Stacey May Fowles

“Return to No Fun City,” posted at The Walrus Blog
I have been in Vancouver International Airport’s baggage claim area about a dozen times. Every time I stood waiting for my luggage to appear from a flight arriving from Toronto or Montreal, I had the same feeling — a toxic mixture of hopeless love and aching […]

I have a profile piece about the lovely and talented Dani Couture in the latest issue of Broken Pencil, which is on newsstands now.

“Where the Wild Things Are: Poet Dani Couture walks the fine line between urban life and the natural world”

Revenge of the Sexy Nerds: The cult of Lady Gaga and the mainstreaming of outcast culture
“Unlike her pop-tart contemporaries (and like Madge), Gaga understands that female sexuality, much like fame, is nothing but performance and artifice. Like a pop music JT Leroy, in tricking the media machine into making her famous, she has proved it […]

Since the recent Davidar allegations came to light I’ve been thinking a lot about how to use this opportunity to create a dialogue about the culture of publishing. As someone who has worked in both publishing spheres, book and magazine, the allegations, however disturbing and upsetting, are actually unsurprising to me. The most striking thing […]

I have a short story in the latest issue of Taddle Creek, and you can read it online here.

“It was the pregnant chain-smoking teenage girl waiting for the northbound bus at Dufferin station who finalized it for Walter.
She stood there, smiling and smoking, her red hair piled high on her head in a hairsprayed […]

“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 […]

“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 […]

She’s Shameless / She’s Writing: June 23rd
Save the date! She’s Shameless launches June 23rd in Toronto at The Gladstone Hotel!
SHE’S SHAMELESS / SHE’S WRITING
Shameless magazine and This Is Not A Reading Series celebrates the launch of She’s Shameless: Women write about growing up, rocking out, and fighting back
What media event five years ago transformed […]

The Spring issue of Prism features a graphic fiction piece by myself and Marlena Zuber, titled “I Am Dreaming of the Grand Hotel Europe Again.”
Buy it on the newsstands at your local independent bookseller or subscribe today!

In February and March 2009 authors Stacey May Fowles and Hal Niedzviecki corresponded via email about the broader implications of ordinary women revealing themselves and their lives on the internet, and how the moral and cultural consequences of online pornography, community, and diminished privacy create murky waters indeed.
Check out the full piece at The […]