Influenced by songwriters like Suzanne Vega, Sheryl Crow, Leonard Cohen and Gilbert O’Sullivan, she decided to move away from singing cover songs and attended a songwriting retreat at Bath Spa University to learn how to write songs. This opened up the world of songwriting.

In 2014, Emma was a Guinness World Records holder by writing verse 23 of the world’s longest officially released song which was an incredible 75 verses and 103.4 minutes long. This was the brainchild of Mike Peters from the Alarm, raising money and awareness for his Love Hope Strength Foundation.

Songwriting has introduced her to a network of songwriters across the globe and led her to complete a master’s degree in songwriting in 2017. Emma released her debut single Let’s See What the Earth Has to Say in April 2020. The song was written and released within one week of the UK going into lockdown.

Emma travels all over the UK to write with songwriters and has attended songwriting retreats run by Boo Hewerdine, Chris Difford and other notable songwriting tutors. Emma attended Judy Stakee’s ‘It Starts with A Song’ songwriting retreat in March 2020. Judy was the record executive who brought Sheryl Crow and Katy Perry to fame. Unfortunately, her time in Nashville was cut short by the UK lockdown when she had to return home.

Emma says, “I had one of the best weeks of my life, it was amazing. Spending time with likeminded people is always inspiring but we were 45 minutes from Nashville in a small town called Joelton, staying in a ranch which was absolutely gorgeous. I met some wonderful people out there and will remember it for the rest of my life. Some of them were like me and relatively new to songwriting while others were professional artists in New York, LA and Nashville. My husband was supposed to join me out there but because of Coronavirus I had to cut the second week short’.

Emma describes herself as an accidental indie artist. Her debut single Let’s See What the Earth Has to Say was played all over the world and the accompanying video went viral. This has led her to starting to develop her profile as an artist in her own right.

Her dream is to become a published songwriter writing songs for other artists and as such is undertaking a PhD at Birmingham City University under the supervision of Dr Simon Barber (Sodajerker) and Dr. Nicholas Gebhardt Professor of Jazz and Popular Music Studies. Emma is researching the Role of the Amateur Songwriter in the Music Industries which is an ethnographical study and will research her progress from the amateur to professional songwriting ranks.

Emma put the lockdown to good use, taking advantage of songwriters who were online courses and attended courses by Pat Pattison, Andrea Stolpe, Garry Burr and Mary Gauthier. Emma works with Robin Frederick who is based in LA and is supporting her with developing her skills for writing for film and TV.

Emma released her debut single in March 2022 and the album has had a fantastic response and far outweighed her expectations. It has been album of the week on multiple radio stations with BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio Lincolnshire play.

Emma released The Great Salt Lake in May 2022 which is a collaboration with author Nicole Anderson to support her book launch of the As & Bs of Our Inland Seas which is a book about the Great Salt Lake in Utah, US.

Emma continues to write regularly, has had a recent release with Laura Musgrave which was BBC Midlands Track of the Week.