Dear Locals (and those traveling nearby) who will be around Youngstown on February 15th. I am giving a reading from my series of creative nonfiction vignettes called “Map for a Forgotten Valley”, along with a showing of Derek Jones’ short film “631”. Here is a blurb of what the evening will look like. Please click on the image to make it larger.
Please come, listen, watch, speak.
Also, the image of the feral house on this flyer was taken by Tony Romandetti, photographer extraordinaire. 😉
Last year I was a nominee in the category of Best Novel for the Nebula Awards. An interview was conducted then, and has just recently been posted on the Nebula Awards site. Please go over and give it a read. I can’t even remember what I said now, though!
A photo of me singing karaoke in a Japanese karaoke pub is included. I couldn’t resist, considering the interview centered around a novel set in Japan, which I wrote while living there (singing karaoke regularly). 🙂
You can read it by clicking here.
For those of you who may have read the vignettes in Map for a Forgotten Valley that I published last month, another piece of that map has recently been published by Muse, a Cleveland magazine. You can read the whole issue of Muse by visiting their website and downloading the pdf of the issue. Along with my story, “The B&O, Crossroads of Time and Space,” the poet Nin Andrews has interviewed me for the issue as well.
Here’s a link to Muse.
And here’s a direct link to Muse 12 JAN11.
Thanks for reading!
Happy New Year to everyone! I’m excited to start over, however arbitrary a choice in time to do so it is, or perhaps however traditional/stereotypical a time it is to start anew, and look forward to a year of pursuing new writing, new relationships, new growth in myriad dimensions (I’m considering a move to an alternate world, don’t you know?) and new newness. New new new. Now now now.
This past year I published a couple of things: a story called “Map of Seventeen” in the Beastly Bride (eds. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling) which has been selected by the editor Jonathan Strahan to be included in his annual anthology The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (due out from Night Shade Books in March 2011). The other thing I published was a collection of place-based vignettes I’ve been writing called Map for a Forgotten Valley, which The New Haven Review released in its most recent issue just a few weeks ago. It’s the year of maps for me, apparently. Hopefully next year I can begin to travel them and chart new territory.
As usual, at the beginning of the new year, I’m wondering what others have read in the past year that knocked the back of their heads off (or their socks, or whatever). The Nebula Awards are coming up soon. I have until February 15th to make my nominations. So if you have any Scifi/Fantasy recommendations in short story, novelette, novella, and novel forms that you think I should look at, please leave me a comment pointing me in the right direction. I always read as much as I can each year, but there’s always HEAPS of books and stories that I miss completely. So recommendations, please!
Looking forward to another year of writing, reading, teaching, running, eating good food, enjoying, laughing, and looking around at the world.
Christopher Barzak 