Emma Young

Emma is a former bookseller and journalist and current author, winner of nine MEAA WA Media Awards and also the 2025 UWA Arthur Lovekin Medal for Excellence in Journalism. Her first fiction manuscript, The Last Bookshop, was shortlisted for the $20,000 Fogarty Literary Award, then published in 2021 by Fremantle Press, which then published her second novel, The Disorganisation of Celia Stone, in 2023. In 2024, Emma was shortlisted for the WA Writer’s Fellowship at the WA Premier’s Book Awards. In 2026 she was nominated for the City of South Perth’s Community Citizen of the Year awards for her work founding and running a landcare group. She was recently announced as the 2027 KSP Writer’s Centre’s Black Opal (Invited) emerging writers’ residency program to edit her third novel, Kindred. She runs the Substack newsletters Book Fiends and Writing off Meta. She has facilitated numerous panels for writer’s festivals (including Perth Writer’s Festival) and library events, and done MC work for corporate and government clients such as the City of Perth, Planning Institute of WA and Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.