# [Books and Bangs](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/) LatestTopDiscussions [On being the best](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/on-being-the-best) at gymnastics, at writing, at being Jun 2•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) ### May 2026 [The Tower Show](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/the-tower-show) and just being the artist I am May 7•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) ### April 2026 [The Sweetest Time](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/the-sweetest-time) On publishing and promoting a book in my 40s; and an ode to friendship yet again Apr 15•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) ### March 2026 [In Defense of, and with Great Admiration for, Lindy West](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-and-with-great-admiration) Entering The Discourse by Rejecting The Discourse Mar 29•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) [Friends as Keepers of Memory](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/friends-as-keepers-of-memory) and that clay we made beads with Mar 9•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) ### February 2026 [My High School's Lit Journal, My College's Fiction Classes, and Other Rejections I'm Still Working Through](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/my-high-schools-lit-journal-my-colleges) Things are impossibly bleak, I don’t have words to offer that haven’t already been said. Feb 6•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) ### January 2026 [Non Fiction Vs. Fiction](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/non-fiction-vs-fiction) or maybe they're the same thing. Jan 6•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) ### December 2025 [A Poetry Challenge and a Year End Summary of Sorts](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/a-poetry-challenge-and-a-year-end) Plus a lot of preordering asks. :) Dec 3, 2025•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) ### September 2025 [Arthur, Coney Island, The Lion King, and My Two Daughters](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/arthur-coney-island-the-lion-king) an exploration of how to build a story that is true Sep 23, 2025•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) ### August 2025 [A very exciting MOTHERS AND OTHER STRANGERS cover reveal!](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/a-very-exciting-mothers-and-other) and a little reflection on the moment that started it all Aug 13, 2025•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) ### July 2025 [Houses We Don't Live in Anymore](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/houses-we-dont-live-in-anymore) and books we can't write again Jul 23, 2025•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) ### May 2025 [Imaginary Friends](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/imaginary-friends) and facts about dolphins or whatever May 14, 2025•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) ### March 2025 [Being Good at Being](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/being-good-at-being) I went to college for acting, a fact that now has the faraway quality of other things about me that used to be true— that a high school boyfriend wrote… Mar 26, 2025•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) ### January 2025 [Snow Day](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/snow-day) a quick poem before the day takes hold Jan 20, 2025•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) ### December 2024 [No Draws](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/no-draws) This is not a poetry substack, after all, and yet it's all poetry, isn't it? Dec 11, 2024•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) ### November 2024 [Not a Poetry Substack](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/not-a-poetry-substack) except right now I can only write poetry Nov 18, 2024•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) [11/10/24](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/111024) read a poem, take some action. Nov 11, 2024•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) [11.7.24](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/11724) This is not a poetry substack now or maybe it is I don't know. Nov 7, 2024•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/11724) ### October 2024 [Writing election poetry to stop doom scrolling](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/writing-election-poetry-to-stop-doom) 10/29/24 The thing about our anniversary is it is also the anniversary of the week before our hearts broke watching results come in on our honeymoon in… Oct 29, 2024•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) ### September 2024 [The Right Pace to Walk Through The Met](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/the-right-pace-to-walk-through-the) And letting other rhythms become your own Sep 20, 2024•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) ### July 2024 [Broken Link! Pants!](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/broken-link-pants) I was informed that the very important link to the only pants I don’t hate was broken!!! Jul 3, 2024•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) [Always Revising for Hope](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/always-revising-for-hope) in parenting, in writing, in life these days Jul 2, 2024•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) ### April 2024 [The Unlikeliest Extrovert](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/the-unlikeliest-extrovert) or returning to the kid I was before all the rest Apr 19, 2024•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu) ### February 2024 [Scaffolding](https://coreyannhaydu.substack.com/p/scaffolding) And what's underneath Feb 28, 2024•[Corey Ann Haydu](https://substack.com/@coreyannhaydu)