Emma Marns
@emmamarns.bsky.social
Author, journalist, noisy person on the radio and Melody's mum.
Words for Netmums, The Independent, Stylist, The Sun, Metro UK, That's Life, That's Life: Fate & Fortune, Women's Own, Rock 'n' Roll Bride.
https://emmamarns.com/
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Words for Netmums, The Independent, Stylist, The Sun, Metro UK, That's Life, That's Life: Fate & Fortune, Women's Own, Rock 'n' Roll Bride.
https://emmamarns.com/
https://linktr.ee/emmamarns
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Emma Marns
@emmamarns.bsky.social
· Jul 21
A reminder that THE WALK is now available in THREE formats - paperback, eBook and audiobook! Please support independent bookshops if you can for paperback. 📖💻🎧
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The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs — around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education
These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...
www.megaphone.org.uk
February 17, 2026 at 12:27 PM
The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs — around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs — around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education
These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...
www.megaphone.org.uk
February 17, 2026 at 9:15 AM
The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs — around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
This week is my first @womensinstitute.bsky.social booking of 2026! I'll be at Hockley Village this Friday to talk about THE WALK, the Irish mother and baby home and the amazing women who bravely shared their testimonies.
If you're a member (or have a friend who is!), I'll see you there!
If you're a member (or have a friend who is!), I'll see you there!
February 16, 2026 at 9:19 PM
This week is my first @womensinstitute.bsky.social booking of 2026! I'll be at Hockley Village this Friday to talk about THE WALK, the Irish mother and baby home and the amazing women who bravely shared their testimonies.
If you're a member (or have a friend who is!), I'll see you there!
If you're a member (or have a friend who is!), I'll see you there!
🟣⚪🟢 WHAT IS MY PHD ALL ABOUT? 🟢⚪🟣
I really enjoyed my first term of my PhD in Creative Writing at Essex - here's what it's all about and what I've been up to!
#votesforwomen #phd #phdlife #phdstudent
I really enjoyed my first term of my PhD in Creative Writing at Essex - here's what it's all about and what I've been up to!
#votesforwomen #phd #phdlife #phdstudent
February 2, 2026 at 8:56 AM
🟣⚪🟢 WHAT IS MY PHD ALL ABOUT? 🟢⚪🟣
I really enjoyed my first term of my PhD in Creative Writing at Essex - here's what it's all about and what I've been up to!
#votesforwomen #phd #phdlife #phdstudent
I really enjoyed my first term of my PhD in Creative Writing at Essex - here's what it's all about and what I've been up to!
#votesforwomen #phd #phdlife #phdstudent
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I feel like we’re living in a dystopian novel so dystopian that even if Huxley, Orwell and Bradbury had collaborated on a book, the three of them together couldn’t have dreamt this shit up.
January 19, 2026 at 3:03 PM
I feel like we’re living in a dystopian novel so dystopian that even if Huxley, Orwell and Bradbury had collaborated on a book, the three of them together couldn’t have dreamt this shit up.
Happy New Year gang! I'll be speaking at four branches of the Essex @womensinstitute.bsky.social in 2026 (so far). I absolutely LOVE these kind of bookings, I can't wait to see you there to talk all things THE WALK!
#authorevent #essex
#authorevent #essex
January 10, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Happy New Year gang! I'll be speaking at four branches of the Essex @womensinstitute.bsky.social in 2026 (so far). I absolutely LOVE these kind of bookings, I can't wait to see you there to talk all things THE WALK!
#authorevent #essex
#authorevent #essex
THE WALK is about the Irish mother and baby homes of the 20th century, inspired by original journalism by Deirdre Finnerty for the BBC.
It is available in paperback (all good bookshops/online shops, not just Amazon!) ebook and audiobook for however you like your books! 2/2
Pleased to meet you 👋🏼📚
It is available in paperback (all good bookshops/online shops, not just Amazon!) ebook and audiobook for however you like your books! 2/2
Pleased to meet you 👋🏼📚
January 7, 2026 at 7:04 AM
THE WALK is about the Irish mother and baby homes of the 20th century, inspired by original journalism by Deirdre Finnerty for the BBC.
It is available in paperback (all good bookshops/online shops, not just Amazon!) ebook and audiobook for however you like your books! 2/2
Pleased to meet you 👋🏼📚
It is available in paperback (all good bookshops/online shops, not just Amazon!) ebook and audiobook for however you like your books! 2/2
Pleased to meet you 👋🏼📚
Hello everyone! I've had a few new followers this week so I wanted to introduce myself 🥰📚📝📰
I'm a former UEA, St Marys and TCD resident / student, author of THE WALK, proud mum of the loudest 3 year old on earth, freelance journalist and PhD candidate at @essexuni.bsky.social . 1/2
I'm a former UEA, St Marys and TCD resident / student, author of THE WALK, proud mum of the loudest 3 year old on earth, freelance journalist and PhD candidate at @essexuni.bsky.social . 1/2
January 7, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Hello everyone! I've had a few new followers this week so I wanted to introduce myself 🥰📚📝📰
I'm a former UEA, St Marys and TCD resident / student, author of THE WALK, proud mum of the loudest 3 year old on earth, freelance journalist and PhD candidate at @essexuni.bsky.social . 1/2
I'm a former UEA, St Marys and TCD resident / student, author of THE WALK, proud mum of the loudest 3 year old on earth, freelance journalist and PhD candidate at @essexuni.bsky.social . 1/2
Imagine my surprise when
Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice
Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice
Exclusive: Inaccurate information presented in summaries, Guardian investigation finds
People are being put at risk of harm by false and misleading health information in Google’s artificial intelligence summaries, a Guardian investigation has found.
The company has said its AI Overviews, which use generative AI to provide snapshots of essential information about a topic or question, are “helpful” and “reliable”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Imagine my surprise when
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South Park writer buys ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ domain name
South Park writer buys ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ domain name
Toby Morton now owns trumpkennedycenter.org, which advertises new year performance by the ‘Epstein dancers’
Donald Trump may be remaking the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts into a pool of his self-reflection, but a writer for South Park, the TV series that better reflects the obsessions and tendencies of the administration than any political pundit, has purchased the rights to trumpkennedycenter.org.
Toby Morton, a TV writer and producer who has worked on the long-running and joyfully offensive sitcom, said he purchased the domain in August after predicting the president would change the name from the Kennedy Center to the Trump Kennedy Center after he installed himself as chair and stocked the board with loyalists. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 10:25 PM
South Park writer buys ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ domain name
Merry Christmas all! Thank you for all your support in 2025. I hope you all have a glorious time over the next few days with lots of magic, joy - and books! 📚
If you find this time of year difficult, my heart goes out to you, and help is available. Lots of love 😘
🎄🎁❤️🎁🎄
If you find this time of year difficult, my heart goes out to you, and help is available. Lots of love 😘
🎄🎁❤️🎁🎄
December 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Merry Christmas all! Thank you for all your support in 2025. I hope you all have a glorious time over the next few days with lots of magic, joy - and books! 📚
If you find this time of year difficult, my heart goes out to you, and help is available. Lots of love 😘
🎄🎁❤️🎁🎄
If you find this time of year difficult, my heart goes out to you, and help is available. Lots of love 😘
🎄🎁❤️🎁🎄
It's been 18 months since Dad went Home.
This was our final silly joke, in honour of the years of our lives spent not communicating our proper feelings, but exchanging Monty Python quotes instead - as the Lord intended, I'm sure.
ROMANI ITE DOMUM
"Brought peace?"
"Oh, peace - SHUT UP!"
This was our final silly joke, in honour of the years of our lives spent not communicating our proper feelings, but exchanging Monty Python quotes instead - as the Lord intended, I'm sure.
ROMANI ITE DOMUM
"Brought peace?"
"Oh, peace - SHUT UP!"
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It's been 18 months since Dad went Home.
This was our final silly joke, in honour of the years of our lives spent not communicating our proper feelings, but exchanging Monty Python quotes instead - as the Lord intended, I'm sure.
ROMANI ITE DOMUM
"Brought peace?"
"Oh, peace - SHUT UP!"
This was our final silly joke, in honour of the years of our lives spent not communicating our proper feelings, but exchanging Monty Python quotes instead - as the Lord intended, I'm sure.
ROMANI ITE DOMUM
"Brought peace?"
"Oh, peace - SHUT UP!"
I've just published an #article #blog on @linkedin.com about my peculiar life as 'Auntie Emma', the administrator for East 15's Southend campus. It was a lovely job I did for over five years and saw off a great many challenges - and some superstars in the making.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/peculi...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/peculi...
The Peculiar Lives of the Admin Workers
On my last day at East 15 Acting School, wherein I'd held the post of 'Academic and Operations Administrator' for five and a half years, I shouted out, "I was just a bloody admin, lads!" to a class fu...
www.linkedin.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I've just published an #article #blog on @linkedin.com about my peculiar life as 'Auntie Emma', the administrator for East 15's Southend campus. It was a lovely job I did for over five years and saw off a great many challenges - and some superstars in the making.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/peculi...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/peculi...
Accessibility of literature is key 🗝️! I'm thrilled that four copies of THE WALK are happily floating around the Essex and Southend library systems, ready for you to borrow.
Support your local libraries! You can reserve a copy online to be sent to the library closest to you.
#BookSky
Support your local libraries! You can reserve a copy online to be sent to the library closest to you.
#BookSky
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Accessibility of literature is key 🗝️! I'm thrilled that four copies of THE WALK are happily floating around the Essex and Southend library systems, ready for you to borrow.
Support your local libraries! You can reserve a copy online to be sent to the library closest to you.
#BookSky
Support your local libraries! You can reserve a copy online to be sent to the library closest to you.
#BookSky
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Women are left behind by a healthcare system that fails to spot the telltale signs of ADHD, says @katbrownwrites.com. If specialist NHS services across England are excluding patients by age or otherwise closing their doors to patients, it will ruin lives www.independent.co.uk/voices/adhd-...
The NHS is failing women with ADHD like me – it’s now a feminist issue
Time and again it is women who are left behind by a healthcare system that fails to spot the telltale signs of ADHD, says Kat Brown. If specialist NHS services across England are excluding patients by...
www.independent.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Women are left behind by a healthcare system that fails to spot the telltale signs of ADHD, says @katbrownwrites.com. If specialist NHS services across England are excluding patients by age or otherwise closing their doors to patients, it will ruin lives www.independent.co.uk/voices/adhd-...
I've been very busy reading lots of fabulous books recently, mostly to defeat my Goodreads 2025 Reading Challenge but also for that little thing I'm doing - the doctorate.
Head over to my Instagram @emmamarns_author to find out what I thought of these, and many more! #BookSky
Head over to my Instagram @emmamarns_author to find out what I thought of these, and many more! #BookSky
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I've been very busy reading lots of fabulous books recently, mostly to defeat my Goodreads 2025 Reading Challenge but also for that little thing I'm doing - the doctorate.
Head over to my Instagram @emmamarns_author to find out what I thought of these, and many more! #BookSky
Head over to my Instagram @emmamarns_author to find out what I thought of these, and many more! #BookSky
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Digested week: Sometimes it feels the clocks do nothing else but go back | Lucy Mangan
Digested week: Sometimes it feels the clocks do nothing else but go back | Lucy Mangan
Women need exclamation marks for good reason!! Plus, Andrew is losing everything he holds dear, including his house full of memories
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Digested week: Sometimes it feels the clocks do nothing else but go back | Lucy Mangan
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Lot's of extra interest in Ultra Women after the @bookieprize.bsky.social. You can get it anywhere there's books, including Amazon, Waterstone's, Hive. Ask your local bookshop to order. Our publisher also has 20% off to celebrate @lilycanter.bsky.social www.canburypress.com @lilycanter.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Lot's of extra interest in Ultra Women after the @bookieprize.bsky.social. You can get it anywhere there's books, including Amazon, Waterstone's, Hive. Ask your local bookshop to order. Our publisher also has 20% off to celebrate @lilycanter.bsky.social www.canburypress.com @lilycanter.bsky.social
🚨RECENTLY ADDED EVENT ALERT!🚨
I'm very excited to be invited along to the 'Tangent Ladies' Club' in Shenfield next spring. Although this is a closed event, remember I am available for and LOVE to do smaller events like this, Book Clubs, etc.
Let me know what you have going on! 📚
I'm very excited to be invited along to the 'Tangent Ladies' Club' in Shenfield next spring. Although this is a closed event, remember I am available for and LOVE to do smaller events like this, Book Clubs, etc.
Let me know what you have going on! 📚
October 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🚨RECENTLY ADDED EVENT ALERT!🚨
I'm very excited to be invited along to the 'Tangent Ladies' Club' in Shenfield next spring. Although this is a closed event, remember I am available for and LOVE to do smaller events like this, Book Clubs, etc.
Let me know what you have going on! 📚
I'm very excited to be invited along to the 'Tangent Ladies' Club' in Shenfield next spring. Although this is a closed event, remember I am available for and LOVE to do smaller events like this, Book Clubs, etc.
Let me know what you have going on! 📚
The audiobook of THE WALK is available on Apple Books as well as Audible (and is a few quid cheaper, too)!
Beautifully narrated by Erin Connolly, you can listen to the book as part of your Audible subscription, or purchase and download from Apple or Amazon.
books.apple.com/gb/audiobook...
Beautifully narrated by Erin Connolly, you can listen to the book as part of your Audible subscription, or purchase and download from Apple or Amazon.
books.apple.com/gb/audiobook...
October 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The audiobook of THE WALK is available on Apple Books as well as Audible (and is a few quid cheaper, too)!
Beautifully narrated by Erin Connolly, you can listen to the book as part of your Audible subscription, or purchase and download from Apple or Amazon.
books.apple.com/gb/audiobook...
Beautifully narrated by Erin Connolly, you can listen to the book as part of your Audible subscription, or purchase and download from Apple or Amazon.
books.apple.com/gb/audiobook...
Reposted by Emma Marns
Reposted by Emma Marns
Congratulations to László Krasznahorkai! The Hungarian novelist has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art." #LaszloKrasznahorkai #NobelPrizeinLiterature #💙📚 #Booksky
October 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Congratulations to László Krasznahorkai! The Hungarian novelist has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art." #LaszloKrasznahorkai #NobelPrizeinLiterature #💙📚 #Booksky
Wouldn't we all.
Rest in power, wonderful Jane.
Rest in power, wonderful Jane.
October 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Wouldn't we all.
Rest in power, wonderful Jane.
Rest in power, wonderful Jane.
I am starting my PhD in Creative Writing at The University of Essex NEXT WEEK! I am so excited. Unbelievably, this is my fourth time enrolling at a university (BA, PGDip, MPhil completed!) and it has been quite a journey - read all about it.
emmamarns.com/phdo-or-die
emmamarns.com/phdo-or-die
September 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I am starting my PhD in Creative Writing at The University of Essex NEXT WEEK! I am so excited. Unbelievably, this is my fourth time enrolling at a university (BA, PGDip, MPhil completed!) and it has been quite a journey - read all about it.
emmamarns.com/phdo-or-die
emmamarns.com/phdo-or-die
I'm thrilled that four branches of Essex @womensinstitute.bsky.social have already booked me for 2026! I have loved going to meetings with these amazing ladies this year, and I'm thrilled to keep spreading education around The Walk and the tragic history it's based on. See you there! 💚💚💚💚
September 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I'm thrilled that four branches of Essex @womensinstitute.bsky.social have already booked me for 2026! I have loved going to meetings with these amazing ladies this year, and I'm thrilled to keep spreading education around The Walk and the tragic history it's based on. See you there! 💚💚💚💚