Jody Hobbs Hesler @jodyhobbshesler.bsky.social Writer & Writing Teacher
Without You Here, Winner Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction, 2025
What Makes You Think You're Supposed to Feel Better, story collection
https://linktr.ee/jodyhobbshesler
www.jodyhobbshesler.com
She/her
Hannah ๐ซ @johz3.bsky.social trouble walks in, stays for breakfast ๐ณ
Holiday World @myholidayworld.bsky.social ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ HOLIDAY, ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐๐!
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Ram Gulrajani Author ๐ @rockape65.bsky.social From suspense to soul-stirring stories I writes them all Love the arts, writing, painting, strumming my guitar & generally being creative. From Gibraltar originally Website: https://t.co/8gSEmJ7TCu Team Site @iquitcigs.bsky.social
I Quit Smoking ๐ญ ๐ ๐ @iquitcigs.bsky.social Anti-Smoker My Website campralquitsmoking.net See How I Quit 20 Years Ago Fought Nicotine 35 Years Supporting others who Quit ๐ญ STL MO โค๏ธTo Promote Authors ๐ & Ozarks ๐ Photographer ๐ท Pez Add @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social ๐
Niko Bussey @niko2057.bsky.social E Pluribus Unum, yโall!
Tech Enthusiast/Bemoaner
Thoughts, observations, and implicit beliefs
Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social NYT bestselling author * editor of LEXtoday* dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond
Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social A small press in Lexington, KY that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic & literary fiction. A free story each week! We pay authors.
brownhoundpress.com
Dan OโMahony @danoauthor.bsky.social I was raised in a library by a pack wild fantasy novels who brought me up as if I was one of their own.
Ravi @ravikd.bsky.social 
The Writing Biz Podcast @onthewritingbiz.bsky.social The Writing Biz podcast helps writers think like entrepreneurs, offering practical strategies for platform building, revenue growth, marketing systems, and mindset development to create sustainable, professional writing businesses.
First Novel Prize @firstnovelprize.bsky.social Writing competition for unpublished and independently published novelists. Entries close on the 31st of May. Judged by Sally Williamson (Transworld) and Hayley Steed (Janklow & Nesbit). Organised by the Literary Studio. Bloomsbury, London
firstnovel.co.uk
Armand Rosamilia @armandauthor.bsky.social Full-time crime thriller and horror author. Drinker of bourbon
Barbara Stocker ๐๐ @bluebirdbhs.bsky.social Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social @melrea.bsky.social Team Site
Emory ๐ฉถ @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ช๐ธโก๏ธ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
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@remybryancruz.bsky.social @remybryancruz.bsky.social 
ๆถฆ็ฉๆ ๅฃฐ @chuanyueshikong.bsky.social I, Li Hongzhi, was praised by them in public as the only true god in the universe, but later on, I was brutally beaten and persecuted by them multiple times
Ste Gen Mo Dem ๐๐ ๐๐ณ @stegenmodem.bsky.social Supporting Dems Everywhere SG 60 miles South of St Louis @piperformissouri.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @labarnitz.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social ๐๐ญ๐
THE ANOINTED ATHEIST @theanointedatheist.bsky.social Welcome to my little corner of heaven. This is where I write about politics and religion with a dose of humor. However, if you find my posts offensive, just turn the other cheek. Have a blessed day!
Aley @flaneurdujour-aley.bsky.social
Fed up with indoctrination
#BlueCrew, #standwithukraine#krasnov#Traitor47#fucktrump
#YT #save education, social security, vet benefits
Flaneuse
Keith B Martin DC ๐บ๐ธ ๐ช๐บ ๐ @keithbdc.bsky.social ๐ #Friend | ๐ซ #Husband | ๐จโ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ฆ #Father | ๐จโ๐ฆณ #GrandFather | #GreatGrandFather | ๐ #Progressive | ๐จ๐ผโโ๏ธ#DC (Retired) | ๐บ๐ฆ #SlavaUkraina | ๐จ๐๐ #UBI | #PNW | #BlueCrew | #Lightworker | ๐ซ #Anti-hate | ๐ซ #Anti-Trump | ๐ซ #NoPorn | ๐ซDM | ๐ซ #MAGA | #Blues
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom ๐โโฌ(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art๐จ, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer๐ชท๐ณ๏ธโ๐yacht rock loverโต๏ธ๐teatime keeper๐ซ www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
George Singleton @georgesingleton.bsky.social Writer
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Rick Childers @rickchilders.bsky.social 
WTVR CBS 6 News Richmond, Virginia @cbs6-richmond.bsky.social We share local news and other information in Richmond, Virginia. Watch videos and read articles at WTVR.com.
Dammit Doug Smith @dammitdougsmith.bsky.social Retired Curmudgeon at Large. Neโer do well of questionable morals. Proud purveyor of unmitigated tommyrot. Prone to exaggeration and totally unnecessary embellishment.
tennessippi @tennessippi.bsky.social Southerner living in Bohemia.
culture | music | photography | food | travel
@kikimck.bsky.social @kikimck.bsky.social Woke before it was cool - That's how my daughter described me to someone a couple of years ago - it made me smile.
Carolyn Boggs Grubb @stargazer401.bsky.social Believes in science, logic, love, and kindness. Wife to the coolest friend I've ever had. Mom of 4 grown kids, 3 dogs, and 2 cats. Lifelong learner. Always curious. 
Lex Pushka | Author @lexpushka.com #Author #Sci-Fi #Cyberpunk
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Forest McMullin @forestmcm.bsky.social Writer and photographer based in Atlanta. Debut novel coming soon.
Short fiction available at https://forestmcmullin.substack.com/
Photography at http://www.forest-mcmullin.com/
๐๐Brina Brady๐๐ @brinabrady.bsky.social โฎ๏ธ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ป #Married #NoDM #ClimateChange #ProChoice #GunControl #VoteBlue #BLM #Ukraine #RoeVWade #Science #ArrestTrump #WorldPeace #2StateSolution #LoveTurkishSeries #Reading #Writing #MMRomanceAuthor #RetiredHSTeacher #Lovemycats
Shelly Jones @shellyjones111.bsky.social 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, lโll tell you a story.) Dogs > cats. Coffee = tea.
Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social โQueer Southern Novelist ๐ฟ
โWHITE TRASH WITCHCRAFT (HH Fall, 2027)
โRep: @keiralekseii.bsky.social at Azantian
โโ๏ธWTMP & ๐ฉต SmoochPit Mentor
https://linktr.ee/RowanBrightonBrown
@majlh77.bsky.social @majlh77.bsky.social Music geek. Healthcare worker and nature lover, because we all need a good life. Author of โSamanthaโs Voice.โ The young girl who tackles the fentanyl crisis and kicks some terrorist ass!!
Tammy Oberhausen @tammyoberhausen.bsky.social Author of THE EVOLUTION OF THE GOSPELETTES (Fireside Industries)
tammyoberhausen.com
Alex Lopez @alexlopezwrites.bsky.social Comedian, Writer, Actor, Big Booty Latina ๐ค๐๏ธ
Lance Newman @lancenewman.bsky.social I make art out of words, teach at Westminster University, and guide rafting trips in the West. My new book of poems is called Proverbs of Earth. More info at www.lancenewman.org
@d-brad.bsky.social @d-brad.bsky.social Public relations professional with a love for books, writing, poetry, and music.
Josh Boldt @joshaboldt.bsky.social Nature, books, dogs. Writer of mystery & southern gothic | Editor @brownhoundpress.bsky.social.
Lexington, KY.
joshboldt.com
Book Quote Daily @bookquotedaily.bsky.social Posting a quote a day thanks to Project Gutenberg's commitment to the creation and distribution of eBooks. With gratitude to Michael S. Hart and all those who make Project Gutenberg possible.
Rayne Hall, Author & Publisher @raynehall.bsky.social "In a world of AI, bots and fakes, Rayne Hall will always be real."
#NoAi #Writer of non-fiction and #Gothic #fiction. #Publisher of Gothic fiction anthologies. Teacher, coach. Avid #permaculture gardener. Lives in #Bulgaria with #rescuecats.
Elizabeth Broadbent @elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social Ink Vine & Ninety Eight Sabers (Undertaker Books), Blood Cypress. The Paranormal Xperience Podcast. Freelance Journalist: WaPo, Time, ADDitude etc
Https://linktr.ee/elizabethbroadbent
Finleigh James @finleighjames.bsky.social 50 something writer. Probably avoiding writing while listening to Taylor Swift. Deep in the edits of a first draft. iykyk- F @faratl.bsky.social @faratl.bsky.social
William Connors ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐บ๐ธ โฎ๏ธ๐๐โ๏ธ๐๐ถ๐ซ DMs @will921.bsky.social Retired engineer. In a former life I was a mechanized infantryman. Social justice before corporate welfare. Life long independent voter. MAGA is a threat to Americaโs liberal democracy. ๐ซDMs ๐ซcrypto ๐ซporn #FactsMatter
Libre @librelit.bsky.social A southern literature & arts mag bent on brain pain, taking the narrative back, jiggling it open, extracting the oyster from its background of compressed pain to reexamine what it means to scavenge for agency in liminal states of illness.
Librelit.com
@rachel-holbrook.bsky.social @rachel-holbrook.bsky.social 
Stephen A. Rhodes @stephenarhodes.bsky.social Lover of democracy. Proud Appalachian (living in RVA). Progressive Democrat. Seeker of a more just society. Writer. Reader. Doodler. Indivisible. Dog Lover. CFS/ME. He/Him. Sic semper tyrannis.
The Independent Author Network @ianauthornetwork.bsky.social Welcome to the Independent Author Network at Bluesky. Promoting and Supporting Indie Authors since 2010. Our Book of the Year Awards program features $6,000 in cash prizes. #IAN1
Ellen Birkett Morris @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
Toby LeBlanc Author @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
Doug Van Gundy @dougvangundy.bsky.social Neurodivergent. Poet. Fiddler. Humanist.
Proud West Virginian.
Proud Liberal.
Proud Weirdo.
David Wesley Williams @davidwwilliams.bsky.social Southern fiction writer out of Memphis. Latest novel COME AGAIN NO MORE (JackLeg Press) available here: https://www.burkesbooks.com/pages/books/1024013/david-wesley-williams/come-again-no-more
@jessicamanack.bsky.social @jessicamanack.bsky.social Pittsburgh word-wrangler, mom, Hollins grad. Author of GASTROMYTHOLOGY (2024). Development editor at Belt Magazine. Marketing & Communications for Carnegie Mellon Dept. of English.
Tracy Staley @tracystaley.bsky.social 
Carter Sickels @cartersickels.bsky.social Author: THE PRETTIEST STAR (Hub City 2020), THE EVENING HOUR (Bloomsbury 2012)
www.cartersickels.com
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle @annettesclapsaddle.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Cyclist (esp. MTB). Eastern Band Cherokee citizen. WNC. Appalachia.
Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social Award-winning author. ๐Kentucky
HAZELGREEN & OTHER HAUNTS is forthcoming in โ27 from WVU Press;
PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press)
๐ cats, trees, music | wesblake.com
Anna Baker Smith @innergothic.bsky.social Over-the-counter essays
Emily Satterwhite @mountainsfalling.bsky.social Pipeline fighter in Appalachia. Holler to Holler mutual aid. Appalachian studies. United Campus Workers-VA and AAUP
Neema Avashia @avashianeema.bsky.social Proud Boston educator since 2003. Proud West Virginian since 1979. Kahani's Ammi. ANOTHER APPALACHIA, WVU Press, 2022. 
Laura T @ltintcky.bsky.social Suburban Virginian by birth, rural Kentuckian by residence. Govโt worker, gardener, old house renovator, book fiend, dog & cat & boy mom, Gen X, post-menopausal, tilting leftward with age. Ryan Blaney (#12) and Bubba Wallace (#23) fan during NASCAR season.
Rachel Dockal @racheldockal.bsky.social Wright, writer, sometime chicken farmer, and gainfully employed budget wonk. Enlightened Kentuckian. Kind > nice. Know better? Do better.
Salvation South @salvationsouth.com Stories that shift the Southern narrative at https://salvationsouth.com. Salvation South Deluxe podcast on the NPR Network โ https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1124772160/salvation-south โ or your fave podcast platform.
Tonja Reynolds @tonjamreynolds.bsky.social Fiction writer. Words in Still: The Journal, Streetlight Magazine, 100 Word Story, and elsewhere. Writing historical and literary fiction.
#HistoricalFiction #Fiction #Writer
TonjaReynolds.com
Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social Lovechild of the Rust Belt & Appalachia.
Reprobate reader. Rogue writer.
Blow up the Data Centers.
This is a no AI Zone.
Michael Amos Cody @michaelamoscody.bsky.social Writer: New novel STREETS OF NASHVILLE available now; 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.
Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social Author: ONCE THESE HILLS and COAL BLACK.
https://www.chris-mcginley.com/ Writer at Crimereads, Mystery Tribune, Reckon Review, etc. 
Jane Hicks @thecosmicpossum.bsky.social Poet, teacher, granny, over-educated hillbilly. Possum lover. Cancer survivor.