Happy New Year – Cajun Mutt Press

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 01/01/24

January 1, 2024 James D. Casey IV

He gave me his heart

for the new year
To the sound of the chimes
Sealing it in scarlet beads
On blue velvet
And they rest in thoughts…
And my happiness seems like a ghost
And I’m afraid to touch him
So that he doesn’t melt
Like a snowman
under the headlights of a blue truck

Irina Tall (Novikova) is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also has a bachelor’s degree in design.

The first personal exhibition “My soul is like a wild hawk” (2002) was held in the museum of Maxim Bagdanovich. In her works, she raises themes of ecology, in 2005 she devoted a series of works to the Chernobyl disaster, draws on anti-war topics. The first big series she drew was The Red Book, dedicated to rare and endangered species of animals and birds. Writes fairy tales and poems, illustrates short stories. She draws various fantastic creatures: unicorns, animals with human faces, she especially likes the image of a man – a bird – Siren. In 2020, she took part in Poznań Art Week. Her work has been published in magazines: Gupsophila, Harpy Hybrid Review, Little Literary Living Room and others. In 2022, her short story was included in the collection ‘The 50 Best Short Stories,’ and her poem was published in the collection of poetry ‘The wonders of winter.’

Links to social networks:

https://instagram.com/irina369tall

https://instagram.com/irinanov4155

CMP Featured Writers JAN. 2024

January 1, 2024 James D. Casey IV

Happy New Year from Cajun Mutt Press!!! I hope y’all had a great time over the holidays. I want to thank everyone who sent in some work last year. We published a ton of fantastic literature and artwork in 2023! CMP wouldn’t exist without its contributors. Enormous thanks to the readers as well. I hope y’all dig what we’ve been putting out into the world. I love every one of y’all.

Onward and upward to 2024!! I’ve got a few things to go over. First, manuscript submissions are officially OPEN until January 31. I already have a few lined up to work on. I’m also planning to focus more on our new magazine, Night Owl Narrative, and cut back on publishing books. So if I accept your book and can’t get to it this year, I’ll schedule it for 2025. Below is a link to all of our past titles. Including my new one, I Pledge Allegiance To The Flag. Please leave a review if you grab a book!

CMP Bibliography:
https://cajunmuttpress.com/2021/06/08/cajun-mutt-press-bibliography/

Night Owl Narrative Issue No.1 is officially available! Plus, I’m about halfway through filling the second issue and still have more submissions to go through. Keep sending work! If I can’t fit you in the second, I’ll put you in the next one–and so on. I’ll be working on No.3 soon. Send your artwork, poetry, prose, short stories, flash fiction, etc. Anything goes; no theme. Thanks to everyone who submitted so far!

Night Owl Narrative Issue No.1:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQVN1WPW

You can also submit work for a featured writer spot! Featured writers are posted every Mon/Wed/Fri on our website and social media pages. Send 1-3 poems to cajunmuttpress@gmail.com for consideration. Send magazine submissions to the same email. Please include a bio and author photo with all submissions.

Looking forward to the year ahead! I don’t have any resolutions for 2024 other than my plans for Night Owl Narrative. I hope y’all dig the direction I’m taking, and I hope they all come to fruition if you have plans or resolutions for the new year.

Keep Kicking Ass Out There,
Big Love, Write On,
JDCIV
🤟💀📚

PS. I’ll be adding more t-shirts, stickers, mugs, etc to our online shop over the next couple of days!
https://teespring.com/stores/cajun-mutt-press

CMP JAN. 2024 Featured Writers:

He gave me his heart
by Irina Tall
01/01/24

Blasting Through
by Randall Rogers
01/03/24

No One Leaves The Party
by Kushal Poddar
01/05/24

Shoeboxes on the Moon
by L. Sydney Abel
01/08/24

A little more bite and a little less bark
by Melanie Browne
01/10/24

Catastrophe
by Jay Simpson
01/12/24

Standing on The Corner
by Richard D. Houff
01/15/24

Bobcat
by Kurt Newton
01/17/24

THE PATTERNS
by Strider Marcus Jones
01/19/24

Shimmer
by Mike Zone
01/22/24

My Kind
by John Drudge
01/24/24

(in lieu of) World Peace
by Allan Lake
01/26/24

we stare at each other with barely concealed hate
by Solape Adetutu Adeyemi
01/29/24

5 POEMS
by Merritt Waldon
01/31/24

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writers, Jan. 2022

January 1, 2022January 6, 2022 James D. Casey IV

Happy New Year!!! The first day of 2022, and I already hit a minor hiccup with the featured writer schedule. Skipped a date somehow, but I worked it out. Ebb & Flow.

Did y’all do anything to bring in the New Year? I got stoned with my muse, binge-watched Cobra Kai, barely made it to midnight, then went to bed. Didn’t even hear any fireworks in the neighborhood last night, and we usually do. Thinking about it now, it was oddly quiet. Like we were trying to tip-toe out of 2021 without tripping an alarm.

If any of y’all partied down last night, I hope it was fun. Nothing wrong with cutting loose. Now, let’s get THIS party started. Below is the January lineup, and I’m always open for submissions. Send 1-3 poems to cajunmuttpress@gmail.com along with a bio and author photo. I have six spots left to fill in April then I’ll be reading for May.

Also, manuscript submissions for 2022-23 publications are officially OPEN!! Send a word doc (50- 100 pages give or take) to the same email. Keep your eyes peeled for our first 2022 book release as well. 𝘚𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘋𝘰𝘸𝘯 by Wilfred Hildonen, coming in February. I’ll make an announcement soon with an exact date.

As always, love y’all, keep kicking ass. I hope everyone has a great year. Let’s rock & roll.

Write On,
JDCIV
🤟💀

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writers, January 2022:

Seasons of inner me
by Sabahat Solangi
01/03/22

GLORIOUS WEIRDNESS (I often lose myself in)
by Bradford Middleton
01/05/22

Pallbearer on the Left
by Andre F. Peltier
01/07/22

At Least Until Tomorrow
by Dave O’Leary
01/10/22

Kid Sinister
by Kevin Hibshman
01/12/22

LOOKING UP
by Dr. Roger G. Singer
01/14/22

Credit
by Wayne F. Burke
01/17/22

3 Poems
by Mike Zone
01/19/22

a little slice of dystopia
by J.J. Campbell
01/21/22

Work
by Mari Deweese
01/24/22

Black and White TV
by Ann Privateer
01/26/22

Portrait of a Wicked World
by Sunday Saheed
01/28/22

Oil Trough & other poems
by David O’Nan
01/31/22

Happy New Year from Cajun Mutt Press!!!

January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 James D. Casey IV

This is the time of year most of us stop and take stock of our lives. Start new things, give things up, make resolutions. Some of us tell ourselves we’re going to do things that we never end up doing anything about…except beating ourself up about it all year until next January first. For others it’s just an excuse to party and have fun.

It’s a little combonation of all when it comes to me. I’ve changed some things I said I would over the years, still working on a few other goals, and when I party I fucking party, but the new year is all about change when you step back and look at it. 2020 fucking sucked in a lot of ways, no doubt about it, but it’s over now. This is our chance to turn a new leaf, then roll it up and pass it around so even if things don’t get better at least we’ll all be stoned.

Bob Dylan – Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
https://youtu.be/fm-po_FUmvM

Well, y’all know what time it is, below you’ll find this month’s featured writers. I’m also always open for submissions so if you’d like to send some work shoot 1-3 poems to cajunmuttpress@gmail.com along with a bio and author photo. Currently reading for April. Also, I am NOT taking manuscripts at this time. The 2021 book schedule isn’t final yet, but I have plenty of manuscripts. I fully appreciate your interest, but please, stop sending them for now. I’ll make an announcement when I’m taking them again.

Have a blast bringing in 2021, and keep reading, keep writing, keep sending your work. Love y’all, Happy New Year from Cajun Mutt Press!!!

Write On,
J.D.C.IV
Founder/Editor-in-Chief
🤟💀

CMP Featured Writers Jan. 2021:

Father
by Kaci Skiles Laws
01/01/21

Such Unfortunates
by Jason O’Toole
01/04/21

To Bathe or Not
by Belinda Subraman
01/06/21

3 Duplexes
by David Spicer
01/08/21

Rose du Jour
by Adrian Slonaker
01/11/21

Today’s World
by el gallo sabio
01/13/21

OSCILATIONS ON THE BOUGHS OF TREES
by Ojo Olumide Emmanuel
01/15/21

4 Poems
by Sanjeev Sethi
01/18/21

In the black of white paws
by @thebloodofthesethings
01/20/21

Between The Yard And The Bars
by Dave Cullern
01/22/21

3 Romance Poems
by Paul Tanner
01/25/21

Bi-Polar
by Ian Lewis Copestick
01/27/21

I Am Afraid of the Dark
by Phil Rowan
01/29/21

Happy New Year from Cajun Mutt Press!!!

January 1, 2020January 1, 2020 James D. Casey IV

Wow, what the hell happened to 2019? Feels like the year drove by and slapped me in the face through the window of a hot rod, then shot me the bird as it tore off into the sunset! Makes me wonder if that black hole the scientists found is slowly sucking us in and making time speed up. If that’s the case, then hopefully the alternate reality we’re in when we get crapped out the other side will be wicked cool. I’m talking Keanu Reeves as president, world peace, no hunger, no poverty, intergalactic travel kind of cool. That or we just get obliterated, but let’s hope for the best.

Anyway, enough jibber-jabber, below you’ll find the list of writers on the roster for January 2020. As usual, you can send submissions to cajunmuttpress@gmail.com along with a bio and author photo. I have a few spots left in March then I’ll start filling April. I’m not taking any more manuscripts until I get caught up a bit with the books I have scheduled, but I’ll let y’all know when I’m open to reading them again.

Love Y’all, Write On!!!
J.D.C.IV
🤘💀

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writers, Jan. 2020:

The Past is Greener
by Fareed Agyakwah
01/01/20

Gonad
by George Anderson
01/03/20

Fragmented #3
by DAH
01/06/20

she’s nothing but bones
by Jack Henry
01/08/20

The Sharp And Shitty End Of The Stick
by Ian Lewis Copestick
01/10/20

We’ll Touch That Horizon
by Brian Rihlmann
01/13/20

Those Were the Days
by Dan Provost
01/15/20

Tim’s Amnesia
by Kushal Poddar
01/17/20

What’s in a Dream
by Manny Silveira
01/20/20

Just Like That
by Allan Lake
01/22/20