Stacey May Fowles

Featuring the best line ever in a review about my work:
“In both of Fowles’s novels, the young people do a lot of vomiting–too much, maybe, but not enough to provoke a similar reaction on the part of the reader. Rather, Be Good and Fear of Fighting are cause for celebration; they mark the arrival upon the CanLit scene of a refreshing new voice, a fine young talent.”

Read the complete review here.

Be Good and Fear of Fighting have both made the National Post Canada Also Reads (very) longlist. Check out the complete list for a great sampling of (mostly less mainstream) books published in Canada over the last few years.

If you’re interested in being a panelist, just send an email to theafterword@nationalpost.com with the name of the book you’d like to defend.
 

“My teen years were vivid, with seemingly ordinary moments transformed by Technicolor depths of pain, longing, confusion, and joy. The authors in She’s Shameless let me know I am not alone in my clarity of memory. If we’d had this book, the creative women with whom I came of age would have read this anthology aloud to one another, shocked by how well these strangers could know our minds and hearts.”

Read the full review here.

“On Thursday, December 3rd, el Mocambo’s Legends of the Stage trilogy finally comes full circle when Taddle Creek launches its Christmas, 2009, issue. The evening will begin with a dramatic reading of letters to the editor (starring Paul Bellini as the voice of Taddle Creek) then slowly build momentum with a slideshow by Terry Murray and readings of poetry and fiction by Lindsay Zier-Vogel and Stacey May Fowles, finally coming to a bloody conclusion as the magazine presents the Main Event: a literary smackdown featuring Toronto’s favourite son—ladies and gentlemen, no longer defending his title as Taddle Creek’s most-rejected author, the one, the only, Nathaniel. G. Moooooooore!

The address is 464 Spadina Avenue, just south of College (second floor), and the doors open at 8 P.M. Admission is free. There will be door prizes of recent books by Taddle Creek contributors. Entry to win is one canned-good donation to the el Mo’s Serving Charity (one can equals one chance to win; please give generously to thank the el Mo for graciously providing party space).

The one and only item on sale for the evening will be the above-mentioned Christmas issue, at the usual non-literary-magazine price of only $5. It’s a pretty colourful issue and different in a lot of unexpected ways (but still retains that classic Taddle Creek feel). If you buy only one more issue of the magazine in 2009, this is the one Taddle Creek would recommend.”

Featuring Walrus magazine contributor and award-winning writer Hal Niedzviecki reading from The Peep Diaries, an examination of our emerging “peep culture,” and engaging in a Q & A session with novelist and Walrus contributor Stacey May Fowles. 8:00 pm, 1090 Don Mills Road, Toronto.

Hal Niedzviecki’s writings on culture have appeared in newspapers and magazines across North America. He is the founder of Broken Pencil, a magazine covering zine culture and the indie arts. In addition to three novels and a story collection, Niedzviecki is the author of Hello, I’m Special and We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture.

Read The Porn Identity, Stacey May Fowles in conversation with Hal Niedzviecki on privacy and internet pornography.

Monday, October 26, 2009 - 8:00pm

The Ossington, 61 Ossington Avenue