Read Appalachia
celebrating & appalachian literature & writing
founded by @kdwinchester.bsky.social
@rcolesworthy.bsky.social
Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
@andcleverness.bsky.social
acquiring editor for environmental studies, food studies, and regional books at the University of Pittsburgh Press career in publishing resource doc: tinyurl.com/2jmmharu bluesky list of university and indie presses: tinyurl.com/3y829vxv
@shanehawk.com
α΄Κα΄Κα΄Ι΄Ι΄α΄ & α΄Κα΄α΄α΄Κα΄ San Diego. ANOKA. NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT series. Rep: Rachel Letofsky at TLA. Film/TV: Joe Veltre at Gersh.
@debutiful.bsky.social
The premier literary website focused on debut and emerging writers. Thereβs also a podcast sometimes. Founded by Adam Vitcavage.
@imaniperry.bsky.social
Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less.
@appalachianpbp.bsky.social
We send free books and provide educational opportunities to people incarcerated in Appalachia. π https://appalachianprisonbookproject.org
@drandrewk.bsky.social
Executive Director @arrc.bsky.social | Professor of Higher Ed @appalachianstate.bsky.social | PI @ruraltalentlab.bsky.social | Studying rural higher ed | Rescue dog dad | National Parks enthusiast | Amateur chef | Proud Appalachian | π³οΈβπ
@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
@ninasabak.bsky.social
MFA-haver and lowercase deadpanner. v queer. I don't want the world, I just want your half. (all views expressed here are mine, not my employer's.)
@hubcitypress.bsky.social
Nonprofit press publishing new and extraordinary voices from the American South. Learn more at hubcity.org/publishing. Shop our catalog at hubcity.org/books.
@sevenstories.bsky.social
Political non-fiction, world literature, social justice childrenβs books, and other works of the radical imagination β¨ sevenstories.com
@kymtnwriter.bsky.social
Writer and artist. WHO YOU GROW INTO (2024) and MAKE BELIEVE WORLDS WE BUILT TOGETHER (2023) and OUT OF PLACES (2025). Farmer at Forgotten Foods Farm. Kentucky.
@margaretrenkl.bsky.social
Author, most recently, of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year. Contributing opinion writer for The New York Times (appearing on the first and third Mondays of each month.)
@kiptain.bsky.social
Poet, writer, photographer. MFA U. of Alaska Fairbanks. Author of FAMILY HAUNTS (Louisiana Literature Press). Wigleaf Top 50 2024. Best Microfiction 2024.
@jamestatehill.bsky.social
memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice) novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel) editor: The Writer's Chronicle & Monkeybicycle agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social WV native still living in 1986 jamestatehill.com
@phdivakatie.bsky.social
Nonprofit ED, PhD in English/Appalachian Studies, traditional musician and ballad singer, trying to be a gap-bridger.
@apmreads.bsky.social
Millennial reader x writer ππ Hobby potter π MD USA apmreads on TikTok She/her π§ π± π A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams https://linktr.ee/apmcmullen
@salvationsouth.com
Stories that shift the Southern narrative at https://salvationsouth.com. Salvation South Deluxe podcast on the NPR Network β https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1124772160/salvation-south β or your fave podcast platform.
@thecosmicpossum.bsky.social
Poet, teacher, granny, over-educated hillbilly. Possum lover. Cancer survivor.
@aupresses.bsky.social
A global community of publishers whose mission is to ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge. #ReadUP! https://aupresses.org/ Got a question about university press publishing? #AskUP! https://ask.up.hcommons.org/
@southrevbooks.bsky.social
Exploring contemporary literature of the American South & beyond. Published by Queens University of Charlotte MFA. Editor-in-chief @crisley.bsky.social, founding editor Adam Morgan. linktr.ee/southrevbooks
@drwpoet.bsky.social
Aspiring eastern Kentucky poet, writer, artist, etc. In search of an audience and an agent.
@uthumanitiesctr.bsky.social
The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts (DCHA) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, supports advanced study of the arts & humanities, fosters interdisciplinary research, and advocates for the value of the arts & humanities in our world today.
@tayari.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE. Atlanta born, Atlanta bred, when I die, Iβll be Atlanta dead.
@bookcougars.bsky.social
Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read. Emily Fine & Chris Wolak talk books & Biblio Adventures. Author interviews. Every other Tuesday since 2016.
@meredithmccarroll.bsky.social
Writer, Editor, Recovering Academic. North Carolinian in Maine. Co-editor Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy; Author or Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film.
@carrieconners.bsky.social
I like poems. Author of: Species of Least Concern (2022), Laugh Lines (2022), and Luscious Struggle (2019). LaGCC English prof. WV roots. https://linktr.ee/connerscarrie
@bdholms.bsky.social
CUNY prof, writer, dog spoiler. Appalachian roots. she/her. bethanyholmstrom.com
@thejeremybjones.bsky.social
When I say writer, Siri hears rider thejeremybjones.com New book out in Sept: cipherthebook.com In the NC mountains Repped by Justin Brouckaert at Aevitascreative
@alexgupta.bsky.social
assistant editor at Columbia UP | probably knitting | they/she | opinions are my own
@mdwstscribbler.bsky.social
Rambling poet, sometime photographer. Midwest is my forever home. Editor @ museum of americana. Creator of Poet Baseball Cards. Author, most recently, of O DEATH (Spartan Press 2024).
@hsmithwrites.bsky.social
Editor-in-chief, Washington Independent Review of Books. Loser-in-chief, "Jeopardy!" season 39. "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever."
@mchristinebd.bsky.social
Writer, editor, coach. She/her. Pittsburgh. My writing trends lyrical, peculiar, melancholy, existential. Books: MILLIONS OF SUNS (2023). THE HEIGHT OF LAND (2025). Covid cautious/airborne aware. Rep: Naomi Davis, BookEnds. linktr.ee/mchristinebd
@emilybrier.bsky.social
university writing instructor | composition studies, peace studies, Appalachian literature, queer(ing) pedagogy | she/her | views my own
@literarylesliez.bsky.social
Founder & Literary Agent at Open Book Literary. Lapsed librarian. Rapacious reader. Wishful writer. She/her. Member of @scbwi & @aalitagents. http://www.openbooklit.com/
@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.
@paulmguest.bsky.social
Poet and memoirist. Published in Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. Whiting Award Winner and Guggenheim Fellow.
@katearden.bsky.social
she/her π Managing Editor at Hub City Press fiction in Carve, Ninth Letter, BULL, The Boiler, Reckon, etc etc read me at kateamcmullen.com or whatimcooking.substack.com
@libertyhardy.bsky.social
Raised by wolves who watched Reading Rainbow. Reader to the nth degree.π She/her. https://linktr.ee/LibertyHardy
@novicsara.bsky.social
Author TRUE BIZ + GIRL AT WAR π§π» deafie | π they/she/ππΌ |πPhilly https://linktr.ee/Novic
@sarahnfisk.bsky.social
Literary Agent. YA Author as Sarah Nicolas. Queries Qualms & Quirks host. Disability in Publishing Board. ππ€ππ€ linktr.ee/presidentsarah
@crystalwilki.bsky.social
Novelist, Food Advocate, Professor. National Bestselling Author of PRAISESONG FOR THE KITCHEN GHOSTS, PERFECT BLACK, BIRDS OF OPULENCE https://linktr.ee/CrystalWilkinson?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=d3c6b47f-690c-483b-9898-8faed08cd35d
@derekkrissoff.bsky.social
Publishing worker in Pittsburgh. Editor-at-large with @oupress.bsky.social and @ksupress.bsky.social. Email me at dkrissoff at gmail dot com. More at derekkrissoff.com and derekkrissoff.substack.com.
@jackbedell.bsky.social
Louisiana Poet Laureate 2017-19. Books from Mercer University Press. Work included in Best Microfiction and Best Spiritual Lit. EIC: @louisianalit.bsky.social www.jackbbedell.com
@citybookspgh.bsky.social
Used & collectible books in Pittsburgh since 1984. Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Fuck Amazon. https://linktr.ee/citybookspgh
@eileendotnet.bsky.social
poet & professor about town β’ writing about death & nature β’ cofounder of Boshemia Magazine and StoryBloom β’ carrying the bones: rituals for a dying world (2026) ποΈ boshemiamagazine.com
@jessicah.bsky.social
Author "The Magnetic Girl," (Southern Book Prize, Indie Next, Bitter Southerner picks.) "Invisible Sisters,β too. Drummer. Southerner. Abortion rights are human rights. www.jessicahandler.com. New novel, βThe World To Seeβ coming in 2026.