THE
ALTAR(ED)
SLATE
An inspirited literary platform offering
profesional manuscript evaluation, writing guidance, and curriculum design.
OTHER OF BEETLES
Ossuary Erotica
A quarterly publication with a purpose: Two authors, four stories, all giving space for the fractured bones of the Other.
CORA CORDIUM
Forthcoming
An illustrated collection of short stories. Mother figures abound, all monstrous, life-giving, and life-rescinding.
MARASMUS Novel-In-Progress
An elegiac tale of old bones breaking free. Told for the preservation of roots and the honoring of children.
Photo: Patricia Cram
BIO
HEATHERLIE ALLISON, a Pacific Northwest/Bay Area-based writer, artist, and educator, works with a strategically altar(ed) approach to reading, writing, and art-making. She curates a part of this practice at thealtaredslate.com. Having formally studied experimental writing processes, literature, voice, and pedagogy, she once earned degrees from both the CalArts School of Critical Studies (MFA) and Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (BA). Alongside these credentials, she credits most: the creatures, the spirits, and the trees.
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At present, HEATHERLIE ALLISON is writing a collection of short stories adjacent to a novel-length project, both forms written under the lens of the mystic, intersecting the redemptive themes of motherhood, of loss, and of reconciliation. An illustrated chapbook of selected works is forthcoming, a publishing collaboration between The Altar(ed) Slate, Snakeroot Works, and In Solace Publishing.
