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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hey friends! Next Wednesday, thanks to Erica Abrams Locklear and UNCA, Nico Zegre and I will be talking about Appalachian Flooding in Fact and Fiction! It's free, but you need to register at this link: www.unca.edu/event/appala...

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Looking forward to presenting virtually today at the Western Literature Association's conference on land management practices in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms.

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Asheville area friends! Check out this amazing event hosted by UNCA and facilitated by the indefatigable Erica Abrams Locklear. I can't wait to be in conversation with Dr. Nico Zegre (and the audience). Come if you can (and please register first)!

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Come grab a pint and listen to some poetry! Tomorrow night I'll be reading from 6-7 at The Blind Elk Tap Room as part of the Appalachians on Tap series hosted by Lees-McRae's Stephenson Center for Appalachian Studies. A HUGE thank you to Catherine Pritchard Childress for making this happen!

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Hey friends! If you missed the Sheila-Na-Gig reading to introduce Disposable to the world, you can check it out on YouTube: youtu.be/HxqlsGCPZPM?...

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Author copies arrived today! And pre-orders are open until June 15, so head on over to Sheila-Na-Gig to get discounted pricing. sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-...

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

My spouse on my lack of brevity in writing (and life, really): "You're like the Grateful Dead of academia. Here, listen to this 25-minute guitar solo, except that solo is a footnote." 🤣 I can put "Grateful Dead of academia" on my business cards, right?

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I'm beyond thrilled to contribute to @reckonreview.bsky.social as a Wind & Root columnist. Many thanks to @meaganlucas.bsky.social and Charlotte Smith Hamrick for this opportunity! reckonreview.com/chronically-...

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CHRONICALLY WRITING: Making Time to Write with Chronic Illness | by Jessica Cory – Reckon Review

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Hey friends, I just learned that the upcoming print issue of North Carolina Literary Review with a special section on NC military writing is in press and will be out next month.

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Big news, friends! My new chapbook, Disposable, is now available for pre-order from Sheila-Na-Gig editions! HUGE thanks to Hayley Mitchell Haugen for her support and to Julia WD Harrison for the phenomenal cover art. sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-...

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Coming Soon! Disposableby Jessica CoryISBN: 9781962405805$14.00 (+ $4.63 US Shipping) PRE-ORDER DISCOUNT: $11.20 ($4.63 Shipping)through June 15. Please check your SHIPPING ADDRESS on PayPal when p…

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I really wish Appalachian Journal and As the Crow Flies contributors (and potential contributors) could see the happy dances and hear the "oohs" and "ahhs" when I read y'all's work. Seriously. I'd post video, but I'd embarrass myself.

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Had such a fun time at the ETSU Literary Festival yesterday (which was also Earth Day--hooray)! So wonderful to hear amazing works by emerging student writers alongside Nickole Brown, Rose McLarney, and Juan Martinez!

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Look at this beautiful cover, friends! The spring edition of Appalachian Journal should be hitting mailboxes beginning next week.

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

📚Nonfiction reviews in Journal of Appalachian Studies 31.2: @jessicascory.bsky.social reviews "Reading, Writing, and Queer Survival." Plus, reviews of "Hillbilly Highway" (@princetonupress.bsky.social), "No Son of Mine," and "Troublesome Rising." scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jas/issu...

Cover of Journal of Appalachian Studies, Volume 31, Number 2, Fall 2025
Silhouette of a tree on a hill in front of a cloudy sky, blue background

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I'm thrilled to have a chapter, “Violence against the Land is Violence against the People: Land Management Tactics in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms" included in this exciting volume edited by Jada Ach and Kristen Brown. Pre-orders are open now with a June 2026 release. www.routledge.com/Redefining-L...

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Redefining Land Management in North American Literature and Culture: From Resource to Reciprocity

Exploring the ongoing histories of human-centered ecosystem management in the lands and waters that comprise what is now known as North America, this book tracks the diverse ways in which human-enviro...

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Friends and colleagues in Native and Indigenous lit, the fantastic English Dept at App State is hiring: english.appstate.edu/news/we-are-...

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We Are Hiring an Assistant Professor of North American Indigenous Literatures

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

SUPER thankful to the brilliant Brian Railsback for editing a special issue of AmLit on American Literatures, Living and Dying in the Anthropocene: Responses in Contemporary Literature from the Western Hemisphere,

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Friends and neighbors, As the Crow Flies, the open-access expansion of Appalachian Journal, is now live if you wanna go take a peek: as-the-crow-flies.pubpub.org

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As the Crow Flies

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The husband and kiddo have birthdays next week, so today we're heading to Scarowinds to celebrate. In related news, I just saw the tracking update that my CBD-infused arthritis salve is also arriving today. #perfecttiming

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I had a blast talking with @thejeremybjones.bsky.social about his new book, Cipher, with @blairpub.bsky.social. A huge thanks to Jeremy and @reckonreview.bsky.social for putting this conversation out into the world!

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Appalachian Journal readers, check this out!

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Why, yes, I did just write an angry version of "This Is Just to Say" to the squirrels who cleared our entire peach tree before I could can a single one.

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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · 25/07/2025

In a landmark case brought by the sinking Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, the ICJ’s 15 judges decided unanimously that governments have a legal duty to protect the climate.

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World's top court opens door to compensation from countries responsible for climate crisis

International Court of Justice rules that governments have a legal duty to prevent and repair damage to the climate system

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Excited to attend the launch of the NC Poetry Society's 2025-26 Poetry in Plain Sight Program in Durham today! My poem "Ode to the Pill Bug" will be featured in May.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 08/03/2025

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The daily CO2 number from Mauna Loa exceeded 430 ppm yesterday. This is the first reading above 430 ever recorded. CO2 levels have not been this high since the Pliocene epoch, 3 to 5 million years ago.

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Thought I heard a car door slam outside. Nope, just this furry beast jumping the 14 inches from lounger to floor.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/03/2025

🎶 Working 8 to 6, but they call you after hours Barely gettin’ by, lots of crying in the shower You might prequalify, won’t even hurt your credit Ran out of sick days--well, I hope y'all don’t catch it 🎶

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Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” Adjusted for Late-Stage Capitalism

In case you need help with the tune. - - -Come in on a Sunday? You’ve gotta be jokin’ Christmas bonus was a car wash token Startin’ to think our sy...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2025

The House budget reconciliation framework that cuts $1 trillion from Medicaid has just passed. They are literally taking from the sick and poor to give the rich tax cuts.

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Looking forward to leading a breakout session on providing feedback to writers at the NC College Media Association's conference in Boone today!

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Y'all, I just got the printed proofs back for Appalachian Journal's first-ever full-color issue focusing on Appalachian visual art and it's GORGEOUS!

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

As someone who has participated in clinical trials as a patient, this move is extremely reckless and unethical.

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The country may be in crisis (yet again), but the garlic I planted in November is coming up and the songbirds are returning.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/02/2025

I can't emphasize enough how disastrous the NIH cuts will be. If implemented as proposed, it could decimate universities and college towns. And it could mean every one of us in the US and around the world will experience shorter and less healthy lives.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

From the Chronice of Higher Ed's daily newsletter email. The first ICE arrest on a college campus happened at Spokane Community College yesterday. The Chronicle, however, is here to tell us that in "the bigger picture," it's no big deal, even if "the loudest voices" say it is.

The bigger picture: A new era of on-campus immigration enforcement is no longer an abstraction. But with about 400,000 undocumented students enrolled in U.S. colleges, much remains unclear. A single arrest reported in a parking lot is not the same thing as frequent sweeps through the quad, no matter how much the loudest voices might want to equate the two.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A reporter directly asked Trump press secretary if disabled people still have a place in federal jobs and whether they still have protections. Her answer? “We will be taking a common sense approach” Please stand with disabled people. Fight for us to maintain jobs, accessibility & the ADA

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

As a North Carolinian, this is some much- needed good news.

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I'm excited to share that my article "‘We are of One Ecology’: How Indigenous Pacific Islander Poetics Map Anthropogenic Climate Change" has been published in a special issue of Comparative American Studies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MSJ93...

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‘We are of One Ecology’: How Indigenous Pacific Islander Poetics Map Anthropogenic Climate Change

While activists, scientists and even politicians have sounded the alarm regarding anthropocentrically-fueled climate change for decades, there is still cause for hope. Indigenous peoples, particula...

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Submissions are open at Polaris Literary Magazine (Sept 1st through Feb 1st) the national undergrad lit mag from Ohio Northern University. We accept fiction, poetry, non-fiction and visual art, and give cash prizes in each genre! Tell your students to submit! polarisliterarymagazine.com

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Appalachian Learning Initiative @appli.org · 20/01/2025

#Winter has fully arrived in #Appalachia, and we're celebrating the entire season with books by #BlackAuthors and about #BlackAppalachia. Our #Winter2025 #ReadingList featuring works from Crystal Wilkinson, Alena Hairston, and bell hooks. www.appli.org/appli-... 1/2

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Ecology and Evolution @ecol-evol.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Call for papers for our special issue on Indigenous Science and Practice in Ecology and Evolution. Edited by @klymiuk.ca & @birdbiologist.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... / onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

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Introducing a new special section—Indigenous Science and Practice in Ecology and Evolution

Editorial introducing a new special issue in the journal.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

(1/5) King’s words in their full context are damning of our status quo–not shallow affirmations of some “color blind” society. “First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the...

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Nathan Tanner @mnathantanner.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

For the nerds: exciting changes/additions to the 18th ed. include explicit inclusion of and guidance for the use of Indigenous languages. It also includes specific acknowledgement of and (IMO) more respectful treatment of Indigenous sources of knowledge—e.g., oral history / stories. #histed #writing

The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition.

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