Amanda Rendall May 2026
CJ MAGAZINE
Style & Submit
About CJ
Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked.
Folks, It's Ags Connolly!
The Room
Dressing in Front of the Open Gas Oven for Warmth
3 Prose Poems by Jeffrey Herman
The Cat in the Guest Bedroom
Last Call at Tully's Joint
Keepsake
The Sold Man
My Man Tomato Can
The Alternator
Blue Skies
Ain't No Dark Til Something Shines
Old Skip
Chicago Skyline
Uptown Lanes
Behind the Door
Books
I FEEL JUST LIKE A DOGWOOD TREE
This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers
Songs of the Cyberspace Cattle Drive
WEST OF DESTRY
Small Town Mastodons
Traveling Alone
All and Then None of You
Poachers and Pills
Poor Birds
The Lowest Basin
Bop City Swing
Nothing Good Ever Happens in a Flyover State
THE TICKS WILL EAT YOU WHOLE
Rolling on the Bottom
Oblivion Angels
The New Salvation
TEXAS WIND
Silences, Ohio
WHERE DARK THINGS GROW
San Diego Stories
HONKY
The Wild Familiar
KUDZU by Clem Flowers
IN LINE AT WALMART WITH ALL THE OTHER DAMNED
I CAN OUTDANCE JESUS
MOTEL
Sheldon Lee Compton
Ghosts by Sheldon Lee Compton
I AM WAR MR TOLSTOY
Her Little Place of Dying
The Caretaker
On SLC's Brown Bottle
Somebody Take Care of Little Walter
Oblivion Angels
The Orchard Is Full of Sound (excerpt)
Dog With a Rabbit's Head
By-blow
Until the Going Down of the River
The Judas Steer
Tooling Up
DYSPHORIA (excerpt)
Interviews, Reviews, & Presses
CJ Music Review South of Mars
CJ Music Review Matt Moran & the Palominos The Ba'ar
CJ Music Review WPH STILL FEELIN' THE PAYNE
CJ Music Review R Porter Roll with the Punches
Shelby Hinte's Howling Women
Of Fathers & Gods
Awakenings Review
Jaded by Wilson Koewing
Jesse Hilson's The Tattletales
Here in the Dark by Meagan Lucas
Sophomore Slump by Leigh Chadwick
Shadows Slow Dancing in Derelict Room
Anthony Koronda's Broken Bottles
Scott Blackburn's It Dies With You
Donald Ryan's Don Bronco's (Working Title) Shell
Jay Gertzman's The Promise of Country Noir
Hard Mountain Clay Review
Blake Johnson's Prodigal: An American Parable
Jobbers
Dead Wrestlers
The Night Bruiser Came to Town
Big Rig by Shaun Jex
A Night Out with Big Ricky by Katy Goforth
War Eagle by David Barker
True Dreams of Wichita by Shaun Jex
Doink the Clown Works Birthday Parties by Michael Chin
The Ballad of Ethel Bridges by David P. Barker
House Show in Badger County High School Gym by Simon Nagel
288 Miles by David P. Barker
Corn Dogs by Shaun Jex
Getting Ready + Cowboy by Michael Chin
American Dream by Robert Libbey
Training Partner by A.A. Rubin
Finding the von Erichs by Shaun Jex
The Making of Big Sandy by Michael Carter
Pot Roast from Vance Godbey's by Mark A. Nobles
Abdullah the Butcher in Gotham by Mark A. Nobles
PWI by Josh Olsen
CJ Issues Archive
Oh Death!
Flood Waters
with Alacrity!
the Family Strain
All We Need of Hell-Harry Crews Tribute
My Dog Died-a Larry Brown inspired issue
Rural Enterprises
Grotesque to Art-in the vein of Donald Ray Pollock
Henry Chinaski is a Friend of Mine-the Charles Bukowski issue
a Mess of Catfish
Prine Primed-incited by John Prine
Asquint
Buried Child-inspired by Sam Shepard
New Fools Are Here to Take Your Place-incited by Breece D'J Pancake
THALIA ET ALIA-incited by Larry McMurtry
Country & Folk
Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
ISSUE 9.2: the All Covers Album
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Sitting in the Laundromat with A Manual for Cleaning Women
Kentucky Folklore
Caught in a Trap
Are You Sure Merle Done It This Way?
Tracking
Playing Hooky
Evangelina & Hunting Bremmer's Mesa
Catty-Corner House
Blood on the Creek Bank
Skeeter
Vivian Davis, American
Thyroid
Wonderin'
Playing Cowboy
Old Dog
Archipelago
Keep YR Eye on the Moon
3 Poems by Justin Carter
It Ain't Me
Heaven's Gonna Have a Honky-Tonk
ISSUE 10.1: A CASE OF KINK
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Deadhead
Fickster the Fixer
Get the Money
Shady Acres
The Ugly Death of Ferrari McGee
Burly Pete Calls It A Day
Blame It On The Blue Line
The Detective
The Tattletales (excerpt)
ISSUE 10.2: Tough Women, Gritty Tales
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"Stupid" by Rebecca Tiger
"Rattlesnakes" by Sabrina Hicks
"Destination Unknown" by Sarah Holloway
"Juniper" by Sarah Holloway
"The Stand" by Kathryn Silver-Hajo
"On Friday, Good Catholics Eat Fish" by Terena Elizabeth Bell
"Bodies in Bags" by Jamie Gallagher
"Sun Down" by Amy Marques
"Fourteen" by Megan Hanlon
"A Stroll" by Natalie Nee
"White Biped Form, 1954" by Mary Thorson
"Thanks for Stopping" by Tom Andes
"Dog Days" by Angela James
"26" by Pam Avoledo
"To The Men I've Missed" by Katy Goforth
Our Father's Lit: Western Pulp