Finalist for the 2024 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction
“Told in refreshingly unadorned prose that lets Winnette’s characters
and ideas shine… Users is not only a book for today or a warning
about tomorrow, but a timeless and moving story…”
-Jessamine Chan, New York Times Book Review
2024 Pen/Faulkner Award Finalist
New York Times “Editors’ Choice”
New Yorker “Best Books We Read in 2023”
Most Anticipated Title of the Year:
Elle
Entertainment Weekly
Vulture
Polygon
Esquire
… and more
“The First Great Novel About Virtual Reality?”
-The Nation
“Users is not only a book for today or a warning about tomorrow, but a timeless and moving story about fatherhood and one man’s yearning for a more meaningful life.”
-NY Times
“As irresistible as it is horrifying, Users is not your average treatise on the dangers of our tech-obsessed today (and tomorrow)…"
—Elle Magazine
“Gripping, clever, and terrifying…
—Esquire
Out of Print
Print:
AGNI, 100th Issue
BOMB, Winter 2022
Zyzzyva, Spring 2022
Los Angeles Review of Books, December 2020
McSweeney’s No. 55
Pallet Magazine
Lucky Peach
California Prose Directory
McSweeney’s Bookstories
Gulf Coast Magazine (Honorable Mention, Donald Barthelme Prize)
Sonora Review (Winner of 2012 Short Short Fiction Contest)
Sycamore Review (2nd Place, Wabash Fiction Prize)
Greying Ghost Pamphlet, No. 32
Online:
The Anthology of Etiquette and Terrifying Angels With Many Heads
American Short Fiction
Namwali Serpell on Gayl Jones
Lauren Wilkinson on Sayaka Murata
RO Kwon at BOMB, Pt. 2
RO Kwon at BOMB, Pt. 1
Patrick Cottrell at Paris Review Daily
Patrick deWitt (live at Green Apple Books, SF)
Josh Mohr on E.L. Doctorow
John Darnielle on E.R. Eddison
Alissa Nutting on Sara Woods
Tiphanie Yanique on Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Elisa Gabbert on wine tasting
Nicholas Rombes on Joan Didion
Victoria Chang on Joe Wenderoth and Rachel Zucker
Brian Evenson on Samuel Beckett
George Saunders on Arthur Miller
Aimee Bender on Lydia Millet
Joe Wenderoth on Wiliam Carlos Wiliams
Rachel B. Glaser on James Purdy
Roxane Gay on Claire Vaye Watkins
Amelia Gray on Barry Hannah
Karen Russell
Lydia Millet
Brian Evenson
Ben Marcus
Manuscript Consultation
This is about feedback, plain and simple. In addition to being a novelist and short story writer with two decades of publishing experience, I’ve taught or lectured on writing at Sarah Lawrence College, San Jose State University, Roosevelt University, University of North Texas, Northwestern State University, Hastings College, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Dallas Writers Workshop, and more. I have years of experience working with one-on-one with writers at all stages of the writing process, from conception to final draft. For your consultation, I will read your manuscript in full (45K – 120K words), and we will discuss your work through the lens of your personal, professional, and artistic goals.
Price: $1200
Includes:
A close reading of your book-length manuscript (45K – 120K words)
Two single-spaced pages of written feedback in the form of a critique letter
One-hour Zoom feedback session + 30-minute follow-up
Reading recommendations when appropriate
Submission strategizing when appropriate
Writing Coach
This is about accountability and finding the writing practice that is best for you. As your writing coach, I will work with you to set meaningful but realistic writing goals tailored to the demands of your unique schedule. For three months, we’ll have regular check-ins to discuss your progress, talk through any blockers you’re experiencing, and add to your reading list, when helpful. These check-ins can also be used to adjust your goals, when necessary.
I’ve solved some of my toughest writing problems by talking them out with a friend. So, in addition to your check-ins, we’ll have a one-hour “project talk” in which we discuss your ongoing work in more detail. This is not manuscript feedback, though we can discuss problems you are encountering in your work. The goal is for you to have someone with whom to talk about the thoughts, questions, concerns, feelings, and creative blockers developing as you continue to write. If you would like me to read your manuscript, please see the Manuscript Consultation option listed above.
Price: $1000
Includes:
A 30-minute preliminary phone call to set goals and introduce ourselves
6 x 30-minute bi-weekly check-ins (via phone, Zoom, text, or email)
A one-hour “project talk” scheduled at your convenience
If you have questions about either service, please submit them to winnetteMS@gmail.com.
If you would like to initiate one or both services, please reach out via email at winnetteMS@gmail.com and state your preferred service. A follow-up email will be sent, requesting a 10-page sample of the work (for manuscript consultation) or a 500-word (max.) summary of your current project (for coaching).
Payments are made half at the initiation of a service and half at the conclusion.
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Colin Winnette is a writer from Denton, Texas.
His most recent novel Users (Soft Skull 2023) was a Finalist for the 2024 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, a New York Times "Editor's Choice”, one of the New Yorker's "Best Books of 2023”, and was called “The First Great Novel About Virtual Reality” by The Nation.
Winnette’s other novels include The Job of the Wasp (long-listed for the Believer Book Award and an American Bookseller Association’s Indie Next Pick), Haints Stay (one of “15 Westerns that Revitalized the Genre” -InsideHook), Coyote (an indie-bestseller and winner of Les Press’s NOS Book Contest), and Revelation (“A forceful book… about the absolute peril of desire.” -Ben Marcus). His novels have been translated into Italian and French.
His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Playboy, McSweeney’s, The Believer, Bomb Magazine, and more.
IG: @colinwinnette
Twitter: @aColinWinnette
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For all other rights queries please contact Kevin O’Connor at Kevin O’Connor Literary Agency.
