Erin Gough Erin Gough i(A64551 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Erin Gough is an award-winning fiction writer based in Sydney. Her short stories have appeared in The Age, Going Down Swinging and Best Australian Stories. 

Her first novel, The Flywheel (2015), won the Ampersand Prize, and was shorlisted for the Gold Inky, and CBCA Young Adult Book of the Year.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Erin Gough is a Stella Prize Schools Program ambassador.

Personal Awards

2019 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships

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2011 commended The Joanne Burns Award for 'William Shatner vows to save the Great Basin Pocket Mouse'.
2010 Australia Council Literature Board Grants Grants for Emerging Writers For a new work of young-adult fiction.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Amelia Westlake Richmond : Hardie Grant Children's Publishing , 2018 13810451 2018 single work novel young adult romance

'Harriet Price has the perfect life: she’s a prefect at Rosemead Grammar, she lives in a mansion, and her gorgeous girlfriend is a future prime minister. So when she decides to risk it all by helping bad-girl Will Everhart expose the school’s many ongoing issues, Harriet tells herself it’s because she too is seeking justice. And definitely not because she finds Will oddly fascinating.

'Will Everhart can’t stand posh people like Harriet, but even she has to admit Harriet's ideas are good – and they’ll keep Will from being expelled. That’s why she teams up with Harriet to create Amelia Westlake, a fake student who can take the credit for a series of provocative pranks at their school.

'But the further Will and Harriet’s hoax goes, the harder it is for the girls to remember they’re sworn enemies – and to keep Amelia Westlake’s true identity hidden. As tensions burn throughout the school, how far will they go to keep Amelia Westlake – and their feelings for each other – a secret?' (Source: Publisher's blurb)

2019 selected White Ravens
2019 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Book of the Year for Older Children
2019 shortlisted Inky Awards Gold Inky
2019 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
2019 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Older Readers
2019 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Writing for Young Adults
2019 shortlisted Indie Awards Young Adult
2018 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Griffith University Young Adult Book Award
2018 winner Readings Prizes The Readings Young Adult Book Prize
y separately published work icon The Flywheel Richmond : Hardie Grant Children's Publishing , 2015 8215220 2015 single work novel young adult

'Seventeen-year-old Delilah’s crazy life is about to get crazier. Ever since her father took off overseas, she’s been struggling to run the family’s cafe - The Flywheel - without him and survive high school. But after a misjudged crush on one of the cool girls, she’s become the school punchline as well.

'With all that’s on her plate she barely has time for her favourite distraction - spying on the beautiful Rosa, who dances flamenco at the tapas bar across the road. Only her best friend Charlie knows how she feels about Rosa, but he has romantic problems of his own. When his plan to win an older woman’s heart goes horribly wrong, Del is the only one who can help Charlie stay out of jail.

'All this leaves Del grappling with some seriously curly questions. Is it okay to break the law to help a friend? How can a girl tell another girl she likes her without it ending in humiliation and heartbreak? And - the big one - is it ever truly possible to dance in public without falling over?' (Publication summary)

2016 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year: Older Readers
2016 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Older Readers
2016 shortlisted Inky Awards Gold Inky
2014 winner Ampersand Prize
2016 selected White Ravens
y separately published work icon Night Trip Strawberry Hills : Spineless Wonders , 2013 11449248 2013 single work short story

'Samuel is a young university drop-out looking for direction in his life. He is lured out late one evening by a co-worker, Josh, with the promise of an unforgettable experience.

'Josh is very secretive about his plan, insisting Sam simply ‘trust’ him. Against his better judgment, Sam agrees to go, but becomes increasingly anxious as the evening unfolds. What he discovers at their final destination terrifies him. Sam is confronted with a choice from which, once made, there is no return but what happens, will unexpectedly change his life forever.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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