Cowboy Jamboree Magazine
Good grit lit.
Good grit lit.
GRIT CONTENT
-Current Issue
-Interviews & Reviews
-Jobbers
-Cairo Jamboree
-Harry Crews
-CJ Issue and Authors
-Style and Submit
-Current Issue
-Interviews & Reviews
-Jobbers
-Cairo Jamboree
-Harry Crews
-CJ Issue and Authors
-Style and Submit
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Cowboy Jamboree Press is coming, and our first release is a Sheldon Lee Compton novel! Dysphoria is coming from CJ Press, Spring 2019... "Sheldon Lee Compton is a hillbilly Bukowski, one of the grittiest writers to come down the pike since Larry Brown." --Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff and The Devil All the Time. DYSPHORIA- (def) a state of unease or generalized dissatisfaction with life. SLC's Homepage
Our second book is in the works too. Bull Men's Fiction editor-in-chief Benjamin Drevlow has delivered a killer manuscript of good grit: Ina-Baby, a love story in reverse by Benjamin Drevlow, 2019 from Cowboy Jamboree. |
Introducing JOBBERS. It's our first rolling submission and acceptance publication a couple of tabs over. As of December 2018 we are open for submissions all the time. Here we want grit lit, fiction or non, about the carny world of wrestling. Jake the Snake, Bruiser Brody, Ricky Steamboat, the von Erich brothers, Rick Rude, Dusty Rhodes, ya know? We plan on creatively showcasing prose on the Jobbers tab, and if all goes to plan, we'll have material for a Jobbers anthology late in 2019.
Our 2018 PUSHCART NOMINEES. Congratulations and Good Luck!
From Issue 3.2 (Spring 2018):
Benjamin Drevlow, "Rusty, the Jesus Years"
Sheldon Lee Compton, "Remodeling"
C.W. Accetta, "Quik-Mart"
From Issue 4.1 (Fall 2018):
Jay Halsey, "Hard and Harder"
Amy Wilson, "Confessions of a Lovesick Garage Sale Queen: a Faux Memoir"
Kirk Lake, "Low Expectations"
From Issue 3.2 (Spring 2018):
Benjamin Drevlow, "Rusty, the Jesus Years"
Sheldon Lee Compton, "Remodeling"
C.W. Accetta, "Quik-Mart"
From Issue 4.1 (Fall 2018):
Jay Halsey, "Hard and Harder"
Amy Wilson, "Confessions of a Lovesick Garage Sale Queen: a Faux Memoir"
Kirk Lake, "Low Expectations"
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SUBS are currently CLOSED. Our Summer-Fall issue, "Rural Enterprise: Trailer Parks and Permanent Yard Sales and Such" is out and we're reading with our feet up!
What's a "rural enterprise" anyway? We're thinking that junk yard where the inventory never changes but it's always for sale, shade tree mechanics, small town or rural bars and restaurants, flea markets and swap meets, catch-all country stores that sell booze and family bibles and sex toys, man-made tourist traps in the middle of nowhere, that trailer park with storage units for rent in back... Shit like that.
What's a "rural enterprise" anyway? We're thinking that junk yard where the inventory never changes but it's always for sale, shade tree mechanics, small town or rural bars and restaurants, flea markets and swap meets, catch-all country stores that sell booze and family bibles and sex toys, man-made tourist traps in the middle of nowhere, that trailer park with storage units for rent in back... Shit like that.
We are pleased to announce that not only do your Grit Lit Swag purchases at our storefront on TeePublic support our little old rag, but a portion of proceeds raised go to supply the Cairo High School Writing Program in Cairo, IL. Shop now.
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Our Magazine Style and Purpose
It's in the title.
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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It's in the title.
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
Follow us on Twitter @CowboyJamboree @gritvanwinkle and like us on Facebook