864•577•9349 | Spartanburg, SC
Nonprofit bookstore of Hub City Writers Project
Sister store to @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Home of Zora Nelle, #hubkitty
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.
A podcast about Appalachian Women, both past and present. Hosted by Jessica Miles.
https://linktr.ee/mountainlaurels
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.
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
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
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
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)
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
International small press based in West Virginia, publishing beautifully crafted stories in fiction, history, and memoir for readers everywhere.
nonfiction book reviewer. mfa student. mostly writing and talking about books, media, climate change, politics, and my cats.
Writer. Teacher. Cyclist (esp. MTB). Eastern Band Cherokee citizen. WNC. Appalachia.
Founded in 1974, Graywolf Press publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature.
We’re a publisher dedicated to extraordinary, ground-breaking, unique fiction and non-fiction writers and their work.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/privacy/
Independent publisher of exceedingly good books. Founded in 1917. We can’t go on, we’ll go on.
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Since 1846, publisher of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, Jesmyn Ward, Anthony Doerr, Jennifer Egan, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and more.
National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards. Dedicated to the celebration of the best literature in America.
Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.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
A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
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
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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Celebrating over 30 years of amplifying Asian American & Asian diasporic literature to mobilize for a more just future. Subscribe → http://eepurl.com/gNlHV1
✨🍉 aaww.org
Independent Publishers Since 1923.
Catapult, Counterpoint, & Soft Skull Press.
An independent publisher based in Brooklyn, US and London, UK. https://linktr.ee/MelvilleHouse
Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
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!
The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Independent book publisher of bold literary voices, award-winning international crime fiction, and groundbreaking horror.
Neurodivergent. Poet. Fiddler. Humanist.
Proud West Virginian.
Proud Liberal.
Proud Weirdo.
Over 11 years independent publishing — print mag, James Beard🏅s, books, podcast, t-shirts, working on a #BetterSouth #BetterAmerica #BetterWorld for ALL.
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Author: THE PRETTIEST STAR (Hub City 2020), THE EVENING HOUR (Bloomsbury 2012)
www.cartersickels.com
writer (ccny) | editor (scribner) | woman walking around (nyc)
Lori Kilkelly (she/her) posting for my boutique literary agency. Reps seasoned & rising talent in children's & YA lit (est 2018).
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.
Nonprofit publishing house & literary arts center bringing the world together in conversation through literature. Deep Ellum, Dallas TX. deepvellum.org
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
Professing literature in Philadelphia. Writing MIDDLEMEN: Literary Agents & the Making of American Fiction (April ‘26).
laurabmcgrath.substack.com
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
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.
BookRiot.com
Join us on Patreon for premium content: patreon.com/bookriotpodcast
A free e-newsletter from Publishers Weekly that reports on children's and YA books. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/9Ubz9L
Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
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
Editor-in-Chief, Pantheon Books. Is this place a toxic snake pit yet? Asking for a friend . . .
Work at Publishers Lunch. Writing at NYTBR, Washington Post, LitHub, Slate, Longreads, etc.
KatyHershberger.com
associate editor @harperbooks + @harperperennial • not here but views still very much my own • he/him 🫠
ezrakupor.com 🙂↕️
https://galleybrag.substack.com 🙂↔️
Dr. Poet | www.annazum.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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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.
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
🪶 Cheyenne & Arapaho
📥 Editor at Counterpoint Press
📚 NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT series
👤 Rep: Rachel Letofsky
shanehawk.com
The premier literary website focused on debut and emerging writers. There’s also a podcast sometimes. Founded by Adam Vitcavage.
Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/
We send free books and provide educational opportunities to people incarcerated in Appalachia. 📖 https://appalachianprisonbookproject.org
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 | 🏳️🌈
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
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.)
Nonprofit press publishing new and extraordinary voices from the American South. Learn more at hubcity.org/publishing. Shop our catalog at hubcity.org/books.
Political non-fiction, world literature, social justice children’s books, and other works of the radical imagination ✨
sevenstories.com
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.
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.)
Poet, writer, photographer. MFA U. of Alaska Fairbanks. Author of FAMILY HAUNTS (Louisiana Literature Press). Wigleaf Top 50 2024. Best Microfiction 2024.
Latin-Appalachian, Medical Professional, Salsero, WVU, Steelers, Lakers & Liberal.
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
Nonprofit ED, PhD in English/Appalachian Studies, traditional musician and ballad singer, trying to be a gap-bridger.
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
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.
Poet, teacher, granny, over-educated hillbilly. Possum lover. Cancer survivor.
A global community of publishers whose mission is to ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge. #ReadUP! https://aupresses.org/ Got a question about university press publishing? #AskUP! https://ask.up.hcommons.org/
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
I'm an eastern Kentucky poet, writer, artist, etc.
In search of an audience and an agent.
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.
NYT Bestselling author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE. Atlanta born, Atlanta bred, when I die, I’ll be Atlanta dead.
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.
Writer, Editor, Recovering Academic. North Carolinian in Maine. Co-editor Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy; Author or Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film.
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
When I say writer, Siri hears rider
thejeremybjones.com
New book out in Sept: cipherthebook.com
In the NC mountains
Repped by Justin Brouckaert at Aevitascreative
assistant editor at Columbia UP | probably knitting | they/she | opinions are my own
Rambling poet, sometime photographer. Midwest is my forever home. Editor @ museum of americana. Creator of Poet Baseball Cards. Author, most recently, of O DEATH (Spartan Press 2024).
Editor-in-chief, Washington Independent Review of Books. Loser-in-chief, "Jeopardy!" season 39. "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever."
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
Founder & Literary Agent at Open Book Literary. Lapsed librarian. Rapacious reader. Wishful writer. She/her. Member of @scbwi & @aalitagents. http://www.openbooklit.com/
Author of two award-winning novels (The Say So and Over the Plain Houses). Still kayaking Southern rivers and sleeping on the ground.
Poet and memoirist. Published in Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. Whiting Award Winner and Guggenheim Fellow.
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
Raised by wolves who watched Reading Rainbow. Reader to the nth degree.📚 She/her. https://linktr.ee/LibertyHardy
Author MOTHER TONGUE, out 5.5.26
Also TRUE BIZ + GIRL AT WAR
🧏🏻 deafie | they/she/👉🏼 |📍Philly
https://buttondown.com/signs+wonders
https://linktr.ee/Novic
Literary Agent. YA Author as Sarah Nicolas. Queries Qualms & Quirks host. Disability in Publishing Board. 💛🤍💜🖤 linktr.ee/presidentsarah
Formerly the writer formerly known as Matthew Salesses
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
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.
Louisiana Poet Laureate 2017-19. Books from Mercer University Press. Work included in Best Microfiction and Best Spiritual Lit. EIC: @louisianalit.bsky.social
www.jackbbedell.com
Used & collectible books in Pittsburgh since 1984.
Hours Wed-Sun 11-5
Fuck Amazon. 📚💪🏻🧊
https://linktr.ee/citybookspgh
