Emmi Khor

SPECULATIVE-FANTASY-SF-WRITER

TOP PICKS

Feeding Spirits (2025 Staff Pick Fave) - Cast of Wonders Podcast; June 2025

Shedding (2026 Best Small Fiction nominee) - Fictive Dream; Sept 2025

Remembering the Hungry Ghosts (Aurealis Awards 2024 Finalist) - Inner Worlds; Mar 2025

LIGHT READING

The Colour of Lies - British SF Assoc. Fission #6; June 2026

A Recipe for the Living - Fiction on the Web; Apr 2026

The Work of a Queen - Blood+Honey Lit; Oct 2025

Protection from the Gods - Blood+Honey Lit; Sept 2025

A Little Restoration - Factor Four Magazine; July 2025

Remembering the Hungry Ghosts - Best Australian Yarn Shortlist; Nov 2024

A Toffee-Golden Smile - Factor Four Magazine; Jan 2024

Alice Rebooted - Multimedia Story

Bedtime Stories - Multimedia Story

The Musician - Multimedia Story

writer in a shell

Emmi writes from the land downunder, searching for stories amongst cups of tea, nibblies, and the occasional cake. She uses words to make sense of her world and hopes one day, the world will make sense of her words too.
She is a 2026 Ditmar Awards Best New Talent nominee, and a 2024 Aurealis Awards Finalist. Her stories appear in Cast of Wonders, Factor Four, and Fictive Dream magazine.
Find her between yawns and coffee on Bsky, X, or Instagram @emmikhor.

news

July 2026
The Colour of Lies - Fission#6 Anthology
OMG. I share a cover with Warhammer novelist Mike Brooks! 👀
Get the Kindle! Get the paperback! However you do it, check us out!!

June 2026
The Colour of Lies - Fission#6 Anthology
This story has made it to the final editor a few times and is one of the few that show how subjective reading is. I wanted it to show that at some point, safety nets have to be removed for a child to become an adult and learn consequences. I hope this story leaves you wondering whose story, it is... 🤖

June 2026
I'm super stoked! Fiction on the Web editor Charlie Fish has selected A Recipe for the Living for narration by Jeremy Ryan. It's SO WELL NARRATED!
Only for patreon subscribers so sign up and give it a listen. 🎧

April 2026
Thanks to all who've left comments on my story A Recipe for the Living published in Fiction on the Web. It means so much to hear from those reading it! 🥹

April 2026
Eek! The Art of Rebirth made it into Cosmic Background's guest edited issue!
Ghosts and the Afterlife is edited by Ai Jiang. Release date to be announced.
Ai's mind is amazing and I'm so excited she picked this story 👻

January 2026
I can't believe it! Feeding Spirits has been selected by Cast of Wonders Staff Picks!
Listen to the end of the piece to hear why they loved it so 🧡

December 2025
Wow! I've just been told by Fictive Dream editor Laura Black that she'd like to nominate Shedding for Best Small Fictions 2026. She's the sweetest editor! 😭

July 2025
Protection from the Gods
This was a fun story that started as Furious Fiction, a monthly 55 hour competition by Australian Writer's Centre. Didn't win, so I flung it out elsewhere!

March 2025
Remembering the Hungry Ghosts - Inner Worlds
This was a story that took awhile to come together.
I wanted to write about hungry ghosts; I wanted to write about the cultural disconnect between a father and a son; I wanted to write about the difficulties of not-belonging. It brewed and reshaped for almost a year before it found the right shape. Discussing with friends and acquaintances afterward--Malaysian, Singaporean, Persian, Iranian, Pakistani, Indian, Egyptian to name a few ethnicities—we quickly discover it's a common conundrum that migrants from non-Western countries face. We all love the countries we're now part of and are grateful for the choices we've had, but finding that balance between new and old, and working out what's important, is a constant consideration in our minds.
If some part of this story is you, I hope you know that you're not alone.