Dr Emma K Pey
@ekpey.bsky.social
Writer, Educator - University of Essex, ACL Essex, Primary. Projects Essex Book Festival. Founder/Curator Colchester WriteNight. Also early literacy specialism - Reading Recovery/Phonics etc
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Another great Colchester WriteNight session on Symbols this week hosted by talented local writer @clareshaw.bsky.social. Thank you Clare and everyone who comes along and joins in! Next session is our pre-Christmas party on 24 November. See you there @writingcommunity.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Another great Colchester WriteNight session on Symbols this week hosted by talented local writer @clareshaw.bsky.social. Thank you Clare and everyone who comes along and joins in! Next session is our pre-Christmas party on 24 November. See you there @writingcommunity.bsky.social
We’re meeting this evening (27 October) at Colchester WriteNight. The brilliant @clareshaw.bsky.social is leading on Symbols! Everyone is welcome to join us for writing activities and refreshments. DM for details! Pls RT? @writingcommunity.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We’re meeting this evening (27 October) at Colchester WriteNight. The brilliant @clareshaw.bsky.social is leading on Symbols! Everyone is welcome to join us for writing activities and refreshments. DM for details! Pls RT? @writingcommunity.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Our first guest on the new ACL Essex podcast was @drabbiecairns.bsky.social 🙌 We talked art, teaching, writing her new book pub’d by Routledge & her ice skating antics. We had a lot of fun!
Link below to her book & the new podcasting course Lewis Walsh & I are running here, if you fancy having a go
Link below to her book & the new podcasting course Lewis Walsh & I are running here, if you fancy having a go
October 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Our first guest on the new ACL Essex podcast was @drabbiecairns.bsky.social 🙌 We talked art, teaching, writing her new book pub’d by Routledge & her ice skating antics. We had a lot of fun!
Link below to her book & the new podcasting course Lewis Walsh & I are running here, if you fancy having a go
Link below to her book & the new podcasting course Lewis Walsh & I are running here, if you fancy having a go
This weekend at Essex Book Festival is a treat!!!
Saturday: Marina Warner, @poetclare.bsky.social, Holly Pester and Phil Terry at St.Leonard’s Church, The Hythe
Sunday: Tony Peake, James Cahill, Maggie Hambling, Radhika Howarth and Marley Karazimba at The Minories
#booksky #essexbookfestival
Saturday: Marina Warner, @poetclare.bsky.social, Holly Pester and Phil Terry at St.Leonard’s Church, The Hythe
Sunday: Tony Peake, James Cahill, Maggie Hambling, Radhika Howarth and Marley Karazimba at The Minories
#booksky #essexbookfestival
June 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
This weekend at Essex Book Festival is a treat!!!
Saturday: Marina Warner, @poetclare.bsky.social, Holly Pester and Phil Terry at St.Leonard’s Church, The Hythe
Sunday: Tony Peake, James Cahill, Maggie Hambling, Radhika Howarth and Marley Karazimba at The Minories
#booksky #essexbookfestival
Saturday: Marina Warner, @poetclare.bsky.social, Holly Pester and Phil Terry at St.Leonard’s Church, The Hythe
Sunday: Tony Peake, James Cahill, Maggie Hambling, Radhika Howarth and Marley Karazimba at The Minories
#booksky #essexbookfestival
Thank you to @moniqueroffey.bsky.social for the wonderful conversation last night at Essex Book Festival. My mind was buzzing afterwards and I’m still thinking! Thanks to the Maldon Library staff who were fabulous hosts as usual 💕 Good luck with the crowd funding the Hey! Festival is going to be👌
June 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Thank you to @moniqueroffey.bsky.social for the wonderful conversation last night at Essex Book Festival. My mind was buzzing afterwards and I’m still thinking! Thanks to the Maldon Library staff who were fabulous hosts as usual 💕 Good luck with the crowd funding the Hey! Festival is going to be👌
Preparing to interview @moniqueroffey.bsky.social at Maldon Library for Essex Book Festival tonight (5 June) at 7pm. Thrilled to be chatting about her latest book Passiontide! What would you ask Monique? What are your favourite author interview questions? Join the conversation - link above #booksky
June 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Preparing to interview @moniqueroffey.bsky.social at Maldon Library for Essex Book Festival tonight (5 June) at 7pm. Thrilled to be chatting about her latest book Passiontide! What would you ask Monique? What are your favourite author interview questions? Join the conversation - link above #booksky
❤️ ESSEX BOOK FESTIVAL has launched!
📚 Sir Ben Okri at Electric Palace Cinema with ‘Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Broken Hearted’. Inspiring thoughts - to write with lightness of touch and knowledge of darkness, continual transformation (writers! humans!)
✍🏽 with Colchester WriteNight
📚 Sir Ben Okri at Electric Palace Cinema with ‘Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Broken Hearted’. Inspiring thoughts - to write with lightness of touch and knowledge of darkness, continual transformation (writers! humans!)
✍🏽 with Colchester WriteNight
May 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
❤️ ESSEX BOOK FESTIVAL has launched!
📚 Sir Ben Okri at Electric Palace Cinema with ‘Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Broken Hearted’. Inspiring thoughts - to write with lightness of touch and knowledge of darkness, continual transformation (writers! humans!)
✍🏽 with Colchester WriteNight
📚 Sir Ben Okri at Electric Palace Cinema with ‘Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Broken Hearted’. Inspiring thoughts - to write with lightness of touch and knowledge of darkness, continual transformation (writers! humans!)
✍🏽 with Colchester WriteNight
A VERY special @colchesterwritenight on Mon 28 April celebrating the launch of Sue Dawes @wivenhoewriter.bsky.social ‘fantastically accomplished’ novel #themune, pub’d by @sfgold.bsky.social. Join us to chat & write at the Quaker meeting house Colchester 7pm
#booksky #scifisky #scifi #althistory
#booksky #scifisky #scifi #althistory
April 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A VERY special @colchesterwritenight on Mon 28 April celebrating the launch of Sue Dawes @wivenhoewriter.bsky.social ‘fantastically accomplished’ novel #themune, pub’d by @sfgold.bsky.social. Join us to chat & write at the Quaker meeting house Colchester 7pm
#booksky #scifisky #scifi #althistory
#booksky #scifisky #scifi #althistory
Graduation @universityofessex.bsky.social yesterday. Glorious day for it! Thank you to everyone who worked to make it special for us. It was! #phdsky #academicsky #highered
April 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Graduation @universityofessex.bsky.social yesterday. Glorious day for it! Thank you to everyone who worked to make it special for us. It was! #phdsky #academicsky #highered
Some reading/writing updates..
Essex Book Festival 2025 brochure launches today - the line up looks amazing this year!
@wivenhoewriter.bsky.social
new book #themune pub’d @goldsmithspress.bsky.social is brilliant! Looking forward to chatting at 7pm on Sat @ Wivenhoe Bookshop. Come along #booksky
Essex Book Festival 2025 brochure launches today - the line up looks amazing this year!
@wivenhoewriter.bsky.social
new book #themune pub’d @goldsmithspress.bsky.social is brilliant! Looking forward to chatting at 7pm on Sat @ Wivenhoe Bookshop. Come along #booksky
April 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Some reading/writing updates..
Essex Book Festival 2025 brochure launches today - the line up looks amazing this year!
@wivenhoewriter.bsky.social
new book #themune pub’d @goldsmithspress.bsky.social is brilliant! Looking forward to chatting at 7pm on Sat @ Wivenhoe Bookshop. Come along #booksky
Essex Book Festival 2025 brochure launches today - the line up looks amazing this year!
@wivenhoewriter.bsky.social
new book #themune pub’d @goldsmithspress.bsky.social is brilliant! Looking forward to chatting at 7pm on Sat @ Wivenhoe Bookshop. Come along #booksky
Thank you Neil Jones for coming to Colchester WriteNight and everyone who joined in with our activities!
There will be fab park bench plays at Castle Park Theatre this summer…
Next session 28 April for @wivenhoewriter.bsky.social launch of her new novel The Mune 🙌
#writingcommunity #booksky
There will be fab park bench plays at Castle Park Theatre this summer…
Next session 28 April for @wivenhoewriter.bsky.social launch of her new novel The Mune 🙌
#writingcommunity #booksky
March 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Thank you Neil Jones for coming to Colchester WriteNight and everyone who joined in with our activities!
There will be fab park bench plays at Castle Park Theatre this summer…
Next session 28 April for @wivenhoewriter.bsky.social launch of her new novel The Mune 🙌
#writingcommunity #booksky
There will be fab park bench plays at Castle Park Theatre this summer…
Next session 28 April for @wivenhoewriter.bsky.social launch of her new novel The Mune 🙌
#writingcommunity #booksky
Tomorrow evening at Colchester WriteNight were joined by Castle Park Theatre to work on some Park Bench Plays! All welcome to join us at the Quaker Meeting House 7pm
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
March 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Tomorrow evening at Colchester WriteNight were joined by Castle Park Theatre to work on some Park Bench Plays! All welcome to join us at the Quaker Meeting House 7pm
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
March 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Post PhD (I hope!) splurge at the cosy @redlionbooks.bsky.social Colchester. Kate Atkinson short fiction, duets @scratchbooks.bsky.social (exciting!) and Ocean Vuong poetry. Perfect👌
#bookhaul #booksky
#bookhaul #booksky
February 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Post PhD (I hope!) splurge at the cosy @redlionbooks.bsky.social Colchester. Kate Atkinson short fiction, duets @scratchbooks.bsky.social (exciting!) and Ocean Vuong poetry. Perfect👌
#bookhaul #booksky
#bookhaul #booksky
Took my books back to @essexuni.bsky.social library today. I didn’t want to let them go as checking daily for an updated PhD result after corrections!
#academicsky #booksky #phdlife
#academicsky #booksky #phdlife
February 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Took my books back to @essexuni.bsky.social library today. I didn’t want to let them go as checking daily for an updated PhD result after corrections!
#academicsky #booksky #phdlife
#academicsky #booksky #phdlife
Local author Vicky Ball visited our creative writing class at ACL Essex yesterday. She attended the class herself a while back. It was great to interview her about her writing journey so far
#writingcommunity #booksky #writer #colchester
#writingcommunity #booksky #writer #colchester
February 5, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Local author Vicky Ball visited our creative writing class at ACL Essex yesterday. She attended the class herself a while back. It was great to interview her about her writing journey so far
#writingcommunity #booksky #writer #colchester
#writingcommunity #booksky #writer #colchester
Thanks so much to Neil Jones and Patrick Martin from Castle Park Theatre for entertaining us at Colchester WriteNight last night! A great way to start the new writing year. We’ll all be writing park bench theatre and hoping to see some of it performed in the park 🌳☀️🎭🤗
(Next session 24 Feb)
(Next session 24 Feb)
January 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Thanks so much to Neil Jones and Patrick Martin from Castle Park Theatre for entertaining us at Colchester WriteNight last night! A great way to start the new writing year. We’ll all be writing park bench theatre and hoping to see some of it performed in the park 🌳☀️🎭🤗
(Next session 24 Feb)
(Next session 24 Feb)
Orford Ness digital art and writing workshop today for Essex Book Festival and the Beach of Dreams Project. So many stories, such an intriguing place of military history, managed decline & contrasting natural landscape with hares, seals and birds. Of course it inspired lots of original writing!
January 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Orford Ness digital art and writing workshop today for Essex Book Festival and the Beach of Dreams Project. So many stories, such an intriguing place of military history, managed decline & contrasting natural landscape with hares, seals and birds. Of course it inspired lots of original writing!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
January 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Trainers and wrapped up for playground duty today. I teach in school on Friday - PE (football skills), reading comprehension, geography, art, music, spellings, story. Ran out of time for golden time but it was all pretty golden! Kids loved music and having a go at their own version of Starry Night ✨
January 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Trainers and wrapped up for playground duty today. I teach in school on Friday - PE (football skills), reading comprehension, geography, art, music, spellings, story. Ran out of time for golden time but it was all pretty golden! Kids loved music and having a go at their own version of Starry Night ✨
Hello! My first post here 🙂 Our monthly writing event Colchester WriteNight is back on Monday. I’m just kind of loving the balloon advert I made 😆 What do you think?
January 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Hello! My first post here 🙂 Our monthly writing event Colchester WriteNight is back on Monday. I’m just kind of loving the balloon advert I made 😆 What do you think?