LitFest in the Dena @litfestinthedena.bsky.social LitFest 2026 coming May 1st and 2nd. litfestinthedena.org
Daniel Wipert @daniel-wipert.bsky.social Music/Film Nerd. Data Enthusiast.
Co-host of Film Trace https://bsky.app/profile/filmtrace.bsky.social
"There's no medicine more powerful than music."
Anthony Addis @anthonyaddis.bsky.social I used to write, read and live in Cairo, KL, Jakarta and Riyadh. Now I do all that in Lichfield while placating two Indonesian streetcats.
My novel 'Do Not Keep Silent' is available on Amazon.
anthonyaddis.co.uk
Tori- 5 star Author and Editor of Bunker Squirrel Magazine @tcwestminster.bsky.social My #Thriller, #TheHost is out https://a.co/d/eVkKTQ5% #AmWriting the #Guests (sequels) I am the #Editor of #BunkerSquirrel a #FlashFiction Magazine. More info: https://linktr.ee/tcwestminster
Michael Kaufman @kaufmanwrites.bsky.social Writer--mysteries, YA and non-fiction. Worked in 50 countries engaging men to support women's rights & positively transform men's lives. Latest: "The Male Ally Handbook" & "Moon Storm Rising" (K Quinn) & "The Last Resort" both with climate change themes
Alpheus Williams @alphwilliams.bsky.social Curmudgeon. Eco-warrior. Writer. Love trees, dogs, cats and all wildlife and that includes the ugly ones. Pantheist. Socialist. Expat in Australia dual Citizen US.
Kyle Hester Film Maker @kylehester.bsky.social Actor, producer. Preacher Six, Zombie W A Shotgun, Haunted Lake Lanier
#Filmsky #SupportIndieFilm
Pagan
No hate! ⚜️WhoDat!?
Married to Tracy Ray Author
Haunted Lake Lanier on Amazon!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0D7SV2MLQ/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r
A.R. Bender @arambender.bsky.social Multi-genre author with words in: Shotgun Honey, Guilty Crime Mag, Chiron Review, Hidden Peak Press, Bristol Noir, Pulp Modern, Mystery Tribune, Thriller Magazine, Close To The Bone
THE BLACK BOW on https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DD67HTWS and other platforms
MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social 60s & 70s films + affiliates. Also Influences, origins, legacies, social-cultural context.
Books incl Hollywood's Last Golden Age; Novel: Urban Flight
70s Movie Podcast [NB: Antifascist]
Much more here: https://midcenturycinema.org/
Melanie @melaniemarquita.bsky.social Noirista 🕵🏻♀️
My Dream-Self is a TCM Host.
P.E. PRIDEAUX 🇨🇦 @peprideaux.bsky.social Constructing a cross-tradition literary retelling of the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
Catholic Omnist. Newfoundlander. Dreamer. Storyteller. Cat Lover. Family Man.
Call me Paul.
Apaulogetics is my blog. ↓
https://substack.com/@apaulogetics
Steve Griffiths @writersteve.bsky.social Writer, editor, lover, eejit.
Freelance Editor at EARLY MORNING EDITS.
Peter Bertlessen @peterbertlessen.bsky.social Lover of books and films, especially those in the genres of Transgressive Fiction, Western, Horror and Punk. A counterculture enthusiast who writes sometimes.
https://www.instagram.com/peterbertlessen?igsh=em5wM3lnZXJ4MDU2
Gary Kay (empty kettle) @atgeekay.bsky.social Writer // Civil Servant // he/him
Work in Nat Brut // Strange Horizons
Pushcart Nom + BoN Nom
NYC // https://linktr.ee/garykay
Also, I take pictures: https://bsky.app/profile/garyqueens.bsky.social
K.T. Nguyen @ktnguyenauthor.bsky.social Author of Agatha and Anthony Award-winning psychological thriller You Know What You Did. Dogs, Dems, Mets.
Jake Hinkson @jakehinkson.bsky.social Author
JT Smithling @jtsmithling.bsky.social Hasbeen scientist, wannabe writer, occasional metalhead.
What the critics say about me:
"Nihilistic, sharp-edged"
"Unnecessarily vulgar"
Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com Award-winning author of THE COSMONAUT on shelves summer 2027, Crooked Lane Books
Links: https://linktr.ee/kirkraff
Co-host of the podcast @badlitfriends.bsky.social
with @thecrumpet.bsky.social
"Villain, I have done thy mother"
A. J. Payler @ajpayler.bsky.social Author/musician A. J. Payler has published 5 novels, 2 short story collections, & 6 albums of original music to date as well as opened for Silkworm & Schizophonics, among others.
Visit ajpayler.com for more.
J.R. Bale @jrbale.bsky.social Author, Father, Professor, MBA, Photographer, Concerned Human in NJ.
I support fellow writers.
www.JRBale.com
I do not respond to DMs.
Rosecliff Literary @roseclifflit.bsky.social DC-based literary agency | where stories find their path | founder @jessicaberg.bsky.social
Carter Sickels @cartersickels.bsky.social Author: THE PRETTIEST STAR (Hub City 2020), THE EVENING HOUR (Bloomsbury 2012)
www.cartersickels.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. 
Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social NYT bestselling author * dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond
C.H. Hooks @chhooks.bsky.social Author of CAN’T SHAKE THE DUST and ALLIGATOR ZOO-PARK MAGIC
Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com Nashville-based Chinese-American author of speculative fiction for teens and adults.
Next:
1/5/27: DREAD CHASER
4/6/27: THE NIGHT THAT WASN'T
🐾 Pet your dog for me
🌱 Find me in my garden
🚫🧊
https://www.laurenthomanwrites.com/links
Rep’d by Holly Root
Meredith R. Lyons @meredithrlyons.bsky.social Award Winning Author of Ghost Tamer and A Dagger of Lightning. Both w/CamCatBooks. Immortal until proven otherwise. linktr.ee/meredithrlyons
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
@silashouse.bsky.social @silashouse.bsky.social 
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
Beth Dotson Brown @bethdotsonbrown.bsky.social Author, gardener, cook and lover of life
Erin Hoover @erinhoover.bsky.social My new poetry collection, Consent, will be published in May 2027 by Black Lawrence Press.
erinhooverpoet.com
@itsmesarahlabrie.bsky.social @itsmesarahlabrie.bsky.social NO ONE GETS TO FALL APART: A MEMOIR (Harper, Oct 2024)
Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Poet & NYT bestselling author of A SUIT OR A SUITCASE, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, DEAR WRITER, GOOD BONES +📚 Host of @slowdownshow.org
Erin Belieu @erinwriter.bsky.social Copper Canyon poet (Cocklebur: New & Selected Poems coming fall 2026), professor, Girl Scout from Omaha. She/her
Adam Clay @adamclay.bsky.social Poet and Professor at Louisiana State University. Most recent book is Circle Back (Milkweed Editions, 2024).
Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social Ugh, fine.
Writer in Texas.
I curse on the internet now.
#HouSky
www.jennystaffjohnson.com
Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer.bsky.social Author of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES (Nov 2024, Iowa Short Fiction Award from U of Iowa Press)
writer and teacher in New Orleans
stories in Asimov's, Lit Hub, The Dread Machine, The Pinch and others
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
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle @annettesclapsaddle.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Cyclist (esp. MTB). Eastern Band Cherokee citizen. WNC. Appalachia.
Margaret Renkl @margaretrenkl.bsky.social Author, most recently, of "The Weedy Garden" (for children) and "The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year" (for adults).
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
Ann Hite @annhiteauthor.bsky.social Award-winning author of Black Mountain Series. Lover of Haints and all things Appalachian. 
Jonathan Escoffery @escoffery.bsky.social Author of IF I SURVIVE YOU, a NY Times Editor’s Choice, IndieNext Pick, & International Bestseller. Nom’d for the National Book Award, PEN/Jean Stein, PEN/ Robert W. Bingham, & Story Prize. Booker Prize, PEN/ Faulkner & NBCC John Leonard finalist.
E.M. Tran @emtran.bsky.social writer, gilmore girl, kardashian expert.
debut novel: DAUGHTERS OF THE NEW YEAR
www.elizabethmtran.com
bio.site/emtran
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
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. 
Jessica Handler (she/her) @jessicah.bsky.social Author "The Magnetic Girl," (Southern Book Prize, Indie Next, Bitter Southerner picks.) "Invisible Sisters,” too. Drummer. Southerner. Abortion rights are human rights. www.jessicahandler.com. New novel, “The World To See” coming in 2026.
Jay McCoy @mcjay.bsky.social Artist, writer, Appalachian, book lover...director of Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Center for the Book
Charles Dodd White @charlesoddwhite.bsky.social Award-winning writer and naturalist living in East Tennessee.
Newsletter: https://substack.com/@charlesdoddwhite
Vic Sizemore @vicsizemore.bsky.social www.vicsizemore.com
https://substack.com/@vicsizemore?
Hilary Bell @hilarybell.bsky.social https://www.hilary-bell.com/
Eliot-Parker @eliot-parker.bsky.social Writing Prof at Ole Miss. Award-winning writer. Thriller DOUBLE-CROSSED and short story collection TABLE FOR TWO out now. Host of podcast “Now, Appalachia,” on the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network. Sometimes chill, sometimes anxious.
Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social Freelance writer, reporter, author. Kentuckian.
rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com / Signal rstauff.20
www.rainesfordstauffer.com
Neema Avashia @avashianeema.bsky.social Proud Boston educator since 2003. Proud West Virginian since 1979. Kahani's Ammi. ANOTHER APPALACHIA, WVU Press, 2022. 
Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social Folklorist & writer | MAKING OUR FUTURE: VISIONARY FOLKLORE & EVERYDAY CULTURE IN APPALACHIA (UNC Press 2022) | @spinstersounds.bsky.social co-owner | @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social podcast |
Matthew Ferrence @canappalachia.bsky.social Author of *I Hate It Here, Please Vote For Me* from WVU Press. Also *Appalachia North* and *All-American Redneck.* Jazz also happens. www.matthewferrence.com
Jessie Wilkerson @jessiew.bsky.social Author of To Live Here, You Have to Fight | Historian of 20th C U.S., Appalachia, labor, women & gender | Associate Prof. at WVU | Views mine. JessicaWilkerson.org
Tiffany Williams @tiffanywilliams.bsky.social Appalachian • Kentuckian • Singer-Songwriter Fiction Writer • Dialect Coach
📍Nashville
Marianne Worthington @mworthington.bsky.social Poet, Educator, Editor; author of Water. Witness. Word (Belle Point Press) The Girl Singer: Poems (UP of KY 2021), words in Oxford American, Shenandoah, Calyx, Zone 3, Salvation South. Reformed college professor. . .
la grande dame du jazz & l'incomparable chanteuse @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app poet, visual artist, & nyeusiphile
entering my fifth intermediate period of poetry
Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social Writer, editor, poet, critic | Chief Content Officer at @Salon.com | Author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me | Faculty at Naslund-Mann MFA | KY Colonel | Blair Water Literary Society chair | March Xness Die-hard https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
Robby Henson @redrobby9111.bsky.social I was a filmmaker. Now my novel hates me.
Kimberly Brock @kimberlybrock.bsky.social Award winning author of historical & Southern fiction. Latest The Fabled Earth (Harper Collins, 2024). Rep’d by Danielle Egan-Miller, Browne and Miller Literary Agency. #writer #author
linktr.ee/kimberlydbrock
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.
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
Dean Jobb - True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social Strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime.
A Gentleman and a Thief • The Case of the Murderous Dr Cream • Empire of Deception (Algonquin Books/HarperCollins Canada)
Website: www.deanjobb.com
Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y935u82h
Jack Finn @therealjackfinn.bsky.social 🩸 Folk Horror • Dark Fantasy
📚 Finding dark things you haven't read yet
🌲 Author of IT PIERCES, WILSON & more
👇 Enter the dark woods
www.therealjackfinn.com
Life-long believer that the Tooth Fairy is proof body parts can be traded for cold hard cash.
Rob Edmunds @robedmunds.bsky.social I'm a writer of three novels, the most recent about the conflict in Burma during World War II. My previous two novels are both about the ancient Numidian King Masinissa, set during the Second Punic War. 🏴
ⵜⴰⵏⵎⵎⵉⵔⵜ
https://linktr.ee/robedmunds
Noir-do-well @noirdowell.com https://linktr.ee/noirdowell
Serialized dark, Americana noir presented in old school radio show format on Instagram and TikTok. Written prose on the website. Follow me to prance around the guts of America's Midwest.
Doc Varga @docvarga.bsky.social AKA Literary represented writer and business owner living in Philadelphia. Author of all things creepy and speculative. #writerslife #writingcommunity #author
Android Press @press-android.bsky.social Science fiction, fantasy, and horror publisher. Our books have been finalists for the Nebula, Stoker, BSFA, British Fantasy, and Nommo Awards. https://thecookoutanthology.com/submission-guidelines
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
Heather Levy 🌈 @heatherlevy.bsky.social Anthony-nominated author of bestsellers HURT FOR ME and THIS VIOLENT HEART
✨Kinky queer Okie 🩷💜💙
✨I write novels about badass women who’ve been through some shit
✨Rep by Sandy Lu
https://www.heatherlevywriter.com
@nigelyates.bsky.social @nigelyates.bsky.social 
Josh Boldt @joshaboldt.bsky.social Nature, books, dogs. Writer of mystery & southern gothic | Editor @brownhoundpress.bsky.social.
Lexington, KY.
joshboldt.com
@jbfarkas.bsky.social @jbfarkas.bsky.social 
Altany67 @altany67.bsky.social Author of the Father Steel series of Occult Horror, set in Scotland.
Love Football, politics and reading.
Series Link https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089NYG3F5
Janet Alcorn @janetalcorn.bsky.social Author (crime fiction, horror, and romance), librarian, gardener, very amateur photographer, 80s rocker chick. I write and I grow things. http://janetalcorn.com. Sign up for my newsletter to get a free story.
Phillip Thompson @phillip-f-thompson.bsky.social Crime fiction writer. Ole Miss grad. Dodgers fan. Movie fanatic. Occasional misanthrope. Author of best-selling Colt Harper series.
Independent Publishers of New England @ipne.org Publishing nonprofit where the cool indies hang and collaborate to "make better books and sell more of them." IPNE.org. Please add to relevant lists. 🙏🏻📖
BV Lawson @bvlawson.bsky.social Poet, Journalist, Blogger, and Author of the Scott Drayco crime fiction series and more. Also a recovering Diet Coke addict.
Mark_Atley @markatley.bsky.social Dad / Husband / Detective / Writer / Author / Novelist. Neon Noir / Neon Americana Tulsa Underworld series, A Bright Young Man and others.
Rina Palumbo @rinapalumbo.bsky.social Ph.D. (JHU, History); Italian-Canadian expatriate. Writer, Editor, avid reader.
Writing in Hopkins Review, Identity Theory, Ghost Parachute, et al.
https://rinapalumbowriter.com/
Morgan Nyberg @morgannyberg.bsky.social Life is short. You deserve to read my work.
https://www.morgan-nyberg.ca/
Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social Walt Disney Imagineer, Singer/Songwriter, Aspiring Author
Wendy Neugent @wendyneugent.com Wendy's History Detective Club books combine adventure with meticulously researched history. Her debut adult mystery, Murder Takes a Bow was a Cozy Mystery Indie of the Year Finalist. Her cat, Apurrham Lincoln, provides unsolicited "editing" services.
𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. 🌿🍁🍂🎃
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)