Seren Whitlock @serenwhitlock.bsky.social I measure life not by certainty, but by the courage to remain authentic in uncertainty. Freedom begins where imitation ends
Steven Ward @wardeditor.bsky.social Magazine Editor - Today in Mississippi. Tamale and unsweet tea fan. Husband. Father. U.S. Navy vet. NOLA raised. Book hoarder.
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Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social Award-winning author. 📍Kentucky
HAZELGREEN & OTHER HAUNTS (WVU Press, ‘27)
PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press, ‘24)
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Keith Pilapil Lesmeister @keithlesmeister.bsky.social Author of the forthcoming story collection ASK ME ABOUT THE MONEY | keithlesmeister.com
Matthew Fiander @mattfiander.bsky.social Author, editor, RINGING IN YOUR EARS (Main Street Rag, 2023)
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social Fiction writer. Shenanigan enjoyer. Scooby-Doo enthusiast.
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Till then we fight like hell
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Story @storymag.bsky.social Your favorite literary magazine since 1931. We mean, you know, aside from the previous three times we ceased publication. We love short stories, basketball, and cupcakes.
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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social Irregular contributor at The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Electric Literature, etc. Your Jewish mom friend.
Susanne Floyd Gunter @susannefloyd.bsky.social Artist, Art Educator, Cat woman, Farmer's daughter, Reader of Books, Collector of Family Stories and Stories about Education. Independent thinker. Don't drink Kool-Aid unless I make it myself. 
David James Poissant @djpoissant.bsky.social Author of LAKE LIFE, a NYT Editor's Choice, and THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS, a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize. In print in nine languages. Editor of The Florida Review @theflreview.bsky.social
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Katie Burgess @katieburgess.bsky.social Oxford comma agnostic
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com Dad. Husband. Former GOP congressman. Voted to impeach Trump. Now fighting for our democracy. Lt. Col. Air National Guard (ret). Founder of Country First
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Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
https://www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-Person-Awake/dp/B0GT1262KP
Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social Lawyer, commentator, fighter for democracy. Prosecuted Trump University @ NY AG. #NAFO Fella. Author of Taking Down Trump. Host of the Tristan Snell Show on Apple and Spotify.
Substack - tristansnell.com
Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social My children are Jesse & Jaime. Jaime was murdered in the Parkland school shooting. My life is dedicated to saving lives fighting for gun safety in America and have written two books Find The Helpers and American Carnage.
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#BlueWave2026, #Feminist.
Author of The Bigliest Loser and The Liddle'est President.
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Mike Pruitt for Congress @mike-pruitt.bsky.social Husband. 👬 Veteran. ⚓️ Civil Rights Attorney. 👨🏼⚖️ Albemarle County Supervisor, Scottsville District. 🏛️ Fmr. candidate for Congress in VA-05 🇺🇸
Aaron Gilbreath @aarongilbreath.bsky.social Father, writer, environmentalist, burritoist: Harper's, The Atlantic, Sierra, Adventure Journal, New York Times, High Country News, Spin. Author of The Heart of California: Exploring the San Joaquin Valley. https://aarongilbreath.com/
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James E Gilbert @astrosurf.bsky.social Science Fiction, Surf Music, Coffee. Interstellar Bookseller on ABE. My other car is an in-progress SF history centering on John W. Campbell's dianetics journals
SPM @murraysp.bsky.social Writer, professor, Rhetoric & Writing PhD. I study nature, human nature, and how language can help secure environmental justice. A weightlifter who runs sometimes, too. Appalachian. BLM.
David Wesley Williams @davidwwilliams.bsky.social Southern fiction writer out of Memphis. Novels COME AGAIN NO MORE (2025) and EVERYBODY KNOWS (2023), both JackLeg Press. Stories in Oxford American, Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. Fan of greyhounds, bourbon, coffee, jazz, typewriters.
Ross White @rosswhite.com Publisher: @bullcitypress.com. Poet: CHARM OFFENSIVE & three chapbooks from Unicorn Press. Professor: UNC #GoHeels. Views my own. Host: @triviaescapepod.com. Goofus. Durham, NC.
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The Real Courtney Brown @courtneybrown.bsky.social https://www.thecourlingroupdesigns.com
My personal account. Artist. I AM THE PROBLEM! Don't try to W.E.B. my Booker T... SIGMA, Genius, Kind, Trash Talker and Money Maker. I don't play games, but I do teach lessons. Who did you vote for?
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Tyonkers @tyonkers.bsky.social Hopeful traveler on the journey of life. Lover of life and all things created. Pensive ponderer.
Maria Browning @marbro.bsky.social Books, dogs, birds, music, art, wild things & human rights — not necessarily in that order
Travis Eisenbise @teisenbise.bsky.social (he/him/🏳️🌈) Associate Director, Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Formerly of Brooklyn. Opera enjoyer. Stories in Gulf Coast, Joyland, Masters Review Anthology X, and Denver Quarterly. Enjoying the writing community. Say hi.
traviseisenbise.com
Bull City Press @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, @amelialoeffler.bsky.social, & @rosswhite.com
AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social Our avatar is the Vedic god of fire, our goal is literary combustion. A beacon for 50 years, shining brightly in print and online. bu.edu/agni
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof.
www.andrewporterwriter.com
ColdChef @coldchef.bsky.social Undertaker, Overexplainer. Anonymortician. Memento moron. Failure is always an option. I have friends everywhere. I will likely let you down. Putting the "wheee" in "ennui."
@reddirtword.bsky.social @reddirtword.bsky.social 
jeanne marie @leapingminnow.bsky.social Fighting for “Liberty & Justice for All” | Appalachian | All views are entirely my own.
Lee Holden @leethomasholden.bsky.social Writer; Bennington Writing Seminars '26; Director of Question Production at IAC; fiction reader for New England Review; views are my own; he/him/his
James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice)
novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel)
editor: The Writer's Chronicle & Monkeybicycle
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still living in 1986
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Was Eric Newsom on Twitter, but now here I am known as Eric Newsom.
Judy Long @judylong.bsky.social Editor / Writer @ Byhalia Books
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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Habs fan / Canadian in the South 🍁
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@maury3372.bsky.social @maury3372.bsky.social I love my dog, the earth and all it's creatures, the moon, the stars, the sky. There is always more to learn. Books, books, 📚
Supporter of a clean environment.
No MAGAs. Blue dot in a red state. 🇺🇦🇨🇦
NEVER NEVER 🌮 TRUMPER
@rhill41.bsky.social @rhill41.bsky.social 
Andrea Reeps @andrea-reeps.bsky.social Florist, cat lady, singer in a cover band, lover of vinyl, all things improv, good food and always returns her shopping cart. 
Kathy Flann @keflann.bsky.social Writer, 4 books, incl. How to Survive a Human Attack: A Guide for Werewolves, Mummies, Cyborgs, Ghosts, Nuclear Mutants, and Other Movie Monsters. Words in McSweeney’s, Boston Globe, WaPo, Slate, HuffPo. Member HWA, SFWA
www.kathyflann.com
Bagels, Mickey Bagels @mickeybagels.bsky.social Grouchy pensioner, somewhat opinionated, easily provoked, hoping for normal, eff Twitter
C.W. Blackwell @cwblackwell.bsky.social Author: HARD MOUNTAIN CLAY ✷ WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN ✷ THE COLD DARK FOREVER (2026) ✷ 3X Derringer Award winner ✷ Anthony Award Finalist ✷ #crimefiction #noir #santacruz
https://lnk.bio/cw_blackwell_writer
Rachel Rosolina @rachelrosolina.com Writer. Traveler. Appalachian (East TN). Appalshop alum. Berea College & WVU grad.
Dan Burt @danburt.bsky.social Writer (humor, horror, haiku, senryū), runner, and reader. Auburn University Montgomery alumnus. World's oldest wunderkind. USAF veteran. Left-handed.
Carla Coleman @morgaina.bsky.social Professor. Wordsmith. Tree-Hugger. Blue Dot. Brilliantly-Colored Whirlwind of Stress and Anxiety.
Elizabeth Sachs @libsachs.bsky.social Professor, writer, committed liberal, person who tries very hard
Anna Lena @aproflection.bsky.social Poet/teacher/editor/printer/plant person. Might Could, winner of the Anthony Hecht Prize, 3/2026 / Ornament, UNT Press / Editor, @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social / Opinions my own; reposts ≠ endorsements
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Matt Cashion @mattcashion.bsky.social Reader, writer, Prof. Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Last Words of the Holy Ghost, stories, Edna Ferber Prize for Our 13th Divorce, a novel. NC-born, GA-raised, OR-educated Prof. of Creative Writing @U. Wisconsin-La Crosse. mattcashion.com
Paula Woolen Jackson @paulajackson.bsky.social Liberal boomer
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Grandma to 4❤️
Equal rights for all
Love for mankind and animals
Matt Cathey @catheyme.bsky.social 
Elise Atchison @eliseatchison.bsky.social Author of Crazy Mountain. http://www.eliseatchison.com
@kimberlykelly.bsky.social @kimberlykelly.bsky.social I read history & grow food… I am keenly aware. US/Canada
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Gwen Guion @resist69.bsky.social 
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Dan Russell @danrussell.bsky.social Proud Arkansan. Writer of novels and poems.
www.danrussellwrites.com
Bill Householder (he/him) @billhouseholder.bsky.social Having given up the dream of being a pharmacist, I write instead. Former professional storyteller, current librarian, and avid book buyer. Be who you are. Love who you will. Come sit at my table. Ungovernable.
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social 
Bert Bacchus @bbacchus.bsky.social Songwriter | Musician | Arsenal Dork | Atl Utd season ticket holder
https://bacchus.studio/
www.bertbacchus.com
https://substack.com/@bertbacchus
www.worldfootballatlas.com
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JasonPKT @jasonpkt.bsky.social Musician, Songwriter, Studies German, Activist, Lefty Pinko, and Ham radio hobbyist. KR4ARD
Ed Southern @edsouthern.bsky.social Chief writer-connector at NC Writers’ Network, author of FIGHT SONGS & more, not as grumpy as I look.
Rebecca Lasley @museislander.bsky.social 
Catherine Tink @tinkhackett.bsky.social I am a spiritual, liberal, white, straight, cisgendered woman who believes we are all deeply inter-connected and all deserve love and respect. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Hugh Ruppersburg @hmruppersburg1968.bsky.social My interests include literature of all types, music (popular and classical), film, history, politics.
Tiffany Williams @tiffanywilliams.bsky.social Appalachian • Kentuckian • Singer-Songwriter Fiction Writer • Dialect Coach
📍Nashville
John Pearce @johnpearce650.bsky.social Writer and environmentalist. Find me on Medium: https://medium.com/@johnpearce650
Author of:
"The Little Green Book - A Guide to the Green Revolution"
“Gaia — A Faith for the Future”
“The Medium Story — The Ultimate Guide to Medium"
Tim Sandlin @timsandlin.bsky.social Ten novels, three movies, two books of columns. After 64 years in Wyoming I moved to Seattle.
Julia Liz Elliott @juliaelliott.bsky.social Fiction Writer: HELLIONS, THE WILDS, THE NEW AND IMPROVED ROMIE FUTCH (Tin House Books) http://www.juliaelliott.net/
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@careyvoeller.bsky.social @careyvoeller.bsky.social Associate Professor of English, Wofford College / Dad/ Books / Writing / Metal / Fishing
Leona Sevick @lsevick.bsky.social Lover of beaches, books, dogs, yoga, and the Oxford comma. Author of Lion Brothers and The Bamboo Wife. Work in The Southern Review, Orion, The Sun, Pleiades. Board member: Furious Flower and Longleaf Writers Conference.
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