We’re both published writers – mainly poetry, short stories and reviews – based in Leicester, UK.

Emma’s poetry collection, Yellow Torchlight and the Blues, and Paul’s collection, The Light Forecast, are both published by Original Plus (UK).

We were commissioned to write four poems for the Newarke and Sherwood District Millennium Project.  The resulting poems, “Sherwood’s Secret”, “Ompton Pyramids”, “The Beehive, Maplebeck” and “The Vina Cooke Dolls Museum” have each been displayed on site.  “Ompton Pyramids” was featured in Severn Trent Water Authority’s staff newsletter and “Sherwood’s Secret” was featured in BP’s in-house magazine as well as in the Eakring Echo.

Emma’s poems have been nominated for the Forward Best Poem Prize, broadcast on BBC Radio, prize-winners in competitions and widely published in anthologies, magazines and webzines.  Her short stories are also widely published.  Emma writes regular and ad hoc reviews mostly for The Journal, Spinx and Whispers of Wickedness.  She has adjudicated Nottingham Writers’ Club’s 70th anniversary prose competition, Leicester Writers’ Club’s poetry competition (2003) and Nottingham Writers’ Club short story competition (2007).

Paul Lee began writing in his early forties, for reasons he neither understands nor wishes to, in case it goes away.  His poetry has been widely published in magazines and he has had some success in competitions. He has also performed his poems. “The Dream Zone” has published three of his short stories, and his play, “A Horse Foaled By An Acorn”, was joint winner in a local competition.