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Blog postIn a review article featuring new titles by Brian Evenson and the creator of Netflix’s cult animation series “BoJack Horseman," Bob Waksberg, NYT reviewer and author Scott Bradfield says Fowler's work offers a "bright and affectionate vision of mystical worlds" and "great ideas and characters." A version of this article appears in print on June 29, 2019, on Page 26 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Surreal Stories. Order Reprints. Read the online feature here
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Blog postAs an author of poetry, plays for theatre, short stories, novels, audio plays, screenplays, experimental work, and librettos, I’ve given a lot of thought recently to the art of adaptation--particularly from one form to another, but also from one genre to another. It may be an excess of information to let you know I’ve even sorted my electronic files into handy folders with titles like Ghost Narratives, Historical, Literary Traditional, Experimental, Dystopia, Magical Realist, etc. My two most re
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Blog postI’m always excited to see new people play with Magical Realism as a genre, which differs from fantasy and other speculative genres in that Magical Realism, what I call MR for short, is really a fusion between literary fiction and one element of fantasy, magic, or suspended disbelief. This seems a simple conceit, no? One aspect of magic—mundane world.But, from my own experience talking about it, not everyone recognizes this genre as a household term until you pair it with names (Garcia Marquez, L
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Blog postBEAUTIFUL APE GIRL BABY, pre-order your copy now. SO MUCH HAPPENING IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS; don't miss it:May 1st at Connotation Press, Heather is the Fiction Feature-- talking with Meg Tuite about the new book and magical realism, with added video from an AWP 2016 Magical Realism panel and an excerpt from the book. Stop here to read the interview and an excerpted chapter. May 1st also opens a Goodreads Giveaway for 5 signed copies of the debut novel. Click for your chance to win.Also, coming so
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Blog postPop by and read a conversation between Heather Fowler and Kristina Marie Darling about poetry, art, women, collaboration, and much more.
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Blog postJon Forshee, composer for my opera libretto BLOOD. HUNGER. CHILD., currently works to convert scent into sound with his recent compositional efforts. He shared his newest research with me last night (see the work station below)--the process of selecting scents to convert into musical frequencies via molecular structures. And for each character, a scent and sonorous identity...If you look closely, you will see a lauryl aldehyde molecule there hiding on his table. These evoke fragances similar to
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Blog postGoing to AWP? If so, drop by Heather's reading panel with the below talented authors. Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Gold Salon 4 in the JW Marriott in Los Angeles.
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Blog postDrop in for an interview about Heather Fowler's poetic, released December 2014:"I have involuntary rituals—such as writing my way through or out of painful situations and then often being terrified that I will need to re-traumatize myself again and again by publishing the very work for which I bled. If I have a lost muse, for example, it’s not possible to simply decide to rationally avoid using that muse. My mind rebels. My heart pushes through to the marrow of the terror—evokes and evokes
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Blog posthttp://www.amazon.com/Bare-Bulbs-Swinging-Meg-Tuite/dp/1495111245 Bare Bulbs Swinging is a full-length collaborative poetry collection that won the Artistically Declined innaugural TWIN ANTLERS PRIZE FOR COLLABORATIVE POETRY. Here's a sneak-peek at the cover.
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Blog postHeather was delighted to speak on KPBS Radio Midday Edition on September 25th with Maureen Cavanaugh and San Diego City Librarian Jennifer Geran about censorship and Banned Books week. Drop in here to hear the recorded broadcast.She also participated in the library read-a-thon on September 26th. See flyers below for two readings in October and early November, with a third slated for November 19th with the UCSD New Writers series.
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Blog postHeather publishes three new sonnets in the Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal from her Alexandrines for Lorca series. The Summer 2014 issue of Corium Magazine releases.A stunning new review appears for This Time, While We're Awake at Grab the Lapels: "Heather Fowler’s 2013 collection is a tour de force of futurism with just enough familiarity to be chillingly compelling. It quite frankly exemplifies the best of dystopian fiction, a hip throwback to the classic spine-tingling genre populariz
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Blog postBlog tour for the new book! Drop in at the official blog tour webpage to click the links for the stops.
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Blog postCheck out this trailer with Pablo Vision's art from the book!
Books By Heather Fowler
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Elegantly Naked in My Sexy Mental Illness: Stories
Feb 14, 2020
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