Southern Fiction Authors
A starter pack of southern fiction authors. These writers either live in or write about the south. Follow to keep track of your favorite southern fiction authors. Emerging authors welcome! #authors #writers #writingcommunity #southernfiction
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@wesblake.bsky.social
@rickchilders.bsky.social
@chris-offutt.bsky.social
Writer. Photographer. Kentuckian. Professor Emeritus. Ex-dishwasher, curb painter, house painter, mover, truck driver, landscaper, breakfast cook, waiter, store clerk, delivery man, and more.
@tammyoberhausen.bsky.social
Author of THE EVOLUTION OF THE GOSPELETTES (Fireside Industries) tammyoberhausen.com
@terrylkennedy.bsky.social
Author, What the Light Leaves Hidden (Unicorn Press 2023) Editor, The Greensboro Review linktr.ee/terrylkennedy
@storysouth.bsky.social
Online fads can’t help but fade away; great writing endures. storySouth is all about the writing. Publishing fiction, poetry, cnf, reviews, and interviews since 2001. www.storysouth.com
@skip-rhudy.bsky.social
Under the Gulf Coast Sun https://www.underthegulfcoastsun.com One Punk Summer https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736431005
@themirrorzone.bsky.social
‘The Mirror Zone’ - An upcoming- electrifying #Fantasy #book Series by debut author - A.J Rose 🌹 - Seeking representation 📖
@kellymustian.bsky.social
Author of the USA TODAY bestseller THE GIRLS IN THE STILT HOUSE and THE RIVER KNOWS YOUR NAME. Lover of trees, mountains, and rivers. kellymustian.com
@utpress.bsky.social
The Volunteer State's Book Publisher, est. 1940 utpress.org
@uvapress.bsky.social
Publishes 70+ books per year in the humanities & social sciences, blending the strengths of a university press with innovation sparked by digital technologies upress.virginia.edu
@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
@appodlachia.com
Appalachian politics, cultural stuff, and labor. Pro-Union / Anti-corporate greed. Which side are you on? https://beacons.ai/appodlachia
@readappalachia.bsky.social
celebrating & appalachian literature & writing founded by @kdwinchester.bsky.social
@kdwinchester.bsky.social
Contributing Editor Book Riot | Founder @readappalachia.bsky.social | Formerly Reading Women | Forthcoming Appalachian Disability Anthology from UP of KY | she/her
@wardeditor.bsky.social
Magazine Editor - Today in Mississippi. Tamale and unsweet tea fan. Husband. Father. U.S. Navy vet. NOLA raised. Book hoarder. Jackson, Mississippi.
@audreyhayworth.bsky.social
Feminist writer of uncomfortable things living in the Deep South. Survivor of childhood sex trafficking & CSAM. Active accomplice. she/her
@kdunkelberg.bsky.social
Poet & Professor Director of MFA in Creative Writing Mississippi University for Women Author of Tree Fall with Birdsong, Fernwood Press, 2025 Barrier Island Suite, and A Writer’s Craft. Alumnus of Knox College, Univ. of Texas at Austin
@tayari.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE. Atlanta born, Atlanta bred, when I die, I’ll be Atlanta dead.
@bullcitypress.com
Small press publisher of poetry, fiction, & creative nonfiction chapbooks located in Durham, NC | est. 2006 | https://bullcitypress.com | linktr.ee/bullcitypress | posts by @noahstetzer.bsky.social & @rosswhite.com
@rosswhite.com
Publisher: @bullcitypress.com. Poet: CHARM OFFENSIVE & three chapbooks from Unicorn Press. Professor: UNC #GoHeels. Host: @triviaescapepod.com. Goofus. Durham, NC. > Site: rosswhite.com
@brandonduke.bsky.social
Multimedia storyteller at Karkata Media. Co-host of Scratch Claw Push podcast. KarkataMedia.com
@chuckreece.bsky.social
@salvationsouth.com co-founder and editor in chief. Founding editor of The Bitter Southerner.
@salvationsouth.com
Stories that shift the Southern narrative at https://salvationsouth.com. Salvation South Deluxe podcast on the NPR Network — https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1124772160/salvation-south — or your fave podcast platform.
@charlesfrazier.bsky.social
Author of Cold Mountain, Thirteen Moons, Nightwoods, Varina, and The Trackers | charlesfrazier.com |
@joshilyn.bsky.social
NYT and USA today bestselling novelist who only likes black-and-white animals (apparently) Learn more at joshilynjackson.com
@louisianalit.bsky.social
Since 1984, Louisiana Literature has featured some of the finest writing published in America. The journal has always striven to spotlight local talent alongside nationally-recognized authors. EIC: @jackbedell.bsky.social www.louisianaliterature.org
@utexaspress.bsky.social
Publisher of international scope serving UT Austin, the people of Texas & knowledge seekers around the globe through books, journals & digital media | Learn more at utpress.utexas.edu!
@sundresspub.bsky.social
Nonprofit literary press & writers residency. Also Best of the Net, Poets in Pajamas, and more. www.sundresspublications.com
@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.
@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
@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
@mathewlreyes.bsky.social
Author of nightmares, dreams, & nasty little things / co-host Queers Of Time podcast / He/Him 🏳️🌈 / say no to AI / based in Minneapolis / editor @ Quill & Crow Publishing
@cauverymadhavan.bsky.social
Novelist:Paddy Indian, The Uncoupling,The Tainted @hoperoadpublish @PenguinIndia, @AAKnopf @speakingtiger14. New Book: #TheInheritance Sept’24. ❤️Golf❤️
@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
@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.
@kimberlybrock.bsky.social
Award winning author of historical & Southern fiction. Latest The Fabled Earth (Harper Collins, 2024). Rep’d by Danielle Egan-Miller, Browne and Miller Literary Agency. #writer #author linktr.ee/kimberlydbrock
@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
@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)
@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
@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.
@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. . .
@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.
@tiffanywilliams.bsky.social
Appalachian • Kentuckian • Singer-Songwriter Fiction Writer • Dialect Coach 📍Nashville
@edsouthern.bsky.social
Chief writer-connector at NC Writers’ Network, author of FIGHT SONGS & more, not as grumpy as I look.
@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.
@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
@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.
@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 |
@avashianeema.bsky.social
Proud Boston educator since 2003. Proud West Virginian since 1979. Kahani's Ammi. ANOTHER APPALACHIA, WVU Press, 2022.
@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 |
@rainesford.bsky.social
Writer, reporter, author. Work in Progress columnist for Teen Vogue. Supporter of youth journalism. Kentuckian. rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com or Signal rstauff.20 www.rainesfordstauffer.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
@eliot-parker.bsky.social
Writing Prof at Ole Miss. Award-winning writer. Thriller DOUBLE-CROSSED and short story collection TABLE FOR TWO out now. Host of podcast “Now, Appalachia,” on the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network. Sometimes chill, sometimes anxious.
@charlesoddwhite.bsky.social
Award-winning writer and naturalist living in East Tennessee. Newsletter: https://substack.com/@charlesdoddwhite
@mcjay.bsky.social
Artist, writer, Appalachian, book lover...director of Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Center for the Book
@americangwyn.bsky.social
Novelist & Professor. Author of ALL GOD’S CHILDREN, WYNNE’S WAR, DOG ON THE CROSS, THE CANNIBAL OWL
@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.
@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.
@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.
@clintsmithiii.bsky.social
Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
@emtran.bsky.social
writer, gilmore girl, kardashian expert. debut novel: DAUGHTERS OF THE NEW YEAR www.elizabethmtran.com bio.site/emtran
@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.
@annhiteauthor.bsky.social
Award-winning author of Black Mountain Series. Lover of Haints and all things Appalachian.
@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
@annettesclapsaddle.bsky.social
Writer. Teacher. Cyclist (esp. MTB). Eastern Band Cherokee citizen. WNC. Appalachia.
@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.
@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
@htownjenny.bsky.social
Ugh, fine. Writer in Texas. I curse on the internet now. #HouSky www.jennystaffjohnson.com
@adamclay.bsky.social
Poet and Professor at Louisiana State University. Most recent book is Circle Back (Milkweed Editions, 2024).
@erinwriter.bsky.social
Copper Canyon poet (new book coming 2026), professor, Girl Scout from Omaha. She/her 🇺🇦
@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).
@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
@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
@jodyhobbshesler.bsky.social
Writer & Writing Teacher Without You Here, Finalist Southern Literary Rvw novel of the year, 2025 What Makes You Think You're Supposed to Feel Better, story collection https://linktr.ee/jodyhobbshesler www.jodyhobbshesler.com She/her
@meredithrlyons.bsky.social
Award Winning Author of Ghost Tamer and A Dagger of Lightning. Both w/CamCatBooks. Immortal until proven otherwise. linktr.ee/meredithrlyons
@laurenthomanwrites.com
Author: YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE (Thomas & Mercer, 2024) I’LL STOP THE WORLD (Mindy’s Book Studio, 2023) Buy: https://www.laurenthomanwrites.com/links Rep’d by Holly Root
@lauraleighwrite.bsky.social
Appalachian, prison reform advocate, mother, author of The Stone Catchers: A Novel (UP Kentucky, 2024) and Jaws of Life: Stories (West Virginia UP, 2018). Words in STORY, North American Review, Florida Review, others. www.lauraleighmorris.com
@joshaboldt.bsky.social
Writer of crime, mystery & Southern Gothic (MONEYMAKER published June 2024). 4th novel in process. Lexington, KY. joshboldt.com #writing #nature #books #dogs
@gwenda.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author * dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond
@mcginley.bsky.social
Author: ONCE THESE HILLS and COAL BLACK. https://www.chris-mcginley.com/ Writer at Crimereads, Mystery Tribune, Reckon Review, etc.
@cartersickels.bsky.social
Author: THE PRETTIEST STAR (Hub City 2020), THE EVENING HOUR (Bloomsbury 2012) www.cartersickels.com
@wesblake.bsky.social
Writer | PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press, 2024) |💙 music, cats, & trees | ✍️Words in Electric Literature, storySouth, more | wesblake.com | linktr.ee/wesblake |📍Kentucky PINEVILLE TRACE, book club kit, & teaching guide: wesblake.com/pineville-trace-2