Erin Riley Erin Riley i(11869366 works by)
Gender: Non-binary
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1 Not Choosing / On Writing Retreat Erin Riley , 2024 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 172 2024; (p. 28-36)
1 Debut Spotlight : Erin Riley on A Real Piece of Work Erin Riley , 2023 single work interview
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , August 2023;
2 5 y separately published work icon A Real Piece of Work Erin Riley , Melbourne : Penguin Random House Australia , 2023 26240501 2023 selected work essay 'An exhilarating, thought-provoking and joyful debut that asks how we create our identities and how we can transcend them. 'Language gave to me the body I knew was mine and brought into existence so many possibilities for what my gender can be.' Across these twenty fresh and boldly intimate stories, Erin Riley writes about the things that matter most—family, heartbreak, humanity, justice and swimming, and the messy, hard graft of becoming one's authentic self. In weaving together their everyday while questioning society and its structures, Erin gifts us stories that double as a manifesto on how to disrupt and reinvent narrative, identity, love and community. Life is complicated, messy and—when small risks are taken—even exhilarating. In Erin's hands we fall in love, get curious and become exasperated with (and sometimes charmed by) the people in their life, emerging with new perspectives on how to be in the world.' (Publication summary)
1 How Wrestling Made Me Gay Erin Riley , 2021 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , June 2021;

'Growing up, watching wrestling was a comforting escape from homophobic bullying. It fostered in me a deep curiosity about bodies, fluidity and gender presentation that helped me to explore my own evolving identity.' (Introduction)
1 Sleepless in September Erin Riley , 2016 single work autobiography
— Appears in: From the Outer : Footy Like You've Never Heard It 2016;
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