Wes Blake

Wes Blake’s fiction and essays have appeared in Louisiana Literature Journal, Blood & Bourbon, Book of Matches, Jelly Bucket, White Wall Review, and elsewhere. Lee Martin, author of the Pulitzer Prize Finalist, The Bright Forever, described him as “a writer to watch”. His novel, Antenna, was a semifinalist for the UNO Press Lab Prize, and his novella-in-flash, Pineville Trace, won the Etchings Press Book Prize at the University of Indianapolis and is published with Etchings Press in September of 2024. He holds an MFA from the Bluegrass Writers Studio and lives in Kentucky. See more at www.wesblake.com.