Not short of something to say: Googling yourself

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As well as being a freelance writer I am also a qualified counsellor and I work for a low cost counselling service in Exeter and for the NHS Gender Clinic also in Exeter.

Simultaneously, I work as a Disability Member of the First Tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber sitting on disability benefit tribunals on an ad hoc basis.

As a writer I specialise in writing about disability and health.

My articles have been published in the Guardian, Times, OUCH! [BBC disability website], Disability Now, Broadcast, Lifestyle [Motability magazine], The Practising Midwife, 'Junior, Pregnancy & Baby', Writers' News, Able, Getting There [Transport for London magazine], Junior, Community Care, DPPi [Disability, Pregnancy & Parenthood International]. I have also had articles commissioned by Daily Mail.

For more information about me and for examples of my writing please see below.

If you would like me to write an article for your publication, about any aspect of disability, please do get in touch:

emma@emmabowler.co.uk

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Googling yourself

Every now and then I just can't help myself and I end up putting my name into google just to see what happens.

Today I found I'd been quoted in a Broadcast article about 'How Diverse is British TV?' [http://cdnnorth.org.uk/uncategorized/626] after having written an article for the Broadcast website about how hard it is to work in TV when you are a disabled person - I knew they'd like my 'trying to make an impression at belly button level' comment....

But I do have to say the Emma Bowler quote on the Marmite website http://www.freeukstuff.com/freestuff/marmite.html is not me, I would never say "Go Marmite" unless I was saying for it to go into the bin, can't stand the stuff.

Neither am I the Emma Bowler The Wildlife Artist, http://www.wildlifeartonline.co.uk/about.htm but I find it quite interesting to find out what my namesakes do.

Sometimes I wonder how I have so much time on my hands with 2 young children to look after....

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On becoming a writer

After over 10 years as a BBC TV programme maker working on disability, documentary, entertainment and children's programmes I left to have 2 children.

Having decided that the full on lifestyle of programme making and being a parent wasn't for me I decided to utilise the skills, experience and knowledge gleaned from my BBC career to became a freelance writer.

Because of my personal experience of disability I chose to specialise by writing about all aspects of disability – from parenting to sport, clothes shopping to legislation, what’s in the news to specific aspects of particular impairments.

All too often the media portrayal of disabled people and disability issues doesn’t quite hit the mark, the tone is off, the language is wrong; the overall effect leaves the public none the wiser.

As a disabled writer my aim is to be positive, informative and accurate, that doesn’t have to mean dry and boring – a bit of humour can go a long way!