Emily Writes

Emily Writes is the pen-name of a New Zealand parenting writer based in Wellington.

[3] 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.

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

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