Emily Brewin is an award-winning Melbourne author and teacher. Her first novel, Hello, Goodbye, was published in 2017 and her second, Small Blessings, in 2019. Her first young adult novel, A Way Home, was published in 2024. It won The Gab Williams Prize 2024 and was shortlisted for The Readings Young Adult Prize 2024.
Emily is passionate about using fiction to support young people to understand and connect more deeply with the world around them. She uses storytelling to explore social issues in an accessible and engaging way.
With a background in journalism, Emily uses research and lived experience interviews to inform her novels and her writing presentations. Emily’s short stories have appeared in many anthologies, and she has written for The Age, the ABC, ABC Education, the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF), news.com.au, The Victorian Writer, Screen Education, and Mamamia.
