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
Print:
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
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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, and was a New York Times "Editor's Choice.” It was also listed among 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 (an American Bookseller Association’s Indie Next Pick), Haints Stay (one of the “15 Best Contemporary Westerns” -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
For TV/film inquiries please contact Nicole Weinroth or Carolina Beltran at WME.
For all other rights queries please contact Kevin O’Connor at Kevin O’Connor Literary Agency.
