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About This Place

GiddyupBuddha is a home for chronically untethered creatives — people who've lived across borders, backroads, and states of mind, and have something to say about it.

This isn't a publication you read. It's a community you write into. We're a small, curated platform for people whose stories don't fit neatly anywhere else — too personal for journalism, too strange for mainstream fiction, too alive to stay in a journal.

If the endless swipe has left your creative spirit somewhere between numb and restless, consider this your antidote: a place to publish, find your people, and be read by people who actually get it.  

The Name

"Giddyup" is motion — curiosity, momentum, the urge to keep going.

"Buddha" is the pause — not religion, not doctrine, and not a gendered figure or spiritual authority. Here, it simply signals reflection: the moment where a story slows down long enough to mean something. 

Together, the name holds a tension we recognize in ourselves — movement and stillness, humor and depth, chaos and perspective. GiddyupBuddha isn't about enlightenment. It's about being human while you're still figuring things out.

What You’ll Find Here

  • Original fiction & essays — Creator-driven work from people with something to say — and the  craft to say it.
  • Travelogues & memoir — Real places. Real memories. Real detours. Stories that move. 
  • Genre wandering (encouraged) — Fiction, memoir, travel, humor, and whatever refuses to behave.

How It Works

  • Start free — Read public stories and get a feel for the place and the community.

  • Become a Member — $5/month gets you a seat at the table: submit your own stories for publication, access everything on the platform, and join a community of writers who are as untethered as you are.  Start here!                                                                    
                                 
  • Get editorial feedback — Select stories receive personal notes and feedback from the editor. It's a conversation, not a grade.