Beyond Good and Bad: A Conversation with Connor Coyne
By Kelsey Ronan On September 22nd, Flint native Connor Coyne will launch a novel twenty-two years in the making. The [...]
Dad Rock: Tom Petty and the Music of My Father
By Erin Osmon When we buried my mother in a sylvan plot on the north side of Evansville, Indiana, she [...]
Aretha Was Detroit
By Aaron Foley Reprinted with permission from Detroit's The Neighborhoods, where Aaron Foley has continued to chronicle the city's response to [...]
An Excerpt From Urbantasm, A Novel. Book One: The Dying City
Excerpted with permission from Urbantasm: The Dying City, available for purchase in September 2018. By Connor Coyne Adam’s dad’s latest place [...]
In Southeast Ohio, an anarchist skate park considers its future
VIEW PHOTO ESSAY By Matt Richmond Photography by Michael McElroy Twenty years in, change [...]
Seven Years In Indianapolis — An essay from ‘Red State Blues: Stories from Midwestern Life on the Left’
From the forthcoming Belt anthology “Red State Blues: Stories from Midwestern Life on the Left.” By Allison Lynn When I [...]
Joe Magarac: Man of Steel
From Belt Publishing's Folktales and Legends of the Middle West By Edward McClelland, with illustrations by David Wilson Though Pittsburghers [...]
Blood Is Thicker: An excerpt from ‘Red State Blues: Stories from Midwestern Life on the Left’
From the forthcoming Belt anthology “Red State Blues: Stories From Midwestern Life on the Left” By Dana Aritonovich Uncle George [...]
55 Strong: Inside The West Virginia Teachers’ Strike Now Available for Pre-Order
What compelled West Virginia's teachers to strike in February 2018? How did they organize? What were teachers and allies doing [...]
The Future of Appalachia Is Queer
by Elizabeth Catte Photography by Queer Appalachia Granny witch. Dirt femme. Two-spirit. Farm-Her. Affrilachian. Fag Hillbilly. The individuals in the [...]
A Flint resident on the good, the bad, and the complicated in Netflix’s gritty new docu-drama, ‘Flint Town’
By Connor Coyne If you had asked me a few weeks ago what the words “Flint Town” meant to me, [...]
The Milwaukee Anthology: Call For Submissions
Milwaukee! We need your stories! Belt Publishing will be compiling an anthology of essays, stories and poems about Milwaukee in [...]