Night Owl Narrative (a Cajun Mutt rag) Issue No.4 Cover Reveal

NON No.4

Adding a few finishing touches to Night Owl Narrative No.4!!! It’ll be available on April 1st. Michael Duckwall did the cover art for this one!! I’ll post some pics when I get my copy. Links to issues 1 – 3 and Brother Duck’s new chapbook 7.2 SkullQuake can be found below. I’ve already started on issue 5, stay tuned for details.

Email submissions to cajunmuttpress@gmail.com for consideration. Please include a bio and author photo. I’m taking artwork, photography, poetry, flash fiction, short stories, columns, articles, interviews, etc. Send me whatever you’ve got — no rules or themes — anything goes.

NON No.4 Contributors:
Grant Goodwine, JDCIV, Kent Fielding, Ron Whitehead, A.L. Locke, Shayna Shanes, Hans Hollestelle, Damon Hubbs, Jaundré van Breda, Barbara Anna Gaiardoni, Jayanta Bhaumik, David Alec Knight, R.M. Engelhardt, Ólafur Gunnarsson, Shane Allison, Katrina Kaye, Joshua Britton, Sagarikaa Das, Joe Kidd, Royal Rhodes, Paige Turner, Gentle Dragona, Richard D. Houff, Merritt Waldon, Sean Hanrahan, Chris Dean, Wilfred Hildonen, T. James Chapman, Mick Parsons, Heller Levinson, Michael Duckwall

Y’all Keep Kicking Ass Out There!
Big Love, Write On,
JDCIV
🤟💀📚
🦉🎟️🦇

NIGHT OWL NARRATIVE No.1:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQVN1WPW

NIGHT OWL NARRATIVE No.2:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTCJR9LY

NIGHT OWL NARRATIVE No.3:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVF469HX

7.2 SkullQuake by Michael Duckwall
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVG31R8S

CMP Featured Writers March 2024

We’ve entered March, it’s starting to warm up outside, and Night Owl Narrative No.3 is officially available!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVF469HX
(Links to 1 & 2 will be in the comments.)

Issue No. 3 Contributors:

Ben Holland, John Burroughs, Blu K. Boss, Scott Laudati, Jay Passer, A.L. Locke, Michael Duckwall, Ron Whitehead, Jim Murdoch, Wayne F. Burke, Ryan Quinn Flanagan, Joe Szalinski, Efe Tusder, Randy Barnes, Roy Duffield, Dan Flore III, LB Sedlacek, William Teets, William David Pollard, Robert Ragan, Dan Denton, Heath Brougher, Dee Allen, Lynn White, Wendy Cartwright, Sanjeev Sethi, Daniel S. Irwin, Austin Burrows, Wolfgang Carstens, Merritt Waldon, Jonathan S Baker, Rob Azevedo

Details about issue 4 coming soon! All I need to do is button up a few things, and it’ll be ready for April. Michael Duckwall’s artwork will be on the cover!!

7.2 SkullQuake by Michael Duckwall is also available!! Brother Duck offers up pieces of his soul in artistic and poetic form in this beautiful little chapbook! You can get in touch with him for a signed copy or follow this link to find it on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVG31R8S

I’m also about to start working on the rest of the book manuscript submissions! I wanted to get a few copies of the magazine under my belt first. You’ll be hearing from me soon if you’ve sent one. Hold Fast.

Below is the list of this month’s featured writers. Send 1-3 poems to cajunmuttpress@gmail.com to be considered for a spot. Send work for Night Owl Narrative to the same email. I’m taking art, short stories, flash fiction, poetry, photography, columns, articles, interviews, etc for the magazine. Anything Goes. Please include a bio and author photo with ALL submissions!

Y’all Keep Kicking Ass Out There!

Big Love, Write On,
JDCIV
🤟💀📚
🦉🎟️🦇

CMP Featured Writers, March 2024:

Still Life With Cyclops (an ebook)
by Jay Passer
03/01/24

Last Scramble
by Jay Simpson
03/04/24

Ring in the New
by Wayne Russell
03/06/24

sun up
by Botched Resignation
03/08/24

Vernon Vernon Vernon
by Wendy Cartwright
03/11/24

But isn’t this how
by Katrina Kaye
03/13/24

Rock Poets
by David Alec Knight
03/15/24

Love Is A Butcher
by Rob Azevedo
03/18/24

Leave The Light On
by JDCIV
03/20/24

Some Guy
by Dan Provost
03/22/24

A One-Trick Pony does the Moonwalk
by Jim Murdoch
03/25/24

Heaven’s Gate
by Ryan Quinn Flanagan
03/27/24

Finding New Ways to Eat Shit & Smile
by Danny D. Ford
03/29/24

CMP Featured Writers Feb. 2024

Is it just me, or did January feel like an eternity? I had a ton of shit happen in the last four weeks that made the month seem to drag on forever. Some Good; Some Bad. Between the new magazine and all the other projects on my plate–plus the extra surprises that got piled on top–it was a bit of a rocky start to 2024. But, “this ain’t no place for the weary kind.” So I’m pulling up my bootstraps, and marching into February with my head held high. I accomplished the goals I set out to achieve—even if I did hit a few bumps in the road along the way.

Wasn’t sure if I could pull it off, but Night Owl Narrative No.1 kicked off with a BANG!! Enormous thanks to the contributors, and to everyone who grabbed a copy. I’ve been getting nothing but positive feedback. I’m so happy y’all dig it. Now buckle up for No.2! It’s officially available today, and in my opinion, this one is even better!! I want every issue to outshine the last. I’ll have a copy around the 12th to post some pictures of. I’ve got some info inside from Ron Whitehead and Dr. Rory Patrick Feehan about Gonzofest Dublin: Calling The Underground, a column by Leland Locke about the True Crime in Layers podcast by Bob’s Bookstore, and another killer lineup of literature and artwork. Can’t wait for y’all to see this one!

Here are the links:

Night Owl Narrative No.2
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTCJR9LY

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

I’m almost finished putting together No.3 as well. I’ll share the list of contributors soon. Stay tuned for details. I’m also about to start working on book manuscripts. Today is the deadline to submit, so get them sent before midnight if you were planning to send one. I’ll get in touch with you soon if you’ve already submitted. Hold Fast.

CMP Bibliography:
(Please leave a review if you grab a book!)
https://cajunmuttpress.com/2021/06/08/cajun-mutt-press-bibliography/

Below you’ll find the list of featured writers for February. If you want to submit some work for a spot, send 1-3 poems to cajunmuttpress@gmail.com for consideration. I have a few spots left to fill for March, then I’ll be reading for April. Send submissions for Night Owl Narrative to the same email. For the magazine, I’m taking artwork, photography, poetry, prose, flash fiction, short stories, columns, articles, interviews, etc. No theme; anything goes. Please include a bio and author photo with ALL submissions!

I’d like to thank everyone who’s accompanied me on this journey throughout the years. I’m looking forward to reading y’all’s work in the year(s) ahead and helping y’all get your words out to the world.

Love Y’all, Write On,
JDCIV
🤟💀📚
🦉🎟️🦇

CMP Featured Writers, Feb. 2024:

OUR WARS
by Gentle S.C. Dragona
02/02/24

SWEET SWEETS WORLD
by David Earl Williams
02/05/24

In my dream I let go
by Roy Duffield
02/07/24

Conscience
by Tony Dawson
02/09/24

The Man Who Is A Planet
by G.M.H. Thompson
02/12/24

Teen Angel
by J.C. Rammelkamp
02/14/24

Kitchen Hand
by Jonathan Butcher
02/16/24

Blaze
by Gopal Lahiri
02/19/24

without you
by Botched Resignation
02/21/24

CRACK MADNESS
by Bradford Middleton
02/23/24

3 POEMS
by Daniel S Irwin
02/26/24

black-tipped shark
by Miriam Sagan
02/28/24

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 12/29/23

Secret

A blank page
Filled With

Hard-to-open
Night

Thoughts…

If anything can be
Said of
The silence of misery,

It’s the caring of
Others
Led to such
Mute
Consideration.

However, with me
Pen-in-hand
It should
Be simple —
More real
To
The
Author.

All of us run away to
Hills of ignored
Self-denied
Faults.

A page is reflective of
The booth marked
With confessions.

We choose what is known…

The rest to ourselves.

©2023 Leland Locke All rights reserved.

Brother Locke

A.L. Locke lives in a cabin in North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains. He shares his life with his wife, Tara, and their 10 rambunctious dogs, two goats, too many chickens, and aquarium fish. He has been published both in national and international publications, including Writer’s Digest and various literary journals. Notes from the Night Desk is a column he works on vigorously and tries to publish daily on WordPress.com, and has a book series under the same title. More volumes of published and previously unpublished work will appear in the future. His column is also included in Night Owl Narrative, a new monthly magazine from Cajun Mutt Press. Issue no.1 will be available on January first.

Mr. Locke incorporates the Gonzo way of Life into his everyday responsibilities and tomfoolery. From the concrete-jungle swamps of Texas, the high Rocky Mountains of Montana, to living homeless on the cruel and crippled streets of Youngstown, Ohio, A, L. Locke has kept up writing in haunted notebooks, typed-up the words on pages fed into the mouths of typewriters, and exquisitely pecked electronic aphorisms and anagrams into various computers.

Notes from The Night Desk:

Books:

vol.1
https://www.amazon.com/Notes-Night-Desk-L-Locke-ebook/dp/B09WVXCFL7

vol.2
https://www.amazon.com/Notes-Night-Desk-L-Locke-ebook/dp/B0BM1Z5GHR

vol.3
https://www.amazon.com/You-Cant-Blame-Good-Puppy/dp/B0C9K6HZT5

Column:

https://lelandlocke.blog/