{"id":7347,"date":"2025-09-05T17:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=7347"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:27:09","slug":"fn-call-for-submissions-to-cowboy-jamboree-magazine-theme-hidden-behind-the-door-that-sorrow-locked","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/event\/fn-call-for-submissions-to-cowboy-jamboree-magazine-theme-hidden-behind-the-door-that-sorrow-locked\/","title":{"rendered":"FN – Call for Submissions to Cowboy Jamboree Magazine. Theme: “Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u200b<\/span><\/strong>CALL FOR SUBS-CJ FALL 2025<\/span><\/strong>
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\nISSUE Theme: “Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked.”<\/p>\n

Where’d it come from? It’s a James “Slim” Hand lyric from a song about sitting in a bar in the corner at a table by a jukebox. Interpret however you like.<\/p>\n

Story\/CNF\/Verse. Deadline: Sept 21. Submit to\u00a0cowboyjamboree@gmail.com<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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[Purpose, Style & Tastes]<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s in the title.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

COWBOY [kou-boi]<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0(def.)
\n1. \u00a0American plains animal herder who tends cows
\n2. \u00a0one who is reckless or ignores risk, i.e. “cowboy attitude”
\n3. \u00a0tradesman with questionable or atypical practices, i.e. “cowboy plumbing”
\n4. \u00a0fast or careless driver on the highway, i.e. “slow down, cowboy”
\n5. \u00a0slang for “outlaw”<\/p>\n

JAMBOREE \u00a0[jam-buh-ree]<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0(def.)
\n1. \u00a0a large celebration or party, typically boisterous
\n2. \u00a0a carousel of noisy merrymaking<\/span><\/p>\n

PLEASE NOTE: COWBOY JAMBOREE IS LBTQ+ INCLUSIVE; WE SUPPORT WOMEN’S RIGHTS; WE ARE POC INCLUSIVE; WE ARE SENSITIVE TO MENTAL HEALTH INCLUSIVITY.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

If your fiction, creative nonfiction, vignette, flash, or photography jazzes with the above, we’re probably gonna dig it. \u00a0Not everything we accept for publication looks the same. \u00a0That said, words that describe stories we tend to like might include\u00a0rural, hardscrabbled, rough-hewn, pulpy, noirish<\/strong>…\u00a0<\/em>and, of course,\u00a0GRITTY.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In short, we’re a\u00a0Grit-Lit\u00a0<\/strong>magazine\u00a0<\/strong>focused on\u00a0the rural working class and gritty realism<\/strong>.\u00a0W<\/u><\/span><\/span>e are not a traditional western magazine.\u00a0\u00a0Western stories we accept tend to stray from archetypes of females as damsels and cowboy gunslingin’ heroes.\u00a0<\/strong>We’re generally not interested in historical western characters, no matter how fictionalized.<\/u>\u00a0\u00a0We like stories that\u00a0<\/strong>blend working class and literary language to explore characters and places that find themselves on the hardscrabble rather than heroic side of life.<\/p>\n

In other words, our cowboys are more likely to jump off a ’71 Ford Maverick than ride into a dusty town on a black steed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some grit lit and rural authors we love and that inspire us are: \u00a0Larry Brown, Harry Crews,<\/strong>\u00a0Donald Ray Pollock, Willy Vlautin, Denis Johnson, Barry Hannah, Brad Watson, Breece D’J Pancake, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Dorothy Allison, Bobbie Ann Mason, Wiley Cash, Erika T. Wurth, and Sheldon Lee Compton<\/strong>. \u00a0Beyond that, “classic” authors we dig vary and are certainly not contained to the following list, but these are some : \u00a0Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurtry, Sam Shepard, Charles Portis, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, Raymond Carver, Jim Harrison,\u00a0<\/strong>&\u00a0Elmore Leonard.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’ve always got a soft spot for country western, folk, Americana or rural music. \u00a0If that finds its way into a piece, we’re likely to be bias readers (don’t mean we’ll take it, just, you know, it’ll tickle our fancy).\u00a0\u00a0Terry Allen, Townes van Zandt, Hank Williams, Mississippi John Hurt, the Carter Family, Nanci Griffith, the Flatlanders, Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl King, Old Crow Medicine Show, Johnny Cash, Dom Flemons, Willie Nelson, Steve Earle, Gillian Welch, Dwight Yoakam, Justin Townes Earle, John Prine, Charley Crockett, Colter Wall, Tom Waits, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Charlie Pride and\u00a0Bob Dylan<\/a>\u00a0reign supreme here.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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