Richard Chwedyk (born 1955) is a science fiction author. In 2003, he won the 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novella for his story "Brontë's Egg." Chwedyk's first published story was "Getting Along with Larga," which was the first winner of the

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Writer's contest in 1986. In 1988, he won the contest again with his story "A Man Makes a Machine," which went on to be published as Chwedyk's first professional sale in ''

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'' in November, 1990. In addition to writing fiction, Chwedyk has also published a number of poems and has coordinated poetry slams in

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, where he makes his home. In 2000, Chwedyk oversaw the writer's workshop at Chicon 2000, the

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, and has overseen several other writers workshops at

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over the years, often running the workshop at

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. Richard Chwedyk is married to Chicago poet, Pamela Miller Chwedyk. In 2009, he donated his archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at

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Bibliography

Short fiction

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'' 95/1 64(Jul 1998) ;Saurs stories * "Brontë's Egg" ''

'', August 2002 * "In Tibor's Cardboard Castle" ''

'', October/November, 2004 * "Orfy" ''

'', September/October, 2010 * "The Man Who Put the Bomp" ''

'', March/April, 2017

Poetry

* "A few kind words for A E van Vogt" (2002). Published in ''

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'' 23 (2002) and in ''

Year's Best SF 8 ''Year's Best SF 8'' is a science fiction anthology edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer that was published in 2003. It is the eighth in the Year's Best SF series. Contents The book itself, as well as each of the stories, has a short ...

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"Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"

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, 17 March 2003

References

External links

Richard Chwedyk's website
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