John Waddy Bullion

LJ’s book, Still Alive. The cover has a red cat skull on a yellow square. A pink square bottom left has the title and author’s name. A green square bottom right has disembodied monkey hands.

I think it’s more important for a book or film to enter people’s lives over time, than in it is for it to get a lot of attention at once.

So if you want to read my book, now is also good. It’s fine if it has been a couple years since it came out.

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What a beautiful piece of writing. When I was in grad school, Rick Bass was a writer whose work convinced me short fiction was worth dedicating years to learn.

This isn't fiction, but Bass is never better than when illuminating the majesty of the natural world.

everybody talking about coming home with the “AWP bug” or the “AWP cold” but I seem to have come home with the “AWP brown recluse bite”

Gawdang, that Cowboy Jamboree puts out good stuff…

I have two of the three and can vouch for their quality writing!

Three Cowboy Jamboree books: Blue Bob, TWWNROOS, and Red Headed Writing

if you order a copy of TWWNROOS directly from me now through the end of March ($15, includes shipping and handling), I’ll throw in an extra copy of @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social’s Bob Dylan and/or Willie Nelson anthologies at no extra charge! DM if interested!

i hope it counts for SOMETHING that i cried a lot while writing this 💗 (vote soul asylum!)

There is a man at the ACC tournament screaming Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls while Stanford tries to shoot free throws

Starting a literary journal called “2007” that replicates the submission process in 2007 (only takes submissions by mail, makes you include a SASE, notifies you of an acceptance by phone, then takes for-freaking-ever to publish your shit)

THE WALLS ARE CLOSINGIN ON US by Joshua Trent Brown I BLAME MYSELF BUT ALSO YOU by Spencer Fleury NECRONAUTS by RYAN HABERMEYER MSHORT RELIEF by BEN SHAHON CHARM CITY 3 DELIVER THY PIGS by Joey Hedger LEONARD! by John Crawford WHITE PEOPLE ON VACATION by Alex Miller PLAY THE DEVIL by SCOTT LAUDATI

da haul

FUELCITY sign reading Regular Diesel CAR WASH TACOS!

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the “Dudes Rock” of AWP Bookfair tables

The malarkey table is entirely writer-run. These guys loaded the books in, organized two readings, are running the table, promoting each others book’s and the books of the writers who can’t be at awp, and are keeping a spreadsheet so I can track everyone’s royalties. Amazing crew. Go visit them!

Photo credit: @aubrirose.bsky.social
Jersey credit: Elvis Grbac

Dewitt/Gridneff’s Your Name Here

For a wild metatextual experience, I highly recommend reading this while on an airplane

come out and play with us #AWP

me doing an interactive reading in the form of bar trivia while wearing an Elvis Grbac Ravens jersey

Thoroughly enjoyed emceeing a trivia night that only I knew the answers to

Cool press

a house that has been burned to the ground and the roof is covered in flames ALT: a house that has been burned to the ground and the roof is covered in flames

In case you've been hibernating and are just waking up with the Spring weather, Cowboy Jamboree has come out of the gates like a house on fire in 2026. Just look at these bangers (in thread below):

The one and only @joshuatrentbrown.com blowing everyone away post-intermission

From tonight’s @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and @malarkeybooks.bsky.social reading!

An Elvis Grbac Ravens jersey! But what could it mean?

dammit, I liked that tweet because I thought you were “having a laugh”

More Texas Movies!

Love is in the air! Join the Townsmen as we analyze three Texas romantic comedies:
THE WRONG PARIS (2025)
DR T AND THE WOMEN (2000)
and, uh
PREY (2022) open.spotify.com/episode/6b2z...

my AWP offsite reading map is just a bunch of pins labeled “pit beef”

My book is out today. It’s nothing short of a dream come true. I hope you’ll read it.
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social

Shingle Diggins Family Restaurant
Coloma, MI

13th Annual Rock & Roll Reading flier

Hex Offsite Reading flier - 3/6 at 6:30

The Os may be in Sarasota, but I'm gonna be in Baltimore this week. Come say hi?

setting up the karaoke machine as we speak