About David Kubicek
I write thoughtful speculative fiction in a variety of genres, including science fiction, horror, and mainstream/literary. I started writing seriously in my senior year in high school. Actually, I’d been writing long before that, but my senior year was when I decided to stop writing “closet stories” (stories that went directly from my typewriter to a box in my closet) and to actually publish them where others could read them. The learning process took a while. It was several years before I was able to write consistently publishable stories. I reached that milestone in college about the time I participated in a writing workshop. In my final year of college, I added nonfiction to the mix, and journalism eventually became a major part of my output. What follows is a brief resume of my writing career.
EDUCATION
- University of Nebraska—Lincoln (UNL), B.A. in English [ with distinction]
- Fiction writing workshop at UNL
ORGANIZATIONS, ACHIEVMENTS AND AWARDS
- Short story “Ball of Fire” nominated for a Pushcart Prize
- Member of the Nebraska Writers Guild [former auditor, treasurer, and president]
- Former secretary of the Academic Freedom Coalition of Nebraska
- Competent Toastmaster (CTM) in Toastmasters International
- Founder and President of Kubicek & Associates Publishing Co.
- Nidan [second degree black belt] in Goju-Ryu Karate
NOVELS
- In Human Form
SHORT FICTION
- The Moaning Rocks and Other Stories
- Bedtime Stories
- The Last Bus and Other Stories
EDITOR
- The Pelican in the Desert and Other Stories of the Family Farm
- October Dreams—A Harvest of Horror [with Jeff Mason]
NONFICTION
- CliffsNotes for Willa Cather’s My Antonia
- Silent Night and Other Holiday Lore
- Ray Bradbury: Space Age Visionary
INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE
- Mathematics section for CliffsNotes GED study guide [with some help from John Kubicek]
PUBLISHED IN
- The New Surrealists (short story)
- Space and Time (novelette)
- The Single Life (short stories)
- Writers’ Journal (short story)
- National Lampoon (parody)
- Theme of Absence (short story)
- Voices From The Plains, Vol. II (excerpt from novel in progress)
- Voices From The Plains, Vol. III (short story)
- Voices From The Plains, Vol. IV (short story)
- Stories From The Heartland (short story)
- Flashes From The Plains (short stories)
- Midlands Business Journal (newspaper articles)
- Grassroots Nebraska (newspaper articles)
- Midwest Food Service News (newspaper articles)
- Grit (newspaper articles)
- Humanities (magazine article)
- Nebraska Life (magazine article)
- And others
For a list of my recent publications click here.
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Photo Credit: Sean Kubicek