She runs face-to-face creative writing workshops for organisations such as New Writing North, Seven Stories andInternational Women’s Day and independently tutors creative writing online.
Florianne’s WriteMentor journey started in 2019 as a mentee on the summer mentoring programme, and now she supports Stuart by designing and promoting content, co-hosting WriteCast, and producing WriteMentor Magazine.
She is a francophone and francophile, and her favourite things include cheese, bookshops and German Shepherds.
Emma has been writing for most of her life, with her first publication at the age of 8 on the now ancient artefact known as CeeFax. She is represented by the David Higham Agency, and mainly writes for children, but also writes short stories and flash fiction, with numerous pieces online, in magazines and anthologies.
An active member of multiple writing groups and organisations, including SCBWI and NAWG, Emma is also the creator and organiser of the fortnightly writing chat called #ukteenchat on Twitter. An active member of the online writing community, she can usually be found loitering on Twitter when she should be writing. Emma is a mentor on both the WriteMentor summer programme andSpark, as well as a reader for the WriteMentor Children’s Novel Award.
Emma lives in the West Midlands with her husband, a multitude of children, cats and chickens and hundred of notebooks!
Follow Emma on Twitter: @FinlaysonPalmer and Instagram: finlayson_palmer.