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Well what the heck is a
jelly bucket?

It’s an archaic slang term for a lunch pail, formerly used by coal miners and other laborers residing in Appalachia.

You've found your personal jelly bucket; a great place to fuel your literary interests. Jelly Bucket is the place to for book reviews, author interviews and insightful stories all curated by our staff and MFA students of the Bluegrass Writers Studio. 

Meet Nathan Spoon

Meet Nathan Spoon

We welcome Nathan Spoon as Jelly Bucket's guest editor for issue 14's special section, Neurodivergent Voices.

Nathan Spoon is an autistic poet with learning disabilities. The author of The Importance of Being Feeble-Minded (Nine Mile Books, 2023), his poems and essays appear in Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry, Poetry Daily, The Southern Review, and swamp pink, as well as the anthologies The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays, How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, Mid/South Sonnets: A Belle Point Press Anthology, and The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal. He is editor of Queerly and an ally of timemedicine.org.

Meet Issue #14 Staff

Meet Issue #14 Staff

Issue #13 is out in the world!

Issue #13 is out in the world!