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...