Marlborough Book Festival - Emily Writes

Extreme Woke Leftie - Emily Writes in conversation with Naomi Arnold.

Often hilarious, always on-point Emily Writes writes about parenting and a range of socially minded issues including the rights of the women, the rainbow community, people on welfare and working poor.

She embraces the ‘extreme woke leftie’ criticism of online haters and keeps on writing.

Journalist Naomi Arnold asks, what drives her social conscience? What’s it like to put yourself out there when you have serious anxiety issues? And is having a laugh the only way to stay sane?

Emily Writes is a Wellington writer and mother of two young boys.

Her first blog post about motherhood went viral in March 2015. Her Rants in the Dark is a bestseller which has been made into a play, and her most recent book, Is It Bedtime Yet? was published last year.