Christopher Barzak

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Don’t look back

I am in the process of finishing my third novel. Forgive the paucity of posts here. I’m keeping my head down and shouldering forward. The end is in sight. I’m in that zone where the rest of life can disappear around me. Hopefully, in a few weeks, I’ll be able to lift my head and… Read more

June 9, 2010
Off to the Nebs

Off to the Nebula Awards weekend in Cocoa Beach, Florida tomorrow morning. This is the second time I’ve been nominated for a Nebula. The first time was in 2007 for my novelette, The Language of Moths, which you can read by clicking here if you missed it when it came out (I really need to… Read more

May 13, 2010
Older eyes

My last class for my MFA program at Chatham starts tomorrow. It’s a Multi-Genre Creative Writing Workshop, which means the participants can submit things from any genre, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, plays, etc, for the workshop to consider. There’s me and one other fiction writer in the class, one nonfiction writer, and three poets, I believe.… Read more

May 10, 2010
Walking on sunshine

School is out. I’m writing again. It’s Friday and this week, my first week of freedom of time, I’ve managed to write 3600 words. Have completed a chapter and started a new one. This is what I’m talking about. Oh, summer, how I have missed you. Hopefully by the end of August, I’ll have a… Read more

May 7, 2010
Q&A

Joseph Mallozzi hosts a book of the month club over at his very popular blog. This month The Love We Share Without Knowing is the selection. Joe posted a great response to the book and then opened the comments section up for questions from his fellow readers. Today my responses went up. We talked about… Read more

April 22, 2010
A step up

According to Jeff VanderMeer on The Best of 2009: “Interfictions 2 edited by Delia Sherman & Christopher Barzak was a significant step up in quality from the first volume. Contributors included Lavie Tidhar, Brian Francis Slattery, Peter M. Ball, Alan DeNiro, M. Rickert, and Theodora Goss. Intended to showcase interstitial fiction, this volume also featured… Read more

April 20, 2010