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.
Coffin Bell. “Tunnel” (Volume 7, Issue No. 3) July 2023.
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 Black Hole.” (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.
Shepherd. “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.