@marinadepodcast.bsky.social
The Marinade is a free-flowing conversation about the creative process with creative people. Available wherever you consume podcasts and at marinadepodcast.com. Black lives matter.
@whiskeybygeorge.bsky.social
Hi and welcome to Whiskey, by George! The official account for my blog! I’m a military veteran on a whiskey journey…please come along with me! NO WHISKEY SALES MADE OR ACCEPTED!
@maazamengiste.bsky.social
Writes many words: Beneath the Lion's Gaze, The Shadow King, & the next one. Believes in film: mostly Tri-X, sometimes Portra. There's something out there, and it is us.
@cartersickels.bsky.social
Author: THE PRETTIEST STAR (Hub City 2020), THE EVENING HOUR (Bloomsbury 2012) www.cartersickels.com
@mcginley.bsky.social
Author: ONCE THESE HILLS and COAL BLACK. https://www.chris-mcginley.com/ Writer at Crimereads, Mystery Tribune, Reckon Review, etc.
@browneallover.bsky.social
Author of THEY ALL FALL THE SAME (1/7/25 @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social) & HILLBILLY HUSTLE (2020 WVU press) KY Attorney/Pizza Purveyor. Repped by Alice Speilburg. https://bsky.app/profile/alicespeilburg.bsky.social www.wesbrowneauthor.com
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
The other one. Poet & NYT bestselling author. Next 📚: DEAR WRITER (April 2025), THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT (Sept 2025), A SUIT OR A SUITCASE (March 2026).
@erinwriter.bsky.social
Copper Canyon poet (new book coming 2026), professor, Girl Scout from Omaha. She/her 🇺🇦
@htownjenny.bsky.social
Ugh, fine. Writer in Texas. I curse on the internet now. #HouSky www.jennystaffjohnson.com
@mlensheffer.bsky.social
Author of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES (Nov 2024, Iowa Short Fiction Award from U of Iowa Press) writer and teacher in New Orleans stories in Asimov's, Lit Hub, The Dread Machine, The Pinch and others
@davidwwilliams.bsky.social
Southern fiction writer out of Memphis. Novels EVERYBODY KNOWS (2023) and forthcoming COME AGAIN NO MORE (2025) from JackLeg Press. Stories in Oxford American, Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. Fan of greyhounds, bourbon, coffee, jazz, typewriters.
@annettesclapsaddle.bsky.social
Writer. Teacher. Cyclist (esp. MTB). Eastern Band Cherokee citizen. WNC. Appalachia.
@tobyleblancauthor.bsky.social
Spicy Cajun. I talk to trees. The book, the vinyl, and the original recipe are better. Dark Roux (Unsolicited Press, 2022) Soaked: Stories (Cornerstone Press, 2025) Shorter stuff in places like Barrelhouse Magazine. www.tobyleblancauthor.com
@annhiteauthor.bsky.social
Award-winning author of Black Mountain Series. Lover of Haints and all things Appalachian.
@escoffery.bsky.social
Author of IF I SURVIVE YOU, a NY Times Editor’s Choice, IndieNext Pick, & International Bestseller. Nom’d for the National Book Award, PEN/Jean Stein, PEN/ Robert W. Bingham, & Story Prize. Booker Prize, PEN/ Faulkner & NBCC John Leonard finalist.
@emtran.bsky.social
writer, gilmore girl, kardashian expert. debut novel: DAUGHTERS OF THE NEW YEAR www.elizabethmtran.com bio.site/emtran
@clintsmithiii.bsky.social
Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
@juliafranks.bsky.social
Author of two award-winning novels (The Say So and Over the Plain Houses). Still kayaking Southern rivers and sleeping on the ground.
@davidjoy.bsky.social
Half-assed author of novels. Full-assed wanderer of woods. Born looking lonesome, on’ry, and mean. Also, I fucking cuss a lot.
@jessicah.bsky.social
Author "The Magnetic Girl," (Southern Book Prize, Indie Next, Bitter Southerner picks.) "Invisible Sisters,” too. Drummer. Southerner. Abortion rights are human rights. www.jessicahandler.com. New novel, “The World To See” coming in 2026.
@meaganlucas.bsky.social
Author of Anthony Nominated collection HERE IN THE DARK, and award-winning novel SONGBIRDS & STRAY DOGS | BAMS Distinguished x 2 | EIC: Reckon Review |
@avashianeema.bsky.social
Proud Boston educator since 2003. Proud West Virginian since 1979. Kahani's Ammi. ANOTHER APPALACHIA, WVU Press, 2022.
@emhilly.bsky.social
Folklorist & writer | MAKING OUR FUTURE: VISIONARY FOLKLORE & EVERYDAY CULTURE IN APPALACHIA (UNC Press 2022) | @spinstersounds.bsky.social co-owner | @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social podcast |
@canappalachia.bsky.social
Author of *I Hate It Here, Please Vote For Me* from WVU Press. Also *Appalachia North* and *All-American Redneck.* Jazz also happens.
@jessiew.bsky.social
Author of To Live Here, You Have to Fight | Historian of 20th C U.S., Appalachia, labor, women & gender | Associate Prof. at WVU | Views mine. JessicaWilkerson.org
@edkarshner.bsky.social
Homesick Hillican. Writer. Folklore columnist for Reckon Review. Professor of English & Department Head of English and Media Arts at Robert Morris University.
@edsouthern.bsky.social
Chief writer-connector at NC Writers’ Network, author of FIGHT SONGS & more, not as grumpy as I look.
@tiffanywilliams.bsky.social
Appalachian • Kentuckian • Singer-Songwriter Fiction Writer • Dialect Coach 📍Nashville
@michaelamoscody.bsky.social
Writer: New novel STREETS OF NASHVILLE coming 4/15/2025; GABRIEL'S SONGBOOK (a novel, 2017) and A TWILIGHT REEL (stories, 2021); songwriter, with songs recorded by Glen Campbell and Gary Morris a long, long time ago.
@mworthington.bsky.social
I make poems sometimes. Editor at Still: The Journal. The Girl Singer: Poems (UP of KY 2021), words in Oxford American, Shenandoah, Calyx, Zone 3, Salvation South. Reformed college professor. . .
@sarajhenry.bsky.social
Wrote some books, won some awards. Tennessee-born Vermonter. Three dogs, 2 cats, 1 teen. Acquiring editor - query at submissions@CrookedLaneBooks.com. Bio pic is me at 16. Other pic is our yard before the flood scoured it clean and left a sand dune.
@jamesdfhannah.bsky.social
Shamus-winning author of the Henry Malone novels. Appalachian to the bitterest of ends. Rep: @michellerichterbks.bsky.social Insta @jamesdfhannah. He/him jamesdfhannah.com
@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
poet & nyeusiphile. collections: Deifying A Total Darkness, To Emit Teal, The Second Stop Is Jupiter, & The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife (UPK, Oct 14, 2025)
@erinkeane.bsky.social
Writer, editor, poet, critic | Chief Content Officer at @salonnewsroom.bsky.social | Author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me | Faculty at Naslund-Mann MFA | KY Colonel | Blair Water Literary Society chair | https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
@alexanderchee.bsky.social
Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social
Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. celesteng.com
@emilymandel.bsky.social
Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
@gwenda.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author * dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond
@garthgreenwell.bsky.social
What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | Eeyore at the gay club | Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
@cassmorriswrites.com
Author: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA linktr.ee/cassrmorris
@dintywmoore.bsky.social
Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions. Author of various books. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.
@daveruddenwrites.bsky.social
Storysmith. DOCTOR WHO. KNIGHTS OF THE BORROWED DARK. And CONN OF THE DEAD - coming soon!
@andrewporter01.bsky.social
Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof. www.andrewporterwriter.com