Writer. CARBON CITY, 1925 (Castoff Press 2026), NOT DARK YET (Castoff Press, 2024). Appears in @Colorado_Review @CrbOrchdReview @commonmag @AtticusReview
"Almost two weeks ago, we sold most of our belongings and transferred life into the 1975 Terry Taurus Travel Trailer we’d spent the last 5 months renovating." Read a dispatch by @jagill97, via Whiting grantee @commonmag: https://t.co/QBwU6Sfdtk
"Almost two weeks ago, we sold most of our belongings and transferred life into the 1975 Terry Taurus Travel Trailer we’d spent the last 5 months renovating."
Read @jagill97's reflections on a transition to life on the road in our newest dispatch!
https://t.co/XLwmzWD1z3
In this new dispatch from the Tonapah Desert, James Alan Gill (@jagill97) reflects on politics, art, and history from the road.
Read his pieces, edited by Dispatches Editor @ninasudhakar, online now!
https://t.co/XLwmzWlqat
"Stars fill the sky again, no longer competing with the electric glow of five million inhabitants."
@jagill97 reflects on the temporality of home and history in his dispatch from the Tonapah desert, Arizona.
https://t.co/XLwmzWD1z3
James Alan Gill (@jagill97) writes about life on the road, the history held in desert land, and what it means to be at home in our newest dispatch.
Special thanks to Dispatches Editor @ninasudhakar! Read the piece online now.
https://t.co/XLwmzWlqat
"I drove on into the darkness, the jagged saw’s teeth of the mountains sometimes visible in the light reflected by the waning gibbous moon."
New dispatch from former Dispatches Editor James Alan Gill @jagill97! Read it here: https://t.co/CIZ1SBJWyb
"When you drive through the desert outside the city, you notice the empty spaces between the plants. There isn’t enough water for them to grow close together."
Check out "Dry," a dispatch from James Alan Gill @jagill97:
https://t.co/CIZ1SC1xWL
Writing about sobriety is about as easy as sobriety itself. Grateful to The Common for publishing to coincide with a year sober, and for the work of @sarahhepola which was in the back of my mind while writing.
"I felt a crushing loneliness I’d never known. It was there I knew the slate was clean."
James Alan Gill @jagill97 brings us a dispatch on loneliness, love, and sobriety from Phoenix, AZ. Check it out: https://t.co/rDT8TGvBr0
@Jane_Angelica In an even more awkward move, a co-worker intending to bring up Mother's Day, said without any prompting or context to @29b_lang "Do you have a mother?"
"In the last stall the two-year-old stood glaring at us, as if it knew we were talking about it." Read more of James Alan Gill's (@jagill97) new dispatch, "The Stables," on our website:
https://t.co/svbnf7Kpau
"Each morning through that spring and summer, my dad arrived at first light and entered the metal personnel door next to the large sliding doors that took up most of the barn’s front..." From James Alan Gill's (@jagill97)'s "The Stables."
https://t.co/svbnf7sNLU
My latest non-fiction piece is live at @commonmag - about going w/ my dad when he worked as a stable hand after the coal mines shut down. https://t.co/BP1DofsGpI
Age at debut novel
Richard Adams: 52
Karen Cushman: 52
Daniel Defoe: 59
Harriet Doerr: 74
Alex Haley: 55
Sue Monk Kidd: 54
Annie Proulx: 57
Anna Sewell: 57
Laura Ingalls Wilder: 65
Julie Wu: 46
Me: 50 :)
#keepwriting#lifegoals#authors#writing#olderwriters
Today we're showing off our cover for our forthcoming THE MAN THEY WANTED ME TO BE: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making by @JYSexton.
This hits stores in May, but you can place your preorders now! https://t.co/bOUSeglCgx #TheManTheyWantedMetoBe