Wes Blake

Wes Blake’s novella-in-flash, Pineville Trace, won the Etchings Press Book Prize and was published in September 2024 by the University of Indianapolis' Etchings Press . Lee Martin, author of Pulitzer Prize Finalist The Bright Forever, described him as "a writer to watch". In his SmokeLong Quarterly Review, A W Earl described his prose as "sparse and simple, whose short, almost broken, sentences sing with enormous power." His fiction and essays have appeared in Louisiana Literature Journal, Eletric Literature, JMWW, Blood & Bourbon, Book of Matches, Jelly Bucket, White Wall Review, and elsewhere. Wes’ novel, Antenna, was a semifinalist for the UNO Press Lab Prize. He holds an MFA from the Bluegrass Writers Studio and lives in Kentucky.