Emily Writes
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.[1][2] She has published three books on parenting, one of which has been adapted as a play.[3]
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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]