Rag & press dedicated to grit lit and rural writing with rough edges, fiction or non. Survival is triumph enough. We dig Folk & Old Country.
Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 30 days after submission*/Editor reported data46 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: ?*/Editor reported data40.00%*Chill Subs tracker stats
Publication
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
From the editors
Best Of The Net, Pushcart
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
Runs themed calls
How to submit
Processs
Email
Cover letter
include a brief 3rd-person author bio to be included in the contributors section if accepted
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Format Requirements: double-space, 12 pt fonts (be generic, don't get fancy formatting) provide genre (fiction or non-fiction) and title in the subject line of the email (Sample: "Fiction: My Ford Maverick Won't Start")
Author's rights
Cowboy Jamboree acquires first rights for publication in multiple formats. Upon publication, rights revert to the author.
Additional info
PLEASE NOTE: COWBOY JAMBOREE IS LBTQ+ INCLUSIVE; WE SUPPORT WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WE ARE POC INCLUSIVE; WE ARE SENSITIVE TO MENTAL HEALTH INCLUSIVITY. We say this because we wish to support all writers of all ilk. If your fiction, creative nonfiction, vignette, flash, or photography jazzes with the above, we're probably gonna dig it. Not everything we accept for publication looks the same. That said, words that describe stories we tend to like might include rural, hardscrabbled, rough-hewn, pulpy, noirish... and, of course, GRITTY.
Tracker statistics
5
Total submissions tracked
46 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
27 days
Fastest response time
63 days
Slowest response time
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About
In short, we're a Grit-Lit magazine focused on the rural working class and gritty realism. We are not a traditional western magazine. Western stories we accept tend to stray from archetypes of females as damsels and cowboy gunslingin' heroes. We're generally not interested in historical western cha...
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Adam Van Winkle
Editor-in-Chief
Constance Beitzel
Founder & Content Editor
Kassie Bohannon
Content Editor