Christopher Barzak

Category: Readings and Signings

  • 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…

  • Backlist Book’s review

    Hey, check out this cool video review of The Love We Share Without Knowing, by Fred Van Patten, owner of Backlist Books in Massillon, Ohio, where I’ll be signing books tomorrow, June 19th, from 1-3 PM.  Come out if you’re in the area!

  • Attention Seattle (once more)

    For those readers out and about in Seattle, I recently mentioned I’ll be reading at University Bookstore on March 12th at 7PM and hosting a one-day workshop at Richard Hugo House on March 14th from 10-5. If you click the link below, you can find a pdf flyer for the events. Please feel free to…

  • Attention Seattle

    Attention Seattle readers/writers.  In March, I’ll be in the city in conjunction with Northwest MediaArts to give a reading at University Bookstore on March 12th at 7PM, and a day-long writing workshop at Richard Hugo House from 10-5 on the 14th.  It’s all part of Northwest MediaArts’ Fantastic Fiction Workshops & Salons series.  If you’re…

  • Opposition

    I’m thinking about this tonight, before a reading I’m doing here at Chatham University in another hour: Opposition In my youth I was opposed to school. And now, again, I’m opposed to work. Above all it is health And righteousness that I hate the most. There’s nothing so cruel to man As health and honesty.…

  • Reading at Thurber House

    Last week was a big week for me.  Three nice things happened. 1. It was my birthday.  Fun times, growing old. 2. I got to reconnect with an old friend from college.  Fun times, rehashing when I was a youngster. 3. I read at Thurber House, In Columbus, Ohio, where the writer Jamese Thurber is…

  • Next Week

    If anyone out there will be nearby to Columbus next Wednesday on July 22nd, you should totally come out and see me read along with David Giffels and James J. Siegel at Thurber House’s literary picnic evening for emerging voices in Ohio writing.  It’ll be fun, and the menu looks great. I’m still not sure…

  • Media mashup

    Last week I was suddenly being followed by a lot of people on my Twitter site than made any logical sense to me, until my friend Gwenda twittered/tweeted/whatever-ed me to ask if I knew I was one of Mashable.com’s 100+ Best Authors Twittering.  Here’s a link to the article.  The authors are broken up into…

  • Days like today

    Today was a good day.  Three really nice things happened, and I’ll go backwards in the order of their appearance. Tonight I went to Kent State’s Trumbull County campus, a satellite of the main campus which is actually in Kent, Ohio.  The Trumbull campus is a place where a lot of students in this region…

  • Pics from KGB

    Okay, so here’s a little break into the interlude I’d claimed would be the standard over the holidays.  Ellen Datlow put up photos from the evening I read with Alaya Dawn Johnson at the KGB bar last week.  It was a packed house, a fun night, a great audience.  Here are several of my favorite…