Soula Emmanuel

Short story: Christmas Number One

‘Jennie Barrett has a lovely broach from Switzers,’ she said. ‘Silver and purple. She’s going steady with a fella from Booterstown and he bought it for her.’ ‘Jennie Barrett is…

Short story: It’s A Cruel World for Empaths Like Us

This time around, Fern devotes particular attention to the hair under your nose. A sadist at the clinic—and really, it’s hard to imagine anyone else working there—would relish the opportunity…

Short story: Eclipse-o

On the twelfth of August 1999, a total eclipse will pass over Europe, from Cornwall to Bulgaria and on to India, plunging the continent into darkness for a few minutes…

BBC Short Works: Rainbow Day

My short story Rainbow Day, narrated by Holly Hannaway, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 27 September at 15:45, and will be available to stream here afterwards.

Essay: Tism rizz, tism miz

I saw a tweet a few weeks ago; reflective, I thought, of a broad cultural attitude towards autistic people, and particularly towards online autism culture: Autism is a thing that…

ShoutOut podcast: Trans writing in literature and theatre

In this episode, ShoutOut’s Executive Director, Ruadhán Ó Críodáin, sits down with writers Soula Emmanuel and Ezra Maloney as they share their experiences writing literature and theatre from the trans…

Reading Corner: Q&A with Soula Emmanuel

Debut novelist Soula Emmanuel tells the story of Phoebe Forde, an Irish trans woman living in Scandinavia who unexpectedly reconnects with her first (and only) girlfriend, igniting memories she thought…

Essay: Publish and Be Saved

About a year ago, after Wild Geese was picked up by a UK publisher but before it was signed in the US, I told my therapist I had set a…

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