Jonathan Danielson

Today marks one year since the release of THE LOWEST BASIN! Thank you @vanwinkle.bsky.social and @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and @penamerica.bsky.social and @mathitak.bsky.social at Southwest Books of the Year and TFoB and Northern AZ Book Fest and everyone who got a copy for changing my life.

And while you’re checking out BULLIES AND COWARDS from Cornerstone Press, don’t forget to also check out the book that made me a huge @kevigrauke.bsky.social fan, WEST OF DESTRY, from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/west-of-dest...

Well deserved! Congrats, @kevingrauke.bsky.social on your wonderful book! Check this out, people! Also, check out Grauke’s other excellent collection, WEST OF DESTRY.

My new collection, Bullies & Cowards, received a starred review from Kirkus!! "A masterclass in tension and tragic irony." #booksky

Congrats 🥳 to ASU English Professor Alberto Ríos, winner of a 2027 Pushcart Prize for "A Dictionary of the Wind" published in Cholla Needles. Learn more: https://ow.ly/1Kjf50ZZ8BX #ASUHumanities

Just watched another stupid video from some guy saying Phoenix shouldn’t exist because people live in air-conditioned houses and go to air-conditioned cars and drive to air conditioned jobs and back again. My dude, you live in Chicago. I double dog dare you not to turn the heat on this winter.

I have a *new* Pete Crow-Armstrong poem published in the World Series issue of The Twin Bill with AMAZING original artwork by a Canadian illustrator! Check it out!

Damn, none of these schools with open creative writing faculty positions have SEC championships…

If you’re looking for something to do before first pitch of the World Series, check out the latest issue of @thetwinbill.bsky.social, which includes a lot of great stories and poems and essays, and my short piece, “Big Leaguer.” thetwinbill.com

@danrussell.bsky.social is such a great guy, not to mention an awesome writer and teacher and colleague. I'm over the moon at what he had to say about COZY (which is out next month!)

On this opening day of the World Series, my story, "Big Leaguer," about baseball, fatherhood, and a doctor's appointment for a sperm count check, is now live in the latest World Series themed issue of @thetwinbill.bsky.social thetwinbill.com/big-leaguer/

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Book mail! Excited to finally get my hands on a physical copy of @johnwaddy.bsky.social’s awesome ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU from @bruisermag.com! Check this one out!

A category two tornado just hit Heber Overgaard

Curses, secrets and familial rot—oh my! 🍂😱 We're discussing hayden casey's haunting novel "A Harvest of Furies" at ASU Book Group on 10/22 at Noon, online or at Hayden Library. Join us! https://ow.ly/6bRk50ZZ10I #ASUHumanities

Than you so much @sfwp.bsky.social ❤️I can’t wait to have my book out in the world 🙏

I’m under a tornado warning tomorrow…?

Thank you for including me here, Jonathan! There are too many great Cornerstone titles to plug, but I'll plug a couple. I've been reading: @swellspoken.bsky.social 's excellent new collection and I think more people should read Soaked by @tobyleblancauthor.bsky.social

Between @kevingrauke.bsky.social’s new book, and @pahoehoe.bsky.social and @jameygallagher.bsky.social and Bob Johnson’s books, Cornerstone Press is doing a lot of cool things! 

Looking forward to reading! bookshop.org/p/books/bull...

Happy publication day to @kevingrauke.bsky.social’s BULLIES AND COWARDS out today from Cornerstone Press! I had the opportunity to blurb this wonderful book, and I said, “As brutal as it is beautiful…Without question, Grauke is one of our finest short story writers today.”

Out today! From Cornerstone Press! Available at Amazon, but buy it instead at Bookshop.org! #booksky

Same, bud. Same.

What a great panel at the ASU conference with @stephanieaustin.bsky.social, @danadiehl.bsky.social and @pahoehoe.bsky.social!

I’m 42 years old and I still got just as excited as if I saw Santa Claus 

Honestly, it never gets old

Today! Hopefully, see you soon!

59 years ago the great Woody Guthrie passed from this world too soon at the age of 55. In 2026 the world needs all the inspiration it can get from his life & art. Cowboy Jamboree presents SONGS TO WOODY, good grit lit incited by just that. Out now: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/songs-to-woo...

By the end of this year CJ will have published 79 books with 5 more coming in 2027. Needless to say, we had to revamp our books page to give it some organization and provide a page for each book. Enjoy: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/books.html

Very blessed and thankful to be one of the 79! Thank you, @vanwinkle.bsky.social for being a joy to work with!

You know I've got 2 books out with @LEFTOVERBOOKS? A great publisher to work with. Get a copy of DYLAN QUICK IS A DAIRY QUEEN DON QUIXOTE and/or COUNT THE DUST here: leftoverbooks.carrd.co#books Share this post by 11:59 PM on 10/14 & you'll be in a drawing for a free copy of both.

Just in time for spooky season 🍂😱 ASU Book Group discusses the novel "A Harvest of Furies"—a re-telling of the Greek tragedy “Oresteia"—by hayden casey on Oct. 22. Hayden Library or online, Noon. All welcome. Register: https://ow.ly/GM4050ZWyaO #ASUHumanities

A little slice of heaven

Been a couple weeks since it was published. If you haven’t already, I recommend you spend a little time this weekend reading my newest short story.

This weekend, I'll present "Why Arizona Literary Regionalism Matters: Writing a Regional Literature," at the Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writing Conference, hosted by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU. My talk is on Friday, October 16th from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. See you then!

Feeling weather under 100° for the first time in months and I honestly might need a hoodie. …it’s 75°. 

Non/Fiction Friday: "Humor in Mavis Gallant’s stories is important for its leavening effects; her wit is sly, slightly wicked, never mean." —ASU Professor Emeritus Melissa Pritchard. Read more in The Marvelous Paragraph Project: https://ow.ly/lA4E50ZKXi2 #ASUHumanities

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We at EastOver Press are thrilled to learn that Kathleen McNamara's forthcoming debut story collection rec'd this fabulous review from Kirkus. They called it a "magnetic collection." We agree! Full review here: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... Preorders available wherever books are sold.

The problem with kids today is that nobody knows who Glendon Swarthout is.

You know what they say, don’t meet your heroes. Unless your heroes are rad. Then get a beer with them at a dive bar in Phoenix.

Mood

I cried just reading the history. Don’t ask what the book always does to me!

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat the

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