Emily interviewed on site at home on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire as part of their National Year of Reading series. Discussed writing, teaching, and cats.

Emily delivers her father’s and her own game and puzzle design work to the archives of The National Museum of Play

The Strong Museum/National Museum of Play in Rochester NY is an amazing combination of insightful galleries, creative play spaces, and scholarly archives. What an honor to have some of our work there.

Another great year for Cambridge Creative Writing Company!

Weekly classes, monthly meetups, our annual retreat, and multiple one-off intensives, many of them sold out. Plus running the writing club and short story competition for Jesus College, Cambridge. We love our students!

Emily to teach with Naxos Creative in Greece

Bring your laptop, your notebook, your half-finished manuscript — or just the idea that won’t leave you alone — and come and spend a week with us on Naxos.

The retreat brings together three cohorts of writers — General Fiction, Non-Fiction & Memoir, and Children’s Fiction — each led by an author or industry expert who’s brilliant at what they do, and just as good at helping you get better at what you do. Three genres, one glorious island, and a whole retreat’s worth of fellow writers to swap notes with over dinner.

Night Climbers of Cambridge: the game in the news! In The Cambridge Independent, and Varsity.

Night Climbers of Cambridge: the game now available from Oleander Press! This cards-and-dice game, designed by Emily Winslow and Westcott Stark, is based on the 1937 nonfiction book Night Climbers of Cambridge by “Whipplesnaith”–a Cambridge student writing anonymously. Players take on the role of students secretly climbing Cambridge’s most iconic sites while avoiding porters and police; can you be the first to make it up King’s College Chapel?

Emily and college Master Sonita Alleyne co-introduce eight podcast episodes from Jesus College, Cambridge, sharing 17 winning short stories (chosen and edited by Emily) from the college’s past five years of writing competitions.

Emily & Menna hosting a creative writing retreat at Westminster College, Cambridge on May Day long weekend. This follows another wonderful year of Cambridge Creative Writing Company’s weekly classes at Jesus College and monthly meetups at The Box Cafe.

Emily recorded on-site intros with Jesus College Master Sonita Alleyne for the college’s upcoming podcast of winning short stories of the past five years. Season 1 coming soon!

Emily & Menna judged the annual short story competition for Jesus College, Cambridge University. This year’s delightful genre: fantasy