Christopher Barzak

Blog

Nebulated

And now it can be told: my novelette “Map of Seventeen” has been nominated for this year’s Nebula Awards. This is the third time for me to be nominated for the Nebula. The first time was in 2007, when I was also in the novelette category with my story “The Language of Moths”. The second… Read more

February 22, 2011
Pre-viewing, pre-ordering, pre-mourning

There have been lots of pre-reviews of this anthology popping up in the past month or two, all of them positive. I’m happy to be included in this review as one of the reviewer’s “favorites”. If you go to Amazon.com right now, you can pre-order the book at an extremely reduced price. Incidentally, this story… Read more

February 11, 2011
Map for a Forgotten Valley and 631

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… Read more

January 31, 2011
Nebula Awards Interview

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… Read more

January 9, 2011
Another piece of the map

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… Read more

January 7, 2011
This Year/New Year

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… Read more

January 1, 2011