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Emma Allotey is an aspiring writer and voracious reader who lives in south London. Opinionated except about friends’ new boyfriends.

Favourite writers: a mixture of the literary and the entertaining: James Baldwin, Alice Munro, Douglas Kennedy, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, John Cheever, Maggie O’Farrell, George Orwell, Ntozake Shange, Toni Morrison, Barbara Kingsolver, Sue Miller, Virginie Despentes, and many more.

Currently editing ‘Grudge’ a psychological drama about long-time friends who discover mutual lies which ends in a vicious act of violence.

First novel ‘The March of Aida’ was longlisted for the SI Leeds Prize 2012. She has been published in the Peepal Tree Press ‘Oluwale Now’ anthology (2023) and longlisted for the Harvill Secker Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Award BAME runner up (2021).She placed highly commended in the Creative Future short story category in 2025. She also writes psychological dramas/thrillers under the name Ally J Dunne and is currently editing a psychological drama about a long friendship which turns toxic because of secrets and deception.