New story collection, Beast Vocal, published by Wolsak and Wynn in spring 2027.
David JamesBrock
Choose Your Own Adventure
Animated feature
The Christmas Witch Trial of La Befana
Co-written by David James Brock and Melissa D’Agostino. Starring Anjelica Huston.
Ten-HeadedAlien
Meet the bookTen-Headed Alien documents the struggle for coherence and connection in the moments where spasm meets dance, where nightmare bleeds into vision, where we encounter the monster of our history and where the fertile ruins of the present are surveyed from the ruins of the future.
Daniel Scott Tysdal, author of Fauxccasional Poems
“There’s a tingle of glee in the details of humanity's demise, and a pull to question our complicity in the ruin of the world. Ten-Headed Alien contains poems of unease, and of familiarity, and in them we are all a little monstrous.”
Dina del Bucchia, author of Don’t Tell Me What to Do
Books
Poetry · 2018
Ten-Headed Alien
Ten-Headed Alien draws from sci-fi and poli-sci, prog rock and politics, climate fiction and ancient mythology to create poems that are at once global and personal.
Poetry · 2014
Everyone is CO₂
Crafting poems that delight scholars and fanboys alike, David James Brock's debut poetry collection addresses the things that influence our private mythologies, from television to space exploration, from heavy metal to the epic of Gilgamesh.
Play–opera · 2019
a million billion pieces
When a touch could be a lifeline – or lethal – two 16-year-olds dare to tempt fate.
Year ofthe Horse
Four-act rock opera / Fucked Up
“This ‘song’ is a meditation… it is the wild fire and demonic braying of Cormac McCarthy, especially of Blood Meridian and Outer Darkness, the pursuit of pitch black cowboys which seem plucked from the pure bowels of hell, sliding like oil and shadow across the sands in pursuit of the white horse, a chase toward Golgotha and Gethsemane where at last the vicious satanic devouring jaw might sink into the blood-rich flesh of heaven’s child.”Listen / buy on Bandcamp
As a librettist
Visual song cycle · Navona Records · 2025
Gilgamesh
The visual production, produced and directed by Four/Ten Media, lays a captivating backdrop for composer Brubacher and Brock’s adaptation of Gilgamesh.
Music by J. Scott Brubacher, with baritone Stephen Lancaster, pianist Susan McDaniel, and dancer-choreographer Kyle Marshall.
Explore the albumWriting onthe Internet
Fiction
Big Goose
The Ampersand Review / 2026
02Short fiction
Kisser
Fantasy Magazine - now Psychopomp / 2021
03Writing
THE YEAR I QUIT BASEBALL
04Play / opera
a million billion pieces
Playwrights Canada Press / 2019
05Essay
A (Very Personal) Reading List for Newer Playwrights
David James Brock / 2016
06Interview
David Brock and the Art of Inspiration
Eye of the Writer
07Poetry
Bionic Pigeon Wing on the Roadside
Open Book / 2017
About
David James Brock is a screenwriter, playwright, poet, and opera librettist with national and international production history.
Read the full biography- Based
- Toronto, Canada
- Books
- Everyone is CO₂
Ten-Headed Alien - Teaching
- Creative & Professional Writing
Humber Polytechnic
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