Bridey Heing

Bridey Heing (brideyheing.com) is a contributing editor to World Literature Today and a freelance writer. She has reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, the Economist, the Daily Beast, and others.

Letter from London: “Nordic Matters” and Literature from the Brink

November 1, 2017 Bridey Heing
From left to right: Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Pajtim Statovci, Tore Renberg, Kamila Shamsie, and Jo Nesbø. On a recent Saturday, the Southbank Centre in central London was home to a live…
A Losing Battle with Social Identity in Camille Laurens’s Who You Think I Am

May 3, 2017 Bridey Heing
Laurens explores the seductive danger of a digital fountain of youth in this novel about women’s identity and agency in midlife. Technology and gender standards collide in Camille Laurens’s…
Politics & Prose

March 2017
Bridey Heing
Washington, DC, is a city that holds culture and the arts close to its heart. When the stereotypes and outside-the-beltway misconceptions about what this city is—political infighting, opportunistic s…
World Literature at the Vanguard: A Report from the 2017 AWP Conference

February 13, 2017 Bridey Heing
The Free Minds book club and writing workshop at AWP empowered young inmates to “write new chapters in their lives.” Said Nokomis, “Free Minds encouraged me to be a better writer . . . to be a bigger…