Writers | Big Issue (The)
23 September 2018
“New Zealander Ashleigh Young’s Can You Tolerate This? is an extremely charming essay collection, comprised mainly of snapshots of Young’s life from childhood onwards; walking across gravel roads hand in…
Writers | Washington Post (The)
12 July 2018
“When I uprooted my family from Seattle this year to move to Wellington, I knew little of the foreign, faraway place beyond its reputation for grey days and great coffee,” Maggie Trapp writes for…
Writers | New Yorker (The)
29 June 2018
Wellington writer Ashleigh Young’s debut essay collection Can You Tolerate This? is New Yorker-recommended summer reading.
“Two things happened the first week I moved to New York, in February. I met up with a friend…
Writers | Western Advocate
30 March 2018
Wellington author, poet and literary editor Ashleigh Young will open the Bathurst Writers’ and Readers’ Festival on May 4.
The festival consists of three days of live streamed sessions direct from the Sydney Writers’ Festival…
Writers | New Zealand Herald
7 March 2017
It is the kind of news we all dream of receiving, but New Zealand author and poet Ashleigh Young, 33, thought it was a hoax when told she’d receive more than $200,000 from one…