Erin Gough

www.eringough.com

Erin Gough is a fiction writer whose award-winning stories have been published in a number of journals and anthologies. Her novel for young adults, The Flywheel (2015), won Hardie Grant Egmont’s Ampersand Prize and was short listed for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards (Older Readers) and the Gold Inky. 

Erin’s second novel, Amelia Westlake (2018) won the Readings Young Adult Book prize and has since been short listed in the Queensland Literary Awards, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, the Indie Book Awards and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and long listed for CBCA Older Reader award, the Gold Inky and the ABIAs. It was published in the US by Little, Brown in May 2019.

Erin has been a guest at a number of writers’ festivals, including the Sydney Writers’ Festival, Reading Matters, Girls Write Up and the Feminist Writers’ Festival. She has been a school writer-in-residence in her capacity as a Stella Prize Schools Ambassador. Her talks and workshops with high school students focus on the craft of storytelling, the importance of reading diversely and learning how to tell your individual story.