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Tim Fredrick is a writer and teacher from Queens, NY. His writing interests include literary fiction that explores relationships with family, making a family, and the longing we all have for connection. He is the author of We Regret to Inform You, a collection of short stories exploring masculinity and relationships, due out in March 2015. His stories have appeared in Pif Magazine, Circa, Wilde Magazine, and Burningword.

He is also the founding editor of Newtown Literary, a journal dedicated to supporting and promoting the work of Queens writers. He founded the Newtown Literary Alliance, a non-profit which publishes the journal, and is the President of the Board of Directors and the Treasurer.

He has a BA in Creative Writing from the Universi ...more

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	We Regret to Inform You 3.58 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who's In My Classroom?: Building Developmentally and Culturally Responsive School Communities by Gess LeBlanc, Tim Fredrick (Goodreads Author) 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Newtown Literary #4 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Newtown Literary #5: Special Issue: Speculative Poetry & Prose by Tim Fredrick (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Katherine Garrigan (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
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“My publishers, two Catalan brothers with an inherited income, took me out to lunch to inform me that the first print run would be only five hundred copies. Five hundred readers? I accept! And the lunch was delicious.”
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“I dropped a word from the string of negative adjectives that had trailed behind me like tin cans behind the village idiot. Unappreciated, unloved, unmarried. But no longer unpublished.”
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