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Press & online rag dedicated to grit lit & rural writing with rough edges. Survival is triumph enough. We dig Folk & Old Country music: @npcountrycovers.bsky.social. EIC: @vanwinkle.bsky.social www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com

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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · Apr 9

Cowboy Jamboree's spring issue-TOUGH WOMEN, GRITTY TALES-is live y'all! What a stellar lineup.
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ISSUE 10.2: Tough Women, Gritty Tales

ISSUE 10.2: TOUGH WOMEN, GRITTY TALES spring 2025 HEREIN "Stupid" by Rebecca Tiger "Rattlesnakes" by Sabrina Hicks "Destination Unknown" by Sarah Holloway "Juniper" by Sarah Holloway "The...

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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 19h

Less than one week to go before y'all get to meet Holt, Carrie, Birdie and all the rest in @katywrites.bsky.social's TRAVELING ALONE. Out 10/14 from CJ Press.

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John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social · 21h

Advance praise for my collection of short stories THIS WORLD WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF STRANGERS (out 11.18 from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social) from @kevingrauke.bsky.social

This collection of loosely connected stories reminds us that, no matter how much we crave connection and a sense of belonging, we often fail to achieve it to any degree of satisfaction-and sometimes not at all.
Bullion's young men do their very best, however, to forge identities in a lonely, latchkey landscape of a Missouri college town, where parents are checked out, if not absent, and the love is tough, if present at all.
Now, this may sound like rough sledding, but its bite and poignancy are perfectly balanced with what is often riotous humor.
Such a potent mixture is a rarity in today's fiction, which is why this collection is a thing to celebrate and share.
Kevin Grauke, author of Shadows of Men and Yonderites

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John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social · 21h

I had the great pleasure of getting to read an advance copy of Kevin Grauke's WEST OF DESTRY (which is also being published by @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social, on 11/11) and I am not exaggerating when I say it is one of the best books of the year

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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 1d

So come back Woody Guthrie
Come back to us now
Tear your eyes from paradise
And rise again somehow
If you run into Jesus
Maybe he can help you out
Come back Woody Guthrie to us now

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOYF...

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 2d

Don't be angry with me, darling, if I fail to understand
All your little whims and wishes all the time
Just remember that I'm kind of dumb, I guess, like any foolish man
And my head stays sort of foggy cause you're mine

Dale Watson does Stonewall Jackson: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DkN...

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Adam Van Winkle @vanwinkle.bsky.social · 2d

Count the Dust...the trailer.

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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 5d

Woody Guthrie died on this day in 1967. Surely his spirit lives on.

Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 8d

SONGS TO WOODY-CJ anthology call y'all

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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · 5d

Terry Allen, HOLDING, 1996

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 7d

Don't let the stars get in your eyes
Don't let the moon break your heart
Love blooms at night
In daylight it dies

@kdlang does Slim Willet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kyf...

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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 7d

BRUISER vs. the deadline

Here are our best BRUISERS of the net nominees.

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John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve got a new story in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social about about the game of mini-golf played by Jonathan Richman and Gram Parsons the day before Parsons’ death pitheadchapel.com/high-desert-...

High Desert Heritage Auction Lot #191

John Waddy Bullion Putt-Putt Golf Scorecard, dated 9/18/73 A scorecard for a round of putt-putt golf signed by Jonathan Richman and Gram Parsons White, with some yellowing. Slight wear, staining. 4…

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John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social · 7d

Elated that the good folks at @bruisermag.com bestowed a Best of the Net nom on this piece

BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 7d

@johnwaddy.bsky.social

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PET ROCK by John Waddy Bullion - BRUISER

Katy Perry owns a cat named Kitty Purry. Kelly Clarkson’s dogs are named Joplin and Security. Mick Jagger owns a black cat named Nero. Lady Gaga

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 7d

And Mary and a shotgun
Kept the rattlesnakes away
How she kept on smiling
No one could ever say

Lyle Lovett does Texas Poet Laureate Steven Fromholz: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJAD...

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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 8d

SONGS TO WOODY-CJ anthology call y'all

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fbereaud.bsky.social @fbereaud.bsky.social · 8d

San Diego Stories up the street, snug and honored next to the amazing Brit Bennett. What a joyous ride, all gratitude @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social.

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Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social · 8d

Just got a copy of @melissacuisine.bsky.social’s “All & Then None of You” from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social. She’s very talented and I’m looking forward to reading this.

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 8d

Their faces gaunt
Their eyes were blurred
Their shirts all soaked with sweat
They're riding hard to catch that herd
But they ain't caught 'em yet...

White Rose Motor Oil do Bob Geddins' Cavaliers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQwD...

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 8d

She took him by his long yellow hair
And also by his feet
She plunged him into well water where
It runs both cold and deep

Dylan does Dick Justice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKK7...

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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 9d

Let’s fucking goooo @johnwaddy.bsky.social

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 9d

These are the words that cry out of me in the night
Like a buffalo herd from a shotgun blast scattered in flight
I got a one track mind
Going down a one train line
Living on dreams half the time
Going west

Jimmie Dale Gilmore does John Hiatt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e276...

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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · 9d

L-Terry Allen's story of what inspired VISIONS BEHIND GLASS (BILLINGSGATE), courtesy of @laweekly01.bsky.social.

R-Terry Allen, VISIONS BEHIND GLASS (BILLINGSGATE), 1983

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Roi Fainéant Press @rfpress.bsky.social · 10d

Mornin' kids!

Looks like it's about that time again.

Our 89th issue is live right now. Tell your favorite trophy collector.

www.roifaineantpress.com/blog

#WritingCommunity

Graphic with rows of trophies
Text reads: 89 is totally fine

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Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social · 12d

I'm sending this around again because I found out at Bouchercon that this story was selected for a Shamus Award by the Private Eye Writers of America. I'm so grateful to them for choosing this story, and to @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social for giving it a home.

Deadhead

DEADHEAD Tom Andes My first client was an Uptown lawyer named Donaldson whose daughter had run off with a Deadhead. As anyone will tell you, back then New Orleans was a different city. Less...

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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 13d

"I'd like to do a song now that was recoded by a pretty pearly country group known as the Beatles. I know you heard them many times from the Grand Ole Opry..."

Willie does the Beatles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_HL...

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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 13d

Look for Cowboy Jamboree's Terry Allen incited anthology of fiction, cnf, verse and sketches, I FEEL JUST LIKE A DOGWOOD TREE, round about November.

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