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.