When Climate Catastrophe Changes Everything: A Literary Sci-Fi Journey Through Deep Time with Author Tim Weed

About this episode

Teri M Brown interviews author Tim Weed about his literary journey and the impact of climate catastrophe on storytelling.

My guest today on the Online for Authors podcast is Tim Weed, author of the book The Afterlife Project. Tim Weed is the author of four books of fiction. His recent novel, The Afterlife Project, was named a best book of 2025 by Library Journal and the Toronto Star. He’s won multiple Writer’s Digest Annual Fiction Awards and his work has been shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, the Prism Prize for Climate Literature, the Fish International Short Story Award, the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for a Novel-in-Progress, the New Rivers Many Voices Project, and many others. His essays and articles have appeared in Writers Digest, Literary Hub, The Revelator, The Millions, The Writer’s Chronicle, Talking Points Memo, The Good Men Project, and elsewhere. Tim serves on the core faculty of the Newport MFA in Creative Writing and is the co-founder of the Cuba Writers Program. A former featured expert for National Geographic Expeditions, he spent the first part of his career directing international educational programs throughout Latin America and in Spain, Portugal, Australia, Iceland, and other locations around the globe. He holds a BA in…

People in this episode

Host: Teri M Brown

Guest: Tim Weed

Topics covered

• climate change
• literary fiction
• sci-fi
• deep time
• writing
• awards

Keywords

• climate literature
• fiction awards
• writing conferences
• international programs
• MFA in Creative Writing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Library Journal, Toronto Star, Writer’s Digest, National Geographic Expeditions

Books & works: The Afterlife Project

Places: Latin America, Spain, Portugal, Australia, Iceland, United States, Canada

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