Update #18: Contribution and Collaboration!
First, I'm pleased to announce a new contributor to the Hungry Rats project. Nick Carone, a screenwriter from Chicago, is putting together an original work of fiction set in Flint during the Ratman murders. I have put his photo and a short bio up on the website under "contributors." While a number of artists, musicians, and designers have added their stamp to the project, Nick is the first person to do so through prose writing.
The mainstream press has neglected a whole area of work rich in potential. Dismissively branded as "fan fiction" or "derivative work," Hungry Rats seeks to promote these inspired and often startlingly original works on equal footing with the novel itself. After all; every fiction establishs a universe that is wholly unique and self-contained. Why not explore it from the angles of film and music, photography and painting, poetry and prose, for as long as it is interesting?
If you are interested in collaborating on Hungry Rats (and don't limit yourself; I'm interested in everything above, and everything else from biology to theater to sociology to journalism), please drop me a line and let me know what you're thinking!
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Connor Coyne grew up in Flint, Michigan and has lived in Chicago and New York City. He received his Bachelors from the University of Chicago and his Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the New School. He has written plays, poetry, essays, short stories, and novels, and is also a media consultant working with the Brainsell Group.
His work has been published in the Santa Clara Review, the Flint Broadside, the Saturnine Detractor, and the upcoming issue of the Moria Poetry Journal. Connor is a contributor to the literary blog bkish, a cofounder of Chicago's Gothic Funk Nation, and the editor-in-chief of its arts journal, the Paramanu Pentaquark.
He maintains a website at connorcoyne.com.
