Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social Dramatist. Author.
BEAUTY DOESN'T REACH ME
CONGRESSMAN DAVY
HOTEL MAYFLOWER
More at: https://www.richardbyrneplays.com/ and https://stage-write.ghost.io/
@cmcmillen.bsky.social @cmcmillen.bsky.social 
@karinalongworth.bsky.social @karinalongworth.bsky.social 
Harry Bliss @harrybliss.bsky.social Cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker. Founder of Cornish Fellowship for Graphic Novelists. Dog lover. 
@karenlcody.bsky.social @karenlcody.bsky.social 
Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social • Novelist: The Great Eastern, Destiny Express
• Screenwriter: Joe Gould's Secret, Savage Grace
• VP, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
• Past President WGAW
• Professor Emeritus, USC School of Cinematic Arts
• Postpunk guitarist; home barista
Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com That bloke who does that podcast your annoying friend keeps trying to get you to listen to. He/him. Posts every random thought in his head. AuDHD and not many filters. If you're only interested in my podcast you probably don't want to follow.
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net
@williamlessard.bsky.social @williamlessard.bsky.social 
Asher Perlman @asherperlman.bsky.social Writer @ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Cartoonist @ The New Yorker
Opinions are mine, but you can borrow em.
Prints, totes, mugs, etc here:
Shop.ashermaxperlman.com
Beach Sloth @beachsloth.bsky.social Support Each Other
Music Blogger
Writer
Poet
https://beachsloth.substack.com/
Greg Mottola @gregmottola.bsky.social Director, screenwriter, amateur human
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social A very Irish filmmaker.
All You Need is Death streaming now, see linktree.
“A folk horror masterpiece” (Daily Beast)
He/him, anarchist, artist. Avatar painted by Sol Robinson.
https://linktr.ee/paulduane
Carrie Coon @carriecoon.bsky.social Physics would like a word.
Sara Lea @saraleaphotos.bsky.social Science news editor. 🔭📷
Filmmaker, environmental storytelling, West Virginian, probably biking.
Steven Hyden @stevenhyden.bsky.social The Ween Of American Rock Critics. Author of six books. My book on The Strokes is out 9/8/26. Indiecast dude. Writing at Evil Speakers: https://stevenhyden.substack.com
Vernon Reid @vurnt22.bsky.social Living Colour guitarist & founder. Guitar can take you far, BK to the sky.
The moon 🌑 landing was REAL
Jack White @officialjackwhite.bsky.social ...................
Johnny Guitar, Archbishop Harold Holmes, III
...................
linktr.ee/jackwhiteiii
Ⓐ ☭ Garret Schuelke🌹🌻 @garretschuelke.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶
Author of the GODAN series, WHUP JAMBOREE, ANAMAKEE. Host of The Garret Schuelke Podcast and THE CHEESEBURGER BLUES: AN EXPLORATION INTO DAD BLUES ROCK. Music project is Neobeatglory. Official Website: https://garretschuelke.tumblr.com/
Noah Harpster @noahharpster.bsky.social Actor/Writer
Art, music, MLB, and a certain mutt
Rose Casey @rosecasey.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at WVU.
Views are my own and don't represent my employer.
Author of Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style https://fordhampress.com/aesthetic-impropriety-hb-9781531510626.html
Greer Sinclair @greersinclair.bsky.social Writer, Director. AFI Screenwriting Fellow '24.
Bylines in Vanity Fair and Air Mail. 
@chipnewton.bsky.social @chipnewton.bsky.social I like podcasts
Jennifer @openbookjen.bsky.social Stuff I love: my family, Jack (our black lab), books, movies, WVU, travel, food, and life, generally. 💙 Nonprofit founder serving older neighbors in our community.
Andréa Fekete @writinginthecity.bsky.social She/her/y’all. Educator. Author of “Waters Run Wild.” Novel of the WV coal mine wars (2018) WV -> CLE 🌱 🌻 CNF 🏆 Blue Earth Review and Foreword Reviews.
Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com Keep circulating the tapes.
https://www.jasondashbailey.com/
YIPPEE KI-YAY Book: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/yippee-ki-yay_9781419783753/
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC podcast: pod.link/1274489817
Letterboxd @jasondashbailey
emily vinci @evyann666.bsky.social Librarian. Writer. Tired.
HWA member. StokerCon Librarians Day presenter/wrangler.
Occasional reviewer. Habitual fiend.
Lover of all things horror and movies and books and VHS and cats and pizza and not taking anything too seriously.
She/they
Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social Independent publisher based in Ohio, bringing you ‘Books Too Loud To Ignore’ since 2005.
📚 imprint of Seven Stories Press
🦄 bookstore/cafe HQ: Two Dollar Radio Headquarters
Jimi O @jimioverdrive.bsky.social Writer in Folkestone. I like books, films, music, languages, food, cocktails, and the usual stuff.
Current thing: writing a novel
BluesterB @bluesterb.bsky.social He/him, bi,💙. I don't normally do social media, but this place seems less aggressive than most of the internet.
Bill Morrison @billmorrison.bsky.social I make films: Decasia, Dawson City: Frozen Time, Incident
Nora Dunn @beatlebomb.bsky.social Actress, SNL Alum, Sweeney Sister, dog lover and supporter of human and animal rights. Leaning to the left Dem. Worried about the dignity and integrity of our country before we've even achieved it. 
Cheshire Sax @cheshire-sax.bsky.social Just a cat gettin' saxy from time to time.
@Cheshire_Sax on Threads and Instagram
Doting Father
Crafter
Cook
Sax/Vox for Tom Batchelor Band
Sax/Vox for Intoxicated Zen
Cap'n of The GalactiCats
Shawn Means @shawnmeans.bsky.social Appalachian by Birth and by Choice. Boomer. Retired Non-Profit Executive turned Tourism Entrepreneur.
Covert Operations Director at the West Virginia Hot Dog Blog since 2006.
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
Leann Ray @leannray.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of @westvirginiawatch.com. Former news / city / FlipSide editor at the Charleston Gazette-Mail. She/her
Erin Osmon @erinosmon.bsky.social Music journalist, critic, author. Teach @ USC. Album notes. Other things. New book about heartland rock due next year via W.W. Norton. Hoosier waving hi in LA.
Hillary Harrison @hillaryharrison.bsky.social 
René Magritte @renemagritte.bsky.social René François Ghislain Magritte was a 20th century Belgian surrealist artist. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social
🔗 https://linktr.ee/magritte_artbot
JohnnaWV @johnnawv.bsky.social Just a wv gal trying not to raise assholes
https://www.musselmanchoirs.org/giving-page-2-1
Claire Kenny @claireicalerror.bsky.social There’s a lot I’ll have missed but I’ll not have been dead when I die.
Dalton @daltonjm.bsky.social courtesy of the Broadway musical Raisin.
joshboardman.txt @handle.invalid It is my opinion as well as that of others that the word grey spelled with an e is greyer than the same word spelled with an a: gray.
JW Given @jjbluiz.bsky.social Lover of humor, nature, music, perspective, new things and the Constitution. Retired WV Goat Farmer, pianist, PM, Software Engineer. Singing is life. #addBirder
Marissa @allenme213.bsky.social LA Urban Farming🌱Genealogist🌳 Appalachian History & Craft ⛰️
IG:@midwestintothewest
Lené Colbert @lenecolbert.bsky.social “I am not in denial, I am in open rebellion.” (Thanks, Ethan Hawke, for so succinctly stating how so many of us feel.)
books, knitting, crochet, cats, Pratchett, sf/f, horror
autoimmune/PsA
POTS
she/her
No, I will not shut up.
Riotnrrd @riotnrrd.bsky.social Patrick. Huntington, WV / Appalachia.
Leftist (NOT a lib or Dem) & comic book nerd.
he/him/they/them.
pro-BLM pro-LGBTQIA+ pro-ACAB pro-Palestine
You can be pro-capitalism or you can be a leftist. You can't be both.
Appalachian Learning Initiative @appli.org The Appalachian Learning Initiative (APPLI, like “apply”) is a Morgantown, WV-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that conducts research on, reports data about, and advocates for issues impacting adults living in the Appalachian Region.
https://linktr.ee/APPLIOrg
@mattkawczynski.bsky.social @mattkawczynski.bsky.social Just your typical run-of-the-mill millionaire actor trying to make it in Hollywood.
John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social My book, SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND HATE, is on sale now: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separation-of-Church-and-Hate/John-Fugelsang/9781668066898.
Chrissy Packtor @chrissypacktor.bsky.social West Virginian. Bookworm. Em dash enthusiast.
Proud Appalachian @rwheeler.bsky.social Posting about the news, politics and culture of Appalachia.🦋
James Hutchinson @crashlander.bsky.social I make cartoons for a living. Creative Director and Showrunner at Digital Smiles. George Lucas simp. Repped by Kailey Marsh.
Creator of Crashlander - "The webcomic with integrity" www.crashlander.com
Chris Neri @neridog.bsky.social Gen X creative type. Y2K survivor. Usually have a guitar with me. I'm into stuff like Superman, the Jason movies, cats, pizza, and tattoos. Also human rights and equality and all that. He/him
ChrisNeri.com
Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social Gentleman Sleuth
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social Human, currently being.
@matheww19.bsky.social @matheww19.bsky.social 
Matt_Stike @mattstike.bsky.social Dad. Baseball coach. Comms/PR/marketing. Minnesotan. Former newspaper writer. Charter member: The Bob Dylan Club. Something in the moonlight still hounds him. 
Cal Morgan @calmorgan.bsky.social Worshipful Company of Book Folk 📚
Senior Literary Agent, Enliven Endeavors ✨
“Please read.”
Definitely Dylan @definitelydylan.bsky.social A podcast about Bob Dylan, hosted by Laura Tenschert
Davin Wood @davinwood.com Melodist. RhymeZone Cowboy. Just trying to be a good guy
(Music for Tim & Eric, Miracle Workers, Portlandia, Baskets, other venues, outlets, genres, idioms . . . Why are you still on Twitter?)
Jay Russell @dogskip.bsky.social Film and TV Writer/Director/Producer. Website: jaywrussell.com
And a lifelong Razorback fan. 🐗🐗
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon. Speaker info: https://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/tnichols
Katy Stoll @katystoll.bsky.social Some More News/ Even More News. Producer, actress. Friend.
Scott Warmuth @scottwarmuth.bsky.social http://swarmuth.blogspot.com
https://scottwarmuth.bandcamp.com
Chris Banks @chrisbanks.bsky.social Philadelphia, New Jersey
he/him. Music nerd. Former designer. Casual blogger. Dog dad. GBV fan. Sports idiot (O's/Philly/Arsenal). Nacho critic.
🇵🇸🏳️⚧️✊
Librari Kari @purcascade.bsky.social Cats. Libraries. Soccer. Human Rights. 🧙♀️
Nadie 📎 @nadienora.bsky.social 
lindsaynellstidham @lindsaynellstidham.bsky.social Writer, filmmaker, into comedy, love stories and the traumedy of being alive. Screenwriting prof at USC. AFI alumni. Opinions my own.
linktr.ee/LindsayStidham
Stories of Appalachia @storyappalachia.bsky.social The podcast where hosts Steve Gilly and Rod Mullins have been sharing the history and folklore of Appalachia since 2015.
storiesofappalachia.com
Steve Gilly @sgilly858.bsky.social
@jessdweck.bsky.social @jessdweck.bsky.social 
Emma Kelly @evkelly.bsky.social New Economy Program Manager for Appalachian Voices, anthropologist, union girlie. At home in the mountains with a good book or game. She/her
Jim Reding @sorryma813.bsky.social Film-lover, reader, 'Mats/Westerberg/Stinson fanboy, perpetually covered in cat hair, undisciplined writer working to develop better habits, probably nowhere near as kind as my mom and wife claim but hopefully a decent human.
Michael Clay Carey @byclaycarey.bsky.social Journalism professor. Former reporter. Dad joke expert. Research: local journalism, media in Appalachia, representation, rural media issues.
https://linktr.ee/claycarey
MStewart @thinkingtooloud.org Product of Southern Appalachia. (Meat Camp, NC)
writer, reader, a.k.a. ThinkingTooLoud
Too many projects not enough time.
#writer #author #WritingCommunity #querying #SFF #DVPit #neurodivergent #CPTSD #ComplexPTSD
I don't answer random DMs
K8E🖤💛💙 @tacok8e.bsky.social if you hear them talking about 'that blonde pain in the ass,' that's me. | 📍west virginia | wvu imc alum. miserable pittsburgh sports fan. creative thinker. free as a bee.
@billiscap.bsky.social @billiscap.bsky.social Saving democracy one beer at a time.
Rodeo clown journalist. Occasional radio producer. Bad gardener. Critically acclaimed air guitarist.
@heidiba.bsky.social @heidiba.bsky.social Charleston, WV | moved back home to do what I could to make it a better place | Economics, policy and accounting studier | my childhood core memories involve NPR
Exline @exline.bsky.social Almost (South of) Heaven.
I scream 🎤 for COMMON GROUND 304
Dad. Cancer Survivor. Former Radio Guy.
Co-Founder of JXB Media | TKE Alum
https://linktr.ee/commonground304
#BLM #MakeRacistsAfraidAgain #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights
Violet Black @blackviolets13.bsky.social Angry Liberal Feminist Killjoy 💜
NYC local, NC raised ♒️🇮🇪🍉
Cat mom, former teacher, currently playing the role of Eldest Daughter during the American Collapse
Sometimes I’m funny 😅
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/
Rachel ✨ @whynotrachel.bsky.social Millennial Mountain Person living as a Midwest transplant still trying to stay relevant ✌🏻
She/her
HuddleAT @huddleappalachia.bsky.social Computer Engineer and AT hiker of this year!
Also a new trail maintainer with the Georgia Club. If you want to get involved check out the GATC website at
https://georgia-atclub.org/
Check out my blog of my Appalachian Trail Thruhike at
Hikethehike.com
SlewSuffer @slewsuffer.bsky.social Host of the Skeptical Satanist. Enby, humanist, atheist, anti-theist, who also goes by Jesus
Anomalous Jen @anomalouslibrarian.bsky.social Student 📚 Gardener🌱 Bibliophile 📖
Star Trek 🖖🏼 The X-Files 👽 WoT 🎲
Go Phillies!
Nature Lover ● she/her
PTK & Honor Society
UFO Book Club ~ Discord
Really into Phytoremediation
Tennessee Tech
Oak Ridge, TN ☢️
Kenny Rogers Poasters @wvslasthandloader.bsky.social Amateur Logger
Former Mac n' Cheese Artist
Country Music Knower
he/him
West by god Virginia
Go Birds
Cargo Bike Dad
Robert E. Saunders @resaunders.bsky.social Journalist, writer and outdoors enthusiast. Author of "Tales of the Beechy Hollow Great Outdoors Club" available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Beechy-Hollow-Great-Outdoors/dp/B0FTT78W4K
Kim @daytontrash.bsky.social I like weird shit.
Ancestry Roads @ancestryroads.bsky.social Appalachian Stories Webcast - Changing the Narrative of Appalachia One Story @ a Time | Pro Genealogy | Preserving Veteran's Stories | Ancestry Road Trips
#Appalachia #Genealogy
Russell Chisholm @baristanomics.blog Coffee + climate cogitator. Holler to holler. Home in Appalachia.
https://linktr.ee/baristanomics
Donnacha @donnacha.bsky.social Not vicious, or malicious, just de-lovely, and delicious
B to the see @bjc1138.bsky.social Simple Country Hyper-Chicken
@carltaylorwv.bsky.social @carltaylorwv.bsky.social Husband. Father. Runner. Beer and Denim Nerd. CWA Local 2001.
Andrew Koricich @drandrewk.bsky.social Executive Director @arrc.bsky.social | Professor of Higher Ed @appalachianstate.bsky.social | PI @ruraltalentlabs.bsky.social | Studying rural higher ed | Rescue dog dad | National Parks enthusiast | Amateur chef | Proud Appalachian | 🏳️🌈
Randall Lotowycz @randalljl.bsky.social Executive Editor at Quirk Books.
Comic/Movie/Tattoo enthusiast. He/Him.