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Jon Chaiim McConnell lives in Delaware. He is the former Fiction Editor of Split Lip Magazine, Redivider, and a former Associate Editor of Whole Beast Rag.
Books
thrum now available from The Spiral Bookcase
Excerpts of thrum
Press for thrum
[review at Broad Street Review]
Praise for thrum
“A nightmarish image-blasting assault on the senses, McConnell’s thrum evokes the early visions of J.G. Ballard in a new and beautiful way.”
– Shane Jones, author of Light Boxes and Vincent and Alice and Alice
“In thrum, Jon Chaiim McConnell achieves that rare thing, a concise and hypnotizing speculative novella whose innovative, futuristic content mirrors and matches its language. A current of electricity blazes, literally and figuratively, through this brief but unforgettable debut.”
– John Keene, author of Counternarratives
“This is a live wire of a book, a language-driven, searing and startling picture of a not quite apocalyptic society on the verge, a world rotted differently but just as crumbling as ours.”
– Amber Sparks, author of And I Do Not Forgive You
Schema
- “Schematic Impulse” – Surfaces
Short Stories
- “A Funnel for Sound” – Heavy Feather Review Vol. 10
- “Hyperlocal” – originally in Queen Mob’s Teahouse
- reprinted in Drunk Monkeys
- “The Yawn” – Entropy Magazine
- nominated for Pushcart Prize
- “The New Air Has Come Breathing” – Yemassee 24.2
- nominated for Pushcart Prize
- “Learned in the Old Ways” – Blackbird 14.1
- nominated for Pushcart Prize
- nominated for storySouth Million Writers Award
- reprinted in Footnote #3
- “Electricity” – Requited, Issue 17
- “Salvage” – Moon City Review 2014
- “July in Montana” – Timber, Summer 2014
- “Mice Elves, Cross Country” – The Knicknackery, Issue 1
- nominated for Pushcart Prize
- “Everyone in Cities” – Smokelong Quarterly, Issue 40