Meet Heathrow Airport’s New Writer in Residence

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  08.02.11 | 2:58 PM ET

Novelist Tony Parsons is the latest writer to sign up for a week at Heathrow. According to the Evening Standard, Parsons will “roam around the airport, among passengers and staff, as inspiration for his 13th book which will be a collection of short stories based on his experiences there.”

“The Art of Travel” author Alain de Botton was the airport’s first writer-in-residence back in 2009. We interviewed him about the experience.

(Via @johnleewriter)

Tags: Airports, Airworld, Travel Writing, Europe, England, London, News and Briefs

Eva Holland is the senior editor of World Hum. She is an associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and her writing has also appeared in Reader's Digest Canada, NationalGeographic.com, the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and WestJet's Up! Magazine, among other publications. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


1 Comment for Meet Heathrow Airport’s New Writer in Residence

Mikeachim 08.03.11 | 4:50 AM ET

I’d love if this became a regular feature at airports, not just LHR, and if pulled in all sorts of varied writing talent, not just travel writers but people with a really keen eye that would create wildly different forms of creative writing. Tom Stoppard - Gene Wolfe - or a really, really fine non-travel journalist, say, Nicholas Schmidle, whose piece on the assault on Osama bin Laden’s stronghold is the best thing the New Yorker has published for ages…

*Tony Parsons*?

Hmm.

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