HEATHER RICHARDSON is the author of two historical novels, Magdeburg (Lagan Press, 2010) and Doubting Thomas (Vagabond Voices, 2017). Her short stories have been published in journals and anthologies in the UK, Ireland and Australia, and she’s a former winner of the Brian Moore Short Story Award. Her recent non-fiction work explored memoir and family history in the multi-modal project A Dress for Kathleen.
Heather has an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and a PhD in Creative Writing from the Open University. She has over fifteen years’ experience teaching Creative Writing to adults in many settings including FE colleges, community groups and prisons, and has taught at undergraduate level for both the Open University and the Open College of the Arts.
- Areas of expertise: literary fiction, historical fiction, short story, experimental fiction, creative non-fiction (memoir, lyric essay, narrative non-fiction, fiction-non-fiction hybrid)
- Location: Belfast
- Possible meeting places: Linenhall Library Café, Ulster Museum Café
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