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Joshua Sharpe

@joshuasharpe.bsky.social
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Investigative reporter. Wrote THE MAN NO ONE BELIEVED (WW Norton, summer 2025). Type Media Center Fellow, 2025. Knight-Wallace Feller, 23-24. Livingston Award winner. Detroit based.

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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The paperback for “The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders” is officially out next week and I just got a box in the mail! wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Thanks for the nod! And thanks for Saturday Evening Post for picking up my essay on women who love someone behind bars. www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/08/its-...
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It’s Lonely When You Love Someone in Prison | The Saturday Evening Post
Moms, grandmothers, wives, and sisters support incarcerated people. But who supports them?
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Please share the word y’all.
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I’m so grateful to tell you about these women.
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Type Media Center @typemediacenter.org · 18/05/2026
Moms, Grandmothers, Wives, and Sisters Support Incarcerated People. But Who Supports Them? Type Media Center Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social for Zocalo @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social: www.zocalopublicsquare.org/lonely-when-...
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It’s Lonely When You Love Someone in Prison | Essay
Moms, Grandmothers, Wives, and Sisters Support Incarcerated People. But Who Supports Them?
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A big update on my @thenewyorktimesrss.newsmast.social.ap.brid.gy story about Jessie Askew Jr. and prosecutor Kelly Burke. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/m...
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He Was Supposed to Die in Prison, but the Prosecutor Felt Guilty
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Long Days and Pleasant Nights @pleasant-nights.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The Man No One Believed review #TheManNoOneBelieved @joshuasharpe.bsky.social #books #reading #booksky #truecrime
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
How great it was to be on Undisclosed pod to talk Dennis Perry and Temujin Kensu's cases and the horrific errors by police and prosecutors in both. Check it out!
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Colin Miller @evidenceprof.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The investigative efforts of Undisclosed & @joshuasharpe.bsky.social helped free Dennis Perry & lead to the arrest of alternate suspect Erik Sparre for the murders of Thelma & Harold Swain. In tomorrow's new episode, we talk to Joshua about his book about the case.
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Type Media Center @typemediacenter.org · 15/12/2025
"She was set to give birth as a Georgia prisoner, again. Terrified, she asked a nonprofit for help." Type Media Center fellow @joshuasharpe.bsky.social for @georgiarecorder.com: georgiarecorder.com/2025/12/15/s...
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She was set to give birth as a Georgia prisoner, again. Terrified, she asked a nonprofit for help. • Georgia Recorder
Walking into court, Danielle Edwards thought she might have a chance to get her daughter back—someday.  She’d given birth to Lily two years earlier as a state prisoner, and the relative who’d cared fo...
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
If you don’t know what keeps a lot of women in cycles of incarceration, this woman story will explain it profoundly.
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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
omg josh has so many good stories that need publishing TELL US
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Today is my birthday, and for my birthday, I would like to know the names of editors who are taking pitches related to criminal justice.
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Type Media Center @typemediacenter.org · 25/09/2025
Type Media Center Fellow @joshuasharpe.bsky.social was interviewed about his new book, The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders, by @crimereads.bsky.social: crimereads.com/joshua-sharp...
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Joshua Sharpe on the Four Decade Quest to Catch the Killer of a Black Couple in Southern Georgia
Over the past 20 years, ruthless cutbacks have devastated once robust investigative teams at newspapers nationwide. Joshua Sharpe’s new book reminds us why this kind of reporting is so vital. Build…
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Kathleen @jerseygirlbooks.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
5⭐ @joshuasharpe.bsky.social @bookofthemonth.bsky.social #TrueCrime #BOTM #Bookly #BookBlogger #BookSky
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Kathleen @jerseygirlbooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Currently Reading @joshuasharpe.bsky.social @bookofthemonth.bsky.social #TrueCrime #BOTM #BookBlogger #BookSky www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
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The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgi…
“Only very rarely does one of our stories—one of us—cha…
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Type Media Center @typemediacenter.org · 14/08/2025
Type Media Center Fellow @joshuasharpe.bsky.social's new book, "The Man No One Believed," was chosen as a Book of the Month: www.bookofthemonth.com/all-hardcove...
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The Man No One Believed by Joshua Sharpe
The true story of a grisly murder, the man falsely accused of the crime, and the journalist fighting to set him free.
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Thanks to Lit Hub for publishing this excerpt from “The Man No One Believed”!
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Mitchell Northam @northam67.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Yall go buy @joshuasharpe.bsky.social’s new book!
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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
It's pub day for my buddy @joshuasharpe.bsky.social and his incredible book THE MAN NO ONE BELIEVED ... I did a Q&A with him about his reporting process, freeing innocent people from prison, and the magic of the pedal steel. tommytomlinson.substack.com/p/pub-day-jo...
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Pub Day: Joshua Sharpe, THE MAN NO ONE BELIEVED
Today we’re starting a new occasional feature here on the Shed.
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Avalon Free Public Library @avalonlibrary.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
It's the last month of Summer Reading Season & we rounded up 19 of the week's best new #books, ft. Francesca Serritella, Louis Sachar, Jason Mott, Sarah Pekkanen, David Levithan, @marthabarnette.bsky.social, @oliviawrites.bsky.social, @peteramescarlin.bsky.social, @joshuasharpe.bsky.social, & more!
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Best New Books: Week of 8/5/25
Francesca Serritella, Louis Sachar, Sarah Pekkanen, Jason Mott, David Levithan, Scott Anderson, Danielle Valentine, and more.
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
DETROIT BOOK LAUNCH, PLS COME! www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
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Book Launch: The Man No One Believed
Celebrate the release of Investigative Journalist Joshua Sharpe's debut book: THE MAN NO ONE BELIEVED. Reading and Conversation. Free.
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
My dear friend Josh Sharpe’s debut book got a glowing review in the Post today. “‘The Man No One Believed’ inspires powerful, mixed emotions: fury at the failings of the justice system, and gratitude for organizations like the Georgia Innocence Project and indefatigable journalists like Sharpe.”
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Review | ‘The Man No One Believed’ recounts a shocking murder and delayed justice
Joshua Sharpe’s book is about the killing of a Black couple in 1985 at a Georgia church and the wrongful conviction that eventually resulted.
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W. W. Norton & Company @wwnorton.com · 29/07/2025
Read an excerpt of THE MAN NO ONE BELIEVED and learn more about the author @joshuasharpe.bsky.social in this piece from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: www.ajc.com/arts-enterta...
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Georgia author explores injustice in the justice system
Former AJC reporter who discovered evidence that helped free Dennis Perry recounts the wrongful conviction case in new book.
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is out with a lovely story on….ME?! www.ajc.com/arts-enterta...
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Georgia author explores injustice in the justice system
Former AJC reporter who discovered evidence that helped free Dennis Perry recounts the wrongful conviction case in new book.
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 29/07/2025
I'm so lucky--I get to read this ahead of the pub date! The Man No One Believed, by @joshuasharpe.bsky.social, is about a 1985 double homicide in a South Georgia church that and the long investigation to find the killer. Stay tuned for my ArtsATL review in the next few weeks!
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The Man No One Believed
“Only very rarely does one of our stories—one of us—change the course of human events. Joshua Sharpe asked the right questions, refusing easy answers.” —Anna Quindlen, Pu...
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
We're in the final day of an emergency fundraising campaign at @wunc.org (due to the pulling of federal funding). We need the support of North Carolinians now more than ever. And that's why I'm asking Bill Belichick, once again, to become a sustaining member, at any level. www.wunc.org/donate
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WUNC Recurring Gift - North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC
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Ben Natan @thebennatan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The great @hurwitz.bsky.social reports that ICE is using Canary Mission to build a database of pro-Palestine activists to target for harassment, detainment, and deportation. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How a shadowy online blacklist became a legal threat to pro-Palestinian activists
“Are you familiar with the Canary?”
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Thanks to @gardenandgun.com for putting “The Man No Believed” alongside these amazing authors and their new/coming soon books! “Sharpe…practices Journalism with a capital J.”
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Coming Aug. 5. So soon!
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Just three days left in the Goodreads giveaway for my upcoming book. www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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Book giveaway for The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders by Joshua Sharpe Apr 18-May 18, 2025
Enter to win one of 30 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Apr 18-May 18, 2025. The riveting story of a 1985 double murder, a long-overdue investi...
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Today I was at a stoplight in Detroit and someone in the backseat of the SUV in front of me cracked the door and placed onto the pavement, a single yellow marshmallow peep, closing the door. When the light turned, they drove away.
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
So honored by the advanced praise for “The Man No One Believed: the Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders”:
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I got the first copies of advanced readers for my first book, "The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders." It comes out Aug. 5 and details the murders of Harold and Thelma Swain in their historic Black church—40 years ago this week—and the still unfolding aftermath.
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“The Chewa people of Malawi created this mask of Elvis Presley, called ‘Elvisi,’ as a tool to warn young people about the undesirable Western values he, and other American celebrities, represented.”
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
My story is on the front of the New York Times today. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u...
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
If DNA testing were just available — especially to people convicted before the late 1990s/early 2000s when DNA became more widely used in prosecutions — how many horror stories would be confirmed?
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Sarah Smith @sarahesmith23.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
This #longread is about a man who worked a death-row case 20 years ago as a detective and now, as a United Methodist minister, believes he got it wrong. Mostly, it's about certainty. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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He helped put Robert Roberson on death row. Now, he thinks he got it wrong.
An ex-Texas detective says he got Robert Roberson's death row case wrong. As a minister, he wants to make it right.
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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
we have a ***free*** newsletter about criminal justice and frankly its GREAT!!!!! sign up hereeeeeeeee
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
a painful story about prosecutorial regret for putting a nonviolent small-time offender away forever — this should be mandated reading for anyone working as a prosecutor or judge in our cruelly punitive system www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u... bsky.app
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A Georgia Prosecutor Has Long Regretted Sending a Man Away for Life. Can He Fix It?
Weakened by cancer and nagged by his conscience, a former Georgia prosecutor wants the courts to reverse the sentence he demanded for a man who didn’t physically harm anyone in his crimes.
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
What a frustrating, sad story— with a big slice of the blame going to Askew's two incompetent lawyers: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u...
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A Georgia Prosecutor Has Long Regretted Sending a Man Away for Life. Can He Fix It?
Weakened by cancer and nagged by his conscience, a former Georgia prosecutor wants the courts to reverse the sentence he demanded for a man who didn’t physically harm anyone in his crimes.
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
My latest, out today in the New York Times, is a rare story: A prisoner—representing himself in court—calls his witness: the prosecutor who unfairly put him away for life without parole. The prosecutor admits he was wrong. Will it matter? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u...
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A Georgia Prosecutor Has Long Regretted Sending a Man Away for Life. Can He Fix It? (Gift Article)
Weakened by cancer and nagged by his conscience, a former Georgia prosecutor wants the courts to reverse the sentence he demanded for a man who didn’t physically harm anyone in his crimes.
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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
My caption didn’t make it but….yall really, really have to read this.
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
I’ve been in Detroit for one hour.
A an incredible spread of Lebanese food
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Joshua Sharpe @joshuasharpe.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
I’m on Bluesky.
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