HEATHER FOWLER
www.heatherfowlerwrites.com
Archive News
September 2011
An excellent new review for Suspended Heart is released at Gently Read Literature's September Issue where Heather is compared to "Kafka in drag." An excerpt: "An excerpt: "There are stories in this collection in which girls have razor blades coming out of their skinthe better to keep all pain away. So engaged will you become in this passionate collection, that if you're anything like mean angry stack of books stacked by my night table, angry that I haven't picked them yetyou may wish one of Fowler's stories might be no good so you can move through the book faster. Not going to happen."
On the creative and performance front, shhhhhhhh. Be very, very quiet. Lots of editing going on.
August 2011
Used Furniture Review runs an interview with Heather and Cynthia Reeser, publisher of Aqueous Books, entitled "The Life of the Heart: A Conversation with Heather Fowler," where Heather discusses writing, women's issues, friendship, and process.
Heather does a featured reading from Suspended Heart at San Diego Writers Ink on 8/19 and teaches a one day magical realism workshop there on 8/20. Don't miss it.
Her short story "Making Love to the Fruitshooter" is discussed at the Short Story Pulse blog.
Also, Poem a Day Marathon in full swing on her Facebook page. Come and play.
July 2011
Heather is the Fashionable Fiction winner selected for a custom designed t-shirt at Fix It Broken's Issue 3, Ryan Bradley designing the graphic, which means they have created a t-shirt for her story published late July. Who doesn't need an "Ex-Boyfriend's Head" t-shirt as a gift or piece of standard apparel? Stop in and read the story and order a garment.
She is also the Mid-July featured
June 2011
One sad poem "Fathers" released at UCity Review.
"Making Love to the Fruitshooter" just released at The Summerset Review's Summer 2011 issue dedicated to Jeanne Leiby.
Heather co-wrote a story entitiled "Crime 101" with Meg Tuite, as part of Used Furniture Review's Exquisite Quartet series.
Further, don't miss her interview with Michelle Reale this month over at Flash Fiction Chronicles--where she talks about her Flannery O'Connor pair piece "Good Country. People" and killing disreputable men for the greater good of all. .
May 2011
New story "Beach-ball, Kentucky" released at Used Furniture Review. Have a gander.
April 2011
Heather read for the Re:Telling Anthology on L.A. Festival of Books weekend with such luminaries as Jim Ruland, Terese Svoboda, and Heidi Durrow. Don't miss it. Also, she performed a featured reading of Suspended Heart stories and new poems in Escondido on April 3rd at the POETS, INC (Inland North County)
Also interviewed at the PLUMB blog interview this month with Cynthia Reeser about work-life balance in an interview entitled "Heather Fowler: A Primal Cry against the Monotony of EverydayLiving." :)
On the fiction note, new psych. thriller story out in the Janet Frame issue of kill author called "The Scene That You Come Upon is Madness"--audio file available too. :) Finally, new story "When Your Lover is Crying" just released in Night Train's epic Issue 11.1. Drop in!
Available now: A new and detailed review of Suspended Heart just posted at the Ampersand Books blog.
March 2011
Heather is the Featured Author at Short Story America for the second week of March. Please get a log in and drop by to read her story "Jesus Doesn't Love You and Neither Do I." The log-in is quick and free to obtain.
The Re-Telling Anthology, Edited by William Walsh, is now out through Ampersand Books. Heather's retelling of "A&P" by Updike, "A&P, Come Again" is published therein. check it out. Also, Heather is interviewed and chats with Editor William Walsh about her contribution . Scroll down. :)
February 2011
AWP was fantastic this year in DC! Heather read with Steve Almond, Donna Vitucci, and several other talented folks at the fabulous Corium Magazine, Prick of the Spindle, Smokelong Quarterly off-site reading. A good time was had by all. Also,Heather read at Jim Ruland's Vermin on the Mount reading in San Diego on 2/19 at Sushi and answered a single question on Ruland's One-Quiz Tunes Vermin on the Mount Blog. Video of her Vermin reading available on YouTube. Take a gander.
On the poetry front, a new poem goes live at MiPOesias, with an accompanying audio file. Check it out:"What A Man Will Say of Disposable Voyage Mermaids, When He Begins to Speak"
January 2011
"On Kissing" goes live at Wrong Tree Review.
Heather chats with Ravi Mangla at his Recommended Reading blog, about reading.
The title story for SUSPENDED HEART, "Suspended Heart," goes live in JMWW's fabulous Winter 2011 issue.
A pair piece for Flannery O'Connor's famous story entitled "Good Country. People." appears at Necessary Fiction's January 2011 First Footing project. Author's note: He had it coming.
On the poetry front, Heather is the featured poet for a late week in January at The Nervous Breakdown, where they feature a heroic crown entitled "The Love, Laughter, Cherish Crown," and also presents a TNB Self-Interview on writing poetry and fiction, love, secret writing, and loss. Please drop in. Happy writing and much love to all!
December 2010
"A Baby Anyway" is released in the Winter 2010 issue of Ducts, "Love Affair with Comma" released at The Northville Review, a new story "Shrinking" is available on Fictionaut.
November 2010
Flutter Poetry Journal publishes new poem"I Am Not the Girl You Wanted."TheMedulla Review print anthology reprintsHeather's poem "No. 14 (White and Greens in Blue)."
October 2010
LitSnack releases a flash fiction piece called"The Naked Truth About Wanting," a More new writing happening, as well as edits on SUSPENDED HEART. Also, Heather will be doing Nanowrimo in November--and Beautful Ape Girl Baby will be killing worthless men and celebrating her bad self right and left. Join her there.
September 2010
The newest issue of Prick of the Spindle releases Heather's long story "A Companion to Minnow Lake" as what they are calling a "chilling" novelette. She's so flattered. :) Pop in to read.
Heather looks forward to reading in late September with So Say We All, deemed the "The cream of the crop as far as San Diego writing and performance goes by Seth Combs at KPBS. She'll be participating in "The Future" themed VAMP on 9/30. If you're local, come on out. If you're not local, she's delightedto say she thinks it will be videotaped and will post a link afterward.
August 2010
After concluding the Poem a Day Marathon in July, Heather launches into a Story a Day marathon in August though is beset with technical difficulties--first at MySpace and Facebook and writes 27,000 words in the first 12 days, but must regretfully cancel the rest of the marathon due to personal business. Nonetheless, she posts a story originally published in a Canada print mag called "How To Rescue A Drowning Man" at Fictionaut.
Uche Ogbuji writes a wonderful post at The Nervous Breakdown about his experience writing poems with her in July. Lovely poet, that man. Check his posts for a variety of wonderful discussions of poetry in general. Also, edits for her booklength manuscript SUSPENDED HEART are now officially underway. More news soon. Happy August to all.
July 2010
Heather writes with her annual Poem A Day marathon at her Facebook page. 31 forms in 31 days, plus a smattering of free-verse offerings. Join her there. In August, she'll be writing a story a day on her MySpace page. All those who want to join must be friends of those pages, so friend her there and write, writers!
June 2010
Heather reads with Peter Schwartz, Barry Graham, Greg Gerke and others at the at the Nightingale Lounge in NYC on June 5th. Her new magical realism piece entitled "Anatomy of a Song" comes out at Up the Staircase's Spring 2010 issue, and a new issue of Corium Magazine is released. What. Wonderful. Poems! :) Also, excellent fiction. Check it out. In late June, a new poem is also released at riverbabble.
May 2010
A new podcast goes live at The Nervous Breakdown, with the very charming Joseph Matheny, wherein Heather talks magical realism, bad first novels, and being censored by Apple. Also, the podcast starts with a reading of the censored story. Stop in and have a listen.
Also, check out a video just released of the sexy Mel Bosworth, reading her micro-fiction, "The Rolling" at Dark Sky Magazine. (Text also available.)
Her literary/historical story "Taking Celine" comes out with the Winter/Spring 2010 issue of Portland Review.
Heather appears as the featured poet in the first week of May, with a poem entitled "A Woman In Her Bath" at The Nervous Breakdown. Pop in, comment, take a look. She also does a Nervous Breakdown Self-Interview there about poetry, writing, and process.
April 2010
AWP, baby! Heather reads a story called "Love Affair with Comma" at the provocative and delightful off-site DOGZPANK reading in Denver. There is video of this reading, but linking to that may prove too embarrassing. Hint: You can find it if you'd likeon YouTube.:)
New experimental magical realism piece "Three Views You Might Have Had At Pond's Edge--or Quack" just out at Necessary Fiction.
March 2010
Corium Magazine's debut issue goes live with a bang, publishing SO MANY talented fiction writers including: Stephen Elliott, Sean Lovelace, Alec Niedenthal, Adam Moorad, Donna D. Vitucci, Kathy Fish, Scott Garson, Beth Thomas, Kim Chinquee, Sheldon Compton, and more. The poets are fantastic--this issue showcasing the work of Shaindel Beers, Corey Mesler, Sam Rasnake, Rusty Barnes, and Cami Park. Please drop in and check it out. Lauren, Greg, and Heather are delighted with the first issue.
Also, Heather is pleased to have her story "If I Kiss That Girl" selected for the new JMWW print anthology--Anthology iv (best of our 2009 issues). It's a wonderful anthology at a steal of a price. Buy one. :)
February 2010:
New story "Old Glamour Girl" released at The Big Toe Review. Also,an experimental story out soon in the Back In Five Minutes anthologyfrom Little Episodes (UK), and two eclectic stories just released in the stark electric space... anthology out via Graffiti Kolkata in India.
January 2010:
Heather speaks on the Fictionaut blog about one of her faved stories. Click for here for the specific blog post.
Heather takes on role as Poetry Editor at new online journal Corium Magazine, Inaugural issue up in March. The lovely Ms. Lauren Becker heading up the fiction endeavor, with help from Greg Gerke.
Also, check out "The Time Broker," a magical realism story posted as a Fictionaut exclusive, only to be found there and in SUSPENDED HEART.
December 2009:
poeticdiversity publishes a free-verse poem called "A Fragmentation of Verse."
November 2009:
BlazeVOX publishes a literary experimental story called "Love Child." in their 2k9 Fall 2009 issue.
Two poemsout at Medulla Review, a ghazal and some blank verse.
Emprise Review publishes a traditional literarystory called "Gift Horse."
October 2009:
DOGZPLOT Fall 2009 publishes a new magical realism piece"Bloom in Any Season." Check it out.
Regarding the Septembercensorship,brave Editor Peter Cole at Keyhole uncensors the formerly removed story. Go, Peter!
Also, a story released in the Surreal South 09 short fiction anthology extraordinaire,edited byLaura & Pinckney Benedict,out ofPress 53.
September 2009:
Shockingly, previously published flash fictionnow CENSORED infreaky Big Brother move by Apple/I-phone censor bots. Story "Catholic Girl Smile" removed from online fiction journalKeyHole Magazine(with my permission) to permit Keyhole's receipt of their I-phone App approval for story streaming. Rock on, Keyhole--it's not your fault--but Apple, tsk tsk,quietly censoring parental-controlled, online short fiction content withcensor bots?Scary, you big purportedly"liberal" corporation; you're about as liberal as Rush Limbaugh. See blog post if interested.
On a happier note, Heather's desk and narrative feature in the Fictionaut Blog'sWriting Spaces series.Click the link to see the narrative and physical space in which she writes and do leave a comment if you drop in. :)
August 2009:
decomP publishes a short story in the August 2009 issue.
July 2009:
JMWW rolls out a new flash fiction story in their sexy Summer 2009 Issue.
Etchings journal published by Ilura press out of Australiapublishes a new magical realism piece in Etchings 7.
June 2009:
A Cappella Zoo has now made the contents of the print journal live on their cyberspace, so Heather's story "Beautiful Ape Girl Baby" now gets a second life online. Praise be to the mother... LOL!
As a lark, Heather is was interviewed by the lovely Fiona Robyn as one of the first 10 readers for Fiona's novel The Blue Handbag. Check it out!
Also, new story about swingers out at PANK, thank the lovely Roxane Gay.
May 2009:
Heather's edgy Word Riot piece was listed as a Notable Story of 2008 and winnowed through the mass of gorgeous work to reach the Notable Stories shortlist in Jason Sanford's Million Writer's Awards 2009. Some amazing stories there to read, if anyone has interest.
