Emily P. W. Murphy

Professional Author and Editor


Emily P. W. Murphy's stories appear in several award-winning anthologies and in the Bethlehem Writers Roundtable literary journal. The most recent publication can be found in An Element of Mystery: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales of Intrigue, published in September, 2022 by the Bethlehem Writers Group, LLC.

Emily was also the editor for Hook, Line, and Sinker: The Seventh Guppy Anthology, published in January 2023 by Wolf's Echo Press.



Winner of TWO

2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards!

Emily has a story in the multi-award winning anthology Fur, Feathers, and Scales: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Animal Tales (2020)

Previous publications include stories in each of the "Sweet, Funny, and Strange" Anthologies from the Bethlehem Writers Group, LLC

A Christmas Sampler:

Sweet, Funny, and Strange Holiday Tales

won two awards from

in Anthology and Short Fiction from the

2010 Next Generation

Indie Book Awards

and

An Honorable Mention from the 2010 DIY Book Awards

Once Around the Sun: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales for All Seasons

was a finalist for the 2014

Best Anthology

from the

2014 Next Generation

Indie Book Awards

A Readable Feast:

Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales for Every Taste

was a finalist for the 2016

Best Anthology

in the

Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

Once Upon a Time:

Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales for All Ages

contains stories for children ages pre-school

through

middle school

Untethered:

Sweet, Funny, and Strange

Tales of the Paranormal

was a finalist for the

2019 Killer Nashville

Silver Falchion Award

Fur, Feathers, and Scales: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Animal Tales

Winner of two

2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards