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This is the website for author Heather M. Fowler , literary author of short fiction, poetry, novels, and plays for theater.

This space will be updated frequently with new links to her publications, podcasts, and news.  See below for a list of current events and a linked-in writer's bio, as well as information about her current projects.

LINKED-IN WRITER'S BIO:

 Heather Fowler received her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University in May of 1997.   She has taught composition, literature, and writing-related courses at UCSD, California State University at Stanislaus, and Modesto Junior College. 

She has recently published stories in the following journals and anthologies: PANK Magazine (4.6, June 2009); Night Train (Issue 9.1, Spring 2009); The Abacot Journal (Spring 2009); Underground Voices (November 2008); A Cappella Zoo (Print: October 2008, Volume I, Online Reprint June 2009). KeyHole (August 2008); Trespass (August/September 2008, UK); SubLit (August 2008); Coming Together: With Pride (Phaze, 2008, e-book and print); Word Riot (May 2008);  Storyglossia #28 (May 2008); Cityworks 2008 (May 2008); DOGZPLOT FLASH FICTION (2008, online and print); Temenos (Fall 2007); Mississippi Review online (October 2007); See You Next Tuesday (2006);and  Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry (Winter 2006). the muse apprentice guild (October 2002), artisan, a journal of craft (September 2002), Literary PotPourri (May 2002), Exquisite Corpse (Summer 2001), The Barcelona Review (May, 2001), Quercus Review (May, 2001), Penumbra (May 2001), B & A New Fiction (Jan. 2001), Barbaric Yawp (Dec. 2000), Zoetrope All-Story Extra (June 2001, October and December 1999). She worked as a Guest Editor for Zoetrope All-Story Extra in March and April of 2000. Her story "Slut" won third prize at the 2000 California Writer's Conference in Monterey.

Her poetry has recently appeared at INTHEFRAY (February 2007), Empowerment4Women.com (November 2007), and been selected for a joint first place in the 2007 Faringdon Online Poetry Competition (October 2007) , as well as published in various venues including: the Map of Austin Poetry, The Coast Highway Review, the Driftwood Highway 1999 Anthology, Joe's Journal, Best of the Beach 1998, The Publication, and the Cityworks Literary Anthology, Volume 6. She currently seeks agent representation for her short fiction and novels.  

See site Bibliography page for a full list of titles and venues.

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 UPCOMING, CURRENT, AND RECENT EVENTS:

Upcoming/Current:

Watch for a story to appear soon in Feminist Studies, one in Canada, and another in Australia.  Work in the US and online also projected to be released by late Spring, early Summer.  Already, three stories from the November 2008 Flash Fiction A Day marathon have  been selected for publication, and Heather continues to draft  new work weekly (sometimes daily) at her MySpace blog.

Recent news: 

June 2009: One new story out in PANK Magazine.  Note: Explicit themes.  

Additionally, Heather's story "Beautiful Ape Girl Baby"  story originally published in the A Cappella Zoo's print journal has now been published on the Zoo's cyber-page, so more readers can access it.  

May 2009: Heather's edgy  Word Riot piece advanced to shortlist for the Million Writer's Awards 2009 contest.   Good luck to those Top Ten folks still in the running! 

April 2009: One story just released in the 9.1 issue of Night Train. Also, one new magical realism story just released at The Abacot Journal.  Pop in and take a look. 

Heather's story "You Are One Click Away from Pictures of Nude Girls" that originally appeared in Jackie Corley's May 2008 issue of Word Riot has been nominated  the storySouth Million Writers Award and made the Notable Stories of 2008 list.

Also, Heather attended a wonderful Writing Away Retreat hosted by Cicily Janus in Taos, New Mexico, which involved meeting some lovely people, getting feedback from industry professionals on projects, eating tasty food, and having a great time!  Oh, and writing! Check out Cicily's retreats if you have the time or inclination: .  

February 2009: AWP was fantastic!   Heather enjoyed meeting many editors and writer friends.  

November 2008:  One story out this month in Underground Voices

 October 2008:  One story out this month with the new magical realism and experimental writing print journal A Cappella Zoo. 

 August /September 2008: Three stories out at Keyhole, SubLit, and Trespass (out of the UK).  Linked in bio below has e-access to two of these pieces. 

Summer 2008: Acclaimed novelist and author Michael Kimball writes Heather Fowler's life story on postcard installment  #57 for his new book -length project of postcard life stories.   

Summer 2008: On July 15th, Heather Fowler was the featured poet at the New Poetic Brew  reading in San Diego.  

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BOOKS IN PREP:

Short Story Manuscripts:

LOVESHOCK--stories that discuss alternative lifestyles, infidelity, strange love, and the lasting impact of the kinds of people we never forget in our collective image repertoires. NOTE: see video trailer above. (Stories in this volume have been published in the US, Canada, and online)

THE GIRL WITH THE RAZORBLADE SKIN--a book of Heather's collected magical realism and fabulist stories starring women with facial features like female genitalia, women who bloom with the seasons, women who sprout blades, women whose hearts fall out at public malls, women with multiple eyes, and women who sleep as snakes or birth saints like  lapis lazuli  babies.    Really, you must meet these women.  (Stories in this volume have been published or are forthcoming in the US, online, and Australia)

THIS TIME, WHILE WE'RE AWAKE--a book of stories assembled with a futuristic or dystopic future element, that apply a tender gaze on human tropes to allow these stories to equally function as modern day dreams or nightmares about the future, and about what could be and what is... (Stories in this volume have been published or are forthcoming in the US, online, and the UK)

SMART SLUT STORIES--a set of tales about women and their complicated experience with having too much experience with  sex and love--a collection that functions both as a commentary on society and judgment and a plea for sensitivity made in the form of some gorgeously sane and promiscuous literary art.  (Stories in this volume have been published in the US, online, and Canada)

THE MAN WHO WOULD NOT PUT OUT--stories about men who, in one way or another, will not put out.  (Stories in this volume have been published or are forthcoming in the US and online.)

All collections currently seeking an agent or a publisher.  Contact fowlerhm@hotmail.com for a sample manuscript.

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 Novels:

 Complete: 

GRAVITY-- a magical realism, literary love story about two people falling in love at the wrong time with the right person--as the rest of their lives fall apart.

 In Progress:

THE LONELINESS OF MEN--a modern experimental novel about love in the cyber-age. 

BEAUTIFUL APE GIRL BABY-a fabulist coming of age tale about a woman born apelike, stronger and hairier than others, and trained to believe she is beautiful before meeting the tough spaces outside her wealthy compound that comprise the uncompromising real world. 

THE SUMMER FOREST--a story about a young flautist who falls in love with a widowed man over the course of a Washington summer.

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 Poetry Books In Progress--

PAWNSHOP HEART-- A 70 page book of feminist, modern free-verse poetry in progress .

FORMS OF LOVE-- An 80 page manuscript of sonnets, sestinas, rondeaus, triolets, blank verse, and ghazals about, you guessed it, love.

THEY WERE CAUTIONARY TALES--A chapbook -length book of poems that re-engages fairy tales earlier than Grimms' for  "past the page" conversations-- and interjects a modern third dimension of parlaying the "unsaid."

FOR THOSE WHO TAUGHT ME HOW TO SING, Homage and Parody Poems--A book of intertextual poetry that interfaces and speaks to the art and imagery of many famous artists and poets, such as Ginsberg, Neruda, Angelou, Shakespeare, Klimt, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Plath, etc.

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CONTACT INFORMATION:

 To schedule readings or request information about her work,  please contact Winona King, Submissions Manager  at fowler_h@yahoo.com or use the site contact form.

Also, friend Heather on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=677721041

GoodReads:  http://www.goodreads.com/profile/fowlerhm

Myspace: www.myspace.com/fowlerhm

or her MySpace audio page: http://www.myspace.com/fowlerhmaudio