Emma Elita
Profile
Emma Elita is a published freelance writer living in Melbourne. By day she teaches English and English as a Second Language to adults aiming for university.
Emma Elita’s latest work is “The Ascent to Hades”, a fictional novel, available through www.blurb.com and soon to be available in the bookstores.
She is also a regular feature columnist for LOTL magazine, a nationally distributed magazine. Read her column, “The Other Woman” at www.lotl.com.
She is published in academic journals and national newspapers, as part of her current Masters Research studies at Monash University, in ‘education and equity’.
Emma Elita has been described as an “emerging talent” in Western Australia, and nominated for several different young emerging writers’ grants and awards. She has worked as a childrens’ television script-writer, ghost-writer, publisher and trained as a senior editor, alongside WA Society of Editors.
You can catch her work in numerous publications. Otherwise, send her an abstract email. That will make her laugh.
www.emmaelita.net
Groups
Emma Elita is a member of "Poetry and Beautiful Women" .
Writing
disencumbered words.
My words are chopped and sliced / in half, before reaching the end / of the disencumbered thought / a fragmented memory / dismembered a long time ago, / I’m not too sure. I try to catch her eyes …
What Would Jesus Do
I wore a WWJD bracelet on my wrist. It was purple and cost me $2 from my church book-store. All my friends wore one. / Whenever we came across a ‘temptation’, we were to ask ourselves, “What wou…
Changing Colours
Lined with guilt and the faintness / of melancholy, Blood collected around our feet. / The deepening pools of scarlet shades / Bore her unknown depths / Without apology. You brushed the droplet…
Gutter Pipes of Emotion
I saunter down Smith Street / looking inside Gutter Pipes. / I am searching for sidetracked / Emotions.
I want to swim with you through inky waters
I want to swim with you through inky waters / until my legs are paddling and peddling through / bottomless oceans with
