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Fiction by Tracy Barrett & Alison Bertolini

Fiction by Tracy Barrett & Alison Bertolini

Tracy Barrett and Alison Bertolini are friends and colleagues at North Dakota State University. A peripatetic historian of Texan descent, Tracy acquired her eye for the absurd at the knee of her grandfather, a repository for generations of clan lore. She currently resides in North Dakota with her family and

Novella by Steve Wick

Novella by Steve Wick

Porchlight is proud to continue the American tradition of serialization by offering a novella, Mr. Wilson by Steve Wick. Following is the second installment. Steve Wick is a journalist and writer living on eastern Long Island. His stories about the last farm labor camp in the region ran as a

Fiction by Ken Teutsch

Fiction by Ken Teutsch

Ken Teutsch is a writer, performer, and filmmaker living in central Arkansas. His stories have appeared in anthologies and in such diverse publications as Mystery Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, and Cowboy Jamboree. He also records music in the guise of perennially failed country music “star,” Rudy Terwilliger. Snakebit What’s

Poetry by Gene Hyde

Poetry by Gene Hyde

Gene Hyde's eastern North Carolina roots go back more than ten generations. He fell in love with the North Carolina mountains five decades ago and has lived in the Appalachians most of his adult life. In 2024 he retired after a career as an Appalachian archivist and academic

Fiction by Eli Allen

Fiction by Eli Allen

Eli Allen is a writer from rural Mississippi who is currently pursuing his MFA at the University of San Francisco. His writing is interested in the types of characters, stories, and oddities that are unique to the Deep South. Ronnie’s Blues or Why Ronnie Boo Is in Jail Ronnie

Poetry by E.J. Wade

Poetry by E.J. Wade

E.J. Wade is an educator and poet whose writing focuses on the silencing, exclusion, and invisibility of African American Women and their narratives. A five-time Pushcart Award nominee and Literary Editor of the Anthology of Appalachian Writers, she is a member of Chicago’s Goodman Theater’s GeNarration

Fiction by Dwight Hinson

Fiction by Dwight Hinson

Dwight Hinson says, “My grandfather and my mother were both storytellers. When I was a kid, I used to soak up all that stuff like a sponge. I guess it marinated in me through adulthood. Finally, in retirement, I had the time to get it all out. I’d always

Fiction by Christie Harper

Fiction by Christie Harper

Christie Harper is an English professor, writer, and storyteller drawn to the quiet, complicated moments that shape who we become. Her work often blends humor and heart, exploring family, memory, and the unexpected ways life unravels and reassembles itself. Influenced by her Southern roots, she is especially interested in voice,

Poetry by Carol Parris Krauss

Poetry by Carol Parris Krauss

Carol Parris Krauss is honored to have published poetry in Louisiana Lit, ൪uartet, the Arkansas Review, Salvation South, Eclectica, One Art, Story South, The South Carolina Review, and the Mid/South Sonnet Anthology, among others. Fernwood Press published her full-length book, Mountain.Memory.Marsh, in November of 2025. Carol

Fiction by Brian Longacre

Fiction by Brian Longacre

Brian Longacre is many things, but the letters of “Brian Longacre,” even the big ones, have little to do with who he is. He is rather short and soft in the middle, but that's not really who he is. He is a husband, father, brother, and son, and

Fiction by Chaz Lilly

Fiction by Chaz Lilly

Chaz Lilly is a writer who has rambled from Georgia to Texas, down through the Louisiana Delta, and up into the mountains of Western North Carolina. He is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of Arkansas. His work has appeared in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The

Poetry by Micah Wingard

Poetry by Micah Wingard

Micah Wingard is a South Carolina-based emerging writer with a BA in English and an MA in Communication. She works in an academic library, where she spends her days in close proximity to scholarship, curiosity, and the many ways people search for and shape meaning through research. Outside of

Fiction by Steve Wick

Fiction by Steve Wick

Porchlight is proud to continue the American tradition of serialization by offering a novella, Mr. Wilson by Steve Wick, in monthly installments, beginning with this edition. Steve Wick is a journalist and writer living on eastern Long Island. His stories about the last farm labor camp in the region ran

Fiction by Sheldon Lee Compton

Fiction by Sheldon Lee Compton

Sheldon Lee Compton is the author of twelve books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His novel, Oblivion Angels, is currently nominated for the Chaffin Award for Fiction, and the Independent Fiction Alliance named his novel, Alice, a best book of the year. His work has also been published in Best

Poetry by Sarah Small

Poetry by Sarah Small

Sarah Cummins Small, originally from the Finger Lakes region of New York, lives in Alcoa, Tennessee, at the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. Her poetry has appeared in Salvation South, Appalachia Bare, Cider Press Review, Smokies Life Journal, and Willawaw Journal, among others, as well as in the anthologies Breathing

Fiction by Richard Alley

Fiction by Richard Alley

Richard J. Alley is the author of novels Five Night Stand (2015) and Amelia Thorn (2020), and a contributing author of the anthology Memphis Noir (2015). His work has appeared in Oxford American, Memphis magazine, and a number of other periodicals. A speechwriter and editor, he lives in Memphis. Freight

Poetry by Josey Wallace

Poetry by Josey Wallace

Josey Wallace is a student, stagehand, writer, and musician who lives in Winterville, Georgia and attends the University of Georgia. Her poetry uses form to explore the world of things and the process of thought in an effort to make "the report that only the poets can make"

Fiction by Jack Wills

Fiction by Jack Wills

Jack Wills is a physician living in LA. He’s a lifelong fan of the literature of the American South and is currently working on completion of a collection of short stories. “Blind Willie” is his debut literary publication. His free time is spent reading, exercising, enjoying jazz of the

Prose by Sheema Holmes

Prose by Sheema Holmes

Sheema Holmes tells speculative stories, always questioning whether the present truly exists and to what extent it can be trusted. She often draws inspiration from Black Americana and her ties to the Chesapeake Bay region. Sheema is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing from American University. Sway Sweetbay House

Poetry by Ian Hall

Poetry by Ian Hall

Porchlight congratulates Ian Hall on the publication of his first book, Creekwater Mansions, just released by EastOver Press, and is proud to publish here three poems from that collection. Ron Rash, author of Serena and The Risen, and a Porchlight contributor, said, "The poems in Creekwater Mansions are big-

Poetry by Dana Wildsmith

Poetry by Dana Wildsmith

Dana Wildsmith is the author of six books of poetry, with a new collection, Good Ghosts, forthcoming in 2026. Wildsmith’s novel, Jumping, examines border issues through the lives of characters based on her interviews with immigrants who entered the U.S. without documentation. Her environmental memoir, Back to Abnormal,

Fiction by Eldridge Thomas & Chester Needham

Fiction by Eldridge Thomas & Chester Needham

Eldridge Thomas III lives and writes in Knoxville, Tennessee, but he’s from a swamp in Deep South Georgia. He can be reached at eldridgethomas3@gmail.com. A Minnesota native, Chester Needham fiddles strings and carves words in East Tennessee when he’s not chasing waterfalls or music. Peacock Street

Poetry by Steve Lambert

Poetry by Steve Lambert

Steve Lambert was born in Louisiana and grew up in Florida. His writing has appeared in Saw Palm, Tampa Review, Trampoline Poetry, Louisiana Literature, New World Writing, The Pinch, Broad River Review, Cortland Review, and many other places. In 2018 he won Emrys Journal’s Nancy Dew Taylor Poetry Prize

Poetry by Sara Shea

Poetry by Sara Shea

Sara Shea received her BA from Kenyon College, where she served as Student Associate Editor for The Kenyon Review. She's pursued graduate studies through the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC Asheville and at Western Carolina University, where she studied with Ron Rash. Her work has appeared in

Fiction by Michael Loyd Gray

Fiction by Michael Loyd Gray

Michael Loyd Gray is the author of eight published books of fiction and more than sixty published short stories. His novella, Busted Flat, winner of a Literary Titan Gold Award and finalist for an Eric Hoffer Award, was released in October 2024. Gray's novella, Donovan’s Revolution, winner