Barrelhouse
@barrelhouse.bsky.social
Proudly independent literary magazine & small press, established in 2004. Books + print issues + online issues + conferences + writing retreats + other stuff.
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@barrelhouse.bsky.social
· Feb 26
Cover reveal! Our newest book, FRONTIER, by Erica Stern, is both a memoir and a Wild West ghost story. Read more about it and pre-order here
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I'm reading submissions of short solstice writing for the next few days, so hold up your candles and walk into the woods.
We've just opened submissions on a brief call for short solstice writing. Let's see what happens!
Necessary Fiction - Winter Solstice: Points of Light
When the winter solstice approaches and days contract, I often return to seasonal rereads — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Nina MacLaughlin's Winter Solstice, essays by Kathleen Jamie, or the fictio...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I'm reading submissions of short solstice writing for the next few days, so hold up your candles and walk into the woods.
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You have one month left to submit to our 7th Annual STORY Foundation prize! Submissions are open through December 15th. The winner will be chosen by the incredible Deesha Philyaw.
Submit here: www.storymagazine.org/submissions/
Submit here: www.storymagazine.org/submissions/
November 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
You have one month left to submit to our 7th Annual STORY Foundation prize! Submissions are open through December 15th. The winner will be chosen by the incredible Deesha Philyaw.
Submit here: www.storymagazine.org/submissions/
Submit here: www.storymagazine.org/submissions/
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Well that's a lovely thing! I'm honored and grateful to @barrelhouse.bsky.social for publishing my essay, and for this nomination. www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/issue-2...
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Well that's a lovely thing! I'm honored and grateful to @barrelhouse.bsky.social for publishing my essay, and for this nomination. www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/issue-2...
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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In a couple of days I'm going to open a quick, experimental call for very short, solstitial submissions at @necessaryfiction.com, something I've wanted to do for the past couple of years but didn't quite get it together. Further details TK.
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
In a couple of days I'm going to open a quick, experimental call for very short, solstitial submissions at @necessaryfiction.com, something I've wanted to do for the past couple of years but didn't quite get it together. Further details TK.
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Our featured fiction for the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference is, um, my book ALIENS ATTACK! about an alien invasion and regular old quiet desperation, published by the mighty @masonjarpress.bsky.social! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Our featured fiction for the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference is, um, my book ALIENS ATTACK! about an alien invasion and regular old quiet desperation, published by the mighty @masonjarpress.bsky.social! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference
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Our featured nonfiction for the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in DC on 4/18/26 is FRONTIER: a memoir and a ghost story, by @ericarstern.bsky.social, published by your pals at Barrelhouse Books! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Our featured nonfiction for the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in DC on 4/18/26 is FRONTIER: a memoir and a ghost story, by @ericarstern.bsky.social, published by your pals at Barrelhouse Books! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference
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Our featured poetry book for the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in DC on 4/18/26 is BLUE OPENING by Chet'la Sebree, published by @tinhouse.bsky.social books! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Our featured poetry book for the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in DC on 4/18/26 is BLUE OPENING by Chet'la Sebree, published by @tinhouse.bsky.social books! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference
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We've got 3 featured books set for the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in DC on 4/18/26! For $95 you get the full day conference, a 10 minute 1-on-1 meeting with an editor, your choice of featured book, and more lit swag from our partner presses. A good deal! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference
The Barrelhouse Conference: Conversations and Connections, Practical Advice on Writing — Barrelhouse
Conversations and Connections is a one-day conference organized by Barrelhouse in person at American University in Washington, DC on April 18, 2026.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We've got 3 featured books set for the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in DC on 4/18/26! For $95 you get the full day conference, a 10 minute 1-on-1 meeting with an editor, your choice of featured book, and more lit swag from our partner presses. A good deal! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference
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CT & Tri-State friends, please join us!
Very much looking forward to this book talk with @writesloud.bsky.social in a few weeks!
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Very much looking forward to this book talk with @writesloud.bsky.social in a few weeks!
obodoserendipitybooks.com/event/2025-1...
November 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
CT & Tri-State friends, please join us!
Very much looking forward to this book talk with @writesloud.bsky.social in a few weeks!
obodoserendipitybooks.com/event/2025-1...
Very much looking forward to this book talk with @writesloud.bsky.social in a few weeks!
obodoserendipitybooks.com/event/2025-1...
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"Burning Down the Waffle House", a poem by Danny Caine
https://poems.com/poem/burning-down-the-waffle-house/
via @poetrydaily.bsky.social and @barrelhouse.bsky.social
https://poems.com/poem/burning-down-the-waffle-house/
via @poetrydaily.bsky.social and @barrelhouse.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"Burning Down the Waffle House", a poem by Danny Caine
https://poems.com/poem/burning-down-the-waffle-house/
via @poetrydaily.bsky.social and @barrelhouse.bsky.social
https://poems.com/poem/burning-down-the-waffle-house/
via @poetrydaily.bsky.social and @barrelhouse.bsky.social
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I’ll be reading an excerpt from a book I’m writing for @barrelhouse.bsky.social about shopping malls.
Come to @lukeoneil47.bsky.social’s book launch at the P&P tomorrow night! Great lineup featuring @sad13.horse and Cody Roggio. I’ll also be there.
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I’ll be reading an excerpt from a book I’m writing for @barrelhouse.bsky.social about shopping malls.
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This is Saturday in Mt. Airy. We're gonna hang at Tired Hands afterward. Come for one or both, maybe buy a book or two
I also have one more local event coming up, probably my last for a while, at Big Blue Marble in Mt. Airy.
October 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is Saturday in Mt. Airy. We're gonna hang at Tired Hands afterward. Come for one or both, maybe buy a book or two
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On Halloween, sharing one of my very favorite spooky pieces: @mcarphil.bsky.social’s “Final Girl Slumber Party” in @barrelhouse.bsky.social. Don’t miss this one!
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Final Girl Slumber Party, by Meghan Phillips — Barrelhouse
We don’t braid each other’s hair. Can’t stand the yank tug of the brush, the drag of bristles over scalp. Warm breath on the backs of our necks.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
On Halloween, sharing one of my very favorite spooky pieces: @mcarphil.bsky.social’s “Final Girl Slumber Party” in @barrelhouse.bsky.social. Don’t miss this one!
www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/f...
www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/f...
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It’s been some time since I’ve had a new poem out. This is a long one—a 10 part crown of not-sonnets that grapples with marriage, parenthood, aging, and climate tragedy.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It’s been some time since I’ve had a new poem out. This is a long one—a 10 part crown of not-sonnets that grapples with marriage, parenthood, aging, and climate tragedy.
g-ehr.com/poetry/summe...
g-ehr.com/poetry/summe...
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Excited and humbled to be heading to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts next week for a two-week residency, made super possible by the generous support of the Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship!!!
Christopher Gonzalez Named 2025 Recipient of VCCA’s Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship
This annual fellowship supports the residency of an LGBTQ+ writer working in any genre at VCCA’s artist retreat in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.
www.vcca.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Excited and humbled to be heading to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts next week for a two-week residency, made super possible by the generous support of the Steven Petrow and Julie Petrow-Cohen LGBTQ+ Fellowship!!!
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Yo writer types @barrelhouse.bsky.social is open for submissions for THE DIRTY ISSUE, an online issue being produced by @mikeingram.bsky.social's Writers at Work class at Temple University. Send us/them your dirty (not in that way) lil stories poems essays! www.barrelhousemag.com/submission-i...
October 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Yo writer types @barrelhouse.bsky.social is open for submissions for THE DIRTY ISSUE, an online issue being produced by @mikeingram.bsky.social's Writers at Work class at Temple University. Send us/them your dirty (not in that way) lil stories poems essays! www.barrelhousemag.com/submission-i...
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If you'd asked my five years ago what my wildest dream for AUGUST was, it would not have said "Tom $%&@ing Colicchio is going to read it, love it, and host a dinner in its honor at his restaurant," because that's not a dream, that's delusion.
And now here we are.
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And now here we are.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If you'd asked my five years ago what my wildest dream for AUGUST was, it would not have said "Tom $%&@ing Colicchio is going to read it, love it, and host a dinner in its honor at his restaurant," because that's not a dream, that's delusion.
And now here we are.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQXSY5E...
And now here we are.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQXSY5E...
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![Giving birth a second time (and, years later, a third), didn’t take away any of my love for my oldest son. In fact, it allowed me to separate him from the experience of his birth. I could leave that trauma, or at least the power it wielded over me, behind. It had taken another round to figure out what should have been obvious: the child was not the birth. I hugged them close—children who had arrived in different ways, but who were both very much mine.
[Family photo below]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qcgmjzw4ty77w5zk46mvg25x/bafkreiee6owdphjrzqgktkvjuk7qv4lyr4vn3trweoqa6vk437vlytgada@jpeg)
October 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Hey #ithaca #ithacany this is tomorrow! @tmcallister.bsky.social's new book is great, and we'll be in conversation about it, and about whatever else strikes your fancy
Hey I'm going to be in Ithaca talking IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE with @jrobertlennon.com in a couple weeks. Would be cool to see some of you there, assuming you, like me, live within a 4 hour drive
October 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Hey #ithaca #ithacany this is tomorrow! @tmcallister.bsky.social's new book is great, and we'll be in conversation about it, and about whatever else strikes your fancy
October 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:
“Burning Down the Waffle House” by Danny Caine from @barrelhouse.bsky.social, issue 25
Read here:
poems.com/poem/burning...
“Burning Down the Waffle House” by Danny Caine from @barrelhouse.bsky.social, issue 25
Read here:
poems.com/poem/burning...
Burning Down the Waffle House
where
is the line between a good tip
and a messiah complex?
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October 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Today’s Featured Poem:
“Burning Down the Waffle House” by Danny Caine from @barrelhouse.bsky.social, issue 25
Read here:
poems.com/poem/burning...
“Burning Down the Waffle House” by Danny Caine from @barrelhouse.bsky.social, issue 25
Read here:
poems.com/poem/burning...
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This king. No others.
October 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This king. No others.
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What's a good indie/small press or self-published book you've read recently?
October 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
What's a good indie/small press or self-published book you've read recently?