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.
Book Reviews
Reviews of Contemporary Fiction and Culture
"Solenoid" by Mircea Cartarescu
translated by Sean Cotter
The Dactyl Review
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"Russia in Four Criminals" by Frederico Verese
Rights in Russia
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"Offended Sensibilities" by Alisa Ganieva
Rights in Russia​
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‘The Gulag Doctors’ by Dan Healy
Rights in Russia
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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
The Strange Recital
March 2025
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The Berserkers
Chapter One
The Strange Recital
December 2022
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