Some Ways of Writing/A Writers' Way: A Supplemental Guide to Writing for Composition and Sophomore Literature, 2007
Written for Lamar University's composition program
Nevin's History, A Novel of Texas, 2004
"A delightful and instructive panorama of South Texas's late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century past. . . .An epic, exciting story."--Tom Pilkington, Tarleton State University
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La Mordida, 2002
"Barren indeed. And dry. And murderous. West Texans will enjoy La Mordida.--West Texas Historical Association Yearbook
Safe Delivery, 2000
finalist for the Violet Crown Award, 2000
"Sanderson offers a unique view of love, border wars, bail jumping, and life in San Antonio . . . an intriguing mystery plot blended with a realistic and slightly racy love affair will convince readers that this novel is one worth reading and Sanderson's writing career is one worth following." --Review of Texas Books
El Camino Del Rio, 1998
Winner Frank Waters Award, 1997
"Makes the gritty, thankless landscape of the border come alive, from the relentless heat to the failed hopes."--Paul Skenazy, Washington Post Book World
Semi-Private Rooms, 1994
Winner of the Kenneth Patchen Prize for fiction, 1992
A West Texas Soapbox, 1998
"'I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the doorpost, Whim.' . . . I'm not sure if I got these slogans from Emerson or from Reebok athletic shoe commercials. Emerson wrote some convoluted essays but some great one-liners."—Jim Sanderson MORE
Short Stories, Articles, and Essays in Lone Star: From the Red River to the Rio Grand-100 Years of Texas Literature, Texas Bound III, Concho River Review, Dark Horse, Phoebe, New Growth I & II, Houston Chronicle, Journal of American Culture, Amarillo Bay, Literature/Film Quarterly, High Plains Review, Pleiades, Early American Literature, North Atlantic Review, Portland Review, Chariton Review, New Mexico Humanities Review, descant, Sports Literate, Post Script, and others.
