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Seth Wieck

Seth Wieck

Seth Wieck’s stories, essays, and poetry have been published in magazines such as Narrative Magazine, Belle Point Press’s Mid/South Anthology, and the Broad River Review where he won the Ron Rash Award in Fiction. He is currently pursuing his MFA at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. He lives in Amarillo with his wife and three children.

Articles by Seth Wieck

Marking the Year on Two Calendars: An Interview with Matthew Miller

Knowledge is a path to love, and so I’m bound to say that the book did change my affection for the place.

A Conversation with Katy Carl on Place, Fiction, and Contemplation

Conjuring makes me think of force and manipulation, which as writers we have to forswear. Readers will either notice they're being manipulated and throw our books aside—or maybe worse, they…
Seth Wieck
August 28, 2023

Dana Gioia’s Bright Twilight

Out on the wrinkled sea, the high notes come shimmering over the cold waves, and 72-year-old Dana Gioia says, “Meet me at the Lighthouse.”
Seth Wieck
February 7, 2023

The Only Bonds to Be Found: A Review of The Most Beautiful Place on Earth

An imagination like his, fictions like his – born from affection – may not provide us with data or answers but may help us feel “somehow more substantial and less…
Seth Wieck
August 5, 2022

Larry McMurtry and Wendell Berry at the Dairy Queen

McMurtry couldn’t quite set the Bowie knife to the scalp of the Western like Cormac McCarthy did the same year, maybe because he knew those people weren’t grotesque caricatures; they…
Seth Wieck
April 7, 2021