Conyer Clayton

Thank you for bringing back a core memory of overhearing men saying this as a child and being deeply perplexed.

Yesterday at work, I thought I had a rock in my boot. I went into the bathroom to take my boot off and remove the rock.

It was, in fact, a small ball of mozzarella.

<3 Thanks @thismagazine.bsky.social for the share! Still very proud of this publication with yall.

A sober thought The last time I drank I was surrounded by family. I’d just returned from a solo trip to Scotland where I drank heavily every day for several weeks. When I got home I put my foot down. Okay, only on sp...

When @conyerclayton.bsky.social stopped drinking, they went in search of a new, sober community for connection and support. But it's not easy to find the right fit—and they're still looking.

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Green and red streaked auroras in the sky above a red oak tree.

Red aurora in the sky above a residential street.

Aurora last night over Ottawa. First time seeing them 🤩 Visible with the naked eye too! Truly incredible.

On Missed Calls, Technology, and 15 Years of Grieving My Mother

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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On Missed Calls, Technology, and 15 Years of Grieving My Mother

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-...

An illustration of a field on a sunny day and here’s a clothing line with yellow and red sheets flowing in the wind, and behind them are two people, one with purple wings touching hands. with a blue overlay. At the top of the image reads: “Read it Now” in a yellow banner and underneath reads: “Augur Issue 8.2.” Bellow is the link to the website: http://www.augursociety.org. In the middle of the image is a book with the cover art of Issue 8.1. There are 6 arrows around the book pointing to blurbs from some of the pieces that read: elemental aftermath of an affair, toxic love festers through shed skin & wet sheets, young love, rusted metal, & shattered sunlight, monstrous hymn of awe & destruction, old age drama between two languages, and devastation dripped in honey and rain .

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-...

🧵

Thanks Susan :)

A promo poster for The Ex-Puritan, with a black and white image of a black bear climbing a tree in the background, and text that reads, "This is where something both begins and ends." Conyer Clayton, "The Painting and the Bear."

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!)

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

The background has an graphic of a community of houses covered by walls and skeletons with a purple overlay. At the top of is a white bar with "2025" in black text inside of it. Below is "Vote for augur in the" followed by "Aurora awards" in white text. In the middle of the image are the covers of Augur issues 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and the Murmurstations podcast logo within a phone. Underneath reads: "vote at this url https://www.csffa.ca/awards-information/current-ballot/" in white text. At the bottom of the image is "augur" in white text.

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! ⬇️

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.

Thanks for including me! :)

<3

Man oh man.

A hand holding up Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley. The edge of a deck and woods and blue sky are visible in the background.

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.’”

Conyer taking a mirror selfie wearing a light green suit and a black t-shirt.

My first suit; it is green, and I am obsessed.

The Librarian by Guiseppe Arcimboldo, a painting of a man made of various books and papers.

Me doing structural edits on my novel rn.

(The Librarian by Guiseppe Arcimboldo)

Conyer taking a mirror selfie in a shirt that says "ME HEART BOOKS" with Cookie Monster's face underneath. The heart is made of a cookie.

ME ❤️/🍪 BOOKS, indeed.

It was such a great evening!!! <3

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. 💛💛💛

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new gender neutral greeting just dropped

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! 😘

Hey!

This is perfect. I love this. This is what I mean, and what we were talking about in another comment...it's often not the big deal people who are dealing in the biggest egos, ha!

YES! 90% of the time that I have had this experience it has been very mid-tier folks. A few big deal folks of course, but honestly they are usually very nice, ha! It is really the mid-folks that are the most dismissive, maybe they think that is how to get to the top? (it's not)

Honestly rather ridiculous. Why are people like this??

I honestly am loving being "the help", as it is INCREDIBLY revealing!

It makes me, as a writer, really be intentional that, if/when I am ever in the spotlight, in however small a space, to be sure I treat every person involved in organizing well.

People are there to help you: the people selling books, the people at the door, the bartender, the person doing lights.