AUTHOR
Alan Heathcock’s fiction has been published in many of America’s top magazines and journals, including Zoetrope: All-Story, Kenyon Review,VQR, Five Chapters, Storyville, and The Harvard Review. His stories have won the National Magazine Award in fiction, and have been selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories anthology. VOLT, a collection of stories published by Graywolf Press, was a “Best Book 2011″ selection from numerous newspapers and magazines, including GQ, Publishers Weekly, Salon, the Chicago Tribune, and Cleveland Plain Dealer, was named as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, selected as a Barnes and Noble Best Book of the Month, as well as for inclusion in the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers series. Heathcock has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and is currently a Literature Fellow for the state of Idaho. A Native of Chicago, he teaches fiction writing at Boise State University.
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Alan on KOMO (ABC news, Seattle, Washington)
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Alan on KTVB (NBC midday news, Boise–Carolyn Holly)
Alan on IPTV (PBS Dialog with Marcia Franklin)
Alan reads from The Grapes of Wrath for Banned Book Week
Alan reading live at Brooklyn Book Festival 2011
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Alan featured on The Huffington Post
Alan interviewed on The Writers Block (July 29th, 2010)
Alan interviewed on The Write Question (Montana Public Radio)
“Three Books to Take to a Fist Fight” on NPR’s All Things Considered
Alan interviewed on The Writers Block (June 2, 2011)
Alan on NPR’s All Things Considered: “You Must Read This”
Alan reads “Sreetlamps” for Oklahoma Public Radio
“The Magic of Music…” essay on NPR’s All Things Considered
“A Poem a Day…” essay on NPR’s All Things Considered
Alan on Other People with Brad Listi
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Alan featured in the Boise Weekly
Alan’s essay “Why I Write:…” on The Bird Sisters
Alan featured in Publishers Weekly
Alan interviewed on The Mind Adrift in the West
Alan interviews himself in The Nervous Breakdown
Alan’s VOLT-inspired music playlist on Largehearted Boy
Alan profiled in the Idaho Mountain Express
Alan interviewed on The Short Review
Alan interviewed in The Magazine of Yoga
Alan writes about Joyce Carol Oates in Beatrice
Alan interviewed in Psychology Today
The VOLT-mobile profiled on Another View From the Keyboard
Alan reveals how he became a writer: The Quivering Pen
Alan interviewed on Finding Meaning With Words
Alan interviewed in Full-Stop magazine
Alan’s essay “The Valor of Story” on Bravo! The Project
Alan’s essay “Three Books to Take to a Fist Fight” on NPR
Alan’s essay “When I Fell in Love” on Three Guys One Book
Alan’s essay on the story “Leave” by Siobhan Fallon on MattBell.com
Alan interviewed in Boise City Revue
Alan interviewed in Barrelhouse Magazine
Alan on “Influences, Human Frailty, Structure, God, and Story”: patriciaannmcnair.com
Alan writes his “Imaginary Oklahoma” for This Land Press
Alan tells a ghost story “The Pines” in Boise City Revue
Alan writes about essential Idaho literature for Tin House magazine
Alan writers about his influences for the Reader’s Almanac
Alan writes about his artistic process for The Story Prize
Alan interviewed in Bark Magazine
Alan details a typical writing day on Catching Days
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February 28, 2011 at 7:33 pm
Hi Alan,
Congratulations on this remarkable achievement. I know how relieved you must feel about completing this challenge. I share in the pride that you and your parents feel.
With best wishes,
Arlene Bloom
February 28, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Mrs. Bloom,
It feels great to have the book finally out in the world, and thrilling to know one of my favorite and most admirable teachers will have a copy. All the best. Hope all is well.
-AL