Richard Chwedyk is a science fiction author. In 2003, he won the 2002 Nebula Award

Nebula Award

The Nebula Award is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year...

 for Best Novella

Nebula Award for Best Novella

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 for his story "Brontë's Egg."

Chwedyk's first published story was "Getting Along with Larga," which was the first winner of the ISFiC

ISFiC

ISFiC, or "Illinois Science Fiction in Chicago" is a non-profit organization best known for running the Windycon science fiction convention.ISFiC was formed in 1973 as a coalition of the various science fiction clubs in Chicago, Illinois, United States...

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

Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction...

in November, 1990.

In addition to writing fiction, Chwedyk has also published a number of poems and has coordinated poetry slams in Chicago, where he makes his home.

In 2000, Chwedyk oversaw the writer's workshop at Chicon 2000

58th World Science Fiction Convention

The 58th World Science Fiction Convention was Chicon 2000, which was held in Chicago, USA August 31- September 4, 2000. The venues for 58th Worldcon were Hyatt Regency Chicago, Sofitel Hotel and Fairmont Hotel...

, the Worldcon

Worldcon

Worldcon, or more formally The World Science Fiction Convention, is a science fiction convention held each year since 1939 . It is the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society...

, and has overseen several other writers workshops at science fiction conventions over the years, often running the workshop at Windycon

Windycon

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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 Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University

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Short fiction

• "Auteur theory" F&SF
  The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
  The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a digest-size American fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House and then by Fantasy House. Both were subsidiaries of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, which took over as publisher in 1958. Spilogale, Inc...
  
  95/1 [564] (Jul 1998)
• "The Measure of All Things" F&SF
  The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
  The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a digest-size American fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House and then by Fantasy House. Both were subsidiaries of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, which took over as publisher in 1958. Spilogale, Inc...
  
  , January 2001
• "Brontë's Egg" F&SF
  The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
  The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a digest-size American fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House and then by Fantasy House. Both were subsidiaries of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, which took over as publisher in 1958. Spilogale, Inc...
  
  , August 2002
• "In Tibor's Cardboard Castle" F&SF
  The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
  The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a digest-size American fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House and then by Fantasy House. Both were subsidiaries of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, which took over as publisher in 1958. Spilogale, Inc...
  
  , October/November, 2004
• "Orfy" F&SF
  The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
  The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is a digest-size American fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House and then by Fantasy House. Both were subsidiaries of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, which took over as publisher in 1958. Spilogale, Inc...
  
  , September/October, 2010

Poetry

• "A few kind words for A E van Vogt" (2002). Published in Tales of the Unanticipated
  Tales of the Unanticipated
  Tales of the Unanticipated, known as TOTU, is a semiprozine that was founded under the auspices of the Minnesota Science Fiction Society , and has since become independent...
  
  23 (2002) and in Year's Best SF 8
  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...
  
  
• "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man", Strange Horizons
  Strange Horizons
  Strange Horizons is an online speculative fiction magazine. It also features speculative poetry in every issue....
  
  , 17 March 2003

External links

• Richard Chwedyk's website