E. O. Higgins
E O Higgins | |
|---|---|
 Higgins in 2015. | |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Fiction Writer |
| Website | eohiggins.co.uk |
E O Higgins is a British fiction writer, podcaster, and performer.
Biography
[edit]Higgins’ first novel Conversations with Spirits was published in 2015, by Unbound[1][2] and Penguin.[3][4]
Conversations with Spirits was shortlisted for Edinburgh International Book Festival’s ‘First Book Award’[5][6][7] the same year.
Whilst attending the Festival, Higgins debated ‘fiction that blurs reality with illusion’[8] with Canadian novelist Steven Galloway, and performed a ‘séance’≈[6] at the Guardian Spiegeltent,[9] in the guise of his comedy alter ego — ‘psychic thaumaturge’[6][10] — Laars Head.[11]
Higgins became a full member of the Crime Writers’ Association[12] in 2015.
As of 2017, Higgins has co-hosted the 'bad culture podcast' Hello Sh!te,[13] with Marc Green.
In August 2018, along with fellow novelists Patrick Kincaid and Paul Holbrook, Higgins founded the online, real-time film group The Film Crowd,[14] to help raise awareness of people suffering from loneliness and social deprivation. The project has since garnered support — and ‘film curation’ — from actor and presenter Sir Tony Robinson, comedian, actor and screenwriter Mark Gatiss, and author Jonathan Coe.
In late 2019, Higgins wrote introductions and annotations on two classic comic novels for D'Ascoyne Press, The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith and Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal by Roy Horniman. In July 2020, Higgins appeared on the Backlisted literary podcast, to talk about The Diary of a Nobody with authors John Mitchinson, Andy Miller, and Laura Cumming.
In 2020, Higgins reprised the role of Laars Head; going on to write, perform and produce the comedy podcast Laars Head's Supernormal.
Since 2022, E O Higgins has been writing, hosting, and producing the weekly history podcast The English Eccentric.
References
[edit]- ^ alister beasant (10 December 2013). Conversations With Spirits. Unbound. ISBN 9781908717399.
- ^ "The Bookseller's Rising Stars 2014 | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
- ^ "Conversations with Spirits". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
- ^ "Conversations with Spirits". randomhouse.co.uk.
- ^ "EO Higgins - Writers - Edinburgh International Book Festival". edbookfest.co.uk.
- ^ a b c "Interview with author of Conversations with Spirits E. O. Higgins - Books - The Skinny". theskinny.co.uk.
- ^ "Edinburgh Book Festival's Jura Unbound | Edinburgh Guide". www.edinburghguide.com. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
- ^ "Steven Galloway & E O Higgins". list.co.uk.
- ^ "EO Higgins | Writers | Edinburgh International Book Festival". www.edbookfest.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
- ^ "Gently enter Laars Head". Archived from the original on 2016-02-06. Retrieved 2015-09-08.
- ^ "Conversations With Spirits by E O Higgins, a Review". The Huffington Post UK. 17 March 2014. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
- ^ "Higgins, E. O. - The Crime Readers' Association". The Crime Readers' Association. Retrieved 2016-04-07.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Hello Shite on Apple Podcasts". iTunes.
- ^ Film Crowd https://twitter.com/TheFilmCrowdThe Film Crowd.
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