ICYMI, @bookriot.bsky.social READ OR DEAD podcast is launching a book club & FIEND is going to be its inaugural read! Thank you @kdwinchester.bsky.social & @kt-librarylady.bsky.social Lmk if there's anything I can do to help!
06.09.2025 11:43 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
He’s quite the interior designer. 😄
17.05.2025 18:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a photo of Dylan, a red and white Pembroke Welsh Corgi, sitting on a dark green cushion in front of rows and rows of bookshelves.
Dylan adores his library. 📚
17.05.2025 18:07 — 👍 25 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Last Friday, many though not all active and pending direct grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) were terminated. One of the projects that was terminated effective May 31, was the NEA’s ArtsHERE initiative, delivered in cooperation with South Arts and through significant partnership with the US Regional Arts Organizations. This comes alongside the president’s proposal to eliminate the NEA entirely in the FY26 federal budget. Together, these actions will have devastating impacts on communities throughout the country.
We at South Arts, along with the national collective of US Regional Arts Organizations, strongly urge Congress to restore the grant funding in support of the arts, culture, and creativity that was passed during the last budgetary approval process, in addition to maintaining its broad bipartisan commitment to funding the NEA in next year’s budget.
Guidelines of the ArtsHERE grants, which offered $65k - 130k in nonmatched funds
From South Arts: that they terminated ArtsHERE, one of the most substantial nonmatching grants I've ever seen. Millions of dollars stripped from orgs who were already depending on it.
Call your reps & tell them to restore the (broad bipartisan!) commitment to funding the NEA in next year’s budget.
09.05.2025 21:26 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
a graphic featuring a photo of Raye Hendrix. To the left side sits the Read Appalachia logo and the words Episode 38 Poetry Corner Raye Hendrix
NEW EPISODE!
In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by Raye Hendrix.
Have a listen wherever you get your podcasts!
www.readappalachia.com/blog/ep-38-p...
08.05.2025 16:30 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Love hosting poetry corner. Poets, in general, def deserve more love.
25.04.2025 23:20 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Mo, my dad’s cat - one of his favorite topics. He loves his chonky boy. Always a sure thing. 10/10
21.04.2025 18:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bacon - My dad does a lot of grocery shopping and constantly buys bacon because it’s on sale. He’s got like 5 packs in the freezer at any given time. He’s very passionate about this, but one can only talk about bacon flavor and brands for so long 6/10
21.04.2025 17:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Brandon Sanderson - he loves fantasy novels and has read Sanderson but “his books are so long.” Fair. 7/10
21.04.2025 17:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Troubles - I may have ruined this attempt as it was my next attempt after the dust bowl, but he was even less interested in Northern Irish recent history… beginning to suspect history is not the way to go 1/10
21.04.2025 17:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My visit to the Donner Party museum - decent amount of interest at first, but one can only talk about this moment in history for so long before it gets dark 3/10
21.04.2025 17:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The dust bowl - achieved some nodding and “ohhhh” but otherwise uninterested 4/10
21.04.2025 17:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Corgis - when in doubt, bring up the grandcorgs. 10/10
21.04.2025 17:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My dad and I are very similar in a lot of ways, but we struggle to find common interests to talk about. So here is an ongoing list of random topics I’ve brought up and their success rate.
21.04.2025 17:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Oh how cute!
21.04.2025 03:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a photo of Dylan, a red and white Pembroke Welsh Corgi, and Gwen, a black and white Cardigan Welsh Corgi, sitting in front of a row of bookshelves.
The closest I could get to having them pose together. But I’ll take it.
20.04.2025 22:15 — 👍 30 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
a photo of To Belong Here: A New Generation of Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Appalachian Writers edited by Rae Garringer
Happy pub day to TO BELONG HERE edited by Rae Garringer ✨
02.04.2025 04:04 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I finally took down my Christmas decorations. Please clap.
30.03.2025 20:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
To Tell My Disabled Stories, I Needed to Unlearn Ableist Workshop Critiques - Electric Literature
I masked in workshop and on the page, even as it invalidated my lived experience
For @electriclit.bsky.social I wrote about common microaggressions in the ableist writing workshop, ways disabled writers can resist in order to reclaim their stories, and my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE.
electricliterature.com/to-tell-my-d...
11.03.2025 13:02 — 👍 74 🔁 27 💬 5 📌 8
A photo of Kendra, a white woman wearing sunglasses and a burgundy jacket, holding Gwen, a black and white Cardigan Welsh Corgi
Side Note: Cardigan Corgis are so much bigger than you’d think. 28lbs of floof.
12.03.2025 00:11 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of Kendra, a white woman with medium long brunette hair wearing a burgundy jacket, sunglasses, and headphones. She’s holding Gwen, a black and white Cardigan Welsh Corgi.
Baby girl has been sick for days, but she finally seems to be on the mend. ❤️🩹
12.03.2025 00:08 — 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
a photo of two planners, a pencil case, a pair of headphones, and a latte sitting on a cafe table.
Back home. Today I returned to my favorite table at my local cafe. ☕️
I’m so behind on all of my journaling. 😅
11.03.2025 18:53 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a photo of Cue the Sun by Emily Nussbaum
Weekend Reading 📖
02.03.2025 15:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NYT bestselling novelist. Former intelligence professional, tech futurist.
Writer, whiskey drinker and cat dad
A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
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Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust) / Ed-at-large, Pen and Anvil Press, MA / Afterbody, Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh: tinyurl.com/afterbodybluediode
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Author of ABBREVIATE, NERVE, HALFWAY FROM HOME, QUITE MAD, and three poetry chaps. Editor Nerve to Write. Associate Prof. ♿🏳️🌈
Making white readers mad here too. http://linktree.com/michaellaborn
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Children's book author - MY TEACHER IS AN ALIEN; JEREMY THATCHER, DRAGON HATCHER; the UNICORN CHRONICLES, etc. Publisher of FULL CAST AUDIO. In real life husband, father, grandfather. Broken hearted optimist as of 11/5/24
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We are a 501(c)(3) based in Knoxville, TN that produces a literary and visual art annual.
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Wayfarer Books / Since 2012. Poetry that speak the language of the earth. We celebrate storytellers—cryptic, floral, crepuscular, queer-at-heart—who inspire agency. Makers of Wayfarer Magazine. #Substack #Transowned wayfarerbooks.org / wayfarermagazine.com
Poet, Wife, Mom, LongCovid/MECFS Sufferer. Looking to connect and learning to advocate. Cofounder of #CripCoop. EIC, Poetry @epistemiclit.Bsky.social, @whirligiglit.bsky.social. Micropoetry chapbook Lift the Mask available widely. www.kristinhoulihan.com
