William Burtch
@williamburtch.bsky.social
Writer. Coauthor of award-winning biography “W.G.” (Sunbury). “Otherwise Wretched” 2025 (Catamount) Finalist American Fiction Short Story Award. Second-Rounder Austin Film Festival. Authors Guild.
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William Burtch
@williamburtch.bsky.social
· Jan 27
Wow, that feeling when authors you respect really get your work! Thank you so much @meaganlucas.bsky.social and @joeyhedger.bsky.social for these incredible blurbs for Otherwise Wretched coming in March! (Catamount Press)
Free holiday shipping from my publisher www.sunburypress.com! Pick up my debut collection Otherwise Wretched and many other great titles!
November 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Free holiday shipping from my publisher www.sunburypress.com! Pick up my debut collection Otherwise Wretched and many other great titles!
When you find your story collection beside Hanif Abdurraqib on the shelf it’s a good day. Thank you Blue Couch Bookshop!
October 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
When you find your story collection beside Hanif Abdurraqib on the shelf it’s a good day. Thank you Blue Couch Bookshop!
Super honored for my debut collection Otherwise Wretched to be selected for the Grand Lake Literature Festival in March 2026 in Celina, OH. Hope to see you there!
October 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Super honored for my debut collection Otherwise Wretched to be selected for the Grand Lake Literature Festival in March 2026 in Celina, OH. Hope to see you there!
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Added My Ardent Love for the Pencil and @renbolger.bsky.social’s forthcoming (but copies now in our possession) novel The Barre Incidents to the t-shirt bundle. Barre won’t be signed but it is discounted in the bundle.
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Two Books and a T-Shirt — Malarkey
Use code POSTOFFICE to get free shipping. For $50 you get two books and a t-shirt. That’s $16.67 each with free shipping. We tried to price this bundle at $45 but we would have been clearing about $1 ...
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August 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Added My Ardent Love for the Pencil and @renbolger.bsky.social’s forthcoming (but copies now in our possession) novel The Barre Incidents to the t-shirt bundle. Barre won’t be signed but it is discounted in the bundle.
malarkeybooks.com/store/twoboo...
malarkeybooks.com/store/twoboo...
“…sterling, startling language…these are hard-hitting, reflective literary works.” - Midwest Book Review
“…gruesomely saturnine and comic.” - Kirkus Reviews
“…gruesomely saturnine and comic.” - Kirkus Reviews
August 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“…sterling, startling language…these are hard-hitting, reflective literary works.” - Midwest Book Review
“…gruesomely saturnine and comic.” - Kirkus Reviews
“…gruesomely saturnine and comic.” - Kirkus Reviews
Scanning through the B’s at Prologue Bookshop. Never gets old.
August 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Scanning through the B’s at Prologue Bookshop. Never gets old.
Only 5 days left for 20% off Otherwise Wretched direct from Sunbury Press using code HEMINGWAY Get some!
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Otherwise Wretched: Stories
The backdrops for these tales are sparse rural lands, from the Alleghenies to the deserts of the West. Farmers, gangsters, meth cookers, miners, cafe workers, lovers, and dreamers. And the animals tha...
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July 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Only 5 days left for 20% off Otherwise Wretched direct from Sunbury Press using code HEMINGWAY Get some!
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Read my piece about trying to find Malört in Washington, DC, in @havehashad.com today!!! So thrilled and grateful to be included. www.havehashad.com/hadposts/her...
Her Jesus Year by Joey Hedger
She likes a themed party, so I am on Capitol Hill looking for a bottle of Malört from the only place in the city that sells it while she makes hotdogs and frozen deep dish she got at Safeway. She boug...
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July 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Read my piece about trying to find Malört in Washington, DC, in @havehashad.com today!!! So thrilled and grateful to be included. www.havehashad.com/hadposts/her...
Thank you Miamian for the shoutout for Otherwise Wretched!
July 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Thank you Miamian for the shoutout for Otherwise Wretched!
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New fiction in @mrbullbull.bsky.social today! I’ve been a fan of the journal for years, so it’s an honor to have a story here. Adlai the Last returns for a new gig—with a special guest?
"Cal suggested that his children should meet a 'true American hero,' and maybe John Hinckley Jr. would gift them a guitar pick they could bring to show-and-tell." - Zachary Kocanda mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
May 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
New fiction in @mrbullbull.bsky.social today! I’ve been a fan of the journal for years, so it’s an honor to have a story here. Adlai the Last returns for a new gig—with a special guest?
Hey here’s a chance to save 20% the new collection OTHERWISE WRETCHED by buying direct from a great indie publisher using code HEMINGWAY. Many of these stories 1st appeared in favorites such as @gonelawn.bsky.social @mrbullbull.bsky.social and more. Checkout it out at www.sunburypress.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Hey here’s a chance to save 20% the new collection OTHERWISE WRETCHED by buying direct from a great indie publisher using code HEMINGWAY. Many of these stories 1st appeared in favorites such as @gonelawn.bsky.social @mrbullbull.bsky.social and more. Checkout it out at www.sunburypress.com
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social looks out for its supporters! (And their books and journal are damn fine) Thank you!
June 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social looks out for its supporters! (And their books and journal are damn fine) Thank you!
Big congrats to the top award and finalists for the International Book Awards Short Story Category! Excited to be a finalist for Otherwise Wretched!
June 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Big congrats to the top award and finalists for the International Book Awards Short Story Category! Excited to be a finalist for Otherwise Wretched!
One more day folks for all author royalties from Otherwise Wretched: Stories to go to @columbushumane.bsky.social! Found 3 copies at Prologue Bookshop in Columbus. Also available at @bookshop.org ! Get you some!
May 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
One more day folks for all author royalties from Otherwise Wretched: Stories to go to @columbushumane.bsky.social! Found 3 copies at Prologue Bookshop in Columbus. Also available at @bookshop.org ! Get you some!
Came across this signed copy of Bitter Knowledge by the late Jack Matthews today in a used bookstore. Simple prose loaded with nuance and depth. Haven’t set it down. @ohiounivpress.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Came across this signed copy of Bitter Knowledge by the late Jack Matthews today in a used bookstore. Simple prose loaded with nuance and depth. Haven’t set it down. @ohiounivpress.bsky.social
Reminder that all author royalties for Otherwise Wretched in the month of May go to @columbushumane.bsky.social ! Let’s get pets and books into more hands!
May 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Reminder that all author royalties for Otherwise Wretched in the month of May go to @columbushumane.bsky.social ! Let’s get pets and books into more hands!
Last night reminded me of why we all do this. Family, friends and book lovers (not an empty seat!) at a welcoming indie book store, the amazing Prologue Bookshop in Columbus. A great discussion of Otherwise Wretched! Thank you!
May 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Last night reminded me of why we all do this. Family, friends and book lovers (not an empty seat!) at a welcoming indie book store, the amazing Prologue Bookshop in Columbus. A great discussion of Otherwise Wretched! Thank you!
Honored to donate full month of May author royalties from Otherwise Wretched to Columbus Humane. A wonderful organization. A theme of this collection is the intersection of the animal-world and humans during difficult circumstances for both.
April 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Honored to donate full month of May author royalties from Otherwise Wretched to Columbus Humane. A wonderful organization. A theme of this collection is the intersection of the animal-world and humans during difficult circumstances for both.
These amazing authors blurbed Otherwise Wretched (Thank You!) Pick up their latest with free shipping today at @bookshop.org! @meaganlucas.bsky.social @joeyhedger.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
These amazing authors blurbed Otherwise Wretched (Thank You!) Pick up their latest with free shipping today at @bookshop.org! @meaganlucas.bsky.social @joeyhedger.bsky.social
Celebrate Indie Bookstore Day Saturday by supporting our small independent presses! It took an indie press (Catamount) to take a flier on this one. Rural and raw wrapped in truth. Love me some small presses!
April 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Celebrate Indie Bookstore Day Saturday by supporting our small independent presses! It took an indie press (Catamount) to take a flier on this one. Rural and raw wrapped in truth. Love me some small presses!
Lots of questions about the role of animals in Otherwise Wretched. Think the intersection of humans and animals during some wretched times. An homage to the animals among us.
April 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Lots of questions about the role of animals in Otherwise Wretched. Think the intersection of humans and animals during some wretched times. An homage to the animals among us.
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Next Session: Fridays, April 11th-May 09
Session 1: 10:00-11:15 am EST
Session 2 3:00-4:15 pm EST
1 spot for session 1; 4 spots left for session 2
More info at my website!
Cost: $20 per session or $85 when paying for the full 5 weeks
Session 1: 10:00-11:15 am EST
Session 2 3:00-4:15 pm EST
1 spot for session 1; 4 spots left for session 2
More info at my website!
Cost: $20 per session or $85 when paying for the full 5 weeks
April 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Next Session: Fridays, April 11th-May 09
Session 1: 10:00-11:15 am EST
Session 2 3:00-4:15 pm EST
1 spot for session 1; 4 spots left for session 2
More info at my website!
Cost: $20 per session or $85 when paying for the full 5 weeks
Session 1: 10:00-11:15 am EST
Session 2 3:00-4:15 pm EST
1 spot for session 1; 4 spots left for session 2
More info at my website!
Cost: $20 per session or $85 when paying for the full 5 weeks
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Heating up! Join us!
2 New Zoom class opportunities!
4/22 100 word stories 1-2:30 EST
5/21 Flash Club Sample-Generative 10-12 EST
Let me know if you want to be added to either class! More info on my w*bs*t* or DM me!
4/22 100 word stories 1-2:30 EST
5/21 Flash Club Sample-Generative 10-12 EST
Let me know if you want to be added to either class! More info on my w*bs*t* or DM me!
April 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Heating up! Join us!
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One week! If you're in the area, I hope you can make it! This will be my first time in Columbus!
Come out for @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social and I in Columbus on 4/17.
Author Talk with Tommy Dean In Conversation with Darren C. Demaree
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April 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
One week! If you're in the area, I hope you can make it! This will be my first time in Columbus!
Prologue Bookshop in Columbus is on it! @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Prologue Bookshop in Columbus is on it! @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social