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Black lives matter.
Hi and welcome to Whiskey, by George! The official account for my blog! I’m a military veteran on a whiskey journey…please come along with me! NO WHISKEY SALES MADE OR ACCEPTED!
Writes many words: Beneath the Lion's Gaze, The Shadow King, & the next one.
Believes in film: mostly Tri-X, sometimes Portra.
There's something out there, and it is us.
Author: THE PRETTIEST STAR (Hub City 2020), THE EVENING HOUR (Bloomsbury 2012)
www.cartersickels.com
Author: ONCE THESE HILLS and COAL BLACK.
https://www.chris-mcginley.com/ Writer at Crimereads, Mystery Tribune, Reckon Review, etc.
Author of THEY ALL FALL THE SAME (1/7/25 @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social) & HILLBILLY HUSTLE (2020 WVU press) KY Attorney/Pizza Purveyor. Repped by Alice Speilburg. https://bsky.app/profile/alicespeilburg.bsky.social
www.wesbrowneauthor.com
Poet & NYT bestselling author.
Next book: A SUIT OR A SUITCASE: POEMS (March 24, 2026)
Host of @slowdownshow.org
Copper Canyon poet (Cocklebur: New & Selected Poems coming fall 2026), professor, Girl Scout from Omaha. She/her
Ugh, fine.
Writer in Texas.
I curse on the internet now.
#HouSky
www.jennystaffjohnson.com
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
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.
Writer. Teacher. Cyclist (esp. MTB). Eastern Band Cherokee citizen. WNC. Appalachia.
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
Award-winning author of Black Mountain Series. Lover of Haints and all things Appalachian.
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.
writer, gilmore girl, kardashian expert.
debut novel: DAUGHTERS OF THE NEW YEAR
www.elizabethmtran.com
bio.site/emtran
Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Author of two award-winning novels (The Say So and Over the Plain Houses). Still kayaking Southern rivers and sleeping on the ground.
Half-assed author of novels. Full-assed wanderer of woods. Born looking lonesome, on’ry, and mean. Also, I fucking cuss a lot.
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.
Author of Anthony Nominated collection HERE IN THE DARK, and award-winning novel SONGBIRDS & STRAY DOGS | JD Candidate at UDayton Law | EIC: Reckon Review |
Proud Boston educator since 2003. Proud West Virginian since 1979. Kahani's Ammi. ANOTHER APPALACHIA, WVU Press, 2022.
Folklorist & writer | MAKING OUR FUTURE: VISIONARY FOLKLORE & EVERYDAY CULTURE IN APPALACHIA (UNC Press 2022) | @spinstersounds.bsky.social co-owner | @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social podcast |
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
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
Homesick Hillican. Writer. Weird and dark folklore aficionado. Professor of English & Department Head of English and Media Arts at Robert Morris University.
Chief writer-connector at NC Writers’ Network, author of FIGHT SONGS & more, not as grumpy as I look.
Appalachian • Kentuckian • Singer-Songwriter Fiction Writer • Dialect Coach
📍Nashville
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.
I make poems sometimes. Editor at Still: The Journal. The Girl Singer: Poems (UP of KY 2021), words in Oxford American, Shenandoah, Calyx, Zone 3, Salvation South. Reformed college professor. . .
Southern BS artist
Rep: Chris Bucci, Aevitas Creative
Wrote some books, won some awards. Tennessee-born Vermonter. Three dogs, 2 cats, 1 teen. Acquiring editor - query at submissions@CrookedLaneBooks.com. Bio pic is me at 16. Other pic is our yard before the flood scoured it clean and left a sand dune.
Shamus-winning author of the Henry Malone novels. Appalachian to the bitterest of ends. Rep: @michellerichterbks.bsky.social Insta @jamesdfhannah. He/him jamesdfhannah.com
poet & nyeusiphile.
poetry collections: Deifying A Total Darkness; To Emit Teal; The Second Stop Is Jupiter; & The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife
👠👠 + 🎣👨🏿🦳 + 👰🏿♂️
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 | https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
NYT bestselling author * dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond
What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | Eeyore at the gay club | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
Author: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA
linktr.ee/cassrmorris
Author, most recently, of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year. Contributing opinion writer for The New York Times (appearing on the first and third Mondays of each month.)
Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions. Author of various books. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.
Storysmith. DOCTOR WHO. KNIGHTS OF THE BORROWED DARK. And CONN OF THE DEAD - coming soon!
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
writer & sex educator | NYU mfa
zoebflavin.substack.com
Nature, books, dogs. Writer of mystery & southern gothic | Editor @brownhoundpress.bsky.social.
Lexington, KY.
joshboldt.com
Award-winning writer and naturalist living in East Tennessee.
Newsletter: https://substack.com/@charlesdoddwhite
Writes sometimes. Has always lived by the sea.
Send interview pitches for X-R-A-Y to Rebecca at: rebecca@xraylitmag.com
FORBIDDEN CITY | A RIVER OF STARS| DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES| Rona Jaffe| Bylines @sfchronicle @nytimes & elsewhere | NEAarts Fellow | forthcoming COYOTELAND
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
poet, person
erinhooverpoet.com
San Francisco Bay Area writer and educator. Flash fiction and cnf in SmokeLong, Bending Genres, Atlas and Alice, The Forge, Ghost Parachute, Craft & elsewhere.Poetry in journals such as New Ohio Review, Plume, Hunger Mountain and Cincinnati R. (she/her)
“Orlando's Reigning Big Time Celebrity Author” - The Orlando Weekly
huuuuge lesbian. librarian. dad. floridian. beer drinker. NYT Bestselling author.
Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE
https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com
#Author. Words in Invisible City, Storm Cellar, elsewhere. Controlled Conversations, a novel, finalist for the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award. In love with a painter. Father of strange children. He/him. Next novel seeking literary representation.
author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and the national bestseller ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW • words in NYT Magazine, Time, Esquire, Washington Post &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung • loyaltybookstores.com/nicolechung
Writer / Editor - I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES: SHORT STORIES, Autumn House, 2025- HOMING - essay collection, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2024 - Co-editor FLASH FICTION AMERICA, W. W. Norton, 2023 - Sr Editor SLQ
writer | editor | social worker
runs on anxiety and wide-eyed optimism
managing director @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
debut novel HOW WE SEE THE GRAY (May 2026)
editor of THE ROCKFORD ANTHOLOGY
(she/they)
https://linktr.ee/rachelleon
New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts (plus others) who often talks books on the Today Show. Next up? American Dionysus. 🍎 I walk a lot.
Lover of Human Story. ❤️ Literary fiction writer represented by Kat Foxx at The Rights Factory. IG: heatherhigdonwrites
Writer / pαnawάhpskewi from the Penobscot Indian Nation / NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ and FIRE EXIT: A NOVEL (Tin House 2024)
Founder & Director of Talty Literary
morgantalty.com
Writer. Revenant. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) Colombo/New York. https://vajra.me
Writer, literary and women’s fiction, poet, border collie slave and ocean activist - roots in science, wings in sentence craft.
Novel: Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea (Bloomsbury). Indie Next, Barnes & Noble Discover, Good Morning America Buzz Pick. Stories in Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, One Story, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, etc. rchetypes.com
Author THE MORTALITY SHOT (hybrid collection), coach, editor, artist, certified yoga teacher, theater maker, now working on researched memoir about liberation at 57 of being a fashionably late-diagnosed #Autistic: TheUnadaptedOnes.com
Writer, occasional podcaster, recovering academic, childless cat lady (she/her)
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
Writer. Mom. Portlander. Traveler. Cat/dog lady. Author of Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, Torch, and Brave Enough. Also: Dear Sugar.
American Book Award winning author of MEMENTO PARK (FSG) and HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury). @UGMAN June 2025 from ITNA Press. Scold-proof.
“ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill.
"Chilling, flawlessly executed" - Kirkus Reviews
www.marksarvas.com
NO ONE GETS TO FALL APART: A MEMOIR (Harper, Oct 2024)
Ⓜ️ is for EMpathy
✍️ Author of THE CHAPERONE (Sourcebooks Fire)
📍Jersey Girl ➡️ Kentucky Colonel
📚 booksky
https://www.mhendrixwrites.com
Third-culture kid from Brazil 🇧🇷
✍️ latest writing in JMWW, Bellevue Literary Review, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, @rfpress.bsky.social & others
📖 read CNF for @triquarterlymag.bsky.social
✨ linktr.ee/kristiferguson ✨
writer | reader | artist | educator
The Trouble With Language (TRNSFR, 2020) | The Opposite of Entropy (Proper Tales Press, 2018)
Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive
electricliterature.com
Director/Mindbuck Book Publicity, occasional prof, freelancer @NYT, Salon, WaPo, others. They/them.
a messy bitch who lives for commas | Boricua | she/her | AFAB | ACAB | stegner, center for fiction, NEA, periplus | stories in NER, Witness, Epiphany, Story | http://vidajames.com 🏴
book dad. metal and hockey.
lit agent at Janklow & Nesbit.
www.chadluibl.com
Marketing Professor, Comic Book Editor, Wrestling Fan.
The Loneliest Band in France (Texas Review Press, 2020) ¶ Colorado Book Award, American Library in Paris Coups de Cœur, Clay Reynolds Prize ¶ www.dylanfisher.net ¶ he/him ¶ T1D ¶📍PDX
Writer, teacher. Out now: APPLESEED, a novel (2021, @marinerbooks). REFUSE TO BE DONE, a guide to novel revision (2022, @soho_press). He/him.
Author of CRAFT: STORIES I WROTE FOR THE DEVIL forthcoming @torbooks in 2024 (available for pre-order)
& MOTHER/LAND (Black Lawrence Press)
Rep: Sarah Bowlin (Aevitas)
Work in the American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast +
I write things and take photos of stuff.
https://www.rmcgillphotos.com/
Writer, Dad, Music Nerd. Stories in Lightspeed, Simultaneous Times Podcast, Underland Arcana, Even Cozier Cosmic, Silly Goose Press, Bulb Culture Collective, and more!
Debut collection, THE WORLD OUTSIDE, out now from Underland Press.
eladhaber.com
Books: All Our Tomorrows • Methuselah • The Widening Gyre🖤
Also in X-R-A-Y, The Pinch, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, HAD, Hobart, etc.
https://linktree.com/amykatherrrine
Writer. TEETH KICKER (HarperCollins in 2026), MAN IN A GREY SUIT (Penguin 2012), www.glennorgias.com
Writer of the weird and experimental flash. Words @FracturedLit, @Xraylitmag, @NecessaryFic, @TBQuarterly, and elsewhere.
Debut flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES, out now @MoonCityPress.
Read more at http://avitusbcarle.com
Author of THE INSATIABLES from @ChiReviewPress, Managing Editor at @pitheadchapel, future ghost
www.BrittanyTerwilliger.com
Child Craft: bellepointpress.bsky.social | Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social | Co-editor: @gonelawn.bsky.social |
Flash fiction in various places | Welkin win, Bath SLs | "The Listening Project" flash novella Ad Hoc Fiction bit.ly/3ohYf67 (Special Mention '22 Sab Awards) | South West UK🦻🌱🌊
alimcgrane.com
fiction @ places
elated Pushcart, BotN, BSF nominee
2025 fellow @smokelong.bsky.social
organizer @saloneurope.bsky.social
reader @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
katherineplumhoff.com
valencia, es
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
Author of this book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/crawl-stories-max-delsohn/22144102
