Non-Fiction

PonyExpressRideOn the Pony Express Trail

In July, 2021, I bikepacked the Pony Express Trail from St. Joseph, MO to Salt Lake City, UT. My travel narrative about the ride is forthcoming from TwoDot Books. The book is scheduled to be published June 1, 2023. You can pre-order a copy here. You can learn more about that at my ride website, Pony Express Ride.

Nuggets of Truth

A two-part article that appears in the 2023 Summer and Fall issues (Vol. 41, Numbers 2 and 3) of the Overland Journal, the quarterly publication of the Oregon-California Trails Association. Learn more >

 

The Pony Express in Wyoming

Article for the Wyoming Historical Society. Learn more >

 

Short Stories

Fire Illness”  Runner up, 2017 Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize, Hunger Mountain (Matt Bell, judge)

“The Rides of March”  StoryQuarterly (Issue No. 51)

“Sailing Lessons” Meat for Tea  (Volume 13, Issue 1)

San Andreas’ FaultBlack Fork Review (Issue 2)

“DACAmented”  Kestrel (Issue 42, Spring 2020)

 

Creative Nonfiction

Leaving Tandem Properties at the start of the 2009 Gold Rush Randonnee

Dead Fucking Last: Riding the Gold Rush Randonne

An extended piece documenting my experience riding in the 2009 Gold Rush Randonnee, a 750-mile cycling event that runs from Davis, CA to the Oregon border and back.

“Peanut Butter”  little somethings press (Issue 2, Spring 2020)

 

Novella

Will Kill for Food - Scott AlumbaughWill Kill for Food one of three winning novellas of the 2014 Black Hill Press Summer Writing Project.

 

Essays

Sailing on San Francisco Bay
Sailing on San Francisco Bay

Bay Crossings

Essays on seamanship, the art and skill of boat handling, published in Bay Crossings. To read the articles, go to Bay Crossings’s website and search “alumbaugh.”