About

Emma Allmann is a writer living in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She studied creative writing at UW-Madison, worked in market research in Chicago, and is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa. She has had pieces published with Ellipsis and Ink In Thirds and shortlisted with Smokelong. She has had a play produced for the Marcia Légère Student Play Festival at UW-Madison and she has pieces of fiction forthcoming in LandLocked and Ink In Thirds.

Find her on Instagram ( @emryal91 ) for book recommendations and writing updates

Ink In Thirds very kindly nominated my littlest story for Best Microfiction 2025! And it snowed in the Northwoods! What a day!
Pay the Piper by George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus was a genuine good, and scary time. And yes, that is George A. Romero of Night of The Living Dead fame. I will say the story of how the book came to be was the initial draw for me. Apparently Daniel
Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World by Linda Hogan is a beautiful, meditative book that allows the reader to reconsider and reinspect the natural world and our connection to it. It is really beautifully written and I do regret that I h
Plainsong by Kent Haruf is a novel set in and around the small town of Holt, Colorado. Through it we see a father and his two boys grappling with being left by his wife and their mother and a pregnant teen finding family with two old bachelors who ve
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White Girls by Hilton Als is a book of essays which starts with a deeply personal essay which is about 70 pages long. While the rest of the book has essays on Truman Capote, Malcolm X's mom, Richard Pryor, Flannery O'Connor, and Eminem among many oth
Shoko's Smile by Choi Eunyoung and translated by Sung Ryu is a book of short stories that explores the precariousness of all sorts of relationships. Throughout friendships, romantic relationships and familial connections teeter upon pride, loneliness
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I saw Avatar: The Last Airbender for the first time during the pandemic and it immediately became a comfort show, so when I found out that there are books that play in the same universe, you better believe I snagged one immediately! If you enjoy the
Thank you to Ink In Thirds for publishing my flash piece Burnt Lemon in their fall/winter issue Vol 5, I.2 today! It's a voice-y little nearly-a-poem-but-not-a-poem piece that I wasn't sure would find a home. It's also a gigantic issue with lots of b

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