Heidi Henning

Heidi Elisabeth Henning was born in Johannesburg, and attended Roedean School South Africa, where she was awarded the English Essay Prize. She went on to study a Bachelor of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, and a Master of Science in Creative Writing at Edinburgh University. She has been published in New Contrast Literary Journal and had one piece of fiction published by Edinburgh University Press.
She has lived in the UK, Namibia and South Africa, and currently lives on a farm in South Africa with her partner and two young daughters. She has just published her first collection of poetry entitled Misheard, on Amazon and Xlibris.

 

Dusk

Heidi Henning New writing 2026-04-09

"Comfort in consistency,
Regular, measured,
Unchanged"

Gossiping trees

Heidi Henning New writing 2025-01-23

"An uninterrupted meeting of the minds,
Discussing thoughts, anecdotes 
From the mother branches"

Windmill

Heidi Henning New writing 2022-05-23

"She plays a sound
Drawn from a deep-water source
She holds power"

Secret

Heidi Henning New writing 2022-05-16

"A love language,
Unhaltered, fragile, fluttering,
Mapped by constellations of emotions,"

Conclusion

Heidi Henning New writing 2022-01-05

"He died in isolation
Surrounded by sterile strangers
Unknown machines
In an intensive care unit
Without history or memory
Or a warm hand in his."

Maps

Heidi Henning New writing 2021-06-30

"I followed the footprints, 
Jumping to gauge the width, 
Through rain and drought-stricken ground, 
I followed you."

Daughters

Heidi Henning New writing 2021-06-09

"You are the learners of landscape, 
Listeners of the berg wind, 
Its strong voice shouting through dark nights"

Father

Heidi Henning New writing 2021-04-07

"I’ll meet you in ten minutes 
At Cafe Anton for coffee 
You’ll be early as always 
Waiting for me" 

Childhood

Heidi Henning New writing 2020-07-02

"Visions of soft, weeping rain drenching fynbos
A lonely, cold krantz echoing baboon and jackal"

Winter

Heidi Henning New writing 2020-07-02

"The power of a soothing, steaming
Slightly searing Epsom salts bath"

Vitality

Heidi Henning New writing 2020-05-14

"Combining human touch and technology
The net of memory
The web of unity"

Grief

Heidi Henning New writing 2020-02-19

"lit like fisherman’s lantern
Swinging in a dark sea"

White butterflies

Heidi Henning New writing 2020-02-05

“Dancing, delicate
Bleached and starched”

The fireburnt mind

Heidi Henning New writing 2019-10-09

“Scattered ashes of daydreams”

Toy designers

Heidi Henning New writing 2019-10-08

“We pick the struggling succulents
Sparsely scattered on the barely surviving
Bleached lawn, prickled with camel thorns”

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