James Alan Gill

Writer. CARBON CITY, 1925 (Castoff Press 2026), NOT DARK YET (Castoff Press, 2024). Appears​ in @Colorado_Review @CrbOrchdReview @commonmag @AtticusReview

[John McNally / Johnny Mack @JMcNallyBooks]

Check out my friend’s new book! Congratulations, Jim! Link is below.

[James Alan Gill @jagill97]

@JMcNallyBooks Thanks, John! Appreciate the shout-out!

[Whiting Foundation @WhitingFdn]

"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

[The Common @commonmag]

"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

[The Common @commonmag]

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

[The Common @commonmag]

"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]

@vanessapeters @commonmag @ninasudhakar Thank you so much, Vanessa!

[James Alan Gill @jagill97]

@commonmag @ninasudhakar Yes! Thank you @ninasudhakar and @jen_acker for the fantastic editorial guidance (as always). You bring out my best.

[The Common @commonmag]

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

[The Common @commonmag]

"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

[The Common @commonmag]

"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

[James Alan Gill @jagill97]

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.

[The Common @commonmag]

"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

[James Alan Gill @jagill97]

@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?"

[James Alan Gill @jagill97]

@Jane_Angelica Amazing how people suddenly find value in what you do after you say you're leaving.

[The Common @commonmag]

"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

[The Common @commonmag]

"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

[Brittany Lang Gill @29b_lang]

New work from my talented husband!

[James Alan Gill @jagill97]

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

[Jenny Moss @jennymosswrites]

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

[James Alan Gill @jagill97]

@JYSexton is one of the good ones. On the page and in the world. Looking forward to this.

[Counterpoint Press @CounterpointLLC]

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