James Brian Kerr
Author & Blogger
Other Stuff From Me
Thank you for your interest in my writing!
I am the author of The Long Walk Home (Blydyn Square Books) and the forthcoming illustrated chapter book, Elysium! Elysium!
My fiction and poetry has appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, the Sewanee Review, Red River Review, Tiny Seed Journal, and other literary journals. I am also a regular contributor to the financial site HumbleDollar.
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In addition to blogging at Peaceable Man, I also write the newsletter Poor James's Almanack on Substack, where I puzzle over the difficulty of knowing what is real and what is not in a world of screens and digital ephemera.
In all my writing, I seek clarity above all else. I do my best to wrap my stories in prose that is accessible to everyone. There are no airs here.
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Recent Fiction & Poetry
"Ruthie's Garden" (short story), winner of first runner-up in the Saturday Evening Post's 2025 Great American Fiction contest. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/01/ruthies-garden/
"Easter Sunday" (poem), published in The Poet Magazinet's Forest Anthology, December 2021 https://www.blurb.com/b/10901898-anthology-forest. Read the poem https://www.peaceableman.com/post/easter-sunday-a-new-poem
"Let Me Sit in the Woods" (poem), published in Short Story Town, July 2021. https://www.shortstorytown.com/ (scroll down to 7-7-21)
"August," "Summer Swallows," and "Tabula Rasa" (poems), published in Winter 2020 "Childhood" edition, Vol. 1, of The Poet Magazine. https://www.thepoetmagazine.org/winter-2020---childhood. Read the poems https://www.peaceableman.com/post/new-poems-summer-swallows-august-tabula-rasa