Here is information about my published creative writing. I am available for consultations on your own creative writing, too! I can assist you with learning poetic forms, editing your fiction, perfecting your stylistics, or traveling through any other stage of your journey to becoming a better creative writer. Contact me here. You can also support me through Buy Me A Coffee, follow my Amazon profile, and check out my Goodreads page to receive updates on my work.

“Sørina Higgins gave kind yet clear feedback on my fiction project, showing the extraneous details I could do without and the foundation elements I needed to reinforce. My story became leaner yet clearer, and far more engaging as a result.”  

—G. Connor Salter

Shall These Bones Breathe?

This is a collection of short stories I am currently revising. Here is a description:
These works of short fiction, crafted with musical prose and keen literary insight, range from myth retold to futuristic science fiction. Each story raises difficult technoethical or spiritual questions, delving into the dark places of religious psychology and exposing the power of spiritual communities to heal and to harm (especially to harm women) as well as humans’ terrifying predilection to reject grace. In each tale, characters and readers alike are startled by unexpected epiphanies in unlikely circumstances.

The Significance of Swans

This was Sørina’s debut publication: a passionate pilgrimage through myth, faith, and legend. It is a chapbook of twenty-five poems; it is twenty-nine pages long. It was published by Finishing Line Press in 2008 and was nominated for a Conference on Christianity and Literature book-of-the-year award. This book led David Huddle to call Sørina a “crafty poet with a composer’s ear and a painter’s eye.” Louisa Gilder, Author of Age of Entanglement, wrote: “White birds, black birds, and every shade of gray sky and green yearning–all are lit by Higgins’ flickering, searching, tested faith, to become signposts to the ineffable.” It is available on amazon.

Caduceus

This is a full-length collection of forty-seven poems, one hundred pages long, published by David Robert Books in 2012. Heartbreak and faith are the twin strands threading through these poems in both traditional forms and experimental open shapes. It is available on amazon and Barnes & Noble. It is endorsed by three superstar poets. Jeanne Murray Walker says: “she has written a musical, heartbreaking, timely and timeless book.” Luci Shaw writes: “Here is a poet of a deep, dissecting and penetrating faith.” And Dana Gioia states: “Her work embraces the lyric and the narrative, the sexy and the sacred. Hers is a capacious imagination trying to make sense of a world full of both heartbreak and wonder which she views with a tough-minded clarity and vast compassion.” In this volume, Sørina explores a variety of personas, speaking voices of lovers, skeptics, preachers, believers, metaphors, and “The Voice of God.” 

Here are several REVIEWS of my work:

My creative writing has also appeared in Radix, The Mythic Circle, Sehnsucht, Stillpoint, Relief, Innisfree, Studio, Perspectives, Alive Now, Windhover, Bible & Spade, and idiom.