Fall 2023: Issue 9.1--Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
CONTRIBUTORS
Sarah Holloway lives with her husband and lots of books in Savannah, GA. Her recent work appears in SmokeLong Quarterly's blog, Roi Fainéant, Emerge Literary Journal and SugarSugarSalt Magazine. Her work was shortlisted for SmokeLong Quarterly's Summer 2023 fiction prize. You can follow her @Sarah31405 on Twitter and @sarahholloway.bsky.social. (She/her).
Ben Porter is a short fiction writer who lives in Lafayette, Louisiana where he is a PhD student in English under the University Doctoral Fellowship. He is a graduate of Pacific University's MFA in Creative Writing where he was the recipient of the Pearl Scholarship. He is currently the fiction editor at Rougarou Journal. Recently, he can be read in the Madison Review, Sandy River Review, Bull, and Renascence Journal. When not writing, Ben wrestles with his kids, drinks wine, and tries with all his might to play country licks on his guitar.
Timothy Boudreau lives and works in northern New Hampshire. His recent work has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Microfiction and a Pushcart Prize. His collection Saturday Night and other Short Stories is available through Hobblebush Books. Find him on Twitter at @tcboudreau or at timothyboudreau.com.
Clem Flowers (They/ Them) is a poet, low rent aesthete, gorgeous monstrosity, pizza man lover, and generally queer as hell cryptid, living in a cozy apartment with their wonderful spouse & sweet calico kitty. Found on Twitter @clem_flowers & on Bluesky at clemflowers.bsky.social.
R. P. Singletary is a lifelong writer, a budding playwright, and a native of the rural southeastern United States, with recent fiction, poetry, and drama published or upcoming in Literally Stories, Litro, BULL, Cream Scene Carnival, Teleport, CafeLit, JONAH, Ancient Paths Christian Literary, Flora Fiction, Ariel Chart, Syncopation, Last Leaves, Stone of Madness, Written Tales, Wicked Gay Ways, Fresh Words, The Chamber, Wingless Dreamer, Screen Door Review, Microfiction Monday, mini plays, Pink Disco, Lost Lake Folk Opera, The Stray Branch, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Bending Genres, and elsewhere.
Pat Jameson is a writer based in Roanoke, VA. His work has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, X-R-A-Y, BULL, Hex, Cleaver Magazine, and Apocalypse Confidential, among others. His story “Death Drive” was a finalist for the 2022 SmokeLong Quarterly Flash Fiction Award. He is a first reader for Reckon Review. Find him on Twitter @jameson_pat.
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 Tijuana Novels series and Gray Hunter series. His short fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines.
JD Clapp writes in San Diego, CA. His work has appeared in The Milk House, Revolution John, PovertyHouse, and numerous others. His story, “One Last Drop,” was a finalist in the 2023 Hemingway Shorts Literary Journal Short Story Competition.
Paul Alexander is the author of the parenting humor book Our Baby Was Born Premature: the same way he was conceived. His story “Shorty Cocked His Gun” is in Jacked: A Crime Anthology which won the Chinaski award from the Independant Fiction Alliance.
Jon Sokol is a writer, forester, traveler, and book reviewer from northeast Georgia. His short stories and essays have appeared in the James Dickey Review, Gray’s Sporting Journal, Southern Literary Review, Gutwrench Journal, Reckon Review, Well Read Magazine, Cowboy Jamboree, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, and other journals and anthologies. In 2021, he graduated from Reinhardt University with an MFA in Creative Writing. Jon can be found online at www.jonsokol.com and @JonSokolWriter on Twitter.
Nancy Dillingham is associate editor of the online poetry journal Speckled Trout Review and coeditor of four anthologies of western North Carolina women writers. Her poetry collection Home was nominated for a SIBA. Her latest publications include the chapbooks A Wild Shining and Evanescence of Spring, and her chapbook Promise is forthcoming in spring of '24. She lives in Asheville, NC.
David Estringel is a Xicanx writer/poet with an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas. He has works in publications like The Opiate, Azahares, Cephalorpress, DREICH, Somos en escrito, Ethel, The Milk House, Beir Bua Journal, and Drunk Monkeys. He has published five poetry collections, Indelible Fingerprints, Blood Honey, Cold Comfort House, little punctures and Blind Turns in the Kitchen Sink, as well as six poetry chapbooks, Punctures, PeripherieS, Eating Pears on the Rooftop, Golden Calves, Blue, and Sour Grapes, plus a new hybrid chapbook of poetry and prose, Brujeria, coming soon. Connect with David on Twitter @The_Booky_Man and www.davidaestringel.com.
Patricia Quintana Bidar is a Western writer from the Port of Los Angeles area. Her work can be found in journals including Wigleaf, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Pinch, and Northwest Review, and in anthologies including Flash Fiction America (W.W. Norton), Best Small Fictions 2023 (Alternating Current), and Best Microfiction 2023 (Pelekinesis). Her book of short fiction, Pardon Me For Moonwalking, will be published by Unsolicited Press in 2025. Patricia lives with her family and unusual dog outside of Oakland, California. https://patriciaqbidar.com.
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 Pithead Chapel, Cheap Pop!, BULL Magazine, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Roi Faineant, The Gorko Gazette, Revolution John and Red Dirt Forum, he has published several novels and plays with Red Dirt Press, Cowboy Jamboree Press, and Leftover Books. His novel Abraham Anyhow was named the June 2017 Read of the Month by The Southern Literary Review, featured in the Monkeybicycle “If My Book…” series and an excerpt from it was nominated for a Puschart Prize. He is the founder and editor of Cowboy Jamboree Press and Magazine. Van Winkle is named for the oldest Cartwright son on Bonanza. Find him and his publications online at www.adamvanwinkle.com and @gritvanwinkle.
Sarah Holloway lives with her husband and lots of books in Savannah, GA. Her recent work appears in SmokeLong Quarterly's blog, Roi Fainéant, Emerge Literary Journal and SugarSugarSalt Magazine. Her work was shortlisted for SmokeLong Quarterly's Summer 2023 fiction prize. You can follow her @Sarah31405 on Twitter and @sarahholloway.bsky.social. (She/her).
Ben Porter is a short fiction writer who lives in Lafayette, Louisiana where he is a PhD student in English under the University Doctoral Fellowship. He is a graduate of Pacific University's MFA in Creative Writing where he was the recipient of the Pearl Scholarship. He is currently the fiction editor at Rougarou Journal. Recently, he can be read in the Madison Review, Sandy River Review, Bull, and Renascence Journal. When not writing, Ben wrestles with his kids, drinks wine, and tries with all his might to play country licks on his guitar.
Timothy Boudreau lives and works in northern New Hampshire. His recent work has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Microfiction and a Pushcart Prize. His collection Saturday Night and other Short Stories is available through Hobblebush Books. Find him on Twitter at @tcboudreau or at timothyboudreau.com.
Clem Flowers (They/ Them) is a poet, low rent aesthete, gorgeous monstrosity, pizza man lover, and generally queer as hell cryptid, living in a cozy apartment with their wonderful spouse & sweet calico kitty. Found on Twitter @clem_flowers & on Bluesky at clemflowers.bsky.social.
R. P. Singletary is a lifelong writer, a budding playwright, and a native of the rural southeastern United States, with recent fiction, poetry, and drama published or upcoming in Literally Stories, Litro, BULL, Cream Scene Carnival, Teleport, CafeLit, JONAH, Ancient Paths Christian Literary, Flora Fiction, Ariel Chart, Syncopation, Last Leaves, Stone of Madness, Written Tales, Wicked Gay Ways, Fresh Words, The Chamber, Wingless Dreamer, Screen Door Review, Microfiction Monday, mini plays, Pink Disco, Lost Lake Folk Opera, The Stray Branch, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Bending Genres, and elsewhere.
Pat Jameson is a writer based in Roanoke, VA. His work has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, X-R-A-Y, BULL, Hex, Cleaver Magazine, and Apocalypse Confidential, among others. His story “Death Drive” was a finalist for the 2022 SmokeLong Quarterly Flash Fiction Award. He is a first reader for Reckon Review. Find him on Twitter @jameson_pat.
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 Tijuana Novels series and Gray Hunter series. His short fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines.
JD Clapp writes in San Diego, CA. His work has appeared in The Milk House, Revolution John, PovertyHouse, and numerous others. His story, “One Last Drop,” was a finalist in the 2023 Hemingway Shorts Literary Journal Short Story Competition.
Paul Alexander is the author of the parenting humor book Our Baby Was Born Premature: the same way he was conceived. His story “Shorty Cocked His Gun” is in Jacked: A Crime Anthology which won the Chinaski award from the Independant Fiction Alliance.
Jon Sokol is a writer, forester, traveler, and book reviewer from northeast Georgia. His short stories and essays have appeared in the James Dickey Review, Gray’s Sporting Journal, Southern Literary Review, Gutwrench Journal, Reckon Review, Well Read Magazine, Cowboy Jamboree, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, and other journals and anthologies. In 2021, he graduated from Reinhardt University with an MFA in Creative Writing. Jon can be found online at www.jonsokol.com and @JonSokolWriter on Twitter.
Nancy Dillingham is associate editor of the online poetry journal Speckled Trout Review and coeditor of four anthologies of western North Carolina women writers. Her poetry collection Home was nominated for a SIBA. Her latest publications include the chapbooks A Wild Shining and Evanescence of Spring, and her chapbook Promise is forthcoming in spring of '24. She lives in Asheville, NC.
David Estringel is a Xicanx writer/poet with an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas. He has works in publications like The Opiate, Azahares, Cephalorpress, DREICH, Somos en escrito, Ethel, The Milk House, Beir Bua Journal, and Drunk Monkeys. He has published five poetry collections, Indelible Fingerprints, Blood Honey, Cold Comfort House, little punctures and Blind Turns in the Kitchen Sink, as well as six poetry chapbooks, Punctures, PeripherieS, Eating Pears on the Rooftop, Golden Calves, Blue, and Sour Grapes, plus a new hybrid chapbook of poetry and prose, Brujeria, coming soon. Connect with David on Twitter @The_Booky_Man and www.davidaestringel.com.
Patricia Quintana Bidar is a Western writer from the Port of Los Angeles area. Her work can be found in journals including Wigleaf, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Pinch, and Northwest Review, and in anthologies including Flash Fiction America (W.W. Norton), Best Small Fictions 2023 (Alternating Current), and Best Microfiction 2023 (Pelekinesis). Her book of short fiction, Pardon Me For Moonwalking, will be published by Unsolicited Press in 2025. Patricia lives with her family and unusual dog outside of Oakland, California. https://patriciaqbidar.com.
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 Pithead Chapel, Cheap Pop!, BULL Magazine, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Roi Faineant, The Gorko Gazette, Revolution John and Red Dirt Forum, he has published several novels and plays with Red Dirt Press, Cowboy Jamboree Press, and Leftover Books. His novel Abraham Anyhow was named the June 2017 Read of the Month by The Southern Literary Review, featured in the Monkeybicycle “If My Book…” series and an excerpt from it was nominated for a Puschart Prize. He is the founder and editor of Cowboy Jamboree Press and Magazine. Van Winkle is named for the oldest Cartwright son on Bonanza. Find him and his publications online at www.adamvanwinkle.com and @gritvanwinkle.