Seventy-two micro-fictions about Spearwood, Oregon, a former logging town now suffering an identity crisis. Will Spearwood become a bedroom community? A tourist trap? A haven for artists? Or is Spearwood already a ghost town? Told in the voices of small town gossip and grievances, the residents wrestle over where they live, what they want their town to be, and who they—we—really are.
Spearwood, OR
“In these extraordinary stories, John Carr Walker reveals a world where the ordinary slips seamlessly and rivetingly into the uncanny.”
In Repairable Men (Sunnyoutside 2014), John Carr Walker’s debut story collection, men, women, and children seek escape, forgiveness, and redemption in the new American West.
Repairable Men
“One of the shrewdest and darkest story collections I’ve read in years”
Themes & Concerns
John Carr Walker’s essays and short fictions explore landscape, belonging, and the black holes of human hearts.
Select Publications
Pretenders, Los Angeles Review
Here and There, Split Lip
Sulfur and Its Relationship to Suffering, Hippocampus
The Story of a Scar, The Rupture
Substack
About John
John Carr Walker is the author of two story collections. His essays and short fiction have appeared in Hippocampus, Split Lip, The Rupture, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. He writes the substack John Carr Walker Sitting In His Little Room and teaches fiction writing at The University of Portland.
Contact
For writing inquiries, speaking engagements, or general correspondence: