COWBOY JAMBOREE MAGAZINE & PRESS
  • 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

Archive

Here we will keep our past issues for perusal.

CJ publishes Bi-annually with Winter/Spring and Summer/Fall issues.

Archived Below:
-Issue 1.1: Oh Death! (Fall 2015)
-Issue 1.2: Flood Waters (Spring 2016)
-Issue 2.1: with Alacrity! (Fall 2016)
-Issue 2.2: the Family Strain (Spring 2017)
-Issue 3.1: special Harry Crews issue (Fall 2017, see page tab)
-Issue 3.2: My Dog Died...a Larry Brown Inspired Issue (Spring 2018)
-Issue 4.1: Rural Enterprises (Fall 2018)
-Issue 4.2: "Grotesque to Art"--in the vein of Donald Ray Pollock (Spring 2019)
-Issue 5.1: "Henry Chinaski is a Friend of Mine"--the Bukowski Issue (Fall 2019)
-Issue 5.2: "A Mess of Catfish" (Spring 2020)
-Issue 6.1: "Prine Primed"--a special tribute to John Prine (Fall 2020)
​-Issue 6.2: "Asquint" (Spring 2021)

-Issue 7.1: "Buried Child"--inspired by Sam Shepard (Fall 2021)
-Issue 7.2: "New Fools Are Here To Take Your Place"--a Breece D'J Pancake incited issue (Spring 2022)

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"Asquint" (Spring 2021)
Download "Asquint" Issue Here
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"Prine Primed"--a special tribute to John Prine (Fall 2020)
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"A Mess of Catfish" (Spring 2020)
Download "A Mess of Catfish" E-Reader File
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"Henry Chinaski is a Friend of Mine"--the Bukowski Issue (Fall 2019)
Download "Henry Chinaski is a Friend of Mine" E-Reader File
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"Grotesque to Art"--in the vein of Donald Ray Pollock
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Issue 4.1 "Rural Enterprises" Summer-Fall 2018
"On Grit Lit"  by William R. Soldan
New Stories from Sheldon Lee Compton, Frank Reardon, Hillary Leftwich & Heath Dollar
Photo Essay by TD Liskey
CJ in Books: Jesse Sensibar, Heath Dollar, William Soldan, Noah Milligan & Dwaine Rieves 
Author Interviews and Excerpts: Willie Davis & Kirk Lake
New Stories from Amy Wilson, Joey Poole, Jon Berger, Dorothy Rice, Jay Halsey,  Daren Dean & Annaka Saari

Download Rural Enterprise PDF

Issue 3.2 "My Dog Died...A Larry Brown Inspired Issue"
​Contributors: Sheldon Lee Compton, Benjamin Drevlow, Steven Lambert, C.W. Accetta, Jeremy Perry, Lee Anderson, Scott Ray, Carol Dunbar, AF Knott, Chita Woychik, Yasser El-Sayed, Julia Nunnally Duncan

Issue 3.1 Harry Crews Special Issue (see menu tab for issue and contributors)
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Issue 2.2 "The Family Strain"
Contributors:  Matt Paul, CL Bledsoe, Anne Weisgerber, Patricia Donahue, Jesse Bradley, William Bernhardt, Dwaine Rieves, Elizabeth Farris, Julia Nunnally Duncan, Ken Teutsch, Terry Barr, Nancy Faulkner Sackheim
2016-2017
Cowboy Jamboree 2.1: with Alacrity! (Fall 2016)
File Size: 2660 kb
File Type: pdf
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Issue 2.1 Contributors:  Jared Yates Sexton, Robert James Russell, Hillary Leftwich, Jayne Martin, Noah Milligan, C. Gregory Thompson, Jennifer Leeper, Allen Forrest, Shauna Mackay, Kaela Martin, Jean Wong, Trae Venerable, Nora Decter, Lana Elizabeth Gabris, Michael Anthony, P.A. Bechko, Jude Brigely, Kristie Letts Better
2015-2016
Cowboy Jamboree 1.1: Oh Death (Fall 2015)
File Size: 1333 kb
File Type: pdf
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Issue 1.1 Contributors: James Reasoner, Brandon Daily, Lancaster Cooney, Allen Forrest, Alice Weiss, Jesse Sensibar, Roxie Faulkner Kirk, Jason Half-Pillow, J.A. Crook, and Tom Darin Liskey
Cowboy Jamboree 1.2: Flood Waters (Spring 2016)
File Size: 360 kb
File Type: pdf
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Issue 1.2 Contributors: Katarina Boudreaux, Ethan A. Zimmerman, Katie Bickell, Meredith Smith, Kathryn Holzman, Sterling H. Cash, Mary Bone
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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