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
Robert Gipe @robgipe.bsky.social Long drink of water. Mountain-based.
Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my seventh Prime Minister. Unofficial.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Number10cat
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.
Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social NYT bestselling author * dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond
First Novel Prize @firstnovelprize.bsky.social Writing competition for unpublished and independently published novelists.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
AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social Answers about history, from historians | Biweekly podcast | "Good history eggs on the internet"| Ask questions at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
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
Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social classically trained artist.
theartofpants.com
@henricocitizen.bsky.social @henricocitizen.bsky.social 
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
George Singleton @georgesingleton.bsky.social Writer
Matt Parsons @miraclematts.bsky.social Poet, songwriter, farmer, handyman
Rick Childers @rickchilders.bsky.social 
The Richmonder @richmonder.org Richmond, Virginia's source for news and information. Funded by readers. Richmonder.org.
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. 
Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social ⋆Queer Southern Novelist 🌿
⋆WHITE TRASH WITCHCRAFT (HH Fall, 2027)
⋆Rep: @keiralekseii.bsky.social at Azantian
⋆✒️WTMP & 🩵 SmoochPit Mentor
https://linktr.ee/RowanBrightonBrown
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, l’ll tell you a story.) Dogs > cats. Coffee = tea.
Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr @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
Ken Ward Jr. @kenwardjr.bsky.social Investigative journalist in West Virginia. Founding editor-in-chief of @mtnstspotlight.bsky.social watchdog newsroom. Former ProPublica local reporter. MacArthur Fellow.
West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com Nonprofit, nonpartisan, independent journalism not hidden behind a paywall. Mountaineers are always free, and so is West Virginia Watch.
westvirginiawatch.com
Old Gods of Appalachia @oldgodspod.bsky.social Old Gods of Appalachia is an award-winning eldritch horror anthology podcast set in the darkest mountains in the world.
Move to The Holler to enjoy ad-free episodes, exclusive storylines and more: www.oldgodsofappalachia.com/theholler
12 On Your Side @12onyourside.com The official account for 12 On Your Side, Central Virginia's No. 1 News TV Station serving #RVA and beyond!
https://www.12onyourside.com/ 
Appalshop @appalshop.bsky.social Making art and media in the mountains since 1969.
Press inquiries to press@appalshop.org.
linktr.ee/appalshop
www.appalshop.org
Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social Pulitzer prize winning Editorial Cartoonist
Open Windows at http://anntelnaes.substack.com
Archived work at http://anntelnaes.com
Corey Ryan Forrester @coreyrforrester.bsky.social Comedian. Entertainer. Author. Dad. Idiot. I’d love it if you subscribed to my bonus stuff at WeLoveCorey.com
Larry Sabato @larrysabato.bsky.social Director, Center for Politics at UVA (@center4politics.bsky.social); Author, The Kennedy Half Century http://bit.ly/3hSzJp5. Read the Crystal Ball every week: http://linktr.ee/c4puva
Jason Kyle Howard @jasonkylehoward.bsky.social Senior Ideas Editor @salon.com writing about Democrats and political rhetoric | Author of two books | Street Haunter à la Virginia Woolf | Lover of tea, history, books, dogs, music, G&Ts | https://linktr.ee/jasonkylehoward
Josh Boldt @joshaboldt.bsky.social Nature, books, dogs. Writer of mystery & southern gothic | Editor @brownhoundpress.bsky.social.
Lexington, KY.
joshboldt.com
@d-brad.bsky.social @d-brad.bsky.social Public relations professional with a love for books, writing, poetry, and music.
@rachel-holbrook.bsky.social @rachel-holbrook.bsky.social 
Appodlachia @appodlachia.com John Brown is a hero / Unions are good / Accents are sexy / redneck is a term of endearment https://lnk.bio/appodlachia
Read Appalachia @readappalachia.bsky.social celebrating & appalachian literature & writing
founded by @kdwinchester.bsky.social
Chuck Reece @chuckreece.bsky.social @salvationsouth.com co-founder and editor in chief. Founding editor of The Bitter Southerner.
The Bitter Southerner @bittersouth.bsky.social Indie media co, 2 print magazines, books, record label, podcast, tees, flags, ASME 🏆 2026 (General Excellence Literature Science & Politics), 9 James Beard Awards #BetterAmerica #BetterWorld — please subscribe
Wiley Cash @wileycash.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author and co-owner of Floodplain Books in Wilmington NC. Just trying to make art in a world aflame.
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
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.
Matt Lanark @mattlanark.bsky.social ✍️ probably not writing the Great American Novel
📚 Great-ish Books on @substack
🏀 Undrafted NBA free agent since 2012
📌 Washington, DC
mattlanark.substack.com/welcome
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Sarah Smarsh @sarahsmarsh.bsky.social Journalist, Heartland author, prairie defender, fifth-generation Kansas farm girl.
Tracy Staley @tracystaley.bsky.social 
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Meagan Lucas @meaganlucas.bsky.social Author of Anthony Nominated collection HERE IN THE DARK, and award-winning novel SONGBIRDS & STRAY DOGS | JD Candidate at UDayton Law | EIC: Reckon Review |
Margaret Renkl @margaretrenkl.bsky.social Author, most recently, of "The Weedy Garden" (for children) and "The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year" (for adults).
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle @annettesclapsaddle.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Cyclist (esp. MTB). Eastern Band Cherokee citizen. WNC. Appalachia.
Carter Sickels @cartersickels.bsky.social Author: THE PRETTIEST STAR (Hub City 2020), THE EVENING HOUR (Bloomsbury 2012)
www.cartersickels.com
Emily Satterwhite @mountainsfalling.bsky.social Pipeline fighter in Appalachia. Holler to Holler mutual aid. Appalachian studies. United Campus Workers-VA and AAUP
Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social Award-winning author. 📍Kentucky
HAZELGREEN & OTHER HAUNTS is forthcoming in ‘27 from WVU Press;
PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press)
💙 cats, trees, music | wesblake.com
Orkney.com @orkneycom.bsky.social Discover Orkney and find out all about life in our vibrant islands. www.orkney.com
Hub City Press @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.
Rachel Dockal @racheldockal.bsky.social Wright, writer, sometime chicken farmer, and gainfully employed budget wonk. Enlightened Kentuckian. Kind > nice. Know better? Do better.
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.
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Salvation South @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.
James D.F. Hannah @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
Roger May @walkyourcamera.bsky.social Hillbilly. Veteran. West Virginian. Montani Semper Liberi. Operations Director @appalshop. Creator of http://lookingatappalachia.org. IG @walkyourcamera. http://rogermayphotography.com
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. 
Ed Southern @edsouthern.bsky.social Chief writer-connector at NC Writers’ Network, author of FIGHT SONGS & more, not as grumpy as I look.
EdKarshner @edkarshner.bsky.social Homesick Hillican. Writer. Weird and dark folklore aficionado. Professor of English & Department Head of English and Media Arts at Robert Morris University.
Jane Hicks @thecosmicpossum.bsky.social Poet, teacher, granny, over-educated hillbilly. Possum lover. Cancer survivor.
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.
Jeremy B Jones @thejeremybjones.bsky.social When I say writer, Siri hears rider
thejeremybjones.com
New book out: cipherthebook.com
In the NC mountains
Repped by Justin Brouckaert at Aevitascreative
Amy Le Ann Richardson @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.
Wes Browne @browneallover.bsky.social Kentucky author of the novels THEY ALL FALL THE SAME, winner of the 2025 Weatherford Award, and HILLBILLY HUSTLE. Attorney/Pizza Purveyor. Repped by Alice Speilburg.
www.wesbrowneauthor.com
Kristi Stephens Walker @kswalkerwriter.bsky.social Writer.
Learner.
Appalachian.
Friend.
Zack Harold @zackharold.bsky.social Appalachian freelance writer, radio and film specializing in “stupid hotdog stories.” recovering magazine editor. bluegrass musician. foster dad. he/him
Abby Freeland @abbyfreeland.bsky.social senior acquisitions editor at university press of kentucky | formerly wvu press | she/her
https://www.kentuckypress.com/appalachian-futures-black-native-and-queer-voices/
@silashouse.bsky.social @silashouse.bsky.social 
Neema Avashia @avashianeema.bsky.social Proud Boston educator since 2003. Proud West Virginian since 1979. Kahani's Ammi. ANOTHER APPALACHIA, WVU Press, 2022. 
PattiClay @patticlay.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Lover of travel and tea.
Loren Lee Crawford @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.
Laura Leigh Morris @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 
Papalogan @papalogan.bsky.social 
Jamey Temple @jameytemple.bsky.social Writer, artist, teacher.
Hugh Lessig @hlessig.bsky.social Debut novel, "Fadeaway Joe," out from Crooked Lane Books. Short stories in Dark Yonder, Down & Out anthologies, Shotgun Honey and Thuglit. Old newspaper reporter. Loves dogs, coffee, comics, a good IPA. . www.hughlessig.com.
Christopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social Satire is my business. NY Times bestselling author of 19 novels, including Lamb, Fool, Noir, Razzmatazz, and Anima Rising (released May 2025).
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social Deputy Editor, The New Republic. Past: ThinkProgress; Huffington Post. “There’s something in the static; I think I’ve been having revelations.”
Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social Dirt Road Driving, Jelly Jar Sipping, Dollar General Shopping, journal of Prose.
SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social Writer, whiskey drinker and cat dad
Crystal Wilkinson @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
Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com Strange but not a stranger. I’m an ordinary guy.
https://www.todayontrail.com
https://www.todayintabs.com
Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me!
https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
Leah Hampton @leahhampton.bsky.social Writer of F*CKFACE, professor of Things
Bob Hutton @herecomesdrbob.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Appalachian Studies, and Divisive Concepts
Former long-term NTT
Author of BLOODY BREATHITT from @KENTUCKYPRESS
I like to steal, gamble, and rob.
David Joy @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.