Fiction
Big Goose
The Ampersand Review / 2026
New story collection, Beast Vocal, published by Wolsak and Wynn in spring 2027.
David JamesBrock
Four realms
Choose Your Own Adventure
Four forms, one body of work. Begin with the page, the voice, the stage, or the screen.
Current / 2026
Animated feature
The Christmas Witch Trial of La Befana
Co-written by David James Brock and Melissa D’Agostino. Starring Anjelica Huston.
Ten-HeadedAlien
Poetry / Wolsak & Wynn / 2018
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
Selected books
Books
Poetry · 2018
Ten-Headed Alien
A collection of poems about monsters, myths, climate, bodies, and the strange machinery of being alive.
Poetry · 2014
Everyone is CO₂
Private mythologies drawn from space exploration, heavy metal, television, and the epic of Gilgamesh.
Play–opera · 2019
a million billion pieces
A tender, restless work about teenage intimacy, time, and the weight of a changing climate.
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 ↗
Writing onthe Internet
Stories, poems, plays, and other writing.
0103 04 05
Writing
THE YEAR I QUIT BASEBALL
02Writing
Bionic Pigeon Wing on the Roadside
Play / opera
a million billion pieces
Playwrights Canada Press / 2019
Short fiction
Kisser
Fantasy Magazine — now Psychopomp / 2021
Biography
Writer and
collaborator.
David James Brock is a Canadian screenwriter, playwright, poet, and opera librettist whose work moves between forms and finds new life through collaboration.
- Based
- Toronto, Canada
- Books
- Everyone is CO₂
Ten-Headed Alien - Teaching
- Creative & Professional Writing
Humber Polytechnic
Contact
Let’s talk.
For commissions, collaborations, speaking, press, rights, or a general hello.