AUTHOR | EDITOR | MYSTIC-COMIC
WRITING WORKSHOPS WITH MEMOIRIST HEATHER KING
I’m a weekly arts and culture columnist, a workshop leader here and abroad, and the award-winning author of thirteen memoirs. I’m passionate about the vocation of the artist. All the tragicomedies of daily life, and the personal connections forged by a labor-of-love dedication to the discipline of writing.
IN PERSON: THE FLAME WITHIN: WRITING YOUR LIFE
JOIN ME FOR A MEMOIR WRITING WORKSHOP AT ST. ANDREW’S ABBEY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S HIGH DESERT
July 6-10, 2026
IN PERSON: CAPTURE YOUR LIFE’S FIRE ON LOCATION IN IRELAND
Join me for a Memoir Writing Workshop in Connemara, Ireland!
September 7-12, 2026
FOR MORE INFO, VISIT THE WORKSHOPS TAB.
CHECK OUT MY NEW BOOK:
CONSUMED: THE JOYS, SORROWS, AND DÉBACLES OF A LIFE ORDERED TO ART
Part memoir, part guidebook, CONSUMED is an eccentric gathering of reflections that have emerged during my thirty years as a writer on process, craft, vocation, and the avoidance of despair. It’s also a huge celebration of many of the artists I admire.
“Heather King testifies to the reality of salvation down in the nitty-gritty, in her writing and in her life. I am indebted to her preaching on the value of holy desperation. She is a treasure!”
—Zena Hitz, philosopher, Great Books tutor, author of Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
WRITING SERVICES
MANUSCRIPT EDITING
With decades’ worth of experience, several award-winning memoirs, and the #1 weekly arts and culture column nationwide from the Catholic Press Association, I have the expertise to assist you. I can help you to envision, shape, write, revise and edit your essay, short story, memoir, novel, poetry collection, or manuscript.
I’m also available for the hour for consultation, Q and A, sharing of experience, strength and hope, and/or general writing chat.
WRITING COACH
A writing coach accompanies—walks alongside you—as you conceive of, shape, and write your book.
I can guide and support you to:
Get clear on your story, theme, and vision.
Cultivate a sustainable writing practice.
Become accountable and organized
to finish your book.
Order your life ever more to your vocation of art.
“Dark, poignant, and hilariously funny, King’s escapades evoke that demons that drive and haunt us all.”
— Denis Leary, comic, actor, writer
INSPIRATION
A LIFE ORDERED TO ART, FOLLOW ALONG
If you find inspiration here and would like to donate to this one-woman cause of art, feel free and thank you!
“The writer’s job is the job of a clown, the clown who also talks about sorrow.”
— Kenzaburō Ōe, Nobel Prize in Literature
DESIRELINES NEWSLETTER
“Desire lines” are named by urban planners. They occur when one person’s impulsive shortcut encourages others to follow. This creates informal, unmapped channels through a city.
What if, together, we could begin to make new desire lines—for ourselves, for the world?
THREE GREAT CALIFORNIA MEMOIRS AND A BLESSED ADVENT
JANE EYRE,A WRITING WORKSHOP, AND HAPPY THANKSGIVING
JOIN ME AT ST. ANDREW’S ABBEY IN VALYERMO, CALIFORNIA FOR A MEMOIR-WRITING WORKSHOP!!
THE FABULOUS ART OF PHILADELPHIA’S BARNES FOUNDATION, THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE, AND RADIO TAISO
AN ELIE WIESEL DOCUMENTARY, PHILADELPHIA GARDENS, AND SILENCE
BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES
I’m quite proud of this week’s Angelus News column, in which I make a connection…
“Those of us who have been true readers all our lives seldom fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors.”
— C.S. Lewis
HEATHER KING BOOKS
HEATHER KING SPEAKS ABOUT WRITING ON VIDEO
