Christopher Barzak

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Magick for Terri

This blog is mainly just serving as a website for my work at the moment, and any big updates on what’s happening in my writing life, as I rarely have time to keep it as a personal blog any longer. Here’s one of those big updates I just mentioned though. Not for myself, but for… Read more

November 28, 2011
A few items of summer

It’s been a while since I last posted the picture of my cat screaming, and various things have occurred both before and after that, which I am aiming to catch up with and report here, in this dusty corner of the internet. Item One: As of this summer, I have new literary representation in the… Read more

August 2, 2011
Cat screams

I have often told my friends that my cat, Kokoro (which in Japanese means heart or mind), screams at me for things. Attention, food mostly. But also just when he feels like it, he’ll just open his maw as wide as possible and let out a Tina Turner-like Big Wheels Turning-like note. Everyone says, Yeah,… Read more

June 28, 2011
The road not taken

Today is the day. Welcome to Bordertown is officially out. And today is also the day to announce the winner of the Bordertown Lives pendant Mia Nutick has so graciously offered for my contest. And the winner is: Kathy Barreca. If you haven’t taken a little dip into the contest entrant’s pool in my previous… Read more

May 24, 2011
How to get to Bordertown

After thirteen years of absence in the world, Bordertown–that awesome shared world of punk rock and elves that surfaced in the 80s and 90s–is coming back. It’s coming back on May 24th, to be exact, and those of us writer types who were invited to play in the new anthology have been holding contests leading… Read more

May 16, 2011
A free read of Map of Seventeen

I’ve posted my Nebula nominated story “Map of Seventeen” on my website for interested readers. You can find it on the page tabs overhead. I’ll take it down soon after the Nebulas, around the end of May, but here it is for a limited time for free. If you like it, please drop me a… Read more

March 12, 2011