Writing from a writer’s perspective. Literature from a literary angle.
20 Days to 40: “I’ll Be Around”
Not-so-secret secret here: I can be a bit of a control freak in my own way. It doesn’t manifest in the stereotypical ways… I don’t try to micromanage the people I work with or freak out if there’s snow instead of sun.… Read the rest
20 Days to 40: I’ll Be Around (On Change) Read More »
Not-so-secret secret here: I can be a bit of a control freak in my own way. It doesn’t manifest in the stereotypical ways… I don’t try to micromanage the people I work with or freak out if there’s snow instead of sun.… Read the rest
25 Days* to 40: Big World, Small World Read More »
The 4th of July is precisely thirty days before my birthday.
I don’t think that I ever realized that until this exact moment.
Not-so-secret secret here: I can be a bit of a control freak in my own way. It doesn’t manifest in the stereotypical ways… I don’t try to micromanage the people I work with or freak out if there’s snow instead of sun.… Read the rest
30 Days to 40: “Today’s the Fourth of July” Read More »
I am very honored that my essay “Bathtime” about the Flint Water Crisis has been included in the Picador Anthology Voices of the Rust Belt edited by Anne Trubek and published by Picador USA.
You can read more about this wonderful collection here.… Read the rest
Voices from the Rust Belt, edited by Anne Trubek. Read More »
The Gothic Funk Press has launched the fifth issue of its Paramanu Pentaquark featuring fiction, music, nonfiction, painting, poetry, sketchwork, and sound collage. Please read the editors’ statement below and view the collection here.
The Gothic Funk Press opened submissions for the fifth issue of our Paramanu Pentaquark arts journal on January 5th, 2017.… Read the rest
Paramanu Pentaquark #5 by Gothic Funk Press Read More »
One of the first official Urbantasm events!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2267104146648458/
Please join me in CHICAGO on Thursday, December 7th for Indie Lit’s “Live Lit” event at the delightful 57th Street Books in Hyde Park, just two blocks from The University of Chicago.
CHICAGO: Thursday Live Lit with Connor Coyne. Read More »
I am very pleased to share that Belt Publishing & Belt Magazine have published my essay “Rightsizing Thanksgiving in the Rust Belt.”
Actually, I pitched them this essay only a week ago, and through their timely and insightful editing we were able to finish it before Thanksgiving.… Read the rest
“Rightsizing Thanksgiving in the Rust Belt,” by Connor Coyne, published in Belt Magazine Read More »
In 50 weeks my novel Urbantasm: The Dying City (the first in a series of four) will be published!
Each week, I am sharing some piece of media related to the project: images, stories, excerpts, pictures, etc.
This week I shared an account of one of the earliest incarnations of the project, a play titled An Urbantasm. … Read the rest
An Urbantasm, A Play (Early 1996) Read More »
Announcing the Flint Literary Festival! Read More »
Okay, so it isn’t a real book tour per sè, but after a lot of industrious typing this year I’ll be stepping out for a couple readings this month with some talented people. I’ll have books available for purchase, and I’ll do some online readings, too.… Read the rest
December 2016 Pseudo-Tour Read More »