Wes Blake, Southern Literary Fiction Writer

“A man escapes from prison only to find he can’t separate himself from his past. Wes Blake renders the tale with great empathy and in language that’s so lyrical it practically lifts from the page. Blake is a writer to watch.”

—Pulitzer Prize Finalist Author Lee Martin

“Blake’s atmospheric prose will pull readers into Frank’s resigned fatalism, and Pineville Trace serves as the incisive, elegiac odyssey of a confidence man who has lost his sense of spiritual direction.”

—Publishers Weekly

“This was an utterly compelling read. Blake’s prose is sparse and simple, whose short, almost broken, sentences sing with enormous power.”

—SmokeLong Quarterly

“Blake’s writing provides a contemporary case-study on artful, effective minimalism. The effect is an introspective, haunting tale that remains with us.”

—Heavy Feather Review