Contest finalists and winners will be published in Pennon, our quarterly journal. And everyone who participates is welcome to share their stories within our private community for peer feedback.
Dominic de Souza
Announcing: our Monthly Genre Challenges for Catholic fiction
Each month of the year, we will share a monthly genre challenge. That means each month, members are invited to write and share a short story on the theme of the month.
Announcing: CatholicAuthor Teen! The community for high school fiction writers
CatholicAuthor Teens is your space where teens can give and get feedback, join in the monthly genre challenges, participate in the quarterly contests, and compete to get published in our quarterly journal!
Anti-Heroes: the antidote to a self-righteous society?
Antihero stories don’t exist for the same reasons as hero stories. They’re just as important, for different reasons.
Sacred Stories: Drama with the Mystagogical Frontier
This tier of taletelling are the mysteries, the stories of direct contact with sacred, sacramental, and spiritual realities.
Why we are surrounded by mythology every day – especially movies
What is mythology? It is the step beyond the fairy tale. It is a story that externalizes the interior life within the context of our culture.
Why Fairy Tales aren’t about fairies, but the realm of ‘Faery’
Fairy Tales aren’t about fairies, but about the realm of Faery. That liminal place beyond human sight that exists deep within us, and in which we are immersed, like an ocean.
The Rewilding of Enchantment: Fairy Tales, Mythic Tales, & Sacred Stories
All fiction stories are divided into Fairy Tales, Mythology, and Sacred Stories. Each has an extremely important role to play.
Hero Ascending: The Rise of the Ordinary Mystic in the 3-Fold Path of Initiation
In case you think this is going to be a whole bunch of woo-woo, it's not. Or at least, it's about as woo as the Catholic Catechism, and human history. We're going to cover the 3 paths of enlightenment, an echo of St John of the Cross 'Dark Night of the Soul,' and...
The CatholicAuthor Logo: Quills, Ravens, and Catholic Fiction
Discover the meaning behind the art in the CatholicAuthor logo, and why ravens are a surprising and special symbol.
A Tame Lion? Why Catholic fiction doesn’t need its own shelf
In an ideal world, do we want to have a batch of shelves set aside for Catholic fiction?
Moral Book Burning? Why faith-inspired fiction authors don’t do witch hunts
I think we all agree; book burning is a terrible idea. Pretty much anywhere, any time. We are horrified at the piles of literature blazed by the Nazis, the loss of the library of Alexandria, the burning of the Mayan codices. These rituals of rejection show an...
Pedro Gabriel & The Chronicles of Dumah
Pedro chats about his new novel Ironcraft: The Chronicles of Dumah, a fantasy fiction epic.
The Chronicles of Dumah: Ironcraft Book Launch | Pedro Gabriel
The Chronicles of Dumah: Ironcraft An epic fantasy novel about our ancient past, by Pedro GabrielIn the beginning, a peaceful race of giants populated the world of Dumah. But a sylphid, a spirit from the stars, came down from the heavens to deliver a dreadful...
2021 Rebrand & Relaunch: The Story
In early 2011, CatholicAuthor started as a personal brand, a blog, and destination for people to discover my books and thoughts. In the decade since, I tried to turn it into several things, like a service for 'Developmental Editing' - brainstorming and feedback for...