APPEARANCES & MEDIA

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2025
Upcoming

• Friday, May 30: MC, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Awards Night

• July 29: Strange Company book club, interviewer, details TBC

• August 26: Strange Company book club, interviewer, details TBC

2025
Past

• Thursday, May 8: Panellist, Meet The Media conference

• Speaker, in conversation, Cambridge Library

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

2024

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

• MC and panel host, Buying the Good Stuff: Creating a Marketplace for Social Enterprise, WA Social Enterprise Council

• Panellist and workshop host, Meet The Media, Media Stable

• 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

• Speaker: Emma Young: What I Read: Talk at Ballajura Library

• Panel guest: Natasha Lester interviews Emma and fellow authors, Joondalup Library

• Podcast guest: LoveToReadLocal: Maria Papas interviews Emma on The Last Bookshop

• Podcast guest: Talking Aussie Books: Claudine Tinellis interviews Emma on The Last Bookshop

• Emma Young in conversation with David Allan-Petale at City of Perth Library on The Last Bookshop

• Josh Langley: Gets to Know S02E09 Josh Langley interviews Emma on The Last Bookshop

• Author talk Subiaco Library - Emma Young in conversation with Emily Paull about The Last Bookshop

• '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)

• ‘Book fiend rises to the challenge’ (Post Newspapers)

• 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