Journals

Fiction & Creative Nonfiction

Untelling: The Literary & Arts Magazine of Hindman Settlement School. “To Bury” (Issue 4) Winter 2025.

Porchlight: A Journal of Southern Literature. “Hit the Road” (Issue 3) Fall 2025.

StorySouth. “Hazelgreen” (Issue 58) Fall 2024.

Book of Matches. “Pineville State” (Issue 10) January 2024.

Blood & Bourbon. “Ward’s Landing” (Issue 7: Begin Again) 2021.

White Wall Review. “Joyland” (Issue 50) 2021.

Adelaide Literary Magazine. “Shepard’s Haunt” (Number 43) December 2020.

Arkansan Review. “Traces of a Piano Player” (Online) Fall 2020.

Level: Deep South. “A Summer, A Fall” (Online) 2020.

Shark Reef. “Pastoral” (Issue 30) 2017.

Route 7 Review. “Antenna” (Issue 5) 2017.

Louisiana Literature Journal. “A Sort of Miracle” (Issue 34.1) 2016.


Reviews, Interviews, & Articles

Appalachian Journal. Wes Blake on Five Oaks by Julie Hensley. (Issue: vol. 53, no. 3) Spring 2026.

Flash Fiction Writing Tips: Penned by Masterful Flash Writers from around the Globe.Edited by Karen Schauber. (Paperback) 2026.

Southern Review of Books. “Secrets, Sisters, and Grasping the Past: An Interview with Julie Hensley by Wes Blake” (Online) December 2025.

Los Angeles Review. “Flashes of Intimacy” “Wes Blake reviews Rebecca Fishow’s How to Love A BlackHole.” (Online) July 2025.

Electric Literature. “8 Brilliant Flash Fiction Books That Pack a Quick Punch” (Online) September 2024.

Largehearted Boy. “Wes Blake’s Playlist for his Novella-in-Flash, Pineville Trace” (Online) September 2024.

 JMWW. How to Write a Novella-In-Flash” (Online) July 2024.

Book DNA. “The Best Books that Capture How It Feels to be an Outsider” (Online) September 2024.

Fiction Southeast.“Chuck Klosterman Talks About Writing: An Interview” (Online) 2020.

Jelly Bucket. “An Interview with Lee Martin” (Number 7) 2018.