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Joe Heap (born 1986) is an English author who resides in London. His poetry has been published in several journals and he was a winner of the 2004 Foyle Young Poet Award. He was a guest author at the 2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Life and works

Heap was born in London and grew up in Bradford, West Yorkshire. He later moved to Scotland where he completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.

Heap’s first book, The Rules of Seeing (HarperCollins, 2018), was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards for Breakthrough Author and won the RNA's Debut Romantic Novel award in 2018. His second novel was When the Music Stops (HarperCollins, 2020).

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  3. "Joe Heap – The Poetry Society: Poems". Retrieved 12 May 2021.
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  5. Leonard, Sue (16 August 2018). "Joe Heap". Sue Leonard. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
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  7. Heap, Joe (2018). The rules of seeing. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-829319-2. OCLC 1085198577. Archived from the original on 3 May 2024.
  8. "Booksellers Association - BAMBRA 2018 shortlists announced". The Booksellers Association of the United Kingdom & Ireland Limited. Archived from the original on 3 May 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
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  10. Heap, Joe (2020). When the music stops. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-829322-2. OCLC 1203942615.


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