Vic Peterson
Writer and Instructor
Vic Peterson
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The Berserkers
a novel
Norse legend meets Twin Peaks
in this quirky genre-bending tale.
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Fiction Book Reviews Poetry
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"Original and surprising."
- Jack Living author of The Blizzard Party
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"An engaging, tightly written experimental novel full of evocative storytelling and narrative drive."
– Wyl Menmuir, author of The Many, long-listed Man Booker Prize 2016
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"Genre-busting, in my view, is a key consideration in dubbing a work 'literary.'"
– Brent Robison, The Dactyl Review
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"Has a feel of the classic hero’s journey, but with Viking Heavy Metal at the hero’s side."
– Victoria Irwin, Editor-in-Chief of FangirlNation.com
My Writing
​My fiction, poetry, book reviews and other writing have appeared widely including in Rights in Russia, Strange Recital, The Dactyl Review, The Contemporary Poetry Review, Light, Sparrow, and The Formalist, among other publications.
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My novel, The Berserkers, was published in the UK (Hawkwood 2022)
and the US (Recital 2023).
Fiction
The Berserkers
A beautiful woman is found stabbed and frozen in the ice of Lake Munch, dressed only in the costume wings and tight corset of a Norse Valkyrie. Grammaticus Kolbitter, keyboardist in a Viking heavy-metal band, The Berserkers, by night, is pulled into the investigation. Norse legend meets Twin Peaks in this quirky genre-bending novel.
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Hawkwood Books 2022
Fiction
Tales from the Village: A Secret World Revealed
Micro-fiction Anthology
Contains The Misguided Collier
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Once the visitors have left and the gates are closed, once night falls and midnight strikes, the village comes to life. The fairies leave their glen, the woodcutter gets to work, the train driver attends the engines, and the Stag's Head is full of music, drink, and good humor.
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Forthcoming July 2025
Hawkwood Books
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Poetry
Rhyming Poems: A Contemporary Anthology
A unique collection of 100 contemporary poems that showcase the marvelous variety, power, and pleasure of rhyme.
Podcast
The House of Wisdom
Short Story
The Strange Recital
March 2025
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The Berserkers
Chapter One
The Strange Recital
December 2022
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