Cowboy Jamboree Magazine
Good grit lit.
Good grit lit.
New Releases!
Check out the new short story collection from Amanda Bales! Grab Pekolah Stories here.
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Dan Crawley's new short story collection is out now from CJ Press! Grab The Wind, It Swirls here.
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Cowboy Jamboree Press is proud to announce that we will be the exclusive publishing home for all future Sheldon Lee Compton fiction and creative nonfiction.
“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
"Sheldon Lee Compton is the definition of what Faulkner meant when he described the closeness between the short story writer and the poet." - David Joy, author of The Weight of This World
"Sheldon Lee Compton is like a living, breathing John Cougar Mellencamp song (minus guitars and hand claps) but with much better stories." - Brian Alan Ellis, author of Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty
“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
"Sheldon Lee Compton is the definition of what Faulkner meant when he described the closeness between the short story writer and the poet." - David Joy, author of The Weight of This World
"Sheldon Lee Compton is like a living, breathing John Cougar Mellencamp song (minus guitars and hand claps) but with much better stories." - Brian Alan Ellis, author of Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty
Fall Issue Submissions: Buried Child
Over the years we've used many of our favorite artists as inspiration for issue themes: our special Harry Crews issue, our Larry Brown inspired "My Dog Died" issue, "Grotesque to Art" in the vein of Donald Ray Pollock, the Bukowski tinged issue "Henry Chinaski is a Friend of of Mine," and the Fall 2020 John Prine inspired issue. We continue that in Fall 2021 with "Buried Child," inspired by Sam Shepard. Your grit lit submission can be similar in theme or content to the tragedy of a broken rural Midwestern family with a dark secret that is Buried Child, or simply nod in some way to the great writing of Shepard. Think True West, think Cowboy Mouth, think Curse of the Starving Class, think Fool for Love. Feel free to send a short play, though we'll of course still consider our usual mix of fiction, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction to boot. Deadline: September 1, 2021
Over the years we've used many of our favorite artists as inspiration for issue themes: our special Harry Crews issue, our Larry Brown inspired "My Dog Died" issue, "Grotesque to Art" in the vein of Donald Ray Pollock, the Bukowski tinged issue "Henry Chinaski is a Friend of of Mine," and the Fall 2020 John Prine inspired issue. We continue that in Fall 2021 with "Buried Child," inspired by Sam Shepard. Your grit lit submission can be similar in theme or content to the tragedy of a broken rural Midwestern family with a dark secret that is Buried Child, or simply nod in some way to the great writing of Shepard. Think True West, think Cowboy Mouth, think Curse of the Starving Class, think Fool for Love. Feel free to send a short play, though we'll of course still consider our usual mix of fiction, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction to boot. Deadline: September 1, 2021
Whether you do it here or there, support indie. Shop CJ tees, hoodies, mugs, pins, etc. and support good grit lit. CJ Book designs, grit sketches, and CJ Jobbers retro wrestling pop art by Adam Van Winkle.
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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 2019 PUSHCART NOMINEES.
Congratulations and Good Luck!
Dan Crawley
Daren Dean
Emily Grandy
Sheldon Lee Compton
Mark A. Nobles
Benjamin Drevlow
Congratulations and Good Luck!
Dan Crawley
Daren Dean
Emily Grandy
Sheldon Lee Compton
Mark A. Nobles
Benjamin Drevlow
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
Follow us on Twitter @CowboyJamboree @gritvanwinkle and like us on Facebook
All original art by Adam Van Winkle unless otherwise noted.
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
All original art by Adam Van Winkle unless otherwise noted.