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Cowboy Jamboree Magazine
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CURRENT ISSUE: Spring 2022, "New Fools Are Here To Take Your Place"
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Check out an Excerpt from ORCHARD in the Current Issue of CJM.  You'll get hooked.
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​ORDER HERE!!!

The Orchard Is Full of Sound

one author's connection with Breece D'J Pancake: a memoir
Sheldon Lee Compton

​$13.99
ISBN: 
9798439128341

​In this superb memoir Sheldon Lee Compton reflects on his own life, his struggles with poverty and divorce and violence and addiction and fatherhood and an early heart attack and trying to make it as a writer in rural Kentucky, all the while trying to trace the life and tragic ending of one of his literary heroes, Breece D'J Pancake.  The book is part overcoming, part acceptance, part reflection on Appalachia and its stereotypes, part study in suicide among the creative.  Compton seeks closure on Pancake's suicide when he travels to Pancake's last home, to the orchard where Pancake did the deed, and in doing so finds new perspective on the tragic events of his own life.

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Check out this quick interview with Sheldon Lee Compton from Grateful Studios about The Orchard Is Full of Sound.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, FALL '22 (Issue 8.1): "THALIA ET ALIA," CJ's tribute issue to LARRY MCMURTRY. Think the Thalia series: Horseman, Pass By (HUD) /Leaving Cheyenne/Last Picture Show. Or the Duane Moore Series. Or the Houston Series. If you think you can pull it off, Lonesome Dove it. Submit by 9/15: cowboyjamobree@gmail.com.  See below for anthology calls for subs in the works at CJ
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CALL FOR SUBS: THE BLUE BOB ANTHOLOGY project from Cowboy Jamboree Press--we want your fiction, nonfiction, flash, vignette, lyrics or art inspired by BOB DYLAN.  We love "Tangled Up in Blue" especially, but we'd take a peek at anything you've got inspired by the only songwriter to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.  Deadline June 15, 2022.  Submit to cowboyjamboree@gmail.com.
CALL FOR SUBS: HANK MIGHTA DONE IT THIS WAY ANTHOLOGY project from Cowboy Jamboree Press--we want your fiction, nonfiction, flash, vignette, lyrics or art inspired by HANK WILLIAMS.  We'd love to take a peek at anything you've got inspired by the Hillbilly Shakespeare. Deadline June 15, 2022.  Submit to cowboyjamboree@gmail.com.
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COWBOY [kou-boi] (def.)
1.  American plains animal herder who tends cows 
2.  one who is reckless or ignores risk, i.e. "cowboy attitude"
3.  tradesman with questionable or atypical practices, i.e. "cowboy plumbing"
4.  fast or careless driver on the highway, i.e. "slow down, cowboy"
​5.  slang for "outlaw"

JAMBOREE  [jam-buh-ree] (def.)
1.  a large celebration or party, typically boisterous
2.  a carousel of noisy merrymaking



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  • CJ MAGAZINE
  • Current Issue
  • Style & Submit
    • About CJ
  • Books
  • Sheldon Lee Compton
    • Until the Going Down of the River
    • The Judas Steer
    • Tooling Up
    • DYSPHORIA (excerpt)
  • Interviews, Reviews, & Presses
  • Jobbers
  • Harry Crews
  • CJ Issues & Authors
  • Our Father's Lit: Western Pulp