
Official Website of the Award-winning Author of
Little Known Facts and The Virginity of Famous Men









​Join Christine in
Blaye/Bordeaux France at Maison Borgeat - Château de la Grange
for a writing retreat
April 26 - May 2, 2026
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and dramatic writing & all levels
of experience welcome
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Each day we'll meet for 3 hours of workshop. Participants will have an individual conference with Christine during the week too.
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An on-site concierge will be with us for the week, and a professional chef will prepare our meals (dietary preferences taken in advance)
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Each participant will have a large bedroom and en suite bathroom.
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Hosted by
Foreword Retreats
More details & application here
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Most Recent Books:
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Please Be Advised:
A Novel in Memos
"A delightful grab-bag of a fiction,
American business at its most bonkers, told entirely via
interoffice memoranda."
--Minneapolis Star Tribune
Direct Sunlight: Stories
"This hugely impressive collection shows Sneed's range, humor,
and mastery of her craft--this
should be required reading for
aspiring writers." --Booklist
Love in the Time of Time's Up:
Short Fiction Edited by
Christine Sneed
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"This complex and hotly contemporary collection...reads like a time capsule, sure to help readers make sense of the cultural moment." --Booklist
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Available from
Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes & Noble
and Northwestern University Press

Upcoming Event:
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March 12, 2025, 6 PM, Village Well Books & Coffee, 9900 Culver Blvd, Culver City, CA - in conversation with
Kurt Baumeister about his new novel,
Twilight of the Gods
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BIOGRAPHy
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Christine Sneed is the author of the novels Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos, Little Known Facts, and Paris, He Said, and the story collections Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry and The Virginity of Famous Men (Bloomsbury USA & UK). She is also the editor of the short fiction anthology, Love in the Time of Time's Up (Tortoise Books). Her seventh book, Direct Sunlight, a short story collection, was published in June 2023 (Northwestern University Press).
Her work has been included in The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the Midwest, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, ZYZZYVA, New England Review, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, O Magazine, and many other publications. ​
She has received the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, the 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library Foundation, the Chicago Writers’ Association Book of the Year Award twice, the Society of Midland Authors’ Award, an O. Henry Prize, and Ploughshares’ Zacharis Award. She has also been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Chicago Review of Books' Fiction Award. She lives in Pasadena, CA with her partner Adam Tinkham and teaches for the graduate writing program at Northwestern University in the School of Professional Studies and for Stanford University Continuing Studies.
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Her feature script The Female Gaze was a semifinalist in AMPAS's 2020 Nicholl Fellowship competition. She has had a number of other high-placing scripts in the CineStory feature competition, Austin Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, the PAGE Awards, Filmmatic, Screencraft, and others. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Authors Guild.
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