Conyer Clayton
@conyerclayton.bsky.social
Not here much! -- Writer from KY in Canada | 2025 MacDowell Fellow and @TinHouse.bsky.social Scholar | 3rd book coming 2026 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social | Senior Editor @augursociety.bsky.social | conyerclayton.com | they/them
Aurora last night over Ottawa. First time seeing them 🤩 Visible with the naked eye too! Truly incredible.
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Aurora last night over Ottawa. First time seeing them 🤩 Visible with the naked eye too! Truly incredible.
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Sharing this essay on my blog about my relationship to technology and grief on the eve of the 15th anniversary of my mom's death.
My mommy was the best mommy in the whole wide world.
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My mommy was the best mommy in the whole wide world.
conyers-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/on-missed-...
On Missed Calls, Technology, and 15 Years of Grieving My Mother
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November 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Sharing this essay on my blog about my relationship to technology and grief on the eve of the 15th anniversary of my mom's death.
My mommy was the best mommy in the whole wide world.
conyers-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/on-missed-...
My mommy was the best mommy in the whole wide world.
conyers-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/on-missed-...
Sharing this essay on my blog about my relationship to technology and grief on the eve of the 15th anniversary of my mom's death.
My mommy was the best mommy in the whole wide world.
conyers-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/on-missed-...
My mommy was the best mommy in the whole wide world.
conyers-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/on-missed-...
On Missed Calls, Technology, and 15 Years of Grieving My Mother
conyers-newsletter.beehiiv.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Sharing this essay on my blog about my relationship to technology and grief on the eve of the 15th anniversary of my mom's death.
My mommy was the best mommy in the whole wide world.
conyers-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/on-missed-...
My mommy was the best mommy in the whole wide world.
conyers-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/on-missed-...
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Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!
Discover...
🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair
🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction
🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain
& so much more!
🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...
🧵
Discover...
🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair
🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction
🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain
& so much more!
🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...
🧵
October 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site!
Discover...
🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair
🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction
🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain
& so much more!
🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...
🧵
Discover...
🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair
🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction
🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain
& so much more!
🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...
🧵
Would you like to read a story about divorce and also a bear?
🐻🎨 ex-puritan.ca/the-painting...
(Thanks @sannawani.bsky.social for including my surrealist flash fiction in the Animalia issue of The Ex-Puritan!)
🐻🎨 ex-puritan.ca/the-painting...
(Thanks @sannawani.bsky.social for including my surrealist flash fiction in the Animalia issue of The Ex-Puritan!)
October 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Would you like to read a story about divorce and also a bear?
🐻🎨 ex-puritan.ca/the-painting...
(Thanks @sannawani.bsky.social for including my surrealist flash fiction in the Animalia issue of The Ex-Puritan!)
🐻🎨 ex-puritan.ca/the-painting...
(Thanks @sannawani.bsky.social for including my surrealist flash fiction in the Animalia issue of The Ex-Puritan!)
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Gonna say something liberals really won’t like and it’s that you’re going to have to find it in your heart to feel compassion for and attempt to help ppl in crisis whose politics you may not agree with or else you’re gonna become the very thing you claim to hate
July 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Gonna say something liberals really won’t like and it’s that you’re going to have to find it in your heart to feel compassion for and attempt to help ppl in crisis whose politics you may not agree with or else you’re gonna become the very thing you claim to hate
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HUGE NEWS: Augur has the honour of being a nominee in THREE categories for the 2025 Aurora Awards! 🎊
📌 FYI...
-Voting is NOW OPEN to all CSFFA members & membership is just $10!
-Deadline to vote: July 19th @ 11:59 EDT.
🔗 Link to sign up & vote: www.csffa.ca
Scroll down to see what's nommed! ⬇️
📌 FYI...
-Voting is NOW OPEN to all CSFFA members & membership is just $10!
-Deadline to vote: July 19th @ 11:59 EDT.
🔗 Link to sign up & vote: www.csffa.ca
Scroll down to see what's nommed! ⬇️
July 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
HUGE NEWS: Augur has the honour of being a nominee in THREE categories for the 2025 Aurora Awards! 🎊
📌 FYI...
-Voting is NOW OPEN to all CSFFA members & membership is just $10!
-Deadline to vote: July 19th @ 11:59 EDT.
🔗 Link to sign up & vote: www.csffa.ca
Scroll down to see what's nommed! ⬇️
📌 FYI...
-Voting is NOW OPEN to all CSFFA members & membership is just $10!
-Deadline to vote: July 19th @ 11:59 EDT.
🔗 Link to sign up & vote: www.csffa.ca
Scroll down to see what's nommed! ⬇️
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Putting on my Publisher hat, I have an announcement:
Augur Press will be open to submissions of Novellas & Novelettes from both agented and unagented writers starting THIS WEEK!
It’s not open yet. But while we wait…
AMA about publishing with this fledgling small press.
Augur Press will be open to submissions of Novellas & Novelettes from both agented and unagented writers starting THIS WEEK!
It’s not open yet. But while we wait…
AMA about publishing with this fledgling small press.
July 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Putting on my Publisher hat, I have an announcement:
Augur Press will be open to submissions of Novellas & Novelettes from both agented and unagented writers starting THIS WEEK!
It’s not open yet. But while we wait…
AMA about publishing with this fledgling small press.
Augur Press will be open to submissions of Novellas & Novelettes from both agented and unagented writers starting THIS WEEK!
It’s not open yet. But while we wait…
AMA about publishing with this fledgling small press.
I often avoid nonfiction "grief books" because for me they can be too prescriptive and didactic—attempt to be too broad and sweeping. But this book avoids these things, and it really moved me. Highly recommend.
“‘How will he know you loved him,’ she asks, ‘unless you try to destroy yourself.’”
“‘How will he know you loved him,’ she asks, ‘unless you try to destroy yourself.’”
June 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I often avoid nonfiction "grief books" because for me they can be too prescriptive and didactic—attempt to be too broad and sweeping. But this book avoids these things, and it really moved me. Highly recommend.
“‘How will he know you loved him,’ she asks, ‘unless you try to destroy yourself.’”
“‘How will he know you loved him,’ she asks, ‘unless you try to destroy yourself.’”
My first suit; it is green, and I am obsessed.
June 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My first suit; it is green, and I am obsessed.
Me doing structural edits on my novel rn.
(The Librarian by Guiseppe Arcimboldo)
(The Librarian by Guiseppe Arcimboldo)
June 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Me doing structural edits on my novel rn.
(The Librarian by Guiseppe Arcimboldo)
(The Librarian by Guiseppe Arcimboldo)
ME ❤️/🍪 BOOKS, indeed.
May 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
ME ❤️/🍪 BOOKS, indeed.
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PLEASE SHARE! I am raising funds for a dear friend and member of the literary as well as arts communities.
$5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛
chuffed.org/project/1299...
$5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛
chuffed.org/project/1299...
May 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
PLEASE SHARE! I am raising funds for a dear friend and member of the literary as well as arts communities.
$5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛
chuffed.org/project/1299...
$5 and $10 goes a long way! Reshares even further! We are just $800 from our goal and my hope is bluesky can take us the rest of the way. 💛💛💛
chuffed.org/project/1299...
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new gender neutral greeting just dropped
May 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
new gender neutral greeting just dropped
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Poetry friends and poetry lovers! ✨️
I have two "Myth" launches next week with some super cool writers! 🌴🧜🏾♀️👽🌙🌺
May 6 at Perfect Books in Ottawa
May 8 at Pulp Books in Montreal
I'd love to see you there! 😘
I have two "Myth" launches next week with some super cool writers! 🌴🧜🏾♀️👽🌙🌺
May 6 at Perfect Books in Ottawa
May 8 at Pulp Books in Montreal
I'd love to see you there! 😘
April 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Poetry friends and poetry lovers! ✨️
I have two "Myth" launches next week with some super cool writers! 🌴🧜🏾♀️👽🌙🌺
May 6 at Perfect Books in Ottawa
May 8 at Pulp Books in Montreal
I'd love to see you there! 😘
I have two "Myth" launches next week with some super cool writers! 🌴🧜🏾♀️👽🌙🌺
May 6 at Perfect Books in Ottawa
May 8 at Pulp Books in Montreal
I'd love to see you there! 😘
I have always been really put off by celebrity, even the notion of "genius". As a writer and also a bookseller and events coordinator specifically, working in often quite large events and literary festivals, I have become even more put off by the cult of celebrity around writers in particular.
May 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I have always been really put off by celebrity, even the notion of "genius". As a writer and also a bookseller and events coordinator specifically, working in often quite large events and literary festivals, I have become even more put off by the cult of celebrity around writers in particular.
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
Sometimes you get really good news and are riding super high and then 2 days later you get extremely sick for 6 days (like chest xray sick) and that is what we call being brought back down to earth babyyyyyy
March 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Sometimes you get really good news and are riding super high and then 2 days later you get extremely sick for 6 days (like chest xray sick) and that is what we call being brought back down to earth babyyyyyy
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VERSeFest 2025 : March 25-29 : schedule now online!
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VERSeFest 2025 : March 25-29 : schedule now online!
OUR FESTIVAL SCHEDULE IS NOW FULLY ONLINE: Check out the schedule for the fifteenth annual VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival...
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March 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
VERSeFest 2025 : March 25-29 : schedule now online!
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happy birthday to women
March 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
happy birthday to women
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BREAKING: In response to our lawsuit, the National Endowment for the Arts will no longer force grant applicants to certify that they won't promote "gender ideology."
This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.
This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.
March 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
BREAKING: In response to our lawsuit, the National Endowment for the Arts will no longer force grant applicants to certify that they won't promote "gender ideology."
This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.
This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.
Thus concludes my enjoyment affirmations into the void.
February 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Thus concludes my enjoyment affirmations into the void.
I am enjoying my lack of gender and no one can stop me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I am enjoying my lack of gender and no one can stop me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am enjoying eating and no one can stop me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I am enjoying eating and no one can stop me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!