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Cowboy Jamboree's spring issue, volume 11.2, "A MANUAL FOR..." incited by the life and writing and incomparable style of Lucia Berlin is live y'all. Dig it: cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/112-a-manual-f…
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Cowboy Jamboree Press
@CowboyJamboree
Grit lit and rural writing with rough edges, fiction or non. Survival is triumph enough. We dig Folk & Old Country (@notporncovers country). EIC: @gritvanwinkle
- As so many journals and indie lit outlets around us fold, remember this: Cowboy Jamboree Press has never made money, therefore we do not rely on making money. We’re still here folks. That said, buy our books. We’d love to make money.
- Comin March 26th from @CowboyJamboree Press and editor @BarbaraByar.... MOTEL: AN ANTHOLOGY. 28 tales of Misdeeds, Mayhem, Melancholy & Magic.
- Fuckin cool that a story by Anthony Neil Smith originally published by Cowboy Jamboree is gonna be in Best American Mystery & Suspense 2023 🔥.
- HOLY SHIT are we honored. 5 books in the TOP 25 of Indie Books for 2023. See ROADS by @DarenDean1, STORIES WRESTLING CAN TELL by @miketchin, ALICE by @ShelCompton, BLUR by @danbillyc, & CJ's TRAVELIN’ THRU TOWNES antho. How cool & thanks @IndieFictionAll: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/HBNFqf…
- Our Fall/Winter 2023 issue is live! Flip through it on your web browser or download the PDF for your e-reader. Dig NOTHING'S GONNA CHANGE THE WAY YOU FEEL ABOUT ME NOW: cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/current-issue.…
- MOTEL: AN ANTHOLOGY is out in the world today from CJ Press. Edited by @BarbaraByar and packed with so much goodness. Get it in paperback or ebook y'all:
- CJ Press is pleased as punch to announce that THE @BarbaraByar will write a forward for and edit a new anthology with CJ. MOTEL will pay homage to the essence of motels in all their beauty and pathos. Characters and stories of grit and glory, the brutal and banal. More to come.
- CALL FOR SUBS --> TRAVELIN' THRU TOWNES We want grit lit--fiction, flash, verse, hybrid, art, cnf--in the vein of the great Townes Van Zandt. More as we go, but for now anything you think connects to TVZ we wanna see. Deadline: Jan 15, 2023. Publishes Spring 2023.
- On September 19th CJ Press has got a new @danbillyc flash collection comin at y'all. Rejoice--BLUR is near.
- Our new Fall issue--a tribute to John Prine with new fiction, creative nonfiction, the original liner notes for Prime Prine, and new essays about Prine himself--is live today. And it kicks ass. @CowboyJamboree is good grit. cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/current-issue.…
- Y'all like Sam Shepard? CJ likes Sam Shepard. We did a whole Sam Shepard informed, inspired, incited and infused issue...and it's still free as hell. cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/buried-child-i…
On trying to get my creative writing students to focus on the image, simplify their language, and trust the reader:
