that you are in company with a sharp intelligence, which has a calm goodness and a wry humour at its heart.’
Adrian May
‘Emma Kittle-Pey’s short story so poignantly highlights the gap between the haves and the have-nots, and was beautifully understated in its crisp yet ambiguous ending. It said so much (about the three/four people) while saying so little.I loved it.’
Catherine Coldstream
Contact: emmakittlepey@hotmail.co.uk for workshops or collaboration
Emma Kittle-Pey 