About

C. S. Barrett writes fiction from the Pacific Northwest.

The work in progress is a standalone literary novel — quiet in its mood, mixed in its register, and slow to arrive. C. S. Barrett is drafting a first book in the open and writing essays alongside it: about reading, about sentences, about the unglamorous practice of staying with a long project.

This site is where the work lives in public. If anything here resonates, the best place to follow along is the newsletter — letters arrive rarely and quietly, and include the free first chapter when it’s ready.