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Kathryn Heyman is an Australian writer of novels and plays. She is the director of the Australian Writers Mentoring Program Author profile , Sydney Writers Festival 2017. and the Fiction Program Director of Faber Writing Academy. Faber Writing Academy, Writing a Novel, 2015.
As a young adult Heyman spent many years in the United Kingdom, where she studied under the Caribbean poet E.A. Markham, and where she was first published.Heyman, "There's no place like home", Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, no. 15 July 2006, pp. 31–32.
Heyman is the author of six novels: The Breaking (1997), Keep Your Hands on the Wheel (1999), The Accomplice (2003) Captain Starlight's Apprentice (2006) Floodline (2013) and Storm and Grace (2017) Allen & Unwin, publisher She is also a playwright for theatre and radio and has held a number of creative writing fellowships in the UK and Australia. Her short stories have appeared in a number of collections and also on radio.
Heyman's first novel, The Breaking, was longlisted for the Orange Prize, and shortlisted for the Scottish Writer of the Year Award. McMillan,Joyce, A familiar fear and loathing, [5] Glasgow Herald Friday 21 November 1997 Her third, The Accomplice, won an Arts Council England Writer's Award and was shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards. The Accomplice is a fictional account of the wreck of the Dutch flagship the Batavia off the Australian coast in the 17th century. As a meditation on complicity with evil it has been compared with the work of Joseph Conrad and William Golding.Chevalier, Tracey, et al., "Summer Reading", The Guardian, 2003.
Her fourth novel, Captain Starlight's Apprentice, features a woman bushranger, the birth (and near death) of the Australian film industry, and a British migrant to Australia who undergoes electroconvulsive therapy. In 2007 the novel was shortlisted for the Nita Kibble Literary Award.
Floodline, published 2013, is set during the aftermath of a great flood, and has been compared with the writing of Cormac McCarthy.Clarke, Stella, "City's souls lost and saved in the flood", The Australian, 14 September 2013. Heyman's writing has also been compared with that of Angela Carter,Sanders, Kate, The Times 27 May 2006. David Malouf,Duncan, Shirley J. Paolini, "Outlaw odyssey.(Captain Starlight's Apprentice) (Book review)", Antipodes, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 89(2). Peter Carey and Kate Grenville.White, Judith, The Bulletin, 30 May 2006.
Heyman's sixth novel Storm & Grace, a psychological thriller about freediving, deals with violence against women and was published by Allen & Unwin in February 2017. Louise Swinn, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 February 2017.
Heyman's work has appeared on BBC Radio 4, and a five-part dramatic adaptation of Captain Starlight's Apprentice was broadcast on Woman's Hour in April 2007. Captain Starlight's Apprentice, BBC – Woman's Hour Drama. In 2013 she delivered the NSW Premier's Literary Awards keynote address. University of Newcastle
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