Our August issue is live! JH Lucas Dodge Zelko @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social Jacob Schrodt Jeffrey-Michael Kane @liquid-chicken.bsky.social @zaryfekete.bsky.social Matthew Trumbull Kinga Varga-Dobai Andrew Christoforakis @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social Kaylan McCann pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is...

Volume 15, Issue 8

COVER ART BY JH LUCAS   FICTION ACTS OF GUILE, ACTS OF GRACE BY DODGE ZELKO ORPHANS BY SARP SOZDINLER BEARS BY JACOB SCHRODT THE KEEPING BY JEFFREY-MICHAEL KANE   NONFICTION Unknown Calle…

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It's me! I wrote an essay for @barrelhouse.bsky.social about my Gma's unconditional love and how Peppermint Patty and Maria Callas made me gay 🌈📚

Dave Housley@housleydave.bsky.social · last wk.

Hello and reminder that the free @barrelhouse.bsky.social newsletter has a new, original, newsletter-only essay on pop culture obsessions every month, like this most recent essay by SF Layzell about Peppermint Patty (so great). You can sign up here: www.barrelhousemag.com/contact-barr...

Hello and reminder that the free @barrelhouse.bsky.social newsletter has a new, original, newsletter-only essay on pop culture obsessions every month, like this most recent essay by SF Layzell about Peppermint Patty (so great). You can sign up here: www.barrelhousemag.com/contact-barr...

Looking through Barrelhouse 13, the comedy issue, which was published in 2014. Still holds up pretty well! Check out some of the names in this TOC

Very fond memory of @mikeingram.bsky.social sending me this haiku and saying "do you think this author is insane, and do you think this is funny?"

Barrelhouse@barrelhouse.bsky.social · 2w ago

Looking through Barrelhouse 13, the comedy issue, which was published in 2014. Still holds up pretty well! Check out some of the names in this TOC

What a thrill to have been part of this.

Barrelhouse@barrelhouse.bsky.social · 2w ago

Looking through Barrelhouse 13, the comedy issue, which was published in 2014. Still holds up pretty well! Check out some of the names in this TOC

Looking through Barrelhouse 13, the comedy issue, which was published in 2014. Still holds up pretty well! Check out some of the names in this TOC

My 8-year-old self demanded I buy this rose gold glitter notebook for Writer Camp @barrelhouse.bsky.social

73.2 is at the printer, and 74.1 opens for submissions in two weeks! Please note we have a new AI policy that you can read on our submission page (TL;DR: we don't want AI-generated text), and a blog post from our editor on the subject, linked below.

Care to contribute to Essay Daily's L*STS project (lists, lasts, losts, lusts, etc.)? Details: www.essaydaily.org/p/lsts-essay...

Check out this great interview with @samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social at @barrelhouse.bsky.social for Living Together, out today from @beaconpress.bsky.social!! www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/living-...

Living, Together: Barrelhousing with Samantha Paige Rosen, Interview by Hannah Grieco — Barrelhouse

Living, Together is an anthology about communal living and community building that was inspired by my experience unexpectedly moving back in with my parents in my late 20s. I was surprised that I love...

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We will never allow Mayor Mamdani to unsubscribe from Barrelhouse. Sorry, Zohran but you're stuck with the annual delight of a beloved indie lit mag arriving at your home

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 3w ago

Which publication, wrong answers only

If you're just a lover of deals, generally, looking to maximize your savings, here's the go-to package from our shop. 2 memoirs + 2 poetry books for a total savings of 50 American dollars www.barrelhousemag.com/shop

Barrelhouse@barrelhouse.bsky.social · 4w ago

Reminder that our huge sale is still ongoing -- Just $5 for everything in our entire back catalog. Here's a sampler you could pick out if you're just trying to get a broad sense of our whole deal, plus a final image to help you out if you're not good at math www.barrelhousemag.com/shop

Thirty West and Stanchion, out here doing the thing. Josh and I both already soaked in sweat. @thirtywestph.com

Reminder that our huge sale is still ongoing -- Just $5 for everything in our entire back catalog. Here's a sampler you could pick out if you're just trying to get a broad sense of our whole deal, plus a final image to help you out if you're not good at math www.barrelhousemag.com/shop

Here’s my beautiful book haul from @barrelhouse.bsky.social Writers Camp last month @tmcallister.bsky.social @housleydave.bsky.social @poeticmoni.bsky.social @avitusbcarle.bsky.social @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social @danieldifranco.bsky.social Diana Smith Bolton Emily Kiernan

Last night? I was just hanging out with some writers and *looks around, gets quiet" ₚₒₑₜₛ

If you're just a lover of deals, generally, looking to maximize your savings, here's the go-to package from our shop. 2 memoirs + 2 poetry books for a total savings of 50 American dollars www.barrelhousemag.com/shop

Barrelhouse@barrelhouse.bsky.social · 4w ago

Reminder that our huge sale is still ongoing -- Just $5 for everything in our entire back catalog. Here's a sampler you could pick out if you're just trying to get a broad sense of our whole deal, plus a final image to help you out if you're not good at math www.barrelhousemag.com/shop

Reminder that our huge sale is still ongoing -- Just $5 for everything in our entire back catalog. Here's a sampler you could pick out if you're just trying to get a broad sense of our whole deal, plus a final image to help you out if you're not good at math www.barrelhousemag.com/shop

Contributor @barrettbowlin.bsky.social has made me think of a new writing prompt: A random selector provides three academic articles in unrelated fields, from which you must draw while writing a story.

Barrett Bowlin@barrettbowlin.bsky.social · 4w ago

Selections from today's Adventures in Novel Research:

Thank you to @wigleaf.bsky.social for recognizing two Barrelhouse pieces in the Top 50 this year! And congrats to @lumchanmfa.bsky.social & Riley Richards! Links to both pieces below in the thread

Thank you to @wigleaf.bsky.social for recognizing two Barrelhouse pieces in the Top 50 this year! And congrats to @lumchanmfa.bsky.social & Riley Richards! Links to both pieces below in the thread

So I did a thing two weekends ago and went to my first @barrelhouse.bsky.social camp. I did not come home empty-handed. @mattjakubowski.bsky.social @avitusbcarle.bsky.social @housleydave.bsky.social #supportfellowwriters

3. Attended my first @barrelhouse.bsky.social Writer Camp! Met so many awesome writers. Most of my photos are of the dogs.

It’s an incredible honor to see this poem, originally published by @roxanegay.bsky.social in @therumpus.net, featured in today’s episode of The Slowdown. I am beyond grateful. therumpus.net/2026/05/13/f...

Four Poems - The Rumpus

Kwikset That lock we kept on our doorwasn't so much of a lock as a nonbinding contract I keptwith an outside world only vaguely complicitin our agreement—

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The Slowdown@slowdownshow.org · last mo.

"I’m awarding bonus points for a clever nod to Prufrock in a poem about a sexy selfie," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1549. Read "Thirst Trap" by @cdcurtiss.bsky.social, originally published in The Rumpus: bit.ly/4arVm87

The brief Stanchion Magazine farewell tour begins with issue 24 this September. Inside you'll find new @writesloud.bsky.social @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social @iephemera.bsky.social & 20 more of the best writers in indie lit. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Stanchion Magazine Issue 24 | Stanchion

Issue 24 of Stanchion features photographs by Stanchion editor-in-chief Jeff Bogle interspersed between original prose and poetry from some of the finest indie writers of our day, including Hannah Gri...

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unfortunately August camp has been canceled

Matt Jakubowski (he/him)@mattjakubowski.bsky.social · last mo.

I saw this bug at @barrelhouse.bsky.social writers camp and haven’t stopped thinking about it since. (It’s 3 inches long.) The most terrifyingly beautiful bug I’ve ever seen in Pennsylvania.

Woke up to making the Top 50 this year! Thanks to @barrelhouse.bsky.social for publishing this little weird micro. Congratulations to all my fellow writers who have made the lists this year!! @wigleaf.bsky.social

Sudha Balagopal@sudhab.bsky.social · last mo.

Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷

Spent the weekend w 40 writers at @barrelhouse.bsky.social Writer Camp and had so many great conversations about writing and publishing and movies and just about everything. Realizing now that one thing that never came up is the idea of using AI in creating writing. Most likely b/c that idea sucks.

I ❤️ camp 4 life

Barrelhouse@barrelhouse.bsky.social · last mo.

Camp has occurred