Erin Gough

Erin Gough is a fiction writer whose short stories have been published in a number of journals and anthologies, including Best Australian Stories, The Age, Overland, Southerly and Going Down Swinging. Her novel for young adults, The Flywheel, won Hardie Grant Egmont’s Ampersand Prize and was published in February 2015.
In 2016, The Flywheel was long listed for the Indie Book Awards and short listed for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards (Older Readers) and the Gold Inky Awards. It was also named a White Raven International Youth Library title. The Flywheel was published in Germany in 2016 and in the US in April 2017 under the title Get it Together, Delilah!
You can find Erin on Facebook and Twitter for her latest news.
Talks and workshops
Erin has been a guest at a number of writers’ festivals, including the Sydney Writers’ Festival, Reading Matters, and Tamar Valley. Her talks and workshops with high school students focus on the importance of reading diversely and learning how to tell your individual story.