Novelist (WHEN SHE LEFT, most recent), sometimes reviewer at Wash Post, runs Crime Fiction Works (the greatest newsletter in crime fiction history, everyone says so). Under a lot of pressure here.
Author: San Diego Stories @cowboyjamboree, A Question of Family @Stanchion
Husband. Dad. Math Prof. Mentor. Fiction Editor @thetwinbill.
francoisbereaud.com
Describing myself through essays, short stories, and an occasional novel @ cemckenna.com
Puja Guha books take readers into the world of spies, secret missions, and powerful people. As one of the top thriller authors in USA, her work stands among the best thrillers of all time.
https://linktr.ee/chriswunderkind
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Crime/Spec/Lit
Stories published at BULL, Rock and a Hard Place, Shotgun Honey, and others
Raymondjbrash.work
A small-press independent publisher delivering crime, noir, and dark fiction chronicling bad decisions and desperate people.
Full-time crime thriller and horror author. Drinker of bourbon
Former JAG.
I do not suffer fools lightly. It’s a feature, not a bug.
I can tell you the truth, but I can’t understand it for you.
Former Bookseller / Writer / Editor of Vautrin.
MARVELOUS FREAKS OF NATURE! - out Oct 2026 from Cornerstone Press
Repped by lgr literary
https://open.substack.com/pub/alysonmosqueradutemple
www.alysondutemple.com
Writer-ish, reader, observer, struggling creator, New Orleanian
Managing Editor: @reckonreview.bsky.social
Founding Editor SugarSugarSalt Lit Magazine
https://linktr.ee/charhamrick
Author: SONG OF THE RED SQUIRE ✷ HARD MOUNTAIN CLAY ✷ WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN ✷ THE COLD DARK FOREVER (2026) ✷ 2X Derringer Award winner #crimefiction #noir #santacruz
https://lnk.bio/cw_blackwell_writer
Writer (novel BONDAGE, stories various). Vicambulist. Somnambulist. Planet of the Apesist. Daydreamer extraordinaire.
Associate Agent at FinePrint Lit. Founder Gate City Writers Workshop: https://gatecitywritersworkshop.com
2021 Pen/Robert J Dau Prize| Clarion West NWW ‘26| 2022 Best American Essays Notable | 9-5 biotechie I🇲🇽🇺🇸 | repped by Justin Brouckaert | work in TSR, AQR |opinions are mine alone
Based in Fairbanks, AK
https://hcaruffo.com/
Books and such
https://malarkeybooks.com/
Anthony Award winner. Author of BURYING THE NEWSPAPER MAN.
WAVES OF BURDEN coming June 2026.
Member of Sisters in Crime, MWA.
he/him
https://curtisippolito.com
Writer from Seattle. Featured in Best American Mystery and Suspense, and other mystery/crime publications.
https://johnbosworth.net
Writer, reader, editor, teacher. I swear like a sailor (don’t tell the children).
TV writer and producer. Author. LOVE, COFFEE, & REVOLUTION with Blackstone Publishing June 2025. #pile
Detective novel WAIT THERE TILL YOU HEAR FROM ME (Crescent City Books 2025), stories around the internet and magazines. Working musician, editor for hire.
Lambda and Goldie Award winning author of crime and mystery novels and short stories.
Crime fiction writer. World traveler. Athlete. Former blonde.
Since 1832, we have connected readers to their next favorite book or author. marinerbooks.com
Words in Wigleaf Top 50, Bending Genres, Cincinnati Review, Gone Lawn, Milk Candy, New Ohio Review, Pithead Chapel
Reader, Fractured Lit.
Nominated Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, BOTN.
Award-winning chapbook, Good Mother Lizard.
writer, yoga therapist, Bowie fan | asst cnf editor Pithead Chapel | Best Microfiction nom | Pushcart Prize nom | BOTN nom | wigleaf LL | stage NED | ope
Writing: www.esfletcher.com
Author of the USA TODAY bestseller THE GIRLS IN THE STILT HOUSE and THE RIVER KNOWS YOUR NAME. Lover of trees, mountains, and rivers. kellymustian.com
North Carolina based writer. Mostly books, writing and Tottenham. I’m very bad at social media.
https://www.philipkimbrough.com/
Nebula, Aurora, WFA finalist, Ignyte Co Founder
"SKIN THIEF STORIES" Neon Hemlock. COUNTESS out now ECW Press. Goth, plant grower, music enthusiast. She/They, Queer, 🇹🇹 🇨🇦 rep by Michael Curry. Banner: Matt Griffin
suzanpalumbo.carrd.co
Krista D. Ball is an award winning Canadian author who hasn't met a potato she didn't like.
Krista's motto: don't let the randos steal your joy. She posts on reddit: she's been called worse by better than you.
kristadball.com for books, contact, etc.
Ottawa realtor, retired lawyer, mystery author, small publisher, level 6 boxer, doctorate in Indigenous law, Have a TV-watching dog. www.reboundpress.com!
Snare drummer: Blue Knights and New Orleans Saints
I also read more books than you
Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
A literary small press on the OK-AR border: Stick around and read
Instagram, Facebook, Substack.
https://linktr.ee/bellepointpress
Writer. Fiction editor at Identity Theory. Anchored (Feb. 2025, Belle Point Press). Traveling Alone (Oct. 2025, Cowboy Jamboree Press).
https://www.katygoforth.com/
https://bellepointpress.com/products/anchored
Writer, Shamus Award finalist, amateur painter, attorney, toddler wrangler rep'd by @lizaroyceagency
Books: WHAT MEETS THE EYE, BURN THIS NIGHT
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New York Times bestselling author and co-owner of Floodplain Books in Wilmington NC. Just trying to make art in a world aflame.
Dad, Soldier, Attorney General for North Carolina
Canadian. Award-winning, bestselling novelist (brentvans.com), Husband. Dad. Son. Resister of fascism. Deconstructed/Reconstructing Christian. Forge FC supporter. Human. He/Him.
Fiction Writer: HELLIONS, THE WILDS, THE NEW AND IMPROVED ROMIE FUTCH (Tin House Books) http://www.juliaelliott.net/
Chief writer-connector at NC Writers’ Network, author of FIGHT SONGS & more, not as grumpy as I look.
Proud Arkansan. Writer of novels and poems.
www.danrussellwrites.com
Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Writer | Editor at Lit Hub & CrimeReads || PhD from Columbia in 19th-early 20th c literature & entertainment | Other work in Vanity Fair, Lapham's Quarterly, Vulture, the Baffler, LARB, BWDR, etc. | Repped by Chris Calhoun | she/her
Publisher of exceedingly good crime fiction. Atlantic Crime is an imprint of Grove Atlantic.
Senior Editor at Atlantic Crime, an imprint of Grove Atlantic. Thoughts are my own.
Novelist and short story writer. New novel, ONE OF US, due out Sept. 23, 2025
Signed/personalized copies of my books here: https://www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon
Pittsburgh based artist and educator.
www.christineholtz.com and www.christineholtzstudio.com
A Woman’s Guide to True Crime available: https://boswellbooks.com/book/9798993883656 She/her. rep’d by Lori Galvin at Aevitas Creative. Aggressive UWM Stan. Panther Pride.
Florida-based teacher and writer. Author of BOMB ISLAND and THE ALIENS WILL COME TO GEORGIA FIRST.
Chicago person. Nonfiction books with Penguin Random House. Journalism in Esquire, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, elsewhere. Fiction in some hip spots. 2023 Hugh Holton award winner. Medium tall.
Horror author and disgraced paranormal investigator. Latest: my children's book A Haunted Holiday and my horror novella Never Leaving!
https://linktr.ee/elfordalley
Poet • Writer • Excitable Boy • Words in well-lighted places • Noms Pushcart BOTN Best Small Fictions Best Microfiction Wigleaf 50
More words @ toddclaystuart.com
writer | editor | PhD, UNC Chapel Hill | 🏳️🌈
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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Formerly at Raleigh (NC) News & Observer, now scribe for hire at various places. https://loseringbook.wordpress.com.
A traditional House, with imprints Fitzroy Books, House of Kel, and Pact Press and nonprofit Regal House Initiative, committed to the publication of finely crafted literature.
Illinois’s favorite son.
zacharykocanda.com
seattle-based writer re-entering the fray
words in Penn Review I Los Angeles Review I LEON I Gone Lawn I Flash Frog I *Wigleaf Top 50*
https://kelleclarkecreative.com/
Author living in Alexandria, VA | Deliver Thy Pigs (Malarkey Books) | stories in HAD, Bull, Islandia Journal, and more | he/him
www.joeyhedger.com
Unfiltered and mouthy. Having a blast reading and reviewing as many books as my brain will hold. IG@fullybookedinkentucky
dedicated to rewriting modern masculinity since 2009
@thedrevlow.bsky.social EIC
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
Author of the novel SWAPPING PURPLES FOR YELLOWS and of the collection DUNBAR’S FOLLY AND OTHER STORIES. High school English teacher and Fiction Editor for Orison Books.
Half-assed author of novels. Full-assed wanderer of woods. Born looking lonesome, on’ry, and mean. Also, I fucking cuss a lot.
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: THE PRETTIEST STAR (Hub City 2020), THE EVENING HOUR (Bloomsbury 2012)
www.cartersickels.com
Ohio Poet Laureate, 9th Generation Appalachian, Photographer, Author of DIRT SONGS and ALONE IN THE HOUSE OF MY HEART, featured in World Literature Today and American Book Review
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
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.
Writer.
Learner.
Appalachian.
Friend.
I am a tree scientist and botanist writing about relationships between trees and humans including climate change. A Fulbright Scholar, Author of Venerable Trees and more books in progress. Read about trees here: https://ourtrees.substack.com.
senior acquisitions editor at university press of kentucky | formerly wvu press | she/her
https://www.kentuckypress.com/appalachian-futures-black-native-and-queer-voices/
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.
Contributing Editor Book Riot | Founder @readappalachia.bsky.social | Formerly Reading Women | Forthcoming Appalachian Disability Anthology from UP of KY | she/her
Award Winning Horror Author and Grits Enthusiast-AVL, NC. Someone on Threads called me the Temu Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
andrewkclark.com. HWA member.
Reckon with what needs reckoning.
Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Canadian in the South 🍁
Happy to be on your podcast, etc!
www.megireid.com
Editor, reader, liberal southerner
Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Novels, short story collections, and YA fiction published by Norton, St. Martin’s, and Penguin/Dutton. New work forthcoming from Regal House. NEA Fellowship. Repped by @jennaschmenna.bsky.social Bradbarkley.com
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
Writer. Teacher. Cyclist (esp. MTB). Eastern Band Cherokee citizen. WNC. Appalachia.
poet & nyeusiphile.
poetry collections: Deifying A Total Darkness; To Emit Teal; The Second Stop Is Jupiter; & The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife
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Co-Host of the highly touted award winning popular podcast, Paper Cuts. Published writer. Whiskey enthusiast. Horrible gamer. Proud Gen-X'er. Great hair.
Author of HORSE GIRL FEVER, THE RED-HEADED PILGRIM & CULT OF LORETTA. Co-founder & fiction editor: @poolpartymag.com. Married to @femmeintheory.bsky.social
Author of novels HOW TO BE SAFE and THE YOUNG WIDOWER'S HANDBOOK, and essay collection IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE.
Co-host of Book Fight! podcast (RIP). @Barrelhouse.bsky.social NF Editor. Rutgers-Camden MFA faculty. South Jersey.
Tom.mcallister.ws
Folklorist & writer | MAKING OUR FUTURE: VISIONARY FOLKLORE & EVERYDAY CULTURE IN APPALACHIA (UNC Press 2022) | @spinstersounds.bsky.social co-owner | @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social podcast |
Writer of humorous mysteries. Knitter of hats. Drinker of tea. Amateur curler. Social butterfly. Gen-X. Rep’d by Abby Saul of the Lark Group.
Check out my Silver Falchion-nominated novel Her Dying Day.
Author, editor, poet | Queer, trans, she/her | LGBTQ+ advocate | BOOKS: Born a Ramblin’ Man (Shotgun Honey), Transcendent Love (JKP Books) | Occasionally a pink cat named Princess | Opinions mine | leegarrett.net
Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me!
https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
Writer, Librarian, Jerseyan ✍🏻 Baltimore Review, Hunger Mountain, X-R-A-Y, Lost Balloon, Tahoma Literary Review, Flash Frog, Passages North. Soon in OSU The Journal, The Bulb Region | BSF 2023
https://eileentomarchio.webnode.page/
