Emily Paradice-Ruan is an autofiction and aspiring children’s book writer/illustrator from Swansea. Emily interned as a journalist for Trill Magazine, acted as prose editor and resident artist at The Tonic Review, and now facilitates undergraduate writing workshops whilst completing her Creative Writing MA. Her debut short story ‘Adref’ was published in the Bloomsbury Mentorship Programme 2024-25 anthology for which she was shortlisted. She now has designs to pursue a PhD in Creative Writing and publish her autofictional novella Fledglings and children’s book Wyatt Whale.
In our penultimate Writers at Work interview, we meet Emily Paradice-Ruan, whose practice spans autofiction and children’s books. We loved hearing about the role of vulnerability in her practice, her literary heroes and the dreamy liminality of trains and beds.
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