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Dr Emily Bullock

Profile summary

Professional biography

I won the Bristol Short Story Prize with her story ‘My Girl’, which was also broadcast on BBC Radio 4. My short stories have been included in collections such as Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology 2019A Short Affair (Simon & Schuster, 2018), and Bath Short Story Prize Anthology 2014. I have an MA in 19th Century Literature from Kings College, London. I followed this love of plot to work in feature film production before pursuing writing full time. I have an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and completed my PhD at the Open University. In 2018, I achieved Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. My debut novel, The Longest Fight, published by Myriad, was shortlisted for the Cross Sports Book Awards, and listed in The Independent’s Paperbacks of the Year 2015. My second novel, Inside the Beautiful Inside, was published in 2020; a collection of short stories, Human Terrain, was published in 2021 and longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2022.

Research interests

Creative Writing

Novels

Inside the Beautiful Inside, Everything with Words, 2020

The Longest Fight, Myriad Editions, 2015

 

Short Stories

Human Terrain, a collection of short stories, Reflex Press, 2021 (Longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2022)

 

'Hush', pusblished in Same Same But Different, Everything with Words, 2021

‘Open House’, published in Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize Anthology, 2019

‘Man Overboard’, published in Time & Tide, performance in Lisbon, 2019

'What a Performance!', published in Departures Anthology, Arachne Press, 2019

‘A Glimmer of Melting Ice’ – HWA Dorothy Dunett Short Story Prize longlist 2019

'Tombstoning', published in Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology, 2019

'Freshwater', published in A Short Affair, Simon & Schuster, 2018

'They Were the Only Ones Dancing', published in Walter Swan Prize Anthology, 2018

'Tombstoning', published online The Mechanics' Institute Review, 2018

'Freshwater' -  shortlisted in Royal Academy & Pin Drop Short Story Award, 2017

'On Broadway’, published in Remember Oluwale Writing Prize Anthology, 2017

 ‘Zoom’, published in Bath Short Story Award Anthology, 2014

‘Back Issues’, published online, Ink, Sweat & Tears, 2014

‘Human Terrain’, published online Bookanista, 2014

‘We Want it Out’ - 1st Prize, NAWE Conf. Short Story Prize, 2013

'My Girl', 1st Prize, Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Vol.4, 2011

‘Dinner Dance’, published online Molotov Cocktail, 2011

‘To Be Like You’ (1st chapter), shortlisted for the London Fringe Short Fiction Award 2009

‘To Be Like You’ (1st chapter), published in Concertina Anthology, Pen & Ink, 2004

‘I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside’, shortlisted for BBC “Hustle Competition”, 2004
 

Non-Fiction

‘Double English’, published online, Bookanista, 2015

‘Top 5: Literary Fights’, published online, We Love This Book, 2015

‘Prose that Packs a Punch’, published online in Thresholds, 2014

‘Articulating the Other’ - 4 OU PhD students discuss ways of discovering fictional voices, published in NAWE Magazine No.62, 2013

‘No One Plays at Boxing’, shortlisted Fish International Publishing Prize, Short Memoir, 2013

'Beautifully Bleak', published in Bradt's Bus Pass Britain Rides Again, 2013

‘Alkmaar, Umbrella Essential’, published in Europe Online Magazine, 2011

‘Reading Berlin’, 1st prize in Lit Trip Arena contest, 2009

‘A Letter to my Fading Grandad’, published in The Guardian, 2009

 

Broadcasts

Robert Elms, BBC Radio London, 2015

‘My Girl’, BBC Radio 4, March 2013

Sue Cook, Write Lines, British Short Stories, 2011

 

Teaching interests

I teach Creative Writing at undergraduate and postgraduate level with the Open University. I have also been a visiting lecturer at City University: Novel Writing Studio; Short Story Writing. In 2018 I was a visiting lecturer at the University of East London, teaching Myth and the Short Story. In addition, I have taught various open access events (using museum exhibits) at Imperial War Museum, Docklands Museum, British Museum, and Croydon Clock Tower.

Publications

Articulating the Other (2014)
Bullock, Emily; Harlow, Nicky; Richardson, Heather and Sweeney, Emma
Writing in Education, 62 (pp. 52-55)


Human Terrain (2021-08-31)
Bullock, Emily
ISBN : 9781916111599 | Publisher : Reflex Fiction


Inside the Beautiful Inside (2020-09)
Bullock, Emily
ISBN : 978-1-911427-19-3 | Publisher : Everything with Words


The Longest Fight (2015-02)
Bullock, Emily
ISBN : 9781-908434-54-8 | Publisher : Myriad Editions


Portfolio of short stories: 2015-2019 (2019)
Bullock, Emily
(Various Publishers)