January – May 2016 from Cricket Magazine:

Read the five-part illustrated serial of my middle-grade adventure story, “The Forty Thieves.” Based on the Arabian Nights tale, it is the story of courageous young Morgiana, who takes on the infamous Forty Thieves in medieval Baghdad.

 

 

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Forty Thieves and a Green-Eyed Girl, my middle-grade novel manuscript, won the 2015 Eldin Fellowship! (June 2015)

Judge Louise Hawes says, “Christy Lenzi’s manuscript features, not only an original story, but a compelling voice, vibrant sensory description, and pacing that engages and entices. Forty Thieves and a Green-Eyed Girl is just the sort of novel careers are built on!”

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Hunger Mountain VCFA Journal for the Arts, LOVE issue (June 2015):

In this month’s LOVE issue, you can read an excerpt of “Pieces of Sky,” my YA re-imagining of Romeo and Juliet, set in medieval Iceland, during the nation’s struggle between Pagan and Christian forces.

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