Stacey May Fowles

“Stacey May Fowles is Toronto’s most talented writer to come out of the last generation of zine and small press scribes. Her prose in novels like 2008’s Fear of Fighting has a complexity, as well as a sprightly edge, not dulled by the 24-grit touch of creative-writing workshops.”

-Eye Weekly 

The very lovely Julie Wilson of Seen Reading asked me to be a “Reader Reading.” Check out the recording here.

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“Fear of Fighting, Stacey May Fowles’ second novel, is as gut-wrenching as it is delightful. Fowles navigates the devastating terrain of a broken heart with grace, humour, and wit…Marnie’s gritty, unabashedly candid first-person narration weaves between past and present. The chapters are brief, and many of them have sufficient substance to stand alone, which is one of the novel’s best features…a collection of insignificant moments that, when placed next to one another, are infused with meaning…we have all wallowed in self-pity following the failure of a relationship, and Fowles captures those months of obsession and regret with power and insight.”
-Sarah Steinberg, Quill & Quire

“Fowles’ writing is poetic yet simple, and even her frequent pop culture references are applied with a graceful, light hand… Zuber’s drawings synthesize the day-to-day minutae of Marnie’s internal world with humour, heartache and guts… Fear of Fighting is a worthy, relatable read.”
-Sue Carter Flinn, The Coast

“Paired well with Zuber’s drawings, Fowles words are simple and elegant. She has perfectly bottled the ennui and cruel narcissism of people old enough to have bad credit but still young enough to puke outside of bars. Even if you’re comfortably past that age, Fowles’ book is worth the sobering read. After all, we’re never as far from our worst years as we think we are.”
-Brian Joseph Davis, Eye Weekly.

Buy it here, or here, or here. Or ask for it at your local independent bookstore.

“Fear of Fighting, Stacey May Fowles’ second novel, is as gut-wrenching as it is delightful. Fowles navigates the devastating terrain of a broken heart with grace, humour, and wit…Marnie’s gritty, unabashedly candid first-person narration weaves between past and present. The chapters are brief, and many of them have sufficient substance to stand alone, which is one of the novel’s best features…a collection of insignificant moments that, when placed next to one another, are infused with meaning…we have all wallowed in self-pity following the failure of a relationship, and Fowles captures those months of obsession and regret with power and insight.”

-Sarah Steinberg, Quill & Quire 

My essay, The Fantasy of Acceptable “Non-Consent:” Why the female sexual submissive scares us (and why she shouldn’t) will be appearing in Seal Press’ Yes Means Yes, edited by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman. The book, which includes contributors Margaret Cho (yup, that Margaret Cho), (personal hero) Julia Serano, Racialicious’ Latoya Peterson, and Bitch founding editor Lisa Jervis, should be available close to the end of the month. More information on tour dates to follow, but for now you can pre-order it here.