Jonathan Danielson
@jonathanin2k.bsky.social
College edumakator. Regular idiot. THE LOWEST BASIN: ARIZONA STORIES (Cowboy Jamboree, 2025). Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Fiction. Southwest Books of the Year.
I cried just reading the history. Don’t ask what the book always does to me!
On this day in 1986, Canadian author Robert Munsch released his book Love You Forever. It is a book that originated from tragedy but from that tragedy came something wonderful and beloved around the world. This is the story of one of Canada's most acclaimed books. 🧵1/10
It's a new month and CJ's got good stuff comin this October. Of course, don't sleep on what we dropped in August and September either. www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com
Debut story collection prize. EastOver Press is seeking manuscripts from writers who have not published another full-length book in any genre. Amy Hempel is the guest judge and the selected manuscript receives $2000 and publication. More info: eastoverpress.com/submit/
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EastOver Prize for Debut Story Collection EastOver Press is open for submissions to the EastOver Prize for a Debut Story Collection. Guest judge Amy
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Read an excerpt of ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU at the link below. If you like what you read, hit up the @bruisermag.com store or contact me directly to get a copy, for the⚡️electrifyingly⚡️low price of $10! www.bruisermag.com/bullion_elec...
Excerpt from ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU by John Waddy Bullion - BRUISER
John Waddy Bullion is a Fort Worth-based writer of fiction and nonfiction and the author of This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers (Cowboy
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Learning about the “good deal!” and “nice deal!” and “oh, very nice deal!” and “wow, significant deal!” phrasing in Publisher’s Marketplace, and it is both objectively hilarious and gross
Remembering it’s the first day of the NHL season
I was floored to receive such a generous blurb from a writer I've long admired. Mary Miller's work - stories in particular -are some of the stories that got me into writing short fiction all those years ago. ASK ME ABOUT THE MONEY is out on Nov 3. Preorders are available wherever books are sold.
Happy publication day to @johnwaddy.bsky.social’s ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU from @bruisermag.com I had the opportunity to blurb this, and you do not want to miss it!
ANOTHER ONE BRUISER ZINE 012: ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU, a brilliant work of nonfiction by @johnwaddy.bsky.social. Read the excerpt today. Copies will be available tomorrow at the BRUISER x Broken River Books reading at Floating Bookshop in OKC—online orders live now. Let’s rock! ↓
⚡️Out now from @bruisermag.com’s zine series: a long standalone story(?) a non-fiction novella(?) a Marksonian pastiche(?) a book report(?) a thing (✅) from me about two uniquely American innovations: the electric guitar and the electric chair⚡️ shop.bruisermag.com/product/elec...
ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU - zine by John Waddy Bullion
"Like grazing a live wire, ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU seizes you and doesn't let go. An assemblage of poignant, funny, and utterly devastating rock 'n' roll histories and electric-chair mythologie...
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ANOTHER ONE BRUISER ZINE 012: ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU, a brilliant work of nonfiction by @johnwaddy.bsky.social. Read the excerpt today. Copies will be available tomorrow at the BRUISER x Broken River Books reading at Floating Bookshop in OKC—online orders live now. Let’s rock! ↓
I just need to keep telling myself this. Keep telling myself. Keep…
Learned mine will be the last story in The Feathertale Review’s final issue. I published my first story there in 2010 and became a Writer-at-Large shortly after. Since then, it’s published a bunch of my stories, won a couple Canadian National Magazine Awards, and it’s been a helluva ride.
Woke up to an acceptance! Excited to be part of @thetwinbill.bsky.social’s World Series issue, which will come out later next month!
If Ouroboros is going to be the title of my novel, I reeeeeeeeally need to learn how to spell it right the first time 
Couldn’t get a picture so you’re just gonna have to trust me on this one, but the clouds over the Walmart are spectacular 
Desert Nights, Rising Stars is fast approaching. Join a community of writers. Oct. 16-17. 3 days, 75+ sessions + a legendary line-up. Learn more at piper.asu.edu/conference#a.... With @asuenglish.bsky.social
Yesterday I wrote 3800 words on the novel AFTER I rewrote 1200 words of the academic essay AFTER I graded five comp classes AFTER I taught and now this morning my head hurts.
"So we throw out other people’s recognition. What’s left for us to prize? I think it’s this: to do (and not do) what we were designed for. That’s the goal of all trades, all arts, and what each of them aims at: that the thing they create should do what it was designed to do.” —Marcus Aurelius
My love language is setting down my wallet or keys or sunglasses and saying to myself “that’s a terrible place to put that,“ and then losing them 
NEW ON PATREON: Roger and Rob talk to author Colin Brightwell about his stories, their inspiration, and the overall writing process. Patreon memberships start at $5/month. Your support helps us pay our authors and keep the magazine going: bit.ly/4wLXH5V
I'm so excited for this story collection, forthcoming Feb 2027. Here's a brief interview with Kathleen along with a cover reveal at Debutiful (preorders available wherever books are sold): debutiful.net/2026/09/18/s...
See the cover for Gold in the Furnace - Debutiful
Kathleen McNamara’s Gold in the Furnace is a debut story collection exploring life at the edges of reality in the modern American West. Across landscapes shaped by fire, flood, and snow, McNamara’s ch...
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