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 fiction and poetry about magic, landscape and the dead, and all things strange and supernatural.

She has a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from the Open University and 2024 will see the publication of her first novel, JUDE, with Lucent Dreaming.

She is married to artist and musician Ed Heron and has a son and two hens.

Novels

Elin’s first novel, Jude, is due for publication with Lucent Dreaming 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.

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