ISSUE 8.2: COUNTRY & FOLK
Contributors
Brian Beatty is the author of five poetry collections: Magpies and Crows; Borrowed Trouble; Dust and Stars: Miniatures; Brazil, Indiana: A Folk Poem; and Coyotes I Couldn’t See. Beatty’s tiny Hurley stories have appeared in numerous print and online publications, including Alien Buddha Zine, The Airgonaut, The Blue Mountain Review, Chautauqua Journal, Cholla Needles, Cowboy Jamboree, The Drabble, Floyd County Moonshine, Hoosier Noir, Hoot, Microfiction Monday Magazine, The Museum of Americana, Paragraph Planet, SoFloPoJo and The Whisky Blot.
Mark Rogers is a writer and artist whose literary heroes include Charles Bukowski, Willy Vlautin, and Charles Portis. He lives in Baja California, Mexico with his Sinaloa-born wife, Sofia. His award-winning travel journalism for USA Today and other media outlets has brought him to 56 countries. His crime novels have been published in the U.S and UK. Uppercut, his memoir of moving to Mexico, is published by Cowboy Jamboree Press. NeoText publishes his Mexico noir series and Gray Hunter series.
Justin Lee lives in East Tennessee with his wife and two sons. His work has been published in Punk Noir Magazine, Reckon Review, and others. He is an ex-corrections officer and is currently working towards becoming a social worker.
Coleman Bigelow's stories have appeared recently in Corvus Review, Idle Ink, Bending Genres, Bright Flash Literary Review, Free Flash Fiction, Every Day Fiction, and The Dead Mule School. Find more at www.colemanbigelow.com. Twitter: @ColemanBigelow IG: @cbigswrites
M. L. Owen now lives in Northern California rather than Nebraska and now writes surrounded by Redwoods rather than corn and has had work published in a number of literary journals, including Down in the Dirt, The South Shore Review, CafeLit, Meat for Tea, and The Bookends Review.
Rachel R. Baum is the editor of Funeral and Memorial Service Readings Poems and Tributes (McFarland, 1999) and author of the long-running blog BARK! Confessions of a Dog Trainer. Her poetry has appeared in Journal of Expressive Writing, OneArt, Poetica Review, Crosswinds, and The Raven’s Perch, among others. She chairs the committee that will select the first Poet Laureate of Saratoga Springs, New York.
Dan Russell is the Director of the Delta Writer’s Workshop. His work has appeared in the Arkansas Review, The Tributary, and You Might Need to Hear This. He lives in Arkansas atop Crowley’s Ridge with his wife and family.
Lisa Thornton is a writer and school nurse living in Illinois. She is a lover of identifying birds by their songs and all things James Bond. She has words published in Roi Faineant Press, Fiery Scribe Review, Bivouac Magazine and more. She was a finalist for the 2022 SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She can be found on Twitter @thorntonforreal.
Ashwini Gangal is a media journalist from Mumbai, India, who now lives in California. On most days she's a bumbling migrant desperately looking for her literary voice, her sanity and her own brand of genius. She recently quit her full-time job as managing editor of a business daily to pursue her passion — words, rhymes, stories, poetry, make believe. She’s also passionate about mental health, gender-power dynamics and all animals except humans. She’s an insatiable reader. Empathy is her super-power.
Josh Shepard is the author of Inside Voice: Poems Overheard (Ghost City Press 2022). His work has appeared in Waxwing, Bureau of Complaint, The Daily Drunk, HAD and elsewhere. He lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he works for the public library. He tweets about poetry and professional wrestling @JoshShepard.
M.E. Proctor is a European transplant. From Brussels to Livingston, Texas, many miles of land and sea. Street Stong, the first book in her Declan Shaw detective series, comes out in 2023 from TouchPoint Press. Her short stories have been published in Mystery Tribune, Shotgun Honey, Pulp Modern, Vautrin, Reckon Review and others.
SR Schulz is a writer with work in McSweeney's, HAD, Maudlin House, Rejection Letters and others.
Jen Schneider is an educator who lives, works, and writes in small spaces throughout Pennsylvania. She is a three-time Best of the Net Nominee and the author of several full-length collections and multiple chaps. 14 (Plus) Reasons Why (Free Lines Press) is forthcoming in Spring 2023.
Justin Carter is a sports writer who currently lives in Iowa and is originally from the Texas Gulf Coast. His debut poetry collection, Brazos, will be published by Belle Point Press in 2024.
Melissa Flores Anderson is a Latinx Californian whose creative work has been published in Maudlin House, The Write Launch and Rejection Letters, among others. She was nominated for Best of the Net for CNF. She is a reader/editor for Roi Fainéant Press’. Follow her: Twitter @melissacuisine or IG @theirishmonths.
Garrett Stack's first book is Yeoman's Work (Bottom Dog Press, 2020). His fiction was most recently published in X-R-A-Y, Cheat River Review, and Barren. He edits the Lakeshore Review and teaches at Ferris State University in West Michigan. He will die Midwestern.
A Pushcart Prize nominee, Maud Lavin has published recently in JAKE, Red Ogre Review, Roi Faineant, and Heimat Review, and earlier in The Nation, Harper's Bazaar, and elsewhere. One of her books, Cut with the Kitchen Knife, was named a New York Times Notable Book. Born and raised in Canton, Ohio, she lives in Chicago, where she writes, edits, and runs the READINGS series at Printers Row Wine.
Raised in Louisiana and Tennessee, Kristin Keyes writes on family dynamics, marriage, and a sense of place. She lives and works near the Texas Gulf Goast.
Susan R. Morritt is a writer, visual artist and musician from Waterford, Ontario, Canada. Her fiction has been published in A Coup of Owls, The Mason Street Review, Written Tales, Green's Magazine and is forthcoming in 34 Orchard Journal. She was short-listed for the Staunch Short Fiction Prize. Her poetry appears in numerous magazines including Better Than Starbucks, Freefall, Pulsar, and Feathertale. Susan is a former racehorse trainer who has worked extensively with livestock.
Sheree Shatsky writes wild words. Her work has appeared in a variety of journals and her novella in flash Summer 1969 is forthcoming at Ad Hoc Fiction. Sheree calls Florida home and is a Tom Petty fan. Read more of her writing at shereeshatsky.com and find her on Twitter @talktomememe.
Anthony Neil Smith is a novelist (Trooper Down, Yellow Medicine, The Drummer, many more), short story writer (HAD, Maudlin House, Reckon Review, many more), and professor (Southwest Minnesota State University). His story "The Ticks Will Eat You Whole," from Cowboy Jamboree Spring 2022, has been chosen for The Best American Mystery & Suspense 2023 anthology. He likes Mexican food, California wine, and Italian cop flicks from the seventies.
Cowboy Jamboree Editors
Adam Van Winkle was born and raised in Texoma and currently resides with his wife and two sons in South Carolina. In addition to publishing his short fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction online and in print at places like Bending Genres, Pithead Chapel, Cheap Pop!, BULL Magazine, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The Gorko Gazette, Roi Faineant Press and Red Dirt Forum, he has published several novels and plays with Red Dirt Press, Cowboy Jamboree Press, and Leftover Books. Van Winkle is named for the oldest Cartwright son on Bonanza. Find him and his publications online at www.adamvanwinkle.com and @gritvanwinkle.
Constance Beitzel is former lead editor and writer for The Buzz Magazine, a weekly culture rag in Champaign, IL. Currently she teaches college writing and literature at York Tech College and is a PhD candidate studying American Literature and Women's Studies at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Non-fiction:
http://readbuzz.com/author/constance-beitzel/
Kassie Bohannon holds a B.A. in Writing & Linguistics from Georgia Southern University. She edited for BULL Magazine for three years and has designed interiors for Cowboy Jamboree Press. You can read Kassie's fiction in Call Me [Brackets], her forthcoming review in Heavy Feather Review, and her personal writing on her website: https://kassiebohannon.wixsite.com/kassiebohannon. You can find Kassie on Twitter @imnotkassie.
Brian Beatty is the author of five poetry collections: Magpies and Crows; Borrowed Trouble; Dust and Stars: Miniatures; Brazil, Indiana: A Folk Poem; and Coyotes I Couldn’t See. Beatty’s tiny Hurley stories have appeared in numerous print and online publications, including Alien Buddha Zine, The Airgonaut, The Blue Mountain Review, Chautauqua Journal, Cholla Needles, Cowboy Jamboree, The Drabble, Floyd County Moonshine, Hoosier Noir, Hoot, Microfiction Monday Magazine, The Museum of Americana, Paragraph Planet, SoFloPoJo and The Whisky Blot.
Mark Rogers is a writer and artist whose literary heroes include Charles Bukowski, Willy Vlautin, and Charles Portis. He lives in Baja California, Mexico with his Sinaloa-born wife, Sofia. His award-winning travel journalism for USA Today and other media outlets has brought him to 56 countries. His crime novels have been published in the U.S and UK. Uppercut, his memoir of moving to Mexico, is published by Cowboy Jamboree Press. NeoText publishes his Mexico noir series and Gray Hunter series.
Justin Lee lives in East Tennessee with his wife and two sons. His work has been published in Punk Noir Magazine, Reckon Review, and others. He is an ex-corrections officer and is currently working towards becoming a social worker.
Coleman Bigelow's stories have appeared recently in Corvus Review, Idle Ink, Bending Genres, Bright Flash Literary Review, Free Flash Fiction, Every Day Fiction, and The Dead Mule School. Find more at www.colemanbigelow.com. Twitter: @ColemanBigelow IG: @cbigswrites
M. L. Owen now lives in Northern California rather than Nebraska and now writes surrounded by Redwoods rather than corn and has had work published in a number of literary journals, including Down in the Dirt, The South Shore Review, CafeLit, Meat for Tea, and The Bookends Review.
Rachel R. Baum is the editor of Funeral and Memorial Service Readings Poems and Tributes (McFarland, 1999) and author of the long-running blog BARK! Confessions of a Dog Trainer. Her poetry has appeared in Journal of Expressive Writing, OneArt, Poetica Review, Crosswinds, and The Raven’s Perch, among others. She chairs the committee that will select the first Poet Laureate of Saratoga Springs, New York.
Dan Russell is the Director of the Delta Writer’s Workshop. His work has appeared in the Arkansas Review, The Tributary, and You Might Need to Hear This. He lives in Arkansas atop Crowley’s Ridge with his wife and family.
Lisa Thornton is a writer and school nurse living in Illinois. She is a lover of identifying birds by their songs and all things James Bond. She has words published in Roi Faineant Press, Fiery Scribe Review, Bivouac Magazine and more. She was a finalist for the 2022 SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She can be found on Twitter @thorntonforreal.
Ashwini Gangal is a media journalist from Mumbai, India, who now lives in California. On most days she's a bumbling migrant desperately looking for her literary voice, her sanity and her own brand of genius. She recently quit her full-time job as managing editor of a business daily to pursue her passion — words, rhymes, stories, poetry, make believe. She’s also passionate about mental health, gender-power dynamics and all animals except humans. She’s an insatiable reader. Empathy is her super-power.
Josh Shepard is the author of Inside Voice: Poems Overheard (Ghost City Press 2022). His work has appeared in Waxwing, Bureau of Complaint, The Daily Drunk, HAD and elsewhere. He lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he works for the public library. He tweets about poetry and professional wrestling @JoshShepard.
M.E. Proctor is a European transplant. From Brussels to Livingston, Texas, many miles of land and sea. Street Stong, the first book in her Declan Shaw detective series, comes out in 2023 from TouchPoint Press. Her short stories have been published in Mystery Tribune, Shotgun Honey, Pulp Modern, Vautrin, Reckon Review and others.
SR Schulz is a writer with work in McSweeney's, HAD, Maudlin House, Rejection Letters and others.
Jen Schneider is an educator who lives, works, and writes in small spaces throughout Pennsylvania. She is a three-time Best of the Net Nominee and the author of several full-length collections and multiple chaps. 14 (Plus) Reasons Why (Free Lines Press) is forthcoming in Spring 2023.
Justin Carter is a sports writer who currently lives in Iowa and is originally from the Texas Gulf Coast. His debut poetry collection, Brazos, will be published by Belle Point Press in 2024.
Melissa Flores Anderson is a Latinx Californian whose creative work has been published in Maudlin House, The Write Launch and Rejection Letters, among others. She was nominated for Best of the Net for CNF. She is a reader/editor for Roi Fainéant Press’. Follow her: Twitter @melissacuisine or IG @theirishmonths.
Garrett Stack's first book is Yeoman's Work (Bottom Dog Press, 2020). His fiction was most recently published in X-R-A-Y, Cheat River Review, and Barren. He edits the Lakeshore Review and teaches at Ferris State University in West Michigan. He will die Midwestern.
A Pushcart Prize nominee, Maud Lavin has published recently in JAKE, Red Ogre Review, Roi Faineant, and Heimat Review, and earlier in The Nation, Harper's Bazaar, and elsewhere. One of her books, Cut with the Kitchen Knife, was named a New York Times Notable Book. Born and raised in Canton, Ohio, she lives in Chicago, where she writes, edits, and runs the READINGS series at Printers Row Wine.
Raised in Louisiana and Tennessee, Kristin Keyes writes on family dynamics, marriage, and a sense of place. She lives and works near the Texas Gulf Goast.
Susan R. Morritt is a writer, visual artist and musician from Waterford, Ontario, Canada. Her fiction has been published in A Coup of Owls, The Mason Street Review, Written Tales, Green's Magazine and is forthcoming in 34 Orchard Journal. She was short-listed for the Staunch Short Fiction Prize. Her poetry appears in numerous magazines including Better Than Starbucks, Freefall, Pulsar, and Feathertale. Susan is a former racehorse trainer who has worked extensively with livestock.
Sheree Shatsky writes wild words. Her work has appeared in a variety of journals and her novella in flash Summer 1969 is forthcoming at Ad Hoc Fiction. Sheree calls Florida home and is a Tom Petty fan. Read more of her writing at shereeshatsky.com and find her on Twitter @talktomememe.
Anthony Neil Smith is a novelist (Trooper Down, Yellow Medicine, The Drummer, many more), short story writer (HAD, Maudlin House, Reckon Review, many more), and professor (Southwest Minnesota State University). His story "The Ticks Will Eat You Whole," from Cowboy Jamboree Spring 2022, has been chosen for The Best American Mystery & Suspense 2023 anthology. He likes Mexican food, California wine, and Italian cop flicks from the seventies.
Cowboy Jamboree Editors
Adam Van Winkle was born and raised in Texoma and currently resides with his wife and two sons in South Carolina. In addition to publishing his short fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction online and in print at places like Bending Genres, Pithead Chapel, Cheap Pop!, BULL Magazine, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The Gorko Gazette, Roi Faineant Press and Red Dirt Forum, he has published several novels and plays with Red Dirt Press, Cowboy Jamboree Press, and Leftover Books. Van Winkle is named for the oldest Cartwright son on Bonanza. Find him and his publications online at www.adamvanwinkle.com and @gritvanwinkle.
Constance Beitzel is former lead editor and writer for The Buzz Magazine, a weekly culture rag in Champaign, IL. Currently she teaches college writing and literature at York Tech College and is a PhD candidate studying American Literature and Women's Studies at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Non-fiction:
http://readbuzz.com/author/constance-beitzel/
Kassie Bohannon holds a B.A. in Writing & Linguistics from Georgia Southern University. She edited for BULL Magazine for three years and has designed interiors for Cowboy Jamboree Press. You can read Kassie's fiction in Call Me [Brackets], her forthcoming review in Heavy Feather Review, and her personal writing on her website: https://kassiebohannon.wixsite.com/kassiebohannon. You can find Kassie on Twitter @imnotkassie.