Kendra Winchester
@kdwinchester.bsky.social
Contributing Editor Book Riot | Founder @readappalachia.bsky.social | Cofounder @littlebirdslit.bsky.social | she/her
This is so horrific and infuriating and exhausting. Stop using AI.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2w agoNew from 404 Media: a company is selling tons of old books specifically to AI companies and says they have a strong NDA to never reveal which AI company bought all of the books. They don't want headlines of 'we scanned and destroyed millions of books for AI' www.404media.co/ai-companies...
✨NEW EPISODE!✨ In our second installment of our conversations series, @wesblake.bsky.social and Em J Parsley discuss the process of writing novellas, why they're drawn to short fiction, and the books that inspired them. Have a listen! www.readappalachia.com/blog/ep-56-c...
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✨NEW EPISODE✨ In our latest episode, @kdwinchester.bsky.social talks to Kentucky author Kayla Rae Whitaker, the author of RETURNS AND EXCHANGES. Have a listen wherever you get your podcasts! 🎧 www.readappalachia.com/blog/ep-55-k...
Ep. 55 | Kayla Rae Whitaker: Returns and Exchanges — Read Appalachia
In this episodes of Read Appalachia, Kendra Winchester talks to Kayla Rae Whitaker about her new novel Returns and Exchanges .
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This week, we’re getting to know the Little Birds team. Next, up Davis Shoulders!
✨NEW EPISODE!✨ In the season premiere of Read Appalachia, @kdwinchester.bsky.social talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jayne Anne Phillips about her new memoir SMALL TOWN GIRLS. Have a listen! 🎧 www.readappalachia.com/blog/ep-53-j...
What are you currently reading? (Doesn’t have to be Appalachian.) I’m just finishing up PYTHON’S KISS by Louise Erdrich. I’ve never read Erdrich’s short fiction before, and—my goodness—she has such range!
Ahh! @kdwinchester.bsky.social of @readappalachia.bsky.social has a story in Owning It!
Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal@booksforkeeps.bsky.social · 4mo agoIBBY UK has revealed the books submitted for consideration for the 2027 Outstanding Books For Young People With Disabilities. Record submissions and publishers making 'thoughtful progress' in this area. @ibbyuk.bsky.social #booksky booksforkeeps.co.uk/2027-submiss...
IBBY UK has revealed the books submitted for consideration for the 2027 Outstanding Books For Young People With Disabilities. Record submissions and publishers making 'thoughtful progress' in this area. @ibbyuk.bsky.social #booksky booksforkeeps.co.uk/2027-submiss...
I’m moving every book in my house that I haven’t read to my living room to start sorting what stays and what goes to the used bookstore. Hundreds of books. How do I decide?? 😭
Look what just arrived from @minotaurbooks.bsky.social! I loved THE WITCH’S ORCHARD. Hard to believe it’s already time for book two. 😍
Summer reading season will be here before you know it. I have VERY large TBR planned, but here a few of the Appalachian books I have planned to read soon. What books are on your seasonal TBR?
The r-word is also showing up in some of the popular new fiction that I’m reading. 😤 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
The ‘R-Word’ Returns, Dismaying Those Who Fought to Oust It
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The world is a dumpster fire, but at least we have Corgis. 💙
Over on @bookriot.bsky.social, I wrote about Hilary Mantel's posthumous essay collection A MEMOIR OF MY FORMER SELF. She writes about a little bit of everything in these essays, but I found myself drawn to her pieces about living with endometriosis.
Join us for an evening here at the bookshop with Hub City Writers Project's Winter Intensive instructors, Emma Copley Eisenberg and Martha Park. Both authors will read and sign their books. This event is open to the public. RSVP via our Eventbrite! www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-si...
Dylan couldn’t be more excited for his most anticipated book of the year. A huge thank you to @groveatlantic.bsky.social for sending him this delightful book mail. 📖
Happy Friday my Corg librarian and his useless intern 🤓
First book of the year! Can’t wait to read the latest novel from one of my favorite authors.
In the 2025 season finale of the podcast, @kdwinchester.bsky.social talks with @silashouse.bsky.social about his debut poetry collection ALL THESE GHOSTS and his debut murder mystery DEAD MAN BLUES. Have a listen! 🎧 www.readappalachia.com/blog/ep-52-s...
Ep. 52 | Silas House — Read Appalachia
Kendra Winchester talks to Silas House, the former Poet Laureate of Kentucky and author of Dead Man Blues and All These Ghosts .
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NEW PODCAST EPISODE! In today’s episode @kdwinchester.bsky.social talks to @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social about his new poetry collection THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN’S WIFE. Have a listen! www.readappalachia.com/blog/ep-51-u...
Ep. 51 | Poetry Corner: upfromsumdirt — Read Appalachia
In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by upfromsumdirt.
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