Elin Heron

Elin is a writer and musician, a turner of cards and a speaker of Welsh.

Born in Derbyshire of Welsh & English heritage, Elin writes her way into places that most people walk past without noticing. She creates fiction and poetry about magic, landscape and the dead, and things which resist easy explanation. She has twenty years experience teaching music and Welsh alongside her creative work and research.

Elin is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing in the School of Welsh at Bangor University under the supervision of Professor Jerry Hunter and Dr Peredur Webb-Davies.

Publications

Novels

Jude Published by Lucent Dreaming, Cardiff in 2024.

Stories

In 2020 A is for Apple was published in Fiddler’s Green Issue 7 Gods of the Afternoon with illustrations by Alexis Berger.

John Truslove, a short story in the final fifty of the BBC Short Story Award 2021, was published in issue 11 of Lucent Dreaming in 2022. Read online here.

Burnwater is a story which makes use of a fifteenth century poem about blacksmiths to give voice to the ‘burnwater’ of the title. It was published in 2022 by Litro Online. Read online here.

In 2023, Stone was published in Ram Eye Rites & Wrongs – a collection of ritual horror.

Zines and other publications

Martyrs 2026 – Zine tracking a year walking through the city of Derby while writing about the dead of the parish of St Werburgh.

The Os Miscellany (editor). 2026 – An offline monthly newsletter with short articles and letters from magical practitioners and writers.

Grow Your Welsh Vocabulary 2026 – Vocabulary learning book for Welsh learners

Poetry

Starlings was published in issue 85 of Mslexia in 2020.

In 2015 Dear Michael was the category and overall winner of the Not About Heroes/Feelgood Theatre Whispers of War Poetry competition.

Articles & Interviews

In The Spotlight Lucent Dreaming interview published online in 2024

My Portfolio Career Mslexia article in issue 100 available to purchase here

Some Other Sphere episode 128: Magic Landscape & The Dead Podcast episode with Rick Palmer & Callum James

Some Other Sphere episode 10: An Introduction to Tarot Podcast episode with Rick Palmer