My personal essay, Unmessy My Life, appeared Monday in the Gold Man Review... Read it here: jmthornberry.wordpress.com/2026/11/04/u...
Unmessy My Life
My new friends and bandmates—was I supposed to feel connected to them?
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Jason M Thornberry
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THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI • #LUFC #MOT jmthornberry.wordpress.com sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
Three of my poems appear today in Issue 1, Volume 11 of In Parentheses Literary Magazine. Thank you, Phillipe and @inparenth! inparentheses.art
My personal essay, Unmessy My Life, appears in Issue 16 of Gold Man Review today. Thank you, Heather and @goldmanreview! goldmanpublishing.com
Book mail! Look at these tiny beauties by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social & @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social
Me on my bike, 1978. I was seven. No cell phone. No iPad. No laptop. When I wasn't riding that bike, I was playing the drums. This photo corresponds to a personal essay published yesterday. You can read it here: jmthornberry.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/m... #GenX
Marshall Blvd
At school, on the playground, I was Steve Austin, the bionic astronaut from The Six Million Dollar Man. I wrestled other boys, punching them in slow motion. Everything in the sandbox was acted out …
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Many THANKS to @theargylelitmag.bsky.social for publishing my personal essay, Marshall Blvd, in the final issue. www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-08-bri...
Marshall Blvd — The Argyle Literary Magazine
CNF by Jason M. Thornberry “At school, on the playground, I was Steve Austin, the bionic astronaut from The Six Million Dollar Man . I wrestled other boys, punching them in slow motion. Everything ...
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Many, many, many THANKS to @donkeycommish.bsky.social for signing my copy of this fantastic book! Re-reading it now! ⚽️ #Relegated #FootballCulture #LowerLeague #premierleage #lufc #arsenal @wolvesfc.bsky.social @lufc-unofficial.bsky.social @mancity.com
My personal essay, Travelling Subtitles, appears today in Afterimages. You can read it here: thirtywest.substack.com/p/traveling-... THANK YOU @thirtywestph.com
Traveling Subtitles
Memoir by Jason Thornberry. I had a little time to rest before my outpatient treatment started—a moment to catch my breath—and then I returned...
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Jason M. Thornberry's work appears in Grub Street, Meetinghouse Magazine, Rejection Letters, and elsewhere. His chapbook, The Finish Line, is available through Sand and Gravel Press. His first two novels and a memoir are both under consideration. Jason lives in Seattle with his wife and dog.
The first chapter of my memoir appears in Volume 74 of Grub Street. Someday, the rest of it will find a home!
Mass shooting in Seattle. Sick of this shit. Guns are for cowards. #bangunsnow
Buford was a staff writer for for the New Yorker and their fiction editor for eight years. Fantastic book. Beautifully written, disturbing but also quite funny.
This short personal essay appeared in Issue 46 of 100subtexts Literary Magazine. READ IT HERE: jmthornberry.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/p...
www.sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-fi... My publisher still has a few copies of this left. Help me sell it out.
The Finish Line - Jason Thornberry 4.25 x 5.5 — SAND AND GRAVEL PRESS
In this poignant, funny, chapbook of short fiction and two essays, Jason M. Thornberry takes on unsavory landlords, dental extractions, benevolent crows, cigar-chomping land developers, and poets who ...
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MY VASECTOMY This personal essay appeared yesterday in Issue 13 of Medicine and Meaning, the journal of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (April 22, 2026). READ IT HERE: medicineandmeaning.uams.edu/my-vasectomy/
SUBMITTABLE thinks my cover letter, which I've been using since 2017, looks like AI. Go figure... #AIsucks
Jay Mertiss Thompson invited me onto his Path with Art-hosted podcast, Tapping into Your Bliss. LINK: pathwithart.podbean.com/e/tapping-in...
I'll be at Hugo House tonight, reading from my new chapbook, THE FINISH LINE. Thanks to Ariel Basom and the great writers who'll be joining me. @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social
A partial government shutdown looms—again? I'll say it once more: if we stopped paying Congress—and cut off their healthcare—during shutdowns, the shutdowns wouldn't happen.
I turned my phone off on Friday morning and had a glorious, technology-free weekend. It felt great. And I slept better, too. Times like this, I wish I could go back to my LAN line. I'd certainly get more writing done. I guess I'll turn the phone back on tomorrow. Maybe.
