I’m Emma Gannon, a Sunday Times bestselling author of nine books and former judge of the 2025 Women’s Prize. My Substack, The Hyphen, is one of the world’s top literature newsletters, read by 80,000+ subscribers globally.
I’m also the author of OLIVE which was long-listed for the Dublin Literary Award andTABLE FOR ONE. My non-fiction book The Multi-Hyphen Method was a Sunday Times Business Bestseller. My latest book, A YEAR OF NOTHING, was picked as part of The Observer Book Club and Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place Book Club. A Creative Compass launches in June 2026.
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