Contacts
Rights: Catherine Drayton, Inkwell
Publicity: Steve Shepherd Spargo, Hardie Grant
Speaking: Booked Out
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Erin Gough is a fiction writer living on Gadigal land in Sydney, whose award-winning work has been published globally. She is the author of three books for young adults: The Flywheel, which won the Ampersand Prize, Amelia Westlake, winner of the Readings Young Adult Book Prize and the NSW Premier’s Ethel Turner Prize for Young Adult Fiction, and Into the Mouth of the Wolf, winner of the Davitt Award for Young Adult fiction and a Children’s Book Council of Australia Older Readers Honour Book. Erin’s novella for adults, Distance, was a winner of the Griffith Review Novella Project. Her short fiction has been published in many journals and anthologies, including Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories, The Age, Best Australian Stories and New Australian Fiction.
Erin’s writing navigates contemporary themes with lyricism, humour and charm. Her talks focus on the importance of reading diversely and learning how to tell your individual story. Her workshops explore the craft of storytelling.
Selected Media
- Paperbark Words interview about Into the Mouth of the Wolf
- Interview for the Stella Prize Schools Program
- Erin talks about reading feminist literature in this speech given at the Feminist Writers’ Festival
- Erin and Tamara Rodgers in conversation for the Premier’s Reading Challenge (video)
- Interview with Erin and Omar Sakr about Kindred on The Book Show, Radio National
- Erin and Jennifer Wong talk about loving Hating Alison Ashley on The Book Show, Radio National
- E.Gough, The Art of Influence: on writing The Flywheel, Kill Your Darlings
- D.Binks, We Read to Know We Are Not Alone: Examining the Lack of LBGTQI Characters in Australian Youth Literature, Kill Your Darlings
- K.Eagar, Where the Magic Happens for Erin Gough, kirstyeagar.com