Edward Belfar
@embelfar.bsky.social
Author of the 2024 Independent Press Award-winning novel A Very Innocent Man (Flexible Press, 2023) and the short-story collection Wanderers (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2012). Website: https://www.edwardbelfar.com/index.htm
Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)
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September 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
I'm honored to have a story in the Washington Writers' Publishing House America's Future anthology.
September 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I'm honored to have a story in the Washington Writers' Publishing House America's Future anthology.
I have a Q&A up today on the Washington Unbound website. www.washington-unbound.com/interviews/e...
Interview with D.C. area novelist Edward Belfar — Washington Unbound
Edward Belfar’s debut novel casts a scathing spotlight on the destructive, short-sighted greed currently prevailing among so many of the powerful in our county. A Very Innocent Man focuses on those ...
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September 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I have a Q&A up today on the Washington Unbound website. www.washington-unbound.com/interviews/e...
I had a story accepted for the America's Future anthology to be published by the @wwph.bsky.social in September of this year.
March 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I had a story accepted for the America's Future anthology to be published by the @wwph.bsky.social in September of this year.
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New — I wrote about how the 5 bullets email is nothing but an escalation of Musk and the Trump administration’s psychological war on federal workers.
Read here:
Read here:
Move fast and break people
For Elon Musk's government, the psychological warfare is the point.
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February 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
New — I wrote about how the 5 bullets email is nothing but an escalation of Musk and the Trump administration’s psychological war on federal workers.
Read here:
Read here:
Local author event at Wyrd Books in Edgewater on 1/13.
January 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Local author event at Wyrd Books in Edgewater on 1/13.
I have a reading and discussion with Len Kruger at People's Books in Takoma Park, MD, on 1/25. peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/very-i...
Edward Belfar for “A Very Innocent Man”
About the Book: Life’s going great for Dr. Robert Rosen. He has a New York City medical practice, his dreams of TV fame as “Dr. Sober-Up” are coming true, and he’s making bi…
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January 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I have a reading and discussion with Len Kruger at People's Books in Takoma Park, MD, on 1/25. peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/very-i...
Here is a link to a reading and Q&A I did in October on Timothy Gager's Virtual Thursdays Dire Literary Series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs5I...
10/25/24, Edward Belfar /Virtual Thursdays Dire Literary Series, plus Q and A with Timothy Gager
YouTube video by Timothy Gager
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December 20, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Here is a link to a reading and Q&A I did in October on Timothy Gager's Virtual Thursdays Dire Literary Series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs5I...
At the Books and Brews event this past Saturday in Baltimore.
November 18, 2024 at 4:00 PM
At the Books and Brews event this past Saturday in Baltimore.
This story was published in Roi Faineant. roifaineantarchive.wixsite.com/rf-arc-hive/...
"Morning Rounds" by Edward Belfar
No, you didn’t wake me. Nobody here got any sleep last night. There’s a woman down the hall who spent most of the night screaming. She thinks she has hepatitis or something. You look dubious. Wel...
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November 15, 2024 at 3:22 PM
This story was published in Roi Faineant. roifaineantarchive.wixsite.com/rf-arc-hive/...
Here is a link to a story published in The Plentitudes. www.theplentitudes.com/piece/the-fe...
The Feeling Circle
by Edward Belfar / Fiction /The community session convened at 8:00 each morning in the conference center, a low, rustic-looking, yellow-sided building that bordered the town green. The dozen or so cli...
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November 15, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Here is a link to a story published in The Plentitudes. www.theplentitudes.com/piece/the-fe...
Here is a link to an essay that appeared in Schuylkill Valley Journal. www.svjlit.com/creative-non...
Creative Non-Fiction — Schuylkill Valley Journal Online
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November 15, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Here is a link to an essay that appeared in Schuylkill Valley Journal. www.svjlit.com/creative-non...
Here is a Q&A I did with Cliff Garstang, around the time when A Very Innocent Man was published. cliffordgarstang.com/ive-got-ques...
I’ve Got Questions for Edward Belfar
Editor’s Note: This exchange is part of a series of brief interviews with emerging writers of recent or forthcoming books. If you enjoyed it, please visit other interviews in the I’ve Got Questions…
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November 14, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Here is a Q&A I did with Cliff Garstang, around the time when A Very Innocent Man was published. cliffordgarstang.com/ive-got-ques...
Here's a link to a story I had published a couple of years ago, when the rule of law was still a thing. www.drunkmonkeys.us/2017-posts/2...
FICTION / The Quality of Mercy / Edward Belfar I Drunk Monkeys | Literature, Film, Television
What’s that, Your Honor? No, I would not like it if you were to hit me over the head with a fire extinguisher. But, surely, the situations are not analogous. On the one hand, that would be an unprovok...
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November 14, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Here's a link to a story I had published a couple of years ago, when the rule of law was still a thing. www.drunkmonkeys.us/2017-posts/2...
Here is a link to a story of mine that is currently available in the Maryland Literary Review. www.marylandliteraryreview.com/the-witnesses/
Maryland Literary ReviewThe Witnesses – MLR
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November 12, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Here is a link to a story of mine that is currently available in the Maryland Literary Review. www.marylandliteraryreview.com/the-witnesses/
I will be at the Books and Brews event at Union Craft Brewery in Baltimore next Saturday from 11-2:30. unioncraftbrewing.com/events/24-bo...
Books and Brews 2024
On Saturday, November 16 from 11 am to 6pm come and grab a great beer,
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November 10, 2024 at 3:59 PM
I will be at the Books and Brews event at Union Craft Brewery in Baltimore next Saturday from 11-2:30. unioncraftbrewing.com/events/24-bo...
I'll be at Backwater Books in Ellicott City on 2/29 for Local Author Night. backwaterbooks.com/event/2024-0...
February 21, 2024 at 6:52 PM
I'll be at Backwater Books in Ellicott City on 2/29 for Local Author Night. backwaterbooks.com/event/2024-0...
February 16, 2024 at 2:41 PM
This is a Q&A I did with JMWW back in September. I had posted it at the other place but not here.
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January 19, 2024 at 11:46 PM
This is a Q&A I did with JMWW back in September. I had posted it at the other place but not here.
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2023/09/18/t...
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2023/09/18/t...
I will be taking part in an offsite reading at AWP on Friday, 2/9.
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Flexible Press
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January 8, 2024 at 1:22 AM
I will be taking part in an offsite reading at AWP on Friday, 2/9.
www.flexiblepub.com/pizza-and-pr...
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September 20, 2023 at 7:35 PM