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Emily Hemmings
Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2019
Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2019
Submitted to Contest #110
Submitted to Contest #75
π Winner of Contest #50
βοΈ Shortlisted for Contest #50
Submitted to Contest #49
π Winner of Contest #22
My name is Emily Hemmings. I wrote my first short story when I was nine years old, and it was so inconceivably bad that I openly wept onto the loose leaf paper I had written it on, which was very dramatic and writerly of me. I did not start writing fiction again until my 30s after taking a science fiction course during my belated attempt at a university degree, a course I mostly skipped to write my first novel, which I self-published, printed and immediately took off the market. I reside in Toronto with two cats and an adult human man.