Pegasus Books @pegasus-books.bsky.social An independent publisher of books that stimulate the intellect & the imagination.
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New York, NY
Little Birds @littlebirdslit.bsky.social Spread the Word.
an independent literary publicity and consulting agency
Cofounded by @abbyfreeland.bsky.social, Davis Shoulders, & @kdwinchester.bsky.social
Hub City Bookshop @hubcitybookshop.bsky.social 864•577•9349 | Spartanburg, SC
Nonprofit bookstore of Hub City Writers Project
Sister store to @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Home of Zora Nelle, #hubkitty
@silashouse.bsky.social @silashouse.bsky.social 
Andrew Feight, Ph.D. @andrewfeight.bsky.social American historian, professor, and photographer. Director of the Center for Public History at Shawnee State University - Director of Research and Outreach for the Appalachian Freedom Initiative - Developer of the Scioto Historical mobile app.
Mountain Laurels: Women of Appalachia @mountainlaurels.bsky.social A podcast about Appalachian Women, both past and present. Hosted by Jessica Miles.
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Dorian Hairston @dghpoet.bsky.social 
ReImagine Appalachia @reimagineappal8ia.bsky.social Reimagine Appalachia is dedicated to making sure that no matter what we look like or the size of our bank account, everyone who lives here can have a good job, is cared for, can put down roots for the future, and leave healthy land for their children.
Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her.
Author of MYTH. Editor of AS THE EARTH DREAMS (House of Anansi, 2025)
www.teresemasonpierre.com
Daniella Toosie-Watson @toosiewatson.bsky.social What We Do with God (Haymarket Books 2025) | MFA ‘19: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program | Poems: The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Oxford Poetry, Callaloo, and elsewhere | www.toosie.art
NC Writers' Network @ncwritersnetwork.bsky.social Supporting "The Writingest State" since 1985. We provide a network for North Carolina writers through conferences, online classes, critique services, and other programs. Learn more: https://linktr.ee/ncwriters
University of Wisconsin Press @uwiscpress.bsky.social Publisher of books and journals (scholarly, literary, and regional), at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. https://uwpress.wisc.edu. (We are not the UW news/PR office)
Claribel A. Ortega @claribelortega.com NYT Best-selling raccoon enthusiast 🦝
Witchlings 4: Scepter of Memories out 9.16.25
I wrote Ghost Squad, the Witchlings series & the Eisner & Pura Belpré winning graphic novel Frizzy 🐓
https://linktr.ee/claribelortega
Blackwater Press @blackwaterpress.com International small press based in West Virginia, publishing beautifully crafted stories in fiction, history, and memoir for readers everywhere.
Autumn 🏳️🌈 @autumnintheoaks.bsky.social they/she
Nathan Shuherk @schizophrenicreads.bsky.social nonfiction book reviewer. mfa student. mostly writing and talking about books, media, climate change, politics, and my cats.
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle @annettesclapsaddle.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Cyclist (esp. MTB). Eastern Band Cherokee citizen. WNC. Appalachia.
Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social No longer active here. Find us on IG and TikTok @graywolfpress!
Riverhead Books @riverheadbooks.bsky.social We’re a publisher dedicated to extraordinary, ground-breaking, unique fiction and non-fiction writers and their work.
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Grove Atlantic @groveatlantic.bsky.social Independent publisher of exceedingly good books. Founded in 1917. We can’t go on, we’ll go on.
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Scribner Books @scribnerbooks.bsky.social Since 1846, publisher of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, Jesmyn Ward, Anthony Doerr, Jennifer Egan, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and more.
National Book Foundation @nationalbook.bsky.social National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards. Dedicated to the celebration of the best literature in America. 
Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.bsky.social.
Print: A Bookstore @printbookstore.bsky.social Indie bookstore on Portland's East End! Open Sun/Mon 11a-4p, Tues/Wed/Thurs 10a-5p, Fri/Sat 10a-7p. Dog-friendly and very gay. 🌈🌲
Shop by appointment: printbookstore.com/appointments
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
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
Unnamed Press @unnamedpress.bsky.social We publish literature from around the world. UNlikely voices and UNexpected stories. Smith & Taylor Classics. Based in Los Angeles since 2014.
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Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social Celebrating over 30 years of amplifying Asian American & Asian diasporic literature to mobilize for a more just future. Subscribe → http://eepurl.com/gNlHV1
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W. W. Norton & Company @wwnorton.com Independent Publishers Since 1923.
Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull, & Hawthorne Books.
Melville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social An independent publisher based in Brooklyn, US and London, UK. https://linktr.ee/MelvilleHouse
Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
Quirk Books @quirkbooks.bsky.social An imprint of @andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social
Unconventional and bold publishing that makes life a little bit better.
Tag us in your posts and reviews @quirkbooks.bsky.social!
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Soho Press @sohopress.bsky.social Independent book publisher of bold literary voices, award-winning international crime fiction, and groundbreaking horror.
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Doug Van Gundy @dougvangundy.bsky.social Neurodivergent. Poet. Fiddler. Humanist.
Proud West Virginian.
Proud Liberal.
Proud Weirdo.
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
Carter Sickels @cartersickels.bsky.social Author: THE PRETTIEST STAR (Hub City 2020), THE EVENING HOUR (Bloomsbury 2012)
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Emily Polson @emilycpolson.bsky.social writer (ccny) | editor (scribner) | woman walking around (nyc)
LK Literary Agency @lkliterary.bsky.social Lori Kilkelly (she/her) posting for my boutique literary agency. Reps seasoned & rising talent in children's & YA lit (est 2018).
Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social Hi! I’m the bestselling author of Elatsoe & A Snake Falls to Earth & Sheine Lende. I <3 lifting heavy weights, playing video games, & writing stories. Sry I don’t check DMs. She/her. Lipan Apache.
Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social Nonprofit publishing house & literary arts center bringing the world together in conversation through literature. Deep Ellum, Dallas TX. deepvellum.org
Tirzah Price @tirzahprice.bsky.social USA Today bestselling author of the Jane Austen Murder Mysteries, knitter, dog lover, cat wrangler. Michigander. 🌈
Latest: IN WANT OF A SUSPECT
Up next: A MATTER OF MURDER
TirzahPrice.com
Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social Professing literature in Philadelphia. MIDDLEMEN: Literary Agents & the Making of American Fiction (April ‘26).
laurabmcgrath.substack.com
Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social writer & full fattie 🍦• author of 📚 HOUSEMATES (2024) & 📚 THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL (2020) • ✍🏻 NYT, Time, Esquire, The Atlantic, Granta, The Cut etc 🌈 she/her
https://www.emmacopleyeisenberg.com
The Book Riot Podcast @bookriotpod.bsky.social A show about what's happening in the world of books and reading, hosted by Jeff O'Neal and Rebecca Schinsky. Available wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social A free e-newsletter from Publishers Weekly that reports on children's and YA books. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/9Ubz9L
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Sarah Russo @sarahrusso.bsky.social Founder of @pageonem.bsky.social, literary publicity and marketing for authors and experts. www.page1m.com
Previously, global head of audience engagement at Oxford University Press. Brooklyn, NY
Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, Pantheon Books. Is this place a toxic snake pit yet? Asking for a friend . . .
Katy Hershberger @katyhersh.bsky.social Work at Publishers Lunch. Writing at NYTBR, Washington Post, LitHub, Slate, Longreads, etc.
KatyHershberger.com
ezra kupor @ezrakupor.bsky.social associate editor @harperbooks + @harperperennial • not here but views still very much my own • he/him 🫠
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Anna Zumbahlen @annazum.bsky.social Dr. Poet | www.annazum.com
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.
> Site: rosswhite.com
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social acquiring editor for environmental studies, food studies, and regional books at the University of Pittsburgh Press
career in publishing resource doc: tinyurl.com/2jmmharu
bluesky list of university and indie presses: tinyurl.com/3y829vxv
Shane Hawk @shanehawk.com C&A 🪶
Writer. Editor. Anthologist. Girl Dad. San Diego-based. Repped by Rachel Letofsky (lit) at TLA and Joe Veltre (film/tv) at Gersh.
ShaneHawk.com
NativeHorrorIndex.com
NWAN2.com
Debutiful @debutiful.bsky.social The premier literary website focused on debut and emerging writers. There’s also a podcast sometimes. Founded by Adam Vitcavage.
Imani Perry @imaniperry.bsky.social Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/
@oldtownbooks.bsky.social @oldtownbooks.bsky.social 
Appalachian Prison Book Project (APBP) @appalachianpbp.bsky.social We send free books and provide educational opportunities to people incarcerated in Appalachia. 📖 https://appalachianprisonbookproject.org
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 | 🏳️🌈
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
nina sabak @ninasabak.bsky.social MFA-haver and lowercase deadpanner. I don't want the world, I just want your half. (all views expressed here are mine, not my employer's.)
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.
Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social Political non-fiction, world literature, social justice children’s books, and other works of the radical imagination ✨
sevenstories.com
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.
Margaret Renkl @margaretrenkl.bsky.social Author, most recently, of "The Weedy Garden" (for children) and "The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year" (for adults).
Kip Knott @kiptain.bsky.social Poet, writer, photographer. Author of FAMILY HAUNTS (Louisiana Literature Press). Wigleaf Top 50 2024. Best Microfiction 2024.
@drewwhite9.bsky.social @drewwhite9.bsky.social Latin-Appalachian, Medical Professional, Salsero, WVU, Steelers, Lakers & Liberal.
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
agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
WV native
still living in 1986
jamestatehill.com
Katie Hoffman @phdivakatie.bsky.social Nonprofit ED, PhD in English/Appalachian Studies, traditional musician and ballad singer, trying to be a gap-bridger.
Ashley ✨ @apmreads.bsky.social Millennial reader x writer 📚🍉
Hobby potter
📍 MD USA
apmreads on TikTok
She/her
📖 The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr
🎧 Out of Love by Hazel Hayes
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https://linktr.ee/apmcmullen
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.
Jane Hicks @thecosmicpossum.bsky.social Poet, teacher, granny, over-educated hillbilly. Possum lover. Cancer survivor.
Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social A global community of publishers whose mission is to ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge. Read UP! https://aupresses.org/ Got a question about university press publishing? Ask UP! https://ask.up.hcommons.org/
Southern Review of 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
Donnie R. Wallen @drwpoet.bsky.social I'm an eastern Kentucky poet, writer, artist, etc.
In search of an audience and an agent.
Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts @uthumanitiesctr.bsky.social The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts (DCHA) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, supports advanced study of the arts & humanities, fosters interdisciplinary research, and advocates for the value of the arts & humanities in our world today.
Tayari Jones @tayari.bsky.social NYT Bestselling author of KIN and AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE. (Oprah’s Book Club x2) Atlanta born, Atlanta bred, when I die, I’ll be Atlanta dead.
Book Cougars Podcast @bookcougars.bsky.social Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read.
Emily Fine & Chris Wolak talk books & Biblio Adventures. Author interviews. Every other Tuesday since 2016.
Carrie Conners @carrieconners.bsky.social I like poems. Author of: Species of Least Concern (2022), Laugh Lines (2022), and Luscious Struggle (2019). LaGCC English prof. WV roots. https://linktr.ee/connerscarrie
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
Alex Gupta @alexgupta.bsky.social associate editor at Columbia UP | probably knitting | they/she | opinions are my own
Justin Hamm @mdwstscribbler.bsky.social Missouri Poet Laureate. Midwest is my forever home. Editor @ museum of americana. Creator of Poet Baseball Cards. Author, most recently, of O DEATH (Spartan Press 2024).
Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social Editor-in-chief, Washington Independent Review of Books. Loser-in-chief, "Jeopardy!" season 39. "Making it worse? How could it be worse? Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah!"
M. C. Benner Dixon @mchristinebd.bsky.social Writer, editor, coach. She/her. Pittsburgh. My writing trends lyrical, peculiar, melancholy, existential. Books: MILLIONS OF SUNS (2023). THE HEIGHT OF LAND (2025). Covid cautious/airborne aware. Rep: Naomi Davis, BookEnds. linktr.ee/mchristinebd
Leslie Zampetti @literarylesliez.bsky.social Founder & Literary Agent at Open Book Literary. Lapsed librarian. Rapacious reader. Wishful writer. She/her. Member of @scbwi & @aalitagents. http://www.openbooklit.com/
Julia Franks @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. 
Paul Guest @paulmguest.bsky.social Poet and memoirist. Published in Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. Whiting Award Winner and Guggenheim Fellow.
Kate Arden McMullen @katearden.bsky.social she/her 🌞 Managing Editor at Hub City Press
fiction in Carve, Ninth Letter, BULL, The Boiler, Reckon, etc etc
read me at kateamcmullen.com or whatimcooking.substack.com
Liberty Hardy @libertyhardy.bsky.social Raised by wolves who watched Reading Rainbow. Co-host of Book Riot's All the Books! podcast. "My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."—D. Thomas She/her. https://www.patreon.com/libertyhardy
Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social MOTHER TONGUE, out now.
Also TRUE BIZ + GIRL AT WAR
🧏🏻 deafie | they/she/👉🏼 |📍Philly
https://buttondown.com/signs+wonders/archive
https://linktr.ee/Novic
Sarah Nicolas @sarahnfisk.bsky.social Literary Agent. YA Author as Sarah Nicolas. Queries Qualms & Quirks host. Disability in Publishing Board. 💛🤍💜🖤 linktr.ee/presidentsarah
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social Formerly the writer formerly known as Matthew Salesses
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
Derek Krissoff @derekkrissoff.bsky.social Publishing worker in Pittsburgh. Editor-at-large with @oupress.bsky.social and @ksupress.bsky.social. Email me at dkrissoff at gmail dot com. More at derekkrissoff.com and derekkrissoff.substack.com.