Carrie Callahan

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Welcome to the author website of Carrie Callahan, a 2019 Writers of the Future award recipient, 2021 graduate of the Bluegrass Writers Studio, and finalist for the 2023 Baen Adventure Fantasy Award.

Latest Fiction

Eric flint wears a Napoleonic uniform while riding an old school motorcycle in front of a charging t-rex

“Boulder Choke”

Casey is on the run from bullies when she finds a strange palace hidden in a disused mine shaft. The old woman inside gives her a tour, but something about her seems eerily familiar. Is she the ghost of Casey’s grandmother? Or someone–or something–else?

Read “Boulder Choke” and other great stories in this anthology featuring authors such as Kevin J. Anderson and Charles Gannon.

Latest Blog Posts

a series of cogs and flywheels

Mechanics

On how writing mechanically makes me able to write more than 6k words a day

Field in the foreground with a forest in the background

Fallow

Sometimes we have to let our fields lay fallow.

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Writing is often a very solitary pursuit--at least, it is at first. Most of us start out writing just for ourselves. For some, it's anonymous fanfiction, while others write secret fantasies in their journals. We write to explore what we like, and we often start off...

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