Peru: Ancient Cultures, Natural Wonders. April 8-19, 2026. As some of you may know, I have a long history with Peru (scroll down for photos from some of my travel there in the early aughts) and hav…

Peru: Ancient Cultures, Natural Wonders. April 8-19, 2026. As some of you may know, I have a long history with Peru (scroll down for photos from some of my travel there in the early aughts) and have been planning a friends’ trip back to the country in collaboration with my friend and fellow Middlebury graduate, distinguished documentary filmmaker Amy Bucher.  It's going to be an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime experience! We’ll be running the trip in collaboration with the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC): here's a link with all the details…

This 59 minute interview with the delightful Addie Thompson of Where the Climate Things Are was so much fun! We talk about, among other things: Growing up between Vermont and Denver and discovering a love of winter and skiing How fly fishing — in various locations throughout the US, including my favorite, Kennebago Lake — became a lifelong practice Trip leading, group dynamics, and what time in the wilderness reveals about human connection Why geological time, mass extinctions, and perspective helped him write through climate anxiety The role of fiction in shifting climate paradigms and building new climate mythologies Click here to watch the whole interview View this post on Instagram

YouTube video by Brattleboro Literary Festival

"WESTMINSTER — Local author Tim Weed's fascinating new book, "The Afterlife Project" is a work of speculative fiction that features a post-apocalyptic sea voyage on a vintage sailing yacht, lovers separated by 10,000 years of time, and pervasive dangers both physical and psychological. The novel bounces between two time periods — one 40 years in the future, when the human species faces imminent extinction because of climate disaster and infertility, and another 10 millenniums ahead, when the Earth, having "recovered" from the destructive forces of human civilization and the total collapse of its infrastructures, is once again teeming with abundant wildlife and natural beauty.

The planet is grappling with a “new reality” as it reaches the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible climate tipping points: the widespread death of coral reefs, according to ...

Tim's top 3 reads of 2025 include The Key to Rebecca and two other amazing books. Discover what makes these books unmissable!

Another in a series of highly enjoyable radio and podcast appearances in the aftermath of the publication of The Afterlife Project! This thirty minute conversation with fellow novelist DelSheree Gladden on KSJE radio in Farmington, New Mexico will be especially interesting to writers, I think. Topics include climate fiction, the depth and complexity of fictional characters, the creative and research origins of The Afterlife Project, the bracing challenge of writing fiction that comes alive on the page while also getting at a deeper truth, balancing scientific research with story elements, Hemingway's iceberg theory of fiction, revision as re-inhabiting stories like a vivid dream, the challenges and joys of teaching fiction, the power of literature, and the impact of stories on human affairs, the value of experiencing dark alternative futures, the enduring appeal of novels, and more. Listen here.

Scroll down the page for a downloadable PDF Did reading the novel change your perspective on anything? How and why? Time is a recurring theme in The Afterlife Project: the vastness of geological ti…