Read Appalachia
celebrating & appalachian literature & writing
founded by @kdwinchester.bsky.social
@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)
@shipmanagency.bsky.social
The Shipman Agency offers complete literary services to writers at all stages of their careers: event booking, independent publicity, mss consultations, The Work Room. she/her https://www.theshipmanagency.com/
@levarburton.bsky.social
Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
@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 |
@hannahbae.bsky.social
Writer, journalist, illustrator 2020 Rona Jaffe award winner 2019 AAWW fellow ½ of @eatdrinkdraw AAJA for life Alum of CNN, Newsday, U.S. Embassy Seoul & more
@iamlisako.bsky.social
📚 MEMORY PIECE (2024) 📚 THE LEAVERS (2017) Nationally bestselling novelist • National Book Award finalist • New Yorker http://lisa-ko.com
@jeannakadlec.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 queer ex-evangelical witchy author // HERETIC: A MEMOIR (2022, Harper) // astrology for writers (jeannakadlec.substack.com) // Co-host at the Call Your Coven podcast // NYC, she/her // get in touch jeannakadlec.com
@doucette515.bsky.social
Author | Poet | San Diego Kids Write Judge | MGpies | SCBWI Mentee: Joy McCullough | Agent: Leslie Zampetti @Open Book Lit | #KidLitChat [Tuesdays 9pm ET/6pm PT] | MG Hub | Highlight’s Kay Yoder Scholarship for American History ‘24 | https://bit.ly/3Zf7FiH
@danchaon.bsky.social
Novelist and short story writer. New novel, ONE OF US, due out Sept. 23, 2025 Signed/personalized copies of my books here: https://www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon
@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.
@avashianeema.bsky.social
Proud Boston educator since 2003. Proud West Virginian since 1979. Kahani's Ammi. ANOTHER APPALACHIA, WVU Press, 2022.
@jsavrankelly.bsky.social
Debut novel ENDPAPERS (Algonquin 2023), writer, cat person, #AuthorsAgainstBookBans, #5amWritersClub, production editor at Cornell University Press, she/they | jennifersavrankelly.com
@taliakolluri.bsky.social
Writer, cat wrangler. WHAT WE FED TO THE MANTICORE (Tin House 2022) taliakolluri.com
@tonjamreynolds.bsky.social
Fiction writer. Words in Still: The Journal, Streetlight Magazine, 100 Word Story, and elsewhere. Writing historical and literary fiction. Rep’d by Amy Collins. #HistoricalFiction #Fiction #Writer TonjaReynolds.com
@barrelhouse.bsky.social
Proudly independent literary magazine & small press, established in 2004. Books + print issues + online issues + conferences + writing retreats + other stuff. https://barrelhousemag.com/
@splitlipthemag.bsky.social
We’re a literary journal that’s totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys. https://splitlipthemag.com/
@troutli.bsky.social
writer | editor ✨ writershour.com host, assistant books editor @ barrelhouse. she, her. https://lindseytrouthughes.substack.com/
@lucaschurch.bsky.social
Executive editor @uncpress.bsky.social. I acquire books in: Lit studies, social sciences, trade, CNF, App Studies, music. Writer. Recovering Appalachian. Book @Press53. He/Him.
@uncpress.bsky.social
The University of North Carolina Press 📖 First University Press in the South 📚 Publishing distinguished books and journals for academics, students, and general readers for over a century
@vitcavage.bsky.social
"that guy with that website that covers debut writers" www.debutiful.net
@morgantalty.bsky.social
Writer / pαnawάhpskewi from the Penobscot Indian Nation / NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ and FIRE EXIT: A NOVEL (Tin House 2024) Founder & Director of Talty Literary morgantalty.com
@splitlippress.com
publisher of boundary-breaking prose books come get us @ splitlippress.com and https://linktr.ee/splitlippress posts by yrs truly @suburbanprairie.bsky.social
@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).
@emmagstephens.bsky.social
Poet. Professor. Appalachian. Southern. Anglican. Poems in The Windhover, Ekstasis Mag, Thimble Lit Mag, Door is a Jar, Red Branch Review, Clayjar Review, and more--with work upcoming in The MacGuffin and The Christian Century.
@appodlachia.com
Appalachian politics, cultural stuff, and labor. Pro-Union / Anti-corporate greed. Which side are you on? https://beacons.ai/appodlachia
@kdwinchester.bsky.social
Contributing Editor Book Riot | Founder @readappalachia.bsky.social | Formerly Reading Women | Forthcoming Appalachian Disability Anthology from UP of KY | she/her