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I have 128 stories published in 11 collections on the site.
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Emma du Toit

I have been regularly writing poetry for the last twenty years. My work explores the grief of having to fit in when you don't belong. I am interested in minute interactions, the magic of the everyday, peripheries and otherness. In 2023, I completed an MA in Creative Writing which has helped me to get better at submitting writing rather than hoarding it shamefully in a folder on my laptop. 

My stories

Fingers and Lips

Dark outside. Curtains closing. On the violet plastic table beneath the window is an Easter egg in its gaudy yellow box. This allows us to place the...

Faulty Spade

I used to write poems Lines of feelings Thoughts Memories But this I can't explain As he's digging away inside my soul Tunnelling through to the...

incident

By the time the police arrive, Andrew is running naked through the town centre. We try to pretend that he isn't a part of us, but he insists on group...
Cherry

The Little Things

To us she had always been a strong woman...
Cherry

Sleeping Beauty

fairy tale

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