Heidi Williamson is a poet, writing tutor and coach. She has worked in schools, museums, private companies and as a writer-in-residence. She studied poetry and prose at the UEA, and reads and delivers workshops regularly throughout the UK.

Her first collection ‘Electric Shadow’ (Bloodaxe, 2011) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry.

‘The Print Museum’, her next collection, is due out with Bloodaxe in March 2016.

In 2008 and 2009 Heidi was writer-in-residence for the London Science Museum’s Dana Centre. From 2011-2014 she was writer-in-residence at the John Jarrold Printing Museum.

As an accredited Writing Coach, Heidi helps creative writers in 1:1 sessions both privately and through Writers Centre Norwich. She is a professional member of the Association for Coaching.

She also has over twenty years’ experience as copywriter, writing trainer and tone of voice specialist for large corporations including Virgin, HSBC, Prudential and Scottish Amicable.

Writing coaching can help writers of any genre and at any stage of their writing. It is about helping progress your writing, thinking and self-development as an artist.

Writing coaching can help with blocks, issues, ambitions, confidence, doubts and decisions. It offers practical solutions to short and long term writing-related issues.

Heidi qualified as an Accredited Writing Coach through RD1st in affiliation with the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) and the Arvon foundation.

She coaches private clients, as well as through Writers Centre Norwich. She is a professional member of the Association for Coaching.