Come join us for the first official Gothic Funk Party in eight years, taking place in Chicago on Friday, May 24th! All of the details are here. DEPARTURE: Friday, May 24, 6:30 PM Join us at 5310 N. Forest Glen. (Forest Glen Metra Station) for a walk through Chicago parks and neighborhoods. Walking route: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1MDbrxqz_f7WWyApfoxPOr7BL-eU0L5JO …
Gothic Funk Press director Connor Coyne talks about his experience visiting 826 Michigan in Detroit last year. Read his opinion here: http://www.connorcoyne.com/blog/2019/02/826-michigan-and-the-young-writers-of-detroit/
I registered Gothic Funk Press in 2010 as a sole-proprietorship (first in Illinois, later in Michigan) in order to self-publish my novel Hungry Rats. In this sense, it was a vanity press, pure and simple, and I went on to use the name to publish Shattering Glass (2013) and Atlas (2015). But as time has passed …
The TEEN WRITERS’ WORKSHOP Do you have a great story in your mind, aching to be told? Do you care about something so much you want to tell people about it in just the right way? Do you love words, rhythm, rhyming, and patterns? Do you love language? Students aged 11 to 19 are invited …
CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! Morris Brownell’s writing suggests that it is difficult to overestimate Alexander Pope’s influence in the enunciation of the picturesque and the development of landscape-style gardening and architecture. However, it also cannot be denied that Pope’s efforts were inspired and modified by a …
Flint-Based Literary Press Publishes Art Journal Contact: Connor Coyne 708.224.5297 blueskiesfalling@gmail.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Flint, MI / 26 August, 2016 – The Flint-based Gothic Funk Press has today published the fourth issue of its online arts journal The Paramanu Pentaquark. The journal features art conceived in a “gothic funk” style and can be viewed in …
CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! When the aesthetic of the sublime would be redefined and reinterpreted by Enlightenment-era philosophers, the works of Salvator Rosa provided a ready-made visual vocabulary for aspiring British gothicists to incorporate sublimity into their own projects. However, there is another, less obvious, antecedent …
CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! One very reasonable question at this point is “why Salvator Rosa?” After all, we have taken a look at Rosa in light of when and where he lived, and we have seen that, in that context, his work was not viewed, by …
Understanding the Gothic, 410 – 2016 Part I: Bone Deep Gothic Gothic Funk Press is happy to offer an informal course that will explore the rise of the Gothic outlook and aesthetic from its complex distant roots, guided by Gothic: 400 Years of Horror, Excess, Evil and Ruin, Richard Davenport-Hines’ impassioned and eccentric exploration of …
Flint, MI / 23 June, 2014 – The Flint-based Gothic Funk Press will publish Mark’s Hat, an anthology of innovative literature entirely written by current Flint residents this July 12. Mark’s Hat will include fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Paul Counelis, Nic Custer, Michael Kelly, Bob Mabbitt, Ruby Spademan, Tom Sumner, and Jan Worth-Nelson. Mark’s …