Rick Wilber's short stories and poems appear regularly in magazines
and anthologies including Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's, Analog,
Elysian Fields Quarterly, the new BASEBALL FANTASTIC collection edited
by W.P. Kinsella and many others.
He
is the author of "Where
Garagiola Waits," a collection of his baseball stories which was a
finalist for The Dave Moore Award for most important baseball book of 1999.
His
novel BONE COLD is forthcoming from Tor Books, and he has two more
novels, TO LEUCHARS and RUM POINT, under contract with Wildside
Press.
He
is the author of several books on writing, including MAGAZINE FEATURE
WRITING for St. Martin's Press (1995), THE WRITER'S HANDBOOK FOR
EDITING AND REVISION (NTC Publishing, 1996), MODERN MEDIA WRITING
(forthcoming in 2001 from Wadsworth) and FEATURE WRITING (forthcoming
in 2001 from NTC). He is the author, as well, of THE SECRET SKATER,
a younger readers’ mystery, University of Tampa Press, 1996, under the
pen-name Robin Aran, and co-edited 1991's SUBTROPICAL SPECULATIONS
(Pineapple Press) with Richard Mathews. He has published more than one-thousand
magazine and newspaper feature articles, essays, profiles and reviews
for publications like Sport magazine, Catholic Digest, the Boston Globe
Sunday Magazine, World & I, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, The
Tampa Tribune, The St. Petersburg Times (where he currently writes a book
review column) and many more.
Rick
is fiction editor at GalaxyOnline.com, where he is in the market for original
and occasional reprint fiction, as well as essays about writing. You can
visit the Galaxyonline.com site to see guidelines for submission.
Rick
is on the faculty of the School of Mass Communications at the University
of South Florida where he is head of the magazine major.
He
is co-director of the University of South Florida/University of Limerick
Irish Summer School in Contemporary Writing, held each summer in Limerick,
Ireland.
Dr.
Wilber holds an Ed.D. from Southern Illinois University, and has been a
full-time college teacher for more than 25 years. He frequently lectures
on writing and editing techniques at conferences and workshops in the United
States, Ireland and Scotland, including the prestigious Poynter Institute
for Media Studies.
Rick's new book,
"Where
Garagiola Waits, and Other Baseball Stories"
is available!
READ an excerpt from the introduction by clicking on the title!
Limerick Ireland Writers workshop.
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Rick a question or short note about his work click on the link below,
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