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  • About Us
  • Our Livestock
  • Long let properties
  • Emma- WRITER/JOURNALIST
  • Contact Us
  • Emmy's Blog 2022/23
  • Emmy's blog 2021
  • Emmy's blog 2020
  • Emmy's Blog 2018/19
  • Emmy's Blog 2017
  • Scoot Boot Fittings

Emma Hillier - writer and journalist

Emma has been writing since she can remember. As a teen she was chosen to attend writing classes in Newport Library with Cardiff dialect poet Lloyd Robson and Blackwood playwright Patrick Jones. These early formative influences gave her a strong desire to write about the grittier side of life, and this is what she focuses on now, albeit in rural Devon  rather than post-industrial South Wales.


After a fifteen year career in English teaching,  she is currently studying towards an MA in Nature and Travel Writing at Bath Spa University under the tutelage of renowned nature writer Stephen Moss. Her writing has been published in The Countryman, The Landsman, Country Smallholding and EQ Living and her short story 'Ghosted' was shortlisted for the Frome Festival Short story prize and the Aurora Prize for Writing in 2022.  More recently her work in progress, 'Beasts and Burdens' shortlisted for the Fish memoir prize and another short story, 'Rookwing' was highly commended for the Frome Festival Short Story prize. 



Emma is available for writing commissions. Email farrantshayes@gmail.com for further details. 

'The Countryman' - may 2022

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