Emily Writes
{{Short description|New Zealand parenting blogger and writer}}
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Emily Writes is the pen-name of a New Zealand parenting writer based in Wellington.{{Cite web|last=Writes|first=Emily|title=Emily Writes|url= https://thespinoff.co.nz/author/emily-writes/|access-date=30 August 2020|website=The Spinoff}}{{Cite web|title=Emily Writes talks|url= https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/emily-writes-talks/|access-date=30 August 2020|website=my.christchurchcitylibraries.com|language=en-NZ}} She has published three books on parenting, one of which has been adapted as a play.{{Cite web|date=3 October 2018|title=At my place with author and blogger Emily Writes|url= https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/other-spaces/107387871/at-my-place-with-author-and-blogger-emily-writes|access-date=30 August 2020|website=Stuff|language=en}}
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.{{Cite web|date=5 November 2016|title=Emily Writes is "tired but trying"|url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/201822667/emily-writes-is-tired-but-trying|access-date=30 August 2020|website=RNZ |language=en-nz}} The post was immediately successful and she began to write more pieces about the struggles of parenting.{{Cite web|last=Woulfe|first=Catherine|date=7 May 2017|title=Book review: Rants in the Dark by Emily Writes|url= https://www.noted.co.nz/culture/culture-books/book-review-rants-in-the-dark-by-emily-writes|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=30 August 2020|website=Noted}} In 2017 she published her first book, Rants in the Dark, which was adapted as a play and has toured New Zealand.{{Cite web|title=Rants in the Dark|url= https://courttheatre.org.nz/whats-on/rants-in-the-dark/|access-date=30 August 2020|website=The Court Theatre|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=8 April 2019|title=Emily Writes on the stage play of her book|url= https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018690048/emily-writes-on-the-stage-play-of-her-book|access-date=30 August 2020|website=RNZ |language=en-nz}} The following year, she published her second book, Is It Bedtime Yet?
In 2022, Writes published her third book Needs Adult Supervision.https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/needs-adult-supervision-9781761048494
In February 2016 Writes and Holly Walker started a parenting podcast called Dear Mamas.{{Cite web|title=Emily Writes|url= https://hollywalker.co.nz/tag/emily-writes/|access-date=30 August 2020|website=Holly Walker|language=en}}
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.{{Cite web|title=Emily Writes|url= https://www.penguin.co.nz/authors/emily-writes|access-date=30 August 2020|website=www.penguin.co.nz|language=en}}
Writes has run a successful newsletter Emily Writes Weekly since 2020.
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Category:21st-century New Zealand writers
Category:21st-century New Zealand women writers
Category:Writers from Wellington City
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