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Cowboy Jamboree Magazine
Good grit lit.

              
CURRENT ISSUE: fall 2022, "ThAlia et alia"
Cowboy jamboree Press Books
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Call for Subs:  We've done Bob, Hank, and Townes.  The next in our series of anthologies of grit lit incited by musicians we love is all about Willie.  RED HEADED WRITING seeks pieces inspired by the music of Willie Nelson, especially the spare and haunting album Red Headed Stranger.  We want stories and cnf and verse that hit themes like love, the jilted, revenge, roaming, and redemption.  We want a toke of anything you've got inspired by Shotgun Willie.  Submit to cowboyjamboree@gmail.com.  Deadline: August 15, 2023.

AN ANTHOLOGY OF DAMN FINE POEMS
edited by
Adrienne Marie Barrios
and
Leigh Chadwick


Coming Fall 2023 from Cowboy Jamboree Press
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Move over Best American Poetry, this is going to be THE poetry anthology to get in 2023.

All proceeds will be donated to Sandy Hook Promise (@sandyhook).

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CALL FOR SUBS: Spring 2023 Online Issue, "Country & Folk"
In honor of our new music incited series of anthologies (Blue Bob & Hank Mighta Done It This Way out now, Travelin’ Thru Townes comin’ this spring, Red Headed Stranger call soon) the Spring 2023 Cowboy Jamboree Magazine issue theme is simply “Country & Folk.”  Anything inspired by country or folk music, or just in that vein, we want to see.  Verse/Flash/Fiction/CNF.  Deadline March 15, 2023.  Send subs to cowboyjamboree@gmail.com.

Watch for a new call for subs soon.  The next in CJ's music anthology series will be inspired by Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger...
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Check out an Excerpt from ORCHARD here.  You'll get hooked.
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The Orchard Is Full of Sound
one author's connection with Breece D'J Pancake: a memoir
Sheldon Lee Compton

​$13.99
ISBN: 
9798439128341
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​ORDER HERE!!!

​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.
Out Now from Cowboy Jamboree Press
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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



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  • CJ MAGAZINE
  • Current Issue
  • Style & Submit
    • About CJ
  • Books
  • Sheldon Lee Compton
    • Oblivion Angels
    • The Orchard Is Full of Sound (excerpt)
    • Our Lord and Savior Christian Slater
    • Dog With a Rabbit's Head
    • By-blow
    • Until the Going Down of the River
    • The Judas Steer
    • Tooling Up
    • DYSPHORIA (excerpt)
  • Interviews, Reviews, & Presses
    • Hard Mountain Clay Review
    • Blake Johnson's Prodigal: An American Parable
  • Jobbers
    • Big Rig by Shaun Jex
    • A Night Out with Big Ricky by Katy Goforth
    • War Eagle by David Barker
    • True Dreams of Wichita by Shaun Jex
    • Doink the Clown Works Birthday Parties by Michael Chin
    • The Ballad of Ethel Bridges by David P. Barker
    • House Show in Badger County High School Gym by Simon Nagel
    • 288 Miles by David P. Barker
    • Corn Dogs by Shaun Jex
    • Getting Ready + Cowboy by Michael Chin
    • American Dream by Robert Libbey
    • Training Partner by A.A. Rubin
    • Finding the von Erichs by Shaun Jex
    • The Making of Big Sandy by Michael Carter
    • Pot Roast from Vance Godbey's by Mark A. Nobles
    • Abdullah the Butcher in Gotham by Mark A. Nobles
    • PWI by Josh Olsen
  • Harry Crews
  • CJ Issues & Authors
  • Our Father's Lit: Western Pulp