Playwriting & Poetry by Emma Goldman-Sherman

Emma by a red brick wall. Photo: Melinda Hall

PUBLICATIONS & PRIZES

Anthology:

Adrienne Rich: A Tribute Anthology (Split Oak Press, 2012)

Journals:

Anodyne Magazine, Anti-Heroin Chic, Bangalore Review, Chaotic Merge Magazine, Discretionary Love, Gigantic Sequins, Mersey Review, Moss Piglet, Nonbinary Review, Open Minds Quarterly, Sad Girls Club, Strange Horizons, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Toyon Literary Magazine, Writers Resist

As a playwright, Emma's plays have been produced on 4 continents and include Abraham's Daughters which was a finalist for Waterworks, Henley Rose and Cutting Ball's Risk is This. Other podcasts at PlayingOnAir.org and elsewhere.

Their plays are published with Smith & Krause, Applause, Brooklyn Publishers and Next Stage Press. Their work has been named as finalists at BAPF, Henley Rose, Bridge Initiative, Campfire, Unicorn (3x), Waterworks, and Cutting Ball (3x) and semi-finalists at JPP and the O'Neill.

Emma is available for script feedback and support

More at the newplayexchange.com.

They teach for the Dramatists Guild Institute and offer support to writers and other artists at https://www.bravespace.online/ and they write weekly on Creativity and Wholeness here: https://goldmansherman.substack.com/

Writers Retreats:

Millay Arts

Ragdale

Prizes won:

Gigantic Sequins Poetry Prize 2024

MORE INFORMATION

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Emma’s play, Abraham’s Daughters, about Palestine set during the first Intifada based on their research and documentation of human rights abuses is available for free as a podcast.

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Abraham’s Daughters was a finalist for WATERWORKS, The Henley Rose, RISK IS THIS and UNICORN.

Emma’s poems and flash are published in various journals online and in print. Toyon is translating “Dear Palestine,” into Arabic for publication in 2025. Gigantic Sequins awarded “Minotaur in the Backyard” first prize. It will be published in June.

Other poems in Eckleburg.org
O To Be a Child on the Island of Inchkeith in Poetry Catalog
Talk to Pipes published in Ghost Furniture Catalogue
Two Poems in Anti-Heroin Chic.
As Far As Fathers Go is forthcoming in Ink in Thirds this Spring

Emma’s story, “Appetites,” originally published in NUNUM will be anthologized in Best Microfictions 2025.

We Used to Save the Whales at Nature of Our Times.
I’ve Never Been a Country at The Mersey Review.
My Heart Broke in Childhood, But My Child Changed All That at Discretionary Love.
The Narrow Place at Wild Greens.
Barbie Reports from the DreamHouse in tinderbox.
Third Estate Art has published Two Poems. You can read, Remembering the Concubine at Writers Resist and The Weat of Bings, in the Bangalore Review.
Fish Publishing awarded 3rd Place for Emma’s Flash Fiction piece: Because it is Impossible and Yet
“Different, I didn’t know why” was the 3rd place selection for Open Minds Quarterly’s 21st Annual BrainStorm Poetry Contest and is now reprinted HERE in the Last Stanza Anthology. “The Stocked Pond” will be in the next Last Stanza Anthology, link tba.
You can hear Emma’s work online as podcasts at playingonair.org and theparsnipship.com.
Sad Girls Club Literary Blog published The Witch HERE and 3 Fantasies about my Mother HERE. Zoetic Press NonBinary Review : The Roundworm Shares the News.
Watch OUT OF ILLNESS COMES ART
Emma has received residencies at Millay, Ragdale and twice at WordBridge where they also worked as a dramaturg.
FUKT, the play that inspired Emma to create Brave Space, had a very successful run in NYC at the Tank in 2022. You can read more about it here: At Show-Score.com
Emma is a proud member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and the Dramatists Guild. More info and their plays are available at New Play Exchange.