Emily Writes

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]