David Wesley Williams
@davidwwilliams.bsky.social
Southern fiction writer out of Memphis. Novels COME AGAIN NO MORE (2025) and EVERYBODY KNOWS (2023), both JackLeg Press. Stories in Oxford American, Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. Fan of greyhounds, bourbon, coffee, jazz, typewriters.
New novel coming in 2027: 'The Coldwater Girl,' a Southern picaresque from Regal House! #southernlit #southernliterature #fiction #book #reading #regalhousepublishing
We're just delighted to have signed with David Wesley Williams to bring you his novel THE COLDWATER GIRL in the summer of 2027. Welcome, David, to #teamregalhouse! regalhousepublishing.com/david-wesley...
December 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
New novel coming in 2027: 'The Coldwater Girl,' a Southern picaresque from Regal House! #southernlit #southernliterature #fiction #book #reading #regalhousepublishing
This week on 'South Bound,' my Substack, imagining some lost kin of Flem and then. It's a Snopes family reunion. #snopes #snopesism #williamfaulkner #southernlit #southernliterature #yoknapatawpha #yoknapatawphacounty
Snopes family reunion
Some lost kin of Flem and them
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December 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This week on 'South Bound,' my Substack, imagining some lost kin of Flem and then. It's a Snopes family reunion. #snopes #snopesism #williamfaulkner #southernlit #southernliterature #yoknapatawpha #yoknapatawphacounty
Thrilled that my story "Southern Dogface" is a Pushcart nominee! #ponderreview #pushcartnominees #southernfiction #ivycoldwater
Congratulations and good luck to our Pushcart nominees!
Fiction
David Williams, "Southern Dogface," 9.1
Rachel Talbot, "Night Park", 9.1
CNF
Scott Ortolano, "The Days," 9.1
Rob Rogers, “Morning Coffee,” 9.2
Poetry
Xioaly Li, "Making Dumplings"9.2
Bridget Brush, "I Wish I Were a Turtle," 9.2
Fiction
David Williams, "Southern Dogface," 9.1
Rachel Talbot, "Night Park", 9.1
CNF
Scott Ortolano, "The Days," 9.1
Rob Rogers, “Morning Coffee,” 9.2
Poetry
Xioaly Li, "Making Dumplings"9.2
Bridget Brush, "I Wish I Were a Turtle," 9.2
December 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Thrilled that my story "Southern Dogface" is a Pushcart nominee! #ponderreview #pushcartnominees #southernfiction #ivycoldwater
Happy Thanksgiving from Memphis.
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from Memphis.
A little haul from the antique mall. Five bucks each. The clerk asked if Willy and Mink DeVille were related.
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
A little haul from the antique mall. Five bucks each. The clerk asked if Willy and Mink DeVille were related.
My new novel, COME AGAIN NO MORE, is out today. From Chapter 16's review: "This book is melancholy, hysterical, and ultimately full of grace, a requiem played in twelve-bar blues." Order from the usual places, but consider my Memphis local, Burke's Book Store. (See link below.) 📚
Ink-Stained Elegy
In Come Again No More, David Wesley Williams resurrects the spirit of a dying newsroom with the lyrical gusto of a man both mourning and celebrating his first …
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November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
My new novel, COME AGAIN NO MORE, is out today. From Chapter 16's review: "This book is melancholy, hysterical, and ultimately full of grace, a requiem played in twelve-bar blues." Order from the usual places, but consider my Memphis local, Burke's Book Store. (See link below.) 📚
Barb, aka @greyhoundfanatic.bsky.social, off to her volunteer gig at the Memphis Public Library used-book store. #readbannedbooks
October 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Barb, aka @greyhoundfanatic.bsky.social, off to her volunteer gig at the Memphis Public Library used-book store. #readbannedbooks
8th best album of 1978. #pereubu #themoderndance
September 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
8th best album of 1978. #pereubu #themoderndance
RIP to our fifth and final greyhound, the singular Hunter. #greyhound
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September 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
RIP to our fifth and final greyhound, the singular Hunter. #greyhound
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Hunter says good night, all. #greyhound
September 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Hunter says good night, all. #greyhound
In this week's Substack, those old devil blues... #deltablues #robertjohnson #mississippidelta #skipjames #charleypatton #southernlit 📚
Me and the devil
For Robert Johnson and them
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August 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
In this week's Substack, those old devil blues... #deltablues #robertjohnson #mississippidelta #skipjames #charleypatton #southernlit 📚
A video for my forthcoming novel from @jacklegpress.bsky.social, available for preorder (signed copy! $18 paperback!) from Burke's Book Store in advance of Nov. 10 publication: www.burkesbooks.com/pages/books/... #southernfiction #books 📚 #newspapers #southernlit #burkesbookstore
Ah, ink: from COME AGAIN NO MORE (JackLeg Press), a novel by David Wesley Williams
YouTube video by David Wesley Williams
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August 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A video for my forthcoming novel from @jacklegpress.bsky.social, available for preorder (signed copy! $18 paperback!) from Burke's Book Store in advance of Nov. 10 publication: www.burkesbooks.com/pages/books/... #southernfiction #books 📚 #newspapers #southernlit #burkesbookstore
Good dog, mostly. Interesting, always. #greyhound
August 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Good dog, mostly. Interesting, always. #greyhound
Hunter the greyhound in his weird glory. #greyhound
July 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Hunter the greyhound in his weird glory. #greyhound
Today on Substack: That time John Prine made a record with Sam Phillips' sons (with a little help from Sam) in Memphis. Some critics didn't get it. It was a sublime ruckus and still is. Read, share, subscribe (it's free!) #johnprine #memphis #samphillips #pinkcadillac
Bluff City Ruckus: John Prine in Memphis, 1979
A folkie’s wild ride with Sam Phillips & Sons in a pink Cadillac
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July 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Today on Substack: That time John Prine made a record with Sam Phillips' sons (with a little help from Sam) in Memphis. Some critics didn't get it. It was a sublime ruckus and still is. Read, share, subscribe (it's free!) #johnprine #memphis #samphillips #pinkcadillac
Still life with napping greyhound and snack dish. #greyhound
July 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Still life with napping greyhound and snack dish. #greyhound
This week's Substack: Robert Johnson at the polo grounds. Robert Johnson, polka hound. Robert Johnson, blue yodeler. Oh, and Robert Johnson, Delta blues singer. Read, share, subscribe -- it's free! #robertjohnson #mississippidelta #mississippideltablues #blues #crossroads
Robert Johnson at the polo grounds
The devil, the Delta, and Dixie Peach pomade
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July 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This week's Substack: Robert Johnson at the polo grounds. Robert Johnson, polka hound. Robert Johnson, blue yodeler. Oh, and Robert Johnson, Delta blues singer. Read, share, subscribe -- it's free! #robertjohnson #mississippidelta #mississippideltablues #blues #crossroads
Catfish vs. greyhound. Catfish by a whisker or greyhound by a nose? It's the greyhound! #newsport #greyhoundsmakegreatracers #greyhound
July 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Catfish vs. greyhound. Catfish by a whisker or greyhound by a nose? It's the greyhound! #newsport #greyhoundsmakegreatracers #greyhound
My copies of COME AGAIN NO MORE, my newspaper novel from @jacklegpress.bsky.social, have arrived. You can preorder in advance of Nov. 10 publication. bookshop.org/p/books/come... #preordernovel #southernlit #📚
July 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
My copies of COME AGAIN NO MORE, my newspaper novel from @jacklegpress.bsky.social, have arrived. You can preorder in advance of Nov. 10 publication. bookshop.org/p/books/come... #preordernovel #southernlit #📚
Excerpt from COME AGAIN NO MORE, my newspaper novel from @jacklegpress.bsky.social. Available for preorder in advance of Nov. 10 publication. #fiction #fictionbooks #fictionwriter #novel #southernwriter #jacklegpress #newspapers #southernlit #southernfiction #burkesbookstore #preordernovel 📚
Ode to a desk rat: an excerpt from my newspaper novel COME AGAIN NO MORE
A tip of the newsboy cap to one of the fictional fallen
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July 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Excerpt from COME AGAIN NO MORE, my newspaper novel from @jacklegpress.bsky.social. Available for preorder in advance of Nov. 10 publication. #fiction #fictionbooks #fictionwriter #novel #southernwriter #jacklegpress #newspapers #southernlit #southernfiction #burkesbookstore #preordernovel 📚
I wrote an essay about pitching literary fiction in an age when the average book in this country sells 100 copies, across all size presses. #books #SupportIndieBookstores #bookpreorder #southernliterature #southernlit #newspaper #jacklegpress #burkesbookstore #bookrecommendations #booklovers 📚
Cold beer here
Or: How to pitch literary fiction in a world where the average book sells 100 copies
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July 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I wrote an essay about pitching literary fiction in an age when the average book in this country sells 100 copies, across all size presses. #books #SupportIndieBookstores #bookpreorder #southernliterature #southernlit #newspaper #jacklegpress #burkesbookstore #bookrecommendations #booklovers 📚