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Emma Adams
@emmabob3.bsky.social
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Playwright/Screenwriter, Dramaturg & Core Team Member at The Writing Squad. Will sometimes share my sketches here too. Returning runner after a long time out. Agent: Meg Davis at The KiAgency. Links 👉🏻 https://bio.site/Emmabob3 . 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸
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Hi #writers #playwrights all of the bluesky fam - just a quick reminder that I am a playwright. I also sketch stuff. I post a sketch with words everyday. Links in my bio. Meanwhile, here is a sketch I did of a village at dusk in #bradford called #micklethwaite. Good afternoon. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
An ink sketch of a row of houses (some with lights glowing in the window) and a stormy sky as dusk arrives.
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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A #sketch of a traveller on a train.
Ink sketch of a guy on the train sitting in a seat, a bag by his side. He's holding and looking at his mobile phone. He's got headphones on and a water bottle on the table in front of him.
October 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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A link www.instagram.com/reel/DP3Qxl7... to a reel on Insta about our @oldbirdtheatre.bsky.social #otherhoodplay that toured #bradfordcityofculture. We had amazing feedback. Sorry it's on Insta. If you don't go there, I'm planning on writing something about the experience of making this show soon.
A QR code that you can use, to watch a reel on Instagram about #otherhoodplay that toured Bradfrord as part of #Bradford2025CityofCulture.
October 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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A sketch of my cat Lara Darling.
It's a digital sketch of my black and white cat (with pink nose and tiny bit of pink on her ear). She's called Lara Darling, and she is sleeping.
October 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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In other news here's a photo of a watercolour sketch I did of a street looking up towards #LeedsCathedral
An ink and watercolour sketch of a street looking towards a cathedral in the distance. A large street light stands in the foreground. A big old cloud sits in an otherwise blue sky.
September 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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In #otherhoodplay news we are in Tec Tec, baby. Which gives me plenty of time to sketch our brilliant @oldbirdtheatre.bsky.social team. Onwards
A black and white sketch of our lighting designer Tom Blackband sitting behind his desk and computer A black and white sketch of actor Beth Organ playing Teagan knelt by a suitcase. In the background is a stand with a lights and a stand with a speaker and Tom doing lighting behind his desk A black ref and white men ntage sketch of director Deborah Pakkar-Hull, Lisa Howard playing Peg and Beth Organ playing Teagan, during Tec work on scene 10
September 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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News from yesterday: For folks interested in sketches - here's one I did during our @oldbirdtheatre.bsky.social #otherhoodplay rehearsal yesterday. For folks interested in threads/final draft conversation - the news is that there have already been 2 more minor tweaks. And so it ever was. Good day x
A half finished, black and white sketch of @oldbirdtheatre.bsky.social director Deborah Pakkar-Hull being interviewed by Irene Kaali yesterday. To the left is a tripod with a phone on it. To the right is Deborah with back to us and Irene partly in view stands behind to her side.
September 16, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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It was a full moon/lunar eclipse last night. We went out to see it in its big golden orange majesty. Magical. I love how looking up at the moon always brings me back down to earth. Humans have always been looking up at it with that sense of wonder & awe. Thanks moon. I did a drawing to celebrate it.
The full moon last night. The marker pen drawing is of the night sky with trees in silhouette. The moon is low and reflected in a purple canal next to a barge. Everything is covered in swirling lines.
September 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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It was a proper thrill to see #BillieCollins's play (an awesome writer & @thewritingsquad.bsky.social grad 💪🏻💥❤️) #TheWalrusHasARightToAdventure at #LiverpoolEverymanTheatre last night. (2 post thread)
#theatre #yes #gosee
A photo of pillars outside a building (it's the everyman theatre in Liverpool). Each one has a poster on it. The poster nearest is blue, with three people (one appears female / black, one non binary white, the last male white) superimposed with line drawings of creatures. In yellow writing it says the walrus has a right to adventure and by Billie Collins on it.
June 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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It was ace to meet some of the new cohort. While folks were writing I sketched them. As ever, I have melted many faces. Apologies dear new writers (but perhaps get used to it)🫠😉✒️🔥
Black and white sketch of a writer leaning on the table writing Black and white sketch of a man with glasses and beard (Steve Dearden) typing on a lap top
June 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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And we're off! I led a workshop with the new squad 12 @thewritingsquad.bsky.social writers in Leeds today. All about playing out with words, and finding your focus on the page.
Black and white sketch of writers talking
June 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Hi, I did my #sketchaday practice all week. Here is one of my drawings (a sketch of a free Palestine marcher at the Manchester demo yesterday). If you want more find them all on my blog (link in bio). That's the news
Black and white sketch of a Palestine protestors at the #gaza demo in #manchester yesterday
June 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Right now I am striding for Palestinians for #MedicalAidforPalistine. Here's my update (thread starts 🧵) HUGE THANKS 🙏🏻 to all who have donated to my sponsored walk. I continue to be blown away by people's generosity and care. It gives me a lot of hope.
#gaza #genocide #ceasefirenow
A red white and black graphic (overlain with blue words that read week 2 update). The graphic reads: MAP 207% funded. Target £400. Raised so far £827. Number of dinars 16. Total distance so far 38.3KM. Target distance 107KM
May 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Morning, it's time for my week one #medicalaidforpalestine #strideforpalestine update:

Thread 🧵👇🏻
A screen grab of my MAP (medical aid for palestine) sponsor page. A red circle with 199% funded. Below this reads target £400. Raised so far £797. Number of donors 14. Overlaid across this image in black it reads - week one update.
May 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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or walking with friends to see #WildUplands a huge #Bradford2025 art installation my brilliant brilliant wife has spent weeks working on installing near #Haworth (with her awesome team) - always makes things better. #draw #sketch
A page with several black and white sketches across it. There is a sketch of Haworth graveyard with many gravestones. There's a sketch of chickens feeding from a bucket. There are the words 'a day out seeing wild uplands in Haworth ' there are some sketches of the jins art piece called 'children of smokeless fire' that are part of wild uplands.
May 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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or bumping into a goose,
A black and white ink sketch of a goose by the edge of the canal, wild plants and grass flank the goose.
May 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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or being in the garden looking at a flower intently,
#draw #sketch #watercolour
A sketch of a dandelion plant with the word dandilion next to it in red. It is only now that I realise I spelt dandelion wrongly. Here we are.
May 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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As ever, whenever the shit hits the fan emotionally, walking to see - a tree that I love #draw #sketch #watercolour
An ink and watercolour sketch of a hillside covered in grass and heather with an oak tree and wall in the mid ground and a looming blue gray sky.
May 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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*Some may say that I created a mess that doesn't even count as drawing. Luckily for me, as I'm the executive, judiciary & legislative branch of my own little sketch challenge dictatorship, I simply wrote myself an executive order that announced that scribble does count. Beautiful).
A scribble of line on lined paper. There is a face, hair and a sense of a body and a hand writing on paper emerging from this mess. Or at least that's the story I am sticking too.
May 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Links to the blog are in my bio. And that's the news.
Soluble purple pink and green intense bar sketch of alliums with the word alliums at the side. Vibe is soft and dreamy Soluble purple pink and green intense bar sketch of alliums with the word alliums at the side.vibe is chunky and the flowers look scratchy Soluble purple pink and green intense bar sketch of alliums. Vibe is soft and dreamy. Lots of colour spatter Purple mauve and green Alliums with the word Alliums written on the side. The Alliums are on a red background. Vibe is messy and uneven.
May 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Colour colour colour. I have (once again) shown too little restraint and coloured in everything and will I ever learn to stop in time? Maybe. One day. But not this week. Still. I enjoyed drawing the giant Alliums. As ever there is a blog post for each daily drawing over on my website.
An ink and watercolour colour sketch of a workshop with a living roof, flanked by a holy tree An ink and watercolour sketch of folks canoeing on a mucky looking canal. An ink and soluble coloured crayon sketch of a foal An ink and watercolour sketch of my MAP stride for Palestinians sponsorship page
May 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Musical writing is intense. I actually forgot to do my super bumper sketch a day challenge update yesterday, because we were so engrossed in the work... Nonetheless I DID do my sketches everyday. Here's one.
A great big blue and steel gray sky above a London city skyline drawn with ink and watercolour wash
April 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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What else? Just the usual dissonance of being alive, while the earth starts its beautiful dash through spring, while our leaders seem ever more determined to outdo one another in their race to the bottom. It's an intense time to be alive that's for sure. That's the news. Xxx
A black ink and wash sketch on gray paper. 3 men sit at desks at Leeds Library. One reads a book. One scrolls his phone. One eats and rummages in his plastic bags.
April 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Though, be warned, I am not the poet Or the Emma Adams who wrote a children's book. Who may or may not also be the poet Emma Adams. For goodness sake, don't be going off with the wrong Emma.
A pigeon sits on a lamppost. The sky is blue and cloudy gray around it. The sketch is still wet and not yet dried.
April 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Though, I have worked out that day 121 is probably more significant. If I reach that day I will have sketched everyday for 1/3rd of a year. If I manage that, there will be cake. If you read the blog posts that go with each drawing this will not be news to you.
An ink sketch of a magnolia bush in a pot, next to two smaller pots with dots of herbs. The sketch is surrounded by turquoise blue.
April 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM