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Excerpt

Deep under the hot grass, the loll-tongued dogs and the flower beds, the grasping willows, the bottle caps and the condoms, the grit and the rubble and the pipes, the starveling urban earthworms, under the pure dark earth we lie--but not so pure as it looks, no, for this earth was disturbed, and disturbed again.

Bio

I'm a journalist and writer of fiction in Ottawa, Canada. My stories have been published in journals including The New Quarterly and Slow Trains, and one will appear in the anthology Blood and Water from Bundoran Press later this year. I am a graduate of the Humber College creative writing by correspondence program under the mentorship of the late Paul Quarrington. When I'm not writing fiction, I'm the deputy editorial pages editor for the Ottawa Citizen and a columnist, editorial writer, blogger, and tweeter. And a mom of a two-year-old. On Twitter as @kateheartfield.

Publications

Writing Description

I'm working on a fantasy novel set in 19th-century Ottawa. Working title: "Hold My Body Down."

Writing Goals

I plan to write 1,000 words a day. I'm already about 57,000 words into a first draft of a novel as of June 16, so by the end of the Write-a-thon I should be at around 97,000 and close to finished with the draft.

Update as of July 11: I reached the end of my plot in fewer words than I anticipated, which is a good thing! In 23 days of the Write-a-thon, I wrote about 22,000 words, bringing my novel to about 80,000 and the end of the first draft. I'm starting the second draft now, so my commitment from here on in is simply to work on that draft every day. More on my blog.

Fundraising Goals

So far, I have two wonderful sponsors and have raised $60.

Website

heartfieldfiction.wordpress.com

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