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Official Website of the Award-winning Author of 
Little Known Facts and The Virginity of Famous Men
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Join Christine in

Bordeaux, France

for a writing retreat

May 18-24, 2025

 

All genres, all levels

of experience welcome

 

Each participant will have a large bedroom and en suite bathroom

On-site chef will prepare all meals

Registration deadline Jan. 10, 2025

 

Hosted by

Foreword Retreats

 

More available details here

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Most Recent Books:

Please Be Advised:
A Novel in Memos

"A delightful grab-bag of a fiction,

American business at its most bonkers, told entirely via

interoffice memoranda."

--Minneapolis Star Tribune


Direct Sunlight: Stories

   "This hugely impressive collection shows Sneed's range, humor,

and mastery of her craft--this

should be required reading for 

   aspiring writers." --Booklist

 

Love in the Time of Time's Up:

Short Fiction Edited by

Christine Sneed

"This complex and hotly contemporary collection...reads like a time capsule, sure to help readers make sense of the cultural moment." --Booklist

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Available from Bookshop.org, your favorite independent bookstores, Barnes & Noble, & Amazon

 

Upcoming Event:

March 12, 2025, 6 PM, Village Well Books & Coffee, 9900 Culver Blvd, Culver City, CA - in conversation with

Kurt Baumeister about his new novel,

Twilight of the Gods 

About
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BIOGRAPHy

Christine Sneed is the author of the novels Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos, Little Known Facts, and Paris, He Said, and the story collections Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry and The Virginity of Famous Men (Bloomsbury USA & UK). She is also the editor of the short fiction anthology, Love in the Time of Time's Up (Tortoise Books). Her seventh book, Direct Sunlight, a short story collection, was published in June 2023 (Northwestern University Press).

 

Her work has been included in The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the Midwest, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, ZYZZYVA, New England Review, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, O Magazine, and many other publications.
 

She has received the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, the 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library Foundation, the Chicago Writers’ Association Book of the Year Award twice, the Society of Midland Authors’ Award, an O. Henry Prize, and Ploughshares’ Zacharis Award. She has also been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Chicago Review of Books' Fiction Award. She lives in Pasadena, CA with her partner Adam Tinkham and teaches for the graduate writing program at Northwestern University in the School of Professional Studies and for Stanford University Continuing Studies.

Her feature script The Female Gaze was a semifinalist in AMPAS's 2020 Nicholl Fellowship competition. She has had a number of other high-placing scripts in the CineStory feature competition, Austin Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, the PAGE Awards, Filmmatic, Screencraft, and others. She is a member of the Writers Guild of American and the Authors Guild. 

contact christine:

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previous books

Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry

Little Known Facts

Paris, He Said

The Virginity of Famous Men

My Books
IN THE PRESS

"Impressive. . . hypnotic. . . hard to put down. . . . Little Known Facts is juicy enough to appeal to our prurience but smart enough not to make us feel dirty afterward.... Sneed is such a gifted writer... Her depiction of both proximity to celebrity and celebrity itself had me totally convinced." 

CURTIS SITTENFELD,

New York Times Book Review (cover)

Review of Little Known Facts

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