APPEARANCES & MEDIA

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  • Thursday, May 9: Emma appearing as a panellist at Meet the Media, details and bookings here.

    PAST

    2024

  • Speaker, in conversation, Books, Bubbles and Banter, Our Ruby Girl, Como

  • MC, Women in Planning Network WA International Women’s Day breakfast

  • Speaker, in conversation, Book to Film, The Backlot Cinema

  • Speaker, in conversation, Writers in the Library, Mandurah Library

  • Panellist, Perth Festival’s Literature & Ideas Weekend, State Library of WA

    2023

  • Speaker, reading at Fremantle Press Author Showcase, Fremantle Arts Centre

  • ‘Book Review: Emma Young’s The Disorganisation of Celia Stone is a diary novel with a lot of heart’ (The AU Review)

  • Podcast guest, The Publishing Path, watch here (also on Spotify etc).

  • Speaker, in conversation at Open Book, Mosman Park

  • ‘From benders and slacking to Type A box-ticking: A Perth writer’s re-organisation’ (WAtoday)

  • ‘Book Club: Emma Young’s The Disorganisation of Celia Stone’ (The West Australian)

  • Speaker, in conversation at Subiaco Library

  • Speaker, in conversation at Libby Book Club WA, State Library of WA

  • Speaker, in conversation at Bull Creek Library

  • Radio guest, 89 7 FM community radio, listen here

  • Radio guest, RTRFM 92.1, listen here

  • Online interview with Better Reading, Sydney, watch here

  • Podcast guest, The First Time, listen here

  • Radio guest, 882 6PR’s Overnights with Jon Lewis

  • Radio guest, speaking to Jo Trilling on ABC’s Drive, listen here (from 2.40)

  • Speaker: Balancing Writing and Work: Making the Time (until you can buy it). Morley library

  • Selected for Queensland Writers Centre’s Adaptable program, flying to Gold Coast Film Festival to pitch her novels to film producers

  • Panel Host: Perth Festival’s Literature and Ideas Weekend. Interviewing authors Michelle Johnston, Ben Bravery and Maria Papas

    2022

  • Panel guest: Social Media for Authors, Four Centres Emerging Writers’ Program

  • Panel guest: Writers in the Library Big Winter Read High Tea: Panel and high tea event with Karen Herbert and Leigh Straw at Seashells Resort, Mandurah, 2pm-4.30pm; BOOKED OUT, June 18.

  • Panel guest: Greensiders – Insight to the 2022 Federal Election, Environmental Defenders Office

  • Panel guest: Perth Festival’s Writer’s Weekend

  • Panel guest: Mandurah Readers & Writers Festival

    2021

  • 'Review of ‘The Last Bookshop’ by Emma Young' (Westerly Magazine)

  • 'The joys of reading a good book – about books' (Sydney Morning Herald) 

  • ‘Perth book fiend fights back in debut novel ‘The Last Bookshop’’ (Perth Now, Western Suburbs Weekly)

  • Guest on Saturday Breakfast with Roanna Edwards (ABC Perth: listen here)

  • Panel host, Perth Festival’s Literature and Ideas Weekend. Interviewing Joey Bui and Elizabeth Tan


    2020

  • Festival moderator, Perth Festival’s Literature and Ideas Weekend. Host of “From Here On, Monsters”; interviewing writer and translator Elizabeth Bryer

  • Podcast host: In a special edition of Fremantle Press podcast, Emma interviews Laurie Steed and Susan Midalia on writing mentorships


    2019

  • Podcast guest Fremantle Press podcast, discussing The Last Bookshop

  • Panel guest: with Tony Jones, appearing as a journalist and cyclist, Australian Trucking Association annual conference


    2018

  • Panel guest “If Perth reflects who we are, is it time for a makeover?”, Planning Institute of Australia National Planning Congress

MC, Women In Planning’s International Women’s Day breakfast. Credit: David Broadway

Credit: Ryan Gibson

Credit: Ryan Gibson

Credit: Jess Gately

Credit: Jess Gately

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