Heather is thrilled to announce she'll have two new books due out 2012/2013. See left sidebar for breaking news about People With Holes. :) Additionally, Heather is happy to announce her new book of dystopia stories, This Time While We're Awake, will soon follow. Please drop in at her Aqueous Books author page to read more about the latter.
HEATHER FOWLER
www.heatherfowlerwrites.com
WELCOME!
This is the website for author Heather M. Fowler, literary author of short fiction, poetry, novels, and plays.
Available now from Aqueous Books:
Book Description:
In an explosion of love’s metaphors, Fowler’s debut collection of stories, SUSPENDED HEART, takes on American fabulism with a cast of unexpected heroines in the narratives of life and loss—women whose hearts fall out at public malls, women whose bodies bloom with changing seasons, women who sprout blades or have multiple eyes, sleep as snakes, or birth saints like lapis lazuli babies. Where there is struggle and sadness, there is also humor: Fowler’s fictive voice has been compared to both Franz Kafka and Donald Barthelme. There’s a fearlessness to this prose, a melody of life and magic and loss. Selected stories in this volume have been published online and in Australia. Partial author’s proceeds to be donated to the San Diego Family Justice Center.
See Suspended Heart Praise page for reviews and reader remarks.
NEWS:
May 2012
"People with Holes" released online--have a read. Also, check in on a new essay "The Beautiful and Daunting Gift of Being Read" on writerly mentors and production--and a new gently dystopic story from THIS TIME, WHILE WE'RE AWAKE (forthcoming Spring 2013) entitled "Please Be Careful with the Children" at the debut issue of Open Road Review.
April 2012
New essay posted about Heather's experience with social networking--asking people to get off line and be more human. Have a read. "On the Necessity of Reclaiming the Private Life: Unplug At Will." Soon to come sometime in April, the online release of the title story for PEOPLE WITH HOLES.
March 2012
"People With Holes," the title story of the forthcoming PEOPLE WITH HOLES (Pink Narcissus Press, Spring 2012) book, released in the Spring 2012 print issue of A cappella Zoo, A Web & Print Magazine of Magical Realism & Slipstream. The news is that this issue sold out at the AWP table this month. Pick up a copy. The web-version will release in April.
Heather's magical realist story "With the Silence of A Deer" released in Sententia 4: What She Said, The All-Women Writers issue. Check out the gorgeous cover! Other contributers include some powerful female writers such as Sara Lippmann, Meg Tuite, Ching-in Chen, Andrea DeAngelis, and more. This issue edited by Paula Bomer, Amy King and Jen Michalski.
A story from Heather's dystopia collection THIS TIME, WHILE WE'RE AWAKE entitled "Forgetting So Much Shining Light and Laughter" just released.
Also, visit her RedRoom blog where Heather posts an essay entitled "A Plea for Artists to be Activists for Women's Rights: Don't Explain," riffing from a Billie Holiday tune.
February 2012
"The Life You Lie to Save May Be Your Own, On Becoming an Author"--stop in at Red Room where Heather publishes a rare autobiographical essay-- creative non-fiction, y'all-- on lying, Flannery O'Connor, and her own path to becoming an author.
January 2012:
"If Joyce Carol Oates and Angela Carter got it on and had a love child, it would be Heather Fowler. Fearless, beautiful, magic..." A gorgeous new review for Suspended Heart released at The Short Review, where they interviewed her about the debut collection and work forthcoming.
Necessary Fiction's Origin series released an early story "A Faerie Tale" with some of her discussion about how early work informed her process.
New story "Sight" about a blind girl's relationship with her mother is released in the Fall 2011 Feminist Studies issue on Feminist Histories and Institutional Practices.
Also, Heather's story " " was released in the Stripped Anthology edited by Nicole Monaghan. One year from now, the names of the stories can be paired with the authors, but for now, the idea of the book is this gender-bending frame: "Stripped is a collection with a twist. Yes, the fiction contained herein includes works from some of the best-known names in flash fiction as well as the work of emerging writers, but the bylines have been removed so you can't tell who wrote what...Authors include Meg Tuite, Michelle Reale, Myfanwy Collins, Tara L. Masih, Marc Schuster, Michael Martone, Nathan Alling Long, Curtis Smith, and Randal Brown."
On the writing workshop note, she taught How to Submit Short work at the San Diego Writer's Ink workshop series on January 14th.
November and December 2011:
October 2011
Heather is pleased to announce she will be taking on a new editorial role as a Fiction Editor for the international refereed journal, Journal of Post-Colonial Cultures & Societies(USA).
Heather read on October on the 8th at a photography and literature exhibition in San Diego, mid-October at the &Now Conference for two panels, on October 16th in New York at the Sunday Salon reading series, and just afterward at Opium's Literary Death Match in San Diego. As a delightful surprise, she won the San Diego Opium Literary Death Match, though the competition was witty and fierce, and is now the happy owner of her very own LDM medal. If you ask her very nicely, she will let you touch it.
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Forthcoming Summer 2012 from Pink Narcissus Press. Pre-order Spring 2012.
Heather's second magical realism story collection, PEOPLE WITH HOLES, has found a home with Pink Narcissus Press and will be available in 2012. All author's proceeds to be donated to a charity supporting women's rights. Pink Narcissus Press will also donate heavily; 60% of the book's entire proceeds will be spent in this direction. A bit about the book from the publisher:
PEOPLE WITH HOLES Stories by Heather Fowler The world is full of platitudes about the marks left on us by love, but Heather Fowler knows love doesn't leave footprints in sand or soft whispers on summer breezes. Love leaves holes in us all, whether they are shot through by a modern-day William Tell's arrows, chiseled out by a very necessary beheading, or slowly eroded over moments of anxiety in airplane parking lots. People With Holes tells the stories of unusual people with unusual loves, and once you have read their stories, you'll see right through them...and into your own heart. |
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Forthcoming in Spring 2013 from Aqueous Books. Pre-order Winter 2013.
Heather's third story collection THIS TIME, WHILE WE'RE AWAKE will be released by Aqueous Books next Spring. A bit about the book from the publisher:
Fowler's new collection, This Time, While We're Awake, welcomes you to the worlds of egregious dystopias—environments where tornadoes come one after another as neighbors spar, drugged breeders make babies in the near-future for the sterile rich, humans are sacrificed by contract to aliens who protect them, and the government provides zombie murder buses for insurgents while testing middle-class children, in advance, to fill the needs of militants and industry. In this collection, Fowler examines what it means to be fair and humane in the surreal landscapes where the ruling factions are neither of these things. Come and get your Practice Baby, if you'd like to try parenting. Take an injection to experience love without a partner. This collection showcases not only Fowler's trademark heart and humor, but also a darker dimension of commentary similar to Bradbury or The Twilight Zone. Selected stories in this volume have been published internationally and online.
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