Charles Heiner

Charles Heiner has an MFA in Creative Writing from McNeese State University. His fiction has been published in The Laurel Review, Specter, Word Riot, and elsewhere. It has won the McNeese MFA program’s annual fiction contest, which was judged by Robert Olen Butler, and has been shortlisted for the Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. One of his short stories was among the final ten selections for Pithead Chapel’s Larry Brown Short Story Award and also a runner-up in the Summer Literary Seminars Writing Contest, for which he was awarded a merit-based fellowship. In 2017, he was selected to read his fiction at the Writers in Paradise conference. Charles Heiner is on the board of Writer House, a Charlottesville, Virginia-based community writing center.
Charles received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Guilford College in 2001 and his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Master of Arts Degree in English Literature in 2007 from McNeese State University.