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Riley Rockford
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• #CommonPeople anthology
• Essays: n+1, Boulevard
• Short fic: Aesthetica
• Top Ten: AWP Novel Prize
• Runner Up: Boulevard Nonfic Prize for Emerging Writers
• Shortlists: Aesthetica CW Prize 2025, SFWP 2023 Lit Awards
• #LondonWritersAwards
• She/her
“Transness makes it impossible not to be aware of how even the things that seem the most fixed can change […] It is a gift to know that.” - Travis Alabanza
April 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Thank you so much Autumn House Press for naming my manuscript To the Lasting House a finalist for their 2025 Rising Writer Prize for Fiction 🥰 + congratulations to the Winner Grace Spulak 🥳 Congratulations also to Autumn House Press for winning the 2025 AWP Small Press Publisher Award last month! 📚
We’d also like to congratulate the finalists and semi-finalists for their incredible manuscripts and thank everyone who submitted and trusted us with their manuscripts.
April 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
“Perhaps I love films that depict heightened stakes for even minor transgressions against cultural norms because that’s what the entire world felt like when I was growing up as a closeted gay boy, when every step I took had the potential to put me in harm’s way.”
My 'Conclave' review is up, and it's also about how growing up closeted and Catholic continues to pay dividends in my gay present holapapi.substack.com/p/popecrave
PopeCrave
A 'Conclave' review
holapapi.substack.com
February 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“It’s incredibly comfortable and nice when you can look at your own work and say to yourself, “I did a good job.” And then you let it go”
@thecreativeindependent.com
On trusting your voice
Poet Nikki Giovanni discusses the importance of understanding history, enjoying and appreciating your own work, embracing contradictions, and why you should always have a pen handy.
thecreativeindependent.com
December 10, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Thought I’d post some of my favourite things that came out when I was on the previous platform. First a brilliant piece of writing by Shaun Wilson: finely-crafted language, and movement between front and interiority, plus skilful dialect, energy, character and vivid realness 👇🏻
granta.com/the-legion/
The Legion | Shaun Wilson | Granta
‘In war yer not interested in fairness or sportsmanship. It’s all about how effectively ye can deliver violence, an how effectively ye can avoid the violence uh yer enemy.’ New fiction by Shaun Wilson...
granta.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:02 PM