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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 A Real Piece of Work
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'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)

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Form: audiobook

Works about this Work

Book Review : A Real Piece of Work, Erin Riley Anita Sanders , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , July 2023;

— Review of A Real Piece of Work Erin Riley , 2023 selected work essay

'An insight into the life of a queer trans writer through a series of essays.'

A Time of Transness : A New Phase in Trans Literature Yves Rees , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 458 2023; (p. 49)

— Review of A Real Piece of Work Erin Riley , 2023 selected work essay

'Alot can change in a few years. In March 2020, on the eve of the Covid-19 pandemic, I wrote a review essay for ABR about the proliferation of trans and gender diverse (TGD) life writing. Back then, the most notable examples came from overseas, and – with the exception of established names like ABC’s Eddie Ayres (now Ed Le Broq), author of the 2017 memoir Danger Music – major Australian publishers had yet to take a chance on local trans voices.' (Introduction)

y separately published work icon Erin Riley on Justice, Social Work and Queer Memoir Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2023 26811860 2023 single work podcast interview

'Erin Riley is a social worker, and has spent most of the last decade working alongside marginalised populations in community aged care. Erin is also a writer, and their A Real Piece of Work is their debut memoir and collection of essays.

'Erin brings a queer lived experience to their professional work and to their writing. They were a Penguin Random House Australia Write It fellow in 2021, and have been published in Kill Your Darlings, Bent Street and various corners of the internet.' 

(Production summary)

Books Roundup Rosie Ofori Ward , Guido Melo , Sonia Nair , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , August 2023;

— Review of A Real Piece of Work Erin Riley , 2023 selected work essay ; Serengotti Eugen Bacon , 2023 single work novel
Debut Spotlight : Erin Riley on A Real Piece of Work Erin Riley , 2023 single work interview
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , August 2023;
Books Roundup Rosie Ofori Ward , Guido Melo , Sonia Nair , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , August 2023;

— Review of A Real Piece of Work Erin Riley , 2023 selected work essay ; Serengotti Eugen Bacon , 2023 single work novel
A Time of Transness : A New Phase in Trans Literature Yves Rees , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 458 2023; (p. 49)

— Review of A Real Piece of Work Erin Riley , 2023 selected work essay

'Alot can change in a few years. In March 2020, on the eve of the Covid-19 pandemic, I wrote a review essay for ABR about the proliferation of trans and gender diverse (TGD) life writing. Back then, the most notable examples came from overseas, and – with the exception of established names like ABC’s Eddie Ayres (now Ed Le Broq), author of the 2017 memoir Danger Music – major Australian publishers had yet to take a chance on local trans voices.' (Introduction)

Book Review : A Real Piece of Work, Erin Riley Anita Sanders , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , July 2023;

— Review of A Real Piece of Work Erin Riley , 2023 selected work essay

'An insight into the life of a queer trans writer through a series of essays.'

Debut Spotlight : Erin Riley on A Real Piece of Work Erin Riley , 2023 single work interview
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , August 2023;
y separately published work icon Erin Riley on Justice, Social Work and Queer Memoir Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2023 26811860 2023 single work podcast interview

'Erin Riley is a social worker, and has spent most of the last decade working alongside marginalised populations in community aged care. Erin is also a writer, and their A Real Piece of Work is their debut memoir and collection of essays.

'Erin brings a queer lived experience to their professional work and to their writing. They were a Penguin Random House Australia Write It fellow in 2021, and have been published in Kill Your Darlings, Bent Street and various corners of the internet.' 

(Production summary)

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