Emily MacNevin

Emily MacNevin is a freelance music journalist, currently writing for Prog, Spin (USA) and Record Collector magazines. She has been freelancing since she was 21 after completing multiple work experience placements at local newspapers including West Sussex County Times and Dorking Advertiser where she was tasked with interviewing Actor, Christopher Biggins on her first day! She studied Graphic Design:Visual Communication at University for Creative Arts in Kent but dropped out after realising how much she loved journalism and writing. She studied her NCTJ Diploma in Multimedia Journalism and this has enhanced her freelance journalism profile.

Emily has always loved reading poetry and has been writing poetry from a young age, she has been focusing more on her creative writing since the birth of her 22 month old daughter Elodie who inspires a lot of her poetry and children's books she has written, including Ruby's Big Red Heart and the Lucy & 3 Bears series she is currently working on. She loves to write in rhyming verse and is a big fan of Julia Donaldson and Lorna Crozier!

As a child Emily grew up reading a lot and was a massive fan of Roald Dahl and Dr Seuss with Dr Seuss being a big influence for her stories and style of writing (poetry and books). She loves reading a new book but equally loves writing stories and allowing the imagery of the adventure to flow around in her mind. She's a big fan of space and fantasy so a lot of the stories and ideas she has for stories involve the moon, stars, planets, fairies, dragons etc. Emily loves writing fiction and pushing her imagination to unusually weird places, a lot of the story plots she has written and have ideas for, explore an over the top uniqueness, especially the stories from the Lucy & 3 Bears series, for instance, A Whale Swam Out Of My Sink, which was one of the first short picture books she wrote from the series.