Publications & Prizes

Extract from ‘fable’
Twisted Ink, 2025 (poetry)
Issue 2 – Twisted Ink


‘Extremely Profound Healing’
The Sheffield Review, 2025 (creative non-fiction)
Sheffield Review (wordpress.com)

‘Connecting to Something Bigger than Myself’: Reconciling Spirituality and Atheism Amid the Catastrophic Mess of My Life
Heroica, 2024 (personal essay)

Reconciling Spirituality and Belief in Something More with Atheism and Non-Belief in God — Heroica Women

‘In Guernica’ and ‘I am a thing-told story’
The Sheffield Review, 2024 (creative non-fiction/poetry)
Sheffield Review (wordpress.com)

‘At Least You’re Young Enough to Start Again’: What Not to Say to a Friend Getting Divorced at Thirty
Heroica, 2024 (personal essay)
Advice For Getting Divorced Young and How the End of Your Marriage Can Mean Freedom for Your Future — Heroica Women

Memory’
Tentacular Mag, Issue 10, 2023 (poetry)
Tentacular (tentacularmag.com)

‘wasteland-me’
Book of Matches, Issue 6, 2022 (poetry)
Issue 6 of Book of Matches is LIVE! (bookofmatcheslitmag.com)

‘white light’, ‘stain’ and ‘bloom’
The Sleeve Magazine, Issue 4, 2022 (poetry)
poetry: harley j. ryley – The Sleeve Magazine (wordpress.com)

Extract from ‘fable’
Cut Collective Selection, 2022 (poetry)
CUT SELECTION — Cut Collective (cutcollectivewriters.org)

‘Bolehills’
For the Love Of, 2022 (poetry)
7m86TM8ITiGgGtxoi99p_FTLVO.pdf (d1fdloi71mui9q.cloudfront.net)

again’
Route 57, Issue 18, 2022 (poetry)
ROUTE 57 – Route 57 (wordpress.com)

”A brad-paisley afternoon’

The Writer’s Workshop Blog, 2022 (poetry)

A Brad-Paisley Afternoon — The Writers Workshop

Your House is Burning Down’

Fingers, Short Story Anthology, 2020 (short story)

Fingers on Amazon.co.uk

Novel Slam (as part of Off the Shelf Festival) – October 2023
Third Prize
Novel: This Burning House Was Never Yours

Novel Slam (as part of Off the Shelf Festival) – October 2020
First Prize
Novel: Silent Tomorrow

Harley E. Ryley is a memoir writer, poet & accidental novelist. She is currently studying for her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Sheffield and is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council via the White Rose College of Arts & Humanities. Her thesis will develop an innovative approach to memoir which plays with language, truth and rules, writing a meta-memoir on language-constructed selfhood. Sounds fun right?

Harley also uses her ‘proper job’ skills from her previous life as a Civil Servant to provide Business Development services to creative organisations. Check out ‘writing services’ to find out more.

Harley is a white 30-something woman with red wavy hair and wearing a white jumper. A red and blue block of flats is visible behind her.

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