Emily Writes

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Emily Writes at the book launch for Rants in the Dark, Wellington, 2017 Emily Writes (cropped).jpg
Emily Writes at the book launch for Rants in the Dark, Wellington, 2017

Emily Writes is the pen-name of a New Zealand parenting writer based in Wellington. [1] [2] She has published three books on parenting, one of which has been adapted as a play. [3]

Biography

Writes published her first piece of writing on her blog in March 2015; she wrote about the difficulties of settling her newborn baby to sleep at 3 a.m. [4] The post was immediately successful and she began to write more pieces about the struggles of parenting. [5] In 2017 she published her first book, Rants in the Dark, which was adapted as a play and has toured New Zealand. [6] [7] The following year, she published her second book, Is It Bedtime Yet? [3]

In 2022, Writes published her third book Needs Adult Supervision. [8]

In February 2016 Writes and Holly Walker started a parenting podcast called Dear Mamas. [9]

Writes has written parenting columns for Metro magazine, The New Zealand Herald and the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly , and she was editor of The Spinoff Parents. [10]

Writes has run a successful newsletter Emily Writes Weekly since 2020. [11]

References

  1. Writes, Emily. "Emily Writes". The Spinoff. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  2. "Emily Writes talks". my.christchurchcitylibraries.com. 10 March 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  3. 1 2 "At my place with author and blogger Emily Writes". Stuff. 3 October 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  4. "Emily Writes is "tired but trying"". RNZ . 5 November 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  5. Woulfe, Catherine (7 May 2017). "Book review: Rants in the Dark by Emily Writes". Noted. Archived from the original on 21 April 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  6. "Rants in the Dark". The Court Theatre. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  7. "Emily Writes on the stage play of her book". RNZ . 8 April 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  8. "Needs Adult Supervision by Emily Writes".
  9. "Emily Writes". Holly Walker. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  10. "Emily Writes". www.penguin.co.nz. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  11. https://emilywrites.substack.com/