Cajun Mutt Press

08/20/2025

The Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer this week is Laura Daniels!! Follow the link to read "Sylvan Esso Sings" and "Silencing the Forest" on our main site.

Laura Daniels (she/her) is a neurodivergent writer and editor of The Fringe 999 Poetry Forum. Recently curated in Platform Review, Gyroscope Review, and Journal of New Jersey Poets, and recipient of a 2025 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Honorable Mention Award. Her poetry collection Gentle Grasp (Kelsay Books) is available on Amazon. She resides in Mt Arlington, NJ. Follow her at lauradanielswriter.wordpress.com.

Sylvan Esso Sings guitar strums me in… * 27 seconds to lyricsout of my hearing visionsounds like funeral singersinspired by Emily Dickinson * becauseall my friendsare funeral poetswaiting to perfor…

08/17/2025

Now that the featured writer spots are full for the year, Night Owl Narrative submissions are officially open!! I'll be picking up where I left off with issue six. Aiming for a January 2026 release date. Previous issues can be found here:

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

NIGHT OWL NARRATIVE No.4
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CYLKSXTK

NIGHT OWL NARRATIVE No.5
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9JRZQDJ

Magazine submissions are free, but donations to the tip jar (https://cajunmuttpress.wordpress.com/tip-jar/) are greatly appreciated. In a document set to 10-pt Times New Roman, send up to 5 poems, 3 pieces of flash fiction (one page each), 1 short story (8-page max), interviews, columns, and/or 5 original artworks to [email protected]. Please include a bio and headshot with your work. Add 'Night Owl Narrative' to the subject line. You can also take out an AD if you have a bookstore or any other literature/art-related business you’d like to promote; $25 for half-page, $50 for full-page. Inquire by email.

Stay tuned for details about the writing contest as well! There will be an entry fee, but there will be cash prizes for the winners!! It's going to be broken up into three categories: Poetry/Short Story/Flash Fiction. I'll post the full rules and submission guidelines within a few days.

I'll also be posting cover reveals soon for our upcoming books by A.L. Locke and William T***s! You can find all available titles here:
https://cajunmuttpress.wordpress.com/all-c-m-p-books/

Y'all Keep Kicking Ass Out There!

Write On,
JDCIV
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08/13/2025

This week's featured writer is Daniel S. Irwin! Brother Dan has been a friend and supporter of Cajun Mutt Press for almost five years. He writes poetry in the vein of dark satirical humor. Follow the link below to read his poem "Lizard Woman."

Daniel S. Irwin, artist, writer, actor, soldier, scholar, priest, is a native of Southern Illinois (that in itself speaks of strange). Retired military (Air Force/Army), retired state employee (Dept of Corrections). Worked with the criminally insane for laughs. World traveler (should have stayed gone). Work published online and in print in 100+ journals, magazines, and websites. Has published twenty-one books. Recent work can be found on The Beatnik Cowboy and Rye Whiskey Review, among other places. Ordained Dudeist priest (2007) and damn proud of it.

Lizard Woman Speak to me, Lizard Woman.I really dig your style.Your rough scaled reptilian skin,The way you slither up to meTo snuggle together for body heat,The flicker of your split tongueHissing…

08/12/2025

Featured Writer spots for 2025 are full!! Submissions are officially closed. I was honored to read everyone's work. Special thanks to brother Irwin for supporting the press by leaving something in the tip jar; truly appreciated. I'll open submissions again this November to start filling spots for 2026. If you didn't make the list this time, please feel free to submit again for next year.

Also, stay tuned for details about submission guidelines for the next issue of Night Owl Narrative, our first-ever Cajun Mutt Press writing contest, and upcoming book releases by A.L. Locke and William T***s!

In the meantime, check out our latest 2025 publications:

Everything Must Go by Dan Flore III
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVRM6GGN

Crow City Bleeding by David Alec Knight
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FBM9SCKX

Into The Swamp of The Dangerous Mind by Efe Tuşder
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKBD3ZY3

Or follow this link to see all available CMP titles:
https://cajunmuttpress.wordpress.com/all-c-m-p-books/

Keep Kicking Ass Out There!
Love Y'all, Write on,
JDCIV
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2025 CAJUN MUTT PRESS FEATURED WRITERS:

August 13th: "Lizard Woman" by Daniel S. Irwin

August 20th: 2 Poems by Laura Daniels

August 27th: 3 Poems by David L. O'Nan

September 3rd: "Brother James" by Christal Ann Rice Cooper

September 10th: 3 Collaborative Renga Poems by Uchechukwu Onyedikam & Christina Chin

September 17th: 3 Poems by Sanjeev Sethi

September 24th: 2 Poems by Colin James

October 1st: "Gargoyle Lover" by Lauren Scharhag

October 8th: "you can't curb stomp my magic" by Linda M. Crate

October 15th: "Older Dude" by Allan Lake

October 22nd: 3 Poems by Damon Hubbs

October 29th: 2 Poems by Paul Rogalus

November 5th: "No One’s Going To Help You" by Isaac Aju

November 12th: 3 Poems by George Gad Economou

November 19th: 3 Poems by Keith Gorman

November 26th: "The Belly of the Beast" by Tim Frank

December 3rd: Three Booze Poems by JD Clapp

December 10th: "The Circus Tap" by Vern Fein

December 24th: 2 Poems by Yucheng Tao

December 31st: 3 Poems by Jonathan Butcher

08/06/2025

The featured writer this week is my literary Brother-in-Gonzo, A.L. Locke!! Follow the link to read his poem "Early Morning Escape" on our main webpage. Also, be on the lookout for the cover reveal of his upcoming book, 'An American Crescendo: The symphony of soft words, Amidst a world of painful screams.' Coming soon from Cajun Mutt Press.

A. L. Locke is an Ohio-born Southerner. Moving from Cleveland to small places in North Carolina to, currently, Virginia. While working the Word for over 20 years, Mr. Locke has had four books published, hundreds of articles, poems, and reviews featured in both national and international publications. He is a Featured Columnist for the literary magazine Night Owl Narrative, and is currently at work on a series of scripts of an original Horror/Thriller mini-series. Mr. Locke has worked as an Associate Editor, Staff Writer of an independent newspaper in Missoula, MT, and as a Photojournalist for an Ohio daily.

Early Morning Escape Was itFunToLeave? To runInto theSun ofMadnessOn anEight AMEscape? Would it haveBeen betterNever toHaveLeft? Never to cry…? Never to grieve! Never to knowThe painOf theOther I t…

08/05/2025

Grab some books so I can pay these talented individuals!!

Cajun Mutt Press has three 2025 releases so far:
Everything Must Go by Dan Flore III
Crow City Bleeding by David Alec Knight
Into The Swamp of The Dangerous Mind by Efe Tuşder

Dan's chapbook is short prose stories about his innermost delusional thoughts, David's full-length collection is brooding, brutally honest working class poetry about the city he lives in, and Efe's chapbook is flash fiction prose written in the style of listening to a pirated radio station in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, featuring 17 intense visual artworks by the author as well.

I also have books by Leland Locke and William T***s in the works. Be on the lookout for more details about those in the coming months. I'll be posting cover reveals for them soon.

You can find all available titles here:
https://cajunmuttpress.wordpress.com/all-c-m-p-books/

Please leave a review if you grab a book! The individual links to our 2025 titles are with each cover image.

Y'all Keep Kicking Ass Out There.

Write On,
JDCIV
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🦉🎟🦇

07/30/2025

M.J. Arcangelini is the Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer this week! Follow the link to read his 3 Poems:
"EXCEPTION"
"CAPITAL CRIME"
"PLAYING SOLITAIRE ONLINE"

M.J. Arcangelini, (b.1952, Pennsylvania) resides in northern California since 1979. He has published extensively in print and online venues & over a dozen anthologies. He is the author of 8 published collections, the most recent of which are the full-length PAWNING MY SINS, 2022 (Luchador Press), and the chapbooks FIERCE KISSES (Rebels & Squares Press) 2024 & HOOKING UP (Pure Sleaze Press, 2025). He has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

EXCEPTION I think I have finally accepted the inescapable factThat death will not make an exception for me. If it was going to do that, I think I’d have seen signsBy now, instead what I’ve experien…

07/29/2025

Today's the day that this insanity gets released upon the unsuspecting world!!! Into The Swamp of The Dangerous Mind by Efe Tuşder is now available!! Follow the link below to grab a copy, and be prepared to be taken on an insane journey through the same world as his book Tales From The Rotten Land (Cajun Mutt Press 2023).

Into The Swamp of The Dangerous Mind by Efe Tuşder is flash fiction prose from a strange alternate universe. A chapbook written in the form of listening to an apocalyptic pirated radio station in a place called The Rotten Land. A world full of cults, necromancers, ho******ic religious ceremonies, self-sacrifice rituals, depraved s*x fetishes, cannibalism, and other taboo tales of its oddball inhabitants. Featuring cover art by the author, and 19 intense visual images of his digital collage artwork inside.

by Efe Tuşder is flash fiction prose from a strange alternate universe. A chapbook written in the form of listening to an apocalyptic pirated radio station in a place called The Rotten Land. A world full of cults, necromancers, ho******ic religious ceremonies, self-sacrifice rituals, depraved s...

07/23/2025

Preacher Allgood is this week's Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer! Follow the link to read his poem "John Deere Purgatory."

BIO:
Preacher Allgood is no stranger to purgatory.

Featured Writers will be posted every Wednesday on our main webpage, and full submission guidelines can be found there in the SUBMISSIONS/ABOUT CMP section of the menu.

John Deere Purgatory you were always differentalways looking for somethingalways running toward something you couldn’t defineand then you ran into the winter wheat harvest three months and a thousa…

07/16/2025

Our first featured writer of 2025! Follow the link below to read three poems by Rachel Turney. Featured writers will be posted every Wednesday. Please read the guidelines on our website if you'd like to submit.

Rachel Turney, Ed.D. (she/her) is an educator and artist located in Denver. Her poems, research articles, drawings, and photography can be found in a variety of publications. Rachel is passionate about immigrant rights, teacher support, and empowering other artists. She is a Writers’ Hour prize winner and her photography can be found on a few magazine covers. The Poetry Lighthouse will publish her full-length collection Record Player Life later this year. Her disappearing digital chapbook Europe in Black and White is available on Blood + Honey at bloodhoneylit.com during July/August 2025.

Blood Farm The farmers carry stacks of wooden cratesfilled with misshapen heirloom tomatoesWhen we slice them, fruit and sacks of blood spill outThe blood pours over the countertops and leaks into …

07/06/2025

All right, it's time to get this ship sailing again. Featured Writer submissions are officially OPEN!! I'll let y'all know when submissions are open for Night Owl Narrative and the writing contest. Please read the new guidelines before submitting. They can be found by following this link:
https://cajunmuttpress.wordpress.com/submissions-about-c-m-p/

Love Y'all, Write On,
JDCIV 🏴‍☠️
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Publishing since 2015, officially founded in 2018, Cajun Mutt Press publishes full-length paperback poetry/artwork/flash fiction/short story collections, chapbooks, and weekly featured writer spots…

07/01/2025

Dropping on July 29th!!! Keep your eyes peeled...

Into The Swamp of The Dangerous Mind by Efe Tuşder is flash fiction prose from a strange alternate universe. A chapbook written in the form of listening to an apocalyptic pirated radio station in a place called The Rotten Land. A world full of cults, necromancers, ho******ic religious ceremonies, self-sacrifice rituals, depraved s*x fetishes, cannibalism, and other taboo tales of its oddball inhabitants. Featuring cover art by the author, and 19 intense visual images of his digital collage artwork inside.

Tune in to the madness and grab yourself a copy for an insane trip Into The Swamp of The Dangerous Mind of Efe Tuşder, available July 29th!

This book is set in the same microcosm as his short story and artwork collection, Tales From The Rotten Land (amazon.com/dp/B0C1J1XDGM), published by Cajun Mutt Press in 2023. Efe's books would be satisfying reads for fans of absurd horror, splatterpunk, and transgressive literature.

Follow this link to see all available CMP titles:
https://cajunmuttpress.wordpress.com/2021/06/08/cajun-mutt-press-bibliography/

Stay tuned to see new submission guidelines for featured writers as well!! I'll have those posted within the next few days. I'm also kicking around the idea of a writing contest.

Write On,
JDCIV
🤟💀📚
🦉🎟🦇