Emily Munro (she/her) is a writer and filmmaker 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.

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) premiered at Glasgow Short Film Festival and examines childhood choreography and autonomy through time.

Emily writes fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction and non-fiction. She has been longlisted and shortlisted for a number of writing awards and her work has featured in a wide range of publications. Her work in progress is a speculative novel set in a luxury wellness hotel on board a decommissioned oil rig. She is also working towards a first collection of poetry.

‘I’m planning to develop new poems at Cove Park and, in particular, ‘Petro-Poetry’ – poems that speak to our entanglements with petroleum.’