Writing resources should be readily available, easy to find, and connected. This site is dedicated to fostering community around Kentucky writing and KY writers.
This site only just started and is constantly updating. Please head to the Contact page and share Kentucky writing-related news, organizations, events, blogs, zines, independent journalism, etcetera with us and we’ll (do our best to) make sure it gets printed where it’ll be most helpful to people.
Helpful Resources
These are manually curated lists, designed to help you find exactly what you need. I will update it regularly, so if you’d like to see more of something, please contact us.
All Resources
Organizations
- 8th Circle Press
- Accents Publishing
- Apex Book Company
- Blah, blah, blah writers’ group
- Broadstone Books
- Carmichael’s Bookstore
- Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning
- Creative Writing MFA at Spalding
- Creative Writing MFA at UK
- Fabled Forest
- Friends of the Lexington Public Library
- Hill Writers Collective
- James Baker Hall Foundation
- Jessamine County Public Library
- Jesse Stuart Foundation
- Joseph-Beth Booksellers
- Kentucky Black Writers Collaborative (KBWC)
- Kentucky Humanities
- Kentucky State Poetry Society
- Leeds Center for the Arts
- Lexington Fiction Writers’ Group
- Lexington Public Library
- Lexington Writer’s Room
- Louisville Book Festival
- Louisville Literary Arts
- National Public Radio (NPR)
- Plaid Elephant Books
- Spalding University
- The Affrilachian Poets
- Thomas More University
- Transylvania University
- University of Kentucky
- Voices Amplified
- West Sixth Brewing
- Workhorse
- WUKY
Events
- BKE @ BK’s Cookies
- Books in Progress Conference
- Burn the Mic
- Caden Blincoe Outloud Festival
- halftone zine fest
- Hill Writers Reading Series
- Kenan Lecture Series
- Kentucky Book Festival
- Kentucky Great Writers Series
- Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
- KSPS Featured Reading + Open Mic Series
- Lexington Poetry Month
- Lexington Writing Group
- Louisville Book Festival
- Marksbury Writers Group
- Monthly Writers Meet-ups with Louisville Literary Arts
- Poetry Gauntlet
- Teen Howl Poetry Series
- The Horse’s Mouth Storytelling NightÂ
- Voices Amp’d Cabaret Series
About
This site was started by Bronson O’Quinn, a Lexington, Kentucky writer who was frustrated at the lack of community resources, so he figured he was part of the problem and began gathering them himself.
The domain and hosting is provided by Workhorse.