Writer & Director

Novels, films, plays

about emma

Emma L.R. Hogg graduated from the University of Guelph (Canada) and started the writing of her first novel, which eventually became Mercedes Mudd, published three years later. 

Following Mercedes Mudd (2006), Emma published Pitlin and Swoosh (2009), The Passenger’s Muse (2011), Portraits of Margot (2013), The Fourth Wall (2015), a non-fiction collection, 100: 1 Writer's Journey, 100 Musings (2016), and Winona Rising (2018).

Both The Fourth Wall and Winona Rising were shortlisted for the Whistler Independent Book Award for Fiction (2017 and 2018), and Winona Rising was a Finalist (2018).

In addition, her poetry has been published in Carousel magazine, and her short story "In a Room with the People who Love you" was published in an anthology by Type A Media.

Emma's seventh novel, Picket Fences, was published by Tidewater Press in 2020. 

Emma is also the writer and director of a number of award-winning and festival-selected short films. Her accolades include the Canada Shorts Film Festival, the Altff Alternative Film Festival, the Grand River Film Festival, the Her Vision Film Festival, the Comox Valley International Film Festival, the Routes to Roots Film Festival, the Nevada Women's Film Festival, the Soo Film Festival, the Vox Popular Media Arts Festival, Sudbury's Tiny Underground Film Festival, Central Alberta Film Festival, the Sault Film Festival, the Couch Film Festival, the Vivid Arts Festival, the GreenScreen Film Festival, the Austin Micro Film Festival, the Rocket City Short Film Festival, and the Hamilton Film Festival.​

Emma is currently in pre-production for her next short film.

In addition, Emma's first play, Love is not a Jellyfish, is set to hit the stage in summer 2025.