Sean Murphy

The Time of New Weather just won First Place in the National Federation of Press Women 2009 Communications Awards for best novel.
The Time of New Weather earlier won First Place in the New Mexico Press Women Communications Awards for best novel published in 2008.

Sean is delighted to be organizing the Sacred Activism workshop July 7-11 2009 in Taos for internationally-known author and mystic Andrew Harvey, to launch Sean's new Creativity and Consciousness Institute. Full info on this and other seminars at Creativity and Consciousness Institute.

Interview on KSJE radio discussing The Time of New Weather with Connie Gotsch... listen here

I enjoyed 'talking' with Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell for her K.C.'s Write For You blog. We discuss The Time of New Weather, touching on Zen, MFA's, Taos, Natalie Goldberg, and writing about the future. Check it out here.

The new paperback cover of The Time of New Weather reminds me of Peter Sellers in one of my favorite movies - know which one I mean? What do you think of the cover?

Cultural Energy Hear my live story reading with musical improv by Mirabal and Kott, for SOMOS, recorded for radio. It's a blast! I had more fun than is decent, and a great audience. Scroll to 2007, and click Story of The.

Story is published in: You Are Not Here and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction by Wisdom Publications.
* * * A 2007 highlight was meeting 100-year-old Zen Master Sasaki Roshi for my article Being True Love in Tricycle Magazine. I didn't expect him to grill me in his fierce and humorous fashion on my own understanding of Zen... Here's his photo. Does this guy LOOK 100?
* * * The Beatles and Buddhism: The Fab Four's Noble Truths article for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
* * * Articles in 2007 Writers Market, and 2007 Guide to Literary Agents, both by Writers Digest Books.
* * * Article in NOW WRITE! Fiction Writing Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers, from Tarcher.
* * * The Writing Show interview on The Time of New Weather.