Who is Weed?
Tim Weed is a novelist, lecturer, outdoorsman, and independent scholar. His short fiction collection, A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing, made the 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize Shortlist. His YA novel, Will Poole’s Island, was named to Bank Street College of Education’s list of the Best Books of the Year.
Tim teaches in the Newport MFA in Creative Writing and at GrubStreet, the country’s largest independent creative writing center. He is the winner of a Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Award and a Solas Best Travel Writing Award, and his short fiction and essays have appeared in Literary Hub, Craft, Colorado Review, The Millions, Fiction Writers Review, Writer’s Chronicle, Backcountry, and many others.
Tim is a member of the Vermont Humanities Council Speakers’ Bureau and presents frequently at literary and writing conferences around the USA, including GrubStreet’s The Muse and the Marketplace, the Brattleboro Literary Festival, the Cape Cod Writers Conference, Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Historical Writers of America, and many others. He’s pursued a parallel career in international education, as the director of student travel and college semester abroad programs in locations across the globe, as the co-founder of the Cuba Writers Program, and as a featured expert for National Geographic Expeditions in Cuba, Spain, Portugal, Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego.
Tim’s April 2017 Vermont Public Radio interview on fiction, fly fishing, avalanches, the Grateful Dead, and A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing. Click here for the podcast and transcript.
Tim’s August 2017 New Hampshire Public Radio interview on nature, writing, Rome, and A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing. Click here for the podcast, a transcript, and Tim’s top five reading recommendations.
Hi Tim,
Paul Barnes here the guy you met at The Exchange Dublin. I was glad to have had the opportunity to meet up with your group and hear something of how their visit to Ireland affected them and you. I’ve just got to your site so I look forward to checking it out as time allows. I will contact you by email with more to say.
We here at Exchange would greatly appreciate something from you on behalf of the group as to how you benefited from the use of the venue.
Great to meet you all
Best regards Paul
Thanks for getting in touch Paul, it was great to meet you and we all really enjoyed the chance to read and spend a bit of time at the Exchange. Send me an email and I’ll get back to you with that note.
I had the pleasure of getting to know Tim Weed while writing a member News article for SCBWI Newsletter by checking out this website. Wow! I hope others do too. Hope to drop in and meet you sometime at Grubstreet in Boston, in the meantime, I can’t wait to get my hands on Will Poole’s Island (Aug. 2014)
Thanks again-
Hi Kate, and thanks for doing that! Very much look forward to meeting you at Grub Street, perhaps this fall. Or maybe at the NESCBWI conference in April?
Absolutely! You have to wear your denim shirt so I will recognize you.;)
Looking forward to it.