About me
Emily Munro (she/her) is a writer and artist based in Glasgow whose work explores our ambivalent relationship/s to the past and future in the Anthropocene.
Thematically, she is often concerned with energy use and extraction, the correspondence and dichotomies between plants, plastics, humans and the cosmos, nostalgic viewpoints on the Pyrocene, archival re-use, and speculative fictions.
Film and media
Emily’s experimental documentary Living Proof (2021) used archive footage to examine Scotland’s energy history and complicity with the climate crisis. It has shown widely both at home and abroad and was nominated for a FOCAL award.
More recently, her archival short ‘Childish’ (2024) examined childhood choreography and autonomy through time.
Emily's filmmaking practice incorporates a DIY approach using multiple media, including animated gelprints, macro photography, archive footage and computer-generated effects.
Her films have screened on four continents and online.
Writing
Emily writes fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction and non-fiction.
She is a runner up winner of the Alpine Fellowship (2025) and has been longlisted and shortlisted for a number of other writing awards. Her work has featured in a wide range of publications.
Her work in progress is a dark, speculative novel set on board an oil rig converted into a luxury wellness retreat. She is also working towards a first collection of poetry incorporating 'petro-poems' (poetry about our entanglements with petroleum).
Her agent is Julie Fergusson at The North.
