Fast Favourites: Writer and blogger Emily Writes

Author, writer and speaker Emily Writes has amassed a huge following online and readership. She first found an audience after writing a blog post in 2015 about struggling to settle her newborn baby at 3am in the morning. It clearly struck a chord. Since then, she's written three books about parenting; the first in 2017 called Rants in the Dark which has been turned into a play. Emily now has a twice-weekly newsletter on Substack with more than 19,000 subscribers. She joins Culture 101 for Fast Favourites sharing her favourite newsletters. First she recommends Truly Melody Deeply, poet Tusiata Avia, Melanie Nelson who analyses politics, Te Tiriti and the environment, Melanie Newfield's The Turnstone, which breaks down science to make it accessible and finally, Dr Bex, who writes about social psychology and food insecurity in Aotearoa.