Brad King — Author + Editor

The short version is that I’m a writer originally from a small town in northern Appalachia. The longer story is:

Writing

I’ve been a professional writer since 1995. Throughout my career, I’ve written hundreds of feature stories and hard news pieces for daily and weekly newspapers, daily news websites, and national magazines.

  • Wired
  • Wired.com
  • Business 2.0
  • The Hollywood Reporter
  • Daily Variety
  • Yahoo!
  • MIT’s Technology Review
  • The Oakland Tribune
  • The Austin Chronicle
  • Cincinnati Magazine

Affiliations

  • PEN America (2017 – )
  • The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (2016 – )
  • South by Southwest Interactive Programming Board (2002 – )
    • SXSW Start Up Accelerator Host and Judge 2009-2015

Previous Advisory Board Work

  • F+W’s StoryWorld Conference
  • Carmel Arts Council
  • Indiana Writers Center

Other Writing Things

In 2013, I raised $11,000 on Kickstarter to write So Far Appalachia: A Story of Family, a Forgotten People, and Rural America, a memoir of my family’s life in Appalachia. It will be out…eventually.

I founded The Geeky Press, a writers collective. I’ve edited, or worked as an editor, on the publishing projects we’ve run: Bad Jobs & Bullshit: It’s Unlikely We Will Be Missed (2016), Dear America: Reflections about Race (2017), and HoosierLit Vol. 1 + 2 (2017) literary magazine.