Shelly Jones
Progressive educator. Writer. Appalachian expat. Religious trauma survivor. Mom. Fierce defender of and member of the lgbtqia+ community. Spiritual being having a human experience. (Ask me a question, l’ll tell you a story.) Dogs > cats. Coffee = tea.
@williampotter.bsky.social
Husband, Dad, writer, reader, publishing, book reviews. I support indie authors. I follow back all authors, publishers, editors etc. #WritingCommunity 🍁
@wileycash.bsky.social
New York Times bestselling, mid-list author. Host of the Our State Book Club Podcast and Executive Director of Literary Arts at UNC-Asheville. Just trying to get by in a world aflame.
@chuckreece.bsky.social
@salvationsouth.com co-founder and editor in chief. Founding editor of The Bitter Southerner.
@appalshop.bsky.social
Making art and media in the mountains since 1969. Press inquiries to [email protected]. linktr.ee/appalshop www.appalshop.org
@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
@themomeswrath.bsky.social
Queer Appalachian. Writing, performing, & art. Fat positive. Nerd by day, entertainer by night. She/they 🍄 Berea College alum 🏳️🌈 grad student at Morehead State University ❣️ Bean’s auntie-mom 🐭 Elsewhere: https://mjhatfield.carrd.co/
@justfundky.bsky.social
🌈✨🏳️⚧️ 2nd largest endowment in the south. your favorite nonprofit’s favorite nonprofit Just Fund Education Project, Inc, or JustFundKY, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2007 JustFundKY.org
@shawnreynolds.bsky.social
Senior Producer, CNN 📍ATL via NYC via L.A. via ATL Alum: MSNBC / NBC News NOW / NBC News
@tomeblen.com
Journalist, writer, photographer, cyclist, Kentucky history nerd. Retired editor, columnist, reporter at AP, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Lexington Herald-Leader. Biased in favor of truth, facts, justice, democracy, bourbon.
@sarajhenry.bsky.social
Wrote some books, won some awards. Tennessee-born Vermonter. Three dogs, 2 cats, 1 teen. Acquiring editor - query at [email protected]. Bio pic is me at 16. Other pic is our yard before the flood scoured it clean and left a sand dune.
@kathdriskell.bsky.social
Free-thinker & writer living in a KY country church built before the Civil War. Chair, Spalding MFA. Words in The New Yorker & River Teeth—💙Resist. KY Poet Laureate 25-26.
@theatlantic.com
Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
@thenation.com
Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.
@podsaveamerica.crooked.com
A no-bullshit conversation about politics with hosts Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, Tommy Vietor & Jon Lovett. crooked.com/friends
@ronanfarrow.bsky.social
Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: [email protected].
@kentucky.com
News from Lexington, Central Kentucky and around the Bluegrass State. Read more at kentucky.com
@oxfordamerican.bsky.social
The Oxford American is a national magazine dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the South. https://linktr.ee/oxfordamerican
@bittersouth.bsky.social
Over 11 years independent publishing — print mag, James Beard🏅s, books, podcast, t-shirts, working on a #BetterSouth #BetterAmerica #BetterWorld for ALL. SUBSCRIBE : https://bittersoutherner.com/subscribe
@out.com
Since '92, Out has been at the forefront of LGBTQ+ visibility, transforming from revealing hidden stories to amplifying diverse queer voices. Follow us for fresh insights and hot takes on entertainment, fashion, lifestyle, and all things queer! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧
@govandybeshear.bsky.social
The official account of the 63rd Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Posts from Andy are signed ^AB. #TeamKentucky Subscribe➡️YouTube.com/GovAndyBeshear
@literaryhub.bsky.social
A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism. https://linktr.ee/lithub_
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
We amplify voices on the issues that matter to you. Read on: https://www.nytimes.com/section/opinion
@evio2.bsky.social
You can find my writing in the North Carolina Library Review, Still: The Journal, storySouth, West Trade Review, and the Appalachian Women Speak Anthology.
@jasonkylehoward.bsky.social
Politics & Culture Writer | Street Haunter à la Virginia Woolf | Work in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Washington Monthly, Salon, etc. | Author of two books
@karigunterseymour.bsky.social
Ohio Poet Laureate, 9th Generation Appalachian, Photographer, Author of DIRT SONGS and ALONE IN THE HOUSE OF MY HEART, featured in World Literature Today and American Book Review
@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.)
@thecosmicpossum.bsky.social
Poet, teacher, granny, over-educated hillbilly. Possum lover. Cancer survivor.
@lorenlee.bsky.social
Teacher, writer, director. I make theater with kids. I do what I can to make the world fair and good. It’s not enough but I won’t give up.
@racheldockal.bsky.social
Wright, writer, sometime chicken farmer, and gainfully employed budget wonk. Enlightened Kentuckian. Kind > nice. Know better? Do better.
@jswafford.bsky.social
@jessicascory.bsky.social
Editor of Appalachian Journal. Scholar, educator, writer. Books with WVU Press and U of Georgia Press. Lover of gardening, living with MCAS/hEDS/other immune wonkiness. https://www.jessicascory.com/
@williecarver.bsky.social
Big Gay Appalachian. Cat person. Author of Gay Poems for Red States. Kentucky Colonel. Kentucky Teacher of the Year. Tweets are mine. All pronouns cool. www.williecarver.com
@ellenbirkettmorris.bsky.social
Author of Beware the Tall Grass: A Novel, winner of the Donald L. Jordan Prize selected by Lan Samantha Chang, Lost Girls: Short Stories, poetry chapbooks Abide and Surrender. https://www.ellenbirkettmorris.com, https://linktr.ee/ellenbirkettmorris
@jbethiejean.bsky.social
community organizer, writer, Kentuckian Forthcoming memoir Rednecks for Black Lives from Haymarket Books ❤️🔥 Substack: working class love notes IG and everywhere else: @jbethiejean Web: bethhowardky.org