Writing | Editing | Cooking | Consulting | Drawing | painting | Talking | Teaching

I’m Emma and I’m a freelance journalist, editor, writer, illustrator and artist. My work spans the topics of creativity, art, motherhood, love, loss, relationships, motherlessness, mental health, emotional wellbeing, food and travel. In 2021 I completed my Advanced Diploma in the Therapeutic and Educational Application of the Arts at IATE – the first step in a longer-term plan to qualify as an Integrative Arts Psychotherapist. In the meantime, I am already weaving my studies into my writing and wider creative outputs (including art workshops for grown-ups and children – enquire here).

As for my editorial experience, I was Food and Travel Editor of Liz Earle Wellbeing magazine for five years, and Editor of BEAST, a print magazine dedicated to all things East London. In April 2020, during the first lockdown, I also edited the e-charity cookbook Staying In: recipes and stories from isolation, which to date has raised £40,000 for Chefs in Schools Emergency Appeal.

I continue to write freelance and my work has been published in Grazia (and their parenting platform The Juggle), YOU magazine, Red magazine, Psychologies, Delicious and All Bright Edit, amongst others. One of my first pieces ever published was in Stylist magazine, where I wrote about celebrating the ‘other mothers’ in my life on Mother’s Day, after my mum died when I was 16 (she was 45). That piece remains close to my heart and has shaped much of my work ever since. I appeared on BBC Woman’s Hour and BBC Radio London to talk about ‘missed mum milestones’ (the topic of my Grazia piece Things You Only Know If You're Engaged To A Man Your Mother Will Never Meet).

I am currently available for writing commissions, editing projects, illustration (corporate, branding, editorial & personal), recipe creation, creative consulting work, as well as both virtual and in-person workshops. If you’re interested in working together, please drop me a line at ejwinterschladen@icloud.com. You can find out more about the ways we can work together here.

And finally, you can follow my Instahappenings @hungryromantic and subscribe here to my not-yet-launched Substack publication The Art of It: On Motherhood, Messiness & Making stuff about, and throughout, it all.