He is the author of River, Sing Out and All Things Left Wild, a winner of the prestigious MPIBA Reading the West Award for Debut Fiction, and a recipient of the Spur Award for Best Historical Novel from the Western Writers of America. The Bitter Oleander | Skylark Review (Little Lantern Press) | Tall.ish (Pure Slush Books) | Intrinsick Magazine | Dime Show Review | Bartleby Snopes | Jersey Devil Press | Typehouse Magazine | After the Pause Journal | J.J. James Wade lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country with his wife and daughter.

Work by James can be found in the following Publications and Anthologies: Set in the early 1900s, two brothers, filled with vengeance and greed, pursue to rob horses from a well-off rancher. 16, 2020 Moving, immersive and tragic a raw, historical fiction of life in the American West post-civil war. Honorable mention in the 2015 Texas Observer Short Story Contest All Things Left Wild: James Wade Release Date: Jun. Honorable mention in the 2016 Texas Observer Short Story Contest Winner of the 2021 Spur Award for Best Historical Fiction (ALL THINGS LEFT WILD)Ī winner of the 2016 Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest (Historical Fiction)Ī finalist of the 2016 Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest (Thriller)Ī finalist of the 2016 Tethered By Letters Short Story Contest

Winner of the 2021 Reading the West Award for Best Debut Novel (ALL THINGS LEFT WILD) Winner of the 2023 Spur Award for Best Contemporary Novel (BEASTS OF THE EARTH)Ī Finalist of The Austin Chronicl e's Best of Austin 2022 & 2023 Best Fiction Writer Represented by Mark Gottlieb with Trident Media Group

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