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...

"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

I’ll be reading an excerpt from a book I’m writing for @barrelhouse.bsky.social about shopping malls.

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

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...

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...

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!!!

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...

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...

Great essay by @ericarstern.bsky.social in @wsj.com www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

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

Great essay by @ericarstern.bsky.social in @wsj.com www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

Today’s Featured Poem: “Burning Down the Waffle House” by Danny Caine from @barrelhouse.bsky.social, issue 25 Read here: poems.com/poem/burning...

This king. No others.

What's a good indie/small press or self-published book you've read recently?

Barrelhouse Online @barrelhouse.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

one idea that simply would not exist in a healthy, thriving society is that of ‘young sheldon-ing’

Dug up this old @barrelhouse.bsky.social essay by my pal Lee Klein, which started as kind of a troll argument to make @tmcallister.bsky.social mad at an Iowa City bar--I have a student who I thought would like it--and turns out it's still great, and funny, and weird, so now I'm posting it here.

We're open for subs for our new online issue RIGHT NOW

seems like a new influx of people have been joining this week so once again here is our BH friends and family starter pack go.bsky.app/2Y8moNK

We've opened submissions for a special online issue of @barrelhouse.bsky.social. The Dirty Issue will be edited and produced by my students at Temple University. Send us your fiction, poems, art. More details on what we're looking for here, on Submittable:

My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

The @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference is coming back to DC on April 18, 2026, and we're open for registration! It's $95, and that includes the one-day conference, 1 book, 1 meeting w an editor, and your choice of literary stuff from our partner presses. www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

My home's Internet remains broken, but the show must go on: episode 2 of Library Pizza, my podcast about reading, features a careening literary conversation with my friend @philosiraptor.bsky.social, a cartoon put, who kindly did the art for the pod. Links to various feeds at librarypizza.com.

I have a new story out today @maudlinhouse.bsky.social! Writing it was heavily inspired by the increasing cost of groceries and general anxieties around money and trying to live a stupid little life!

My editing & publishing class at Temple will be opening soon for submissions for a special online issue of Barrelhouse, with the theme "The Dirty Issue." Fiction & nonfiction up to 2,500 words, and up to 5 poems. Usual @barrelhouse.bsky.social contract & payment.

Registration is open now!

Yo writer types save the date! The @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference, CONVERSATIONS & CONNECTIONS: PRACTICAL ADVICE ON WRITING, is coming back to American University in Washington DC on April 18, 2026! Registration will open soon. Hope you'll join us for a fun, positive, productive day!

Mid-Atlantic writers, we are returning to American U on 4/18 for our annual Conversations & Connections conference. More details, full lineup, and registration coming soon.

More detailed submission call to come, but my editing & publishing class at Temple U. will once again be doing a special online issue of @barrelhouse.bsky.social, this time with the theme "The Dirty Issue." We'll open soon (hopefully next week!) for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

Thanks to @ginabird.bsky.social for reviewing WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE in @barrelhouse.bsky.social—ngl, it feels pretty special to be read alongside Jenny Odell, whose book was so instrumental in my burnout recovery and writing process. www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/myers-w...

The king has come home.

Since we're all talking about how book review culture is dying - I'd love to get a couple of younger/newer reviewers on at Zona Motel. Are you looking for a place to develop your review chops and engage with small press lit in front of an enthusiastic readership? Reach out. zonamotel.substack.com

Can’t make it to the Blue Stoop reading this Sunday? How about spending some virtual time with me AND writing some POV based flash? I’ll be teaching not one, but TWO classes on POV and flash! Sign up for one or both and let’s get writing! www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/pov

Physical objects!

Totally agree! Something I have in my "what are literary magazines and why you should care" thing I do sometimes for students. Gives you a very clear view of what stands out and how subjective the process is. My thick rejection skin is from those early days reading for @barrelhouse.bsky.social.

I think this might be the best photo I've ever taken, someone put it in a gallery

Wrote about minion memes, Barrelhouse Writer Camp, and why I'm not very good at having fun

Had such a great time in Pennsylvania these last few days, hanging at Pocket Books with @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social and H&H Books with @samuelashworth.bsky.social. Got to hug @jamiebeth.bsky.social and a bunch of @barrelhouse.bsky.social friends. 🥰 Now I have to teach today. Wtf.

Philly friends come hug me and cheer for me! 🥰

I present to you the wine pairing guide you didn't know you needed. New from me for @WineEnthusiast! Always pitch your story ideas, kids, even the ones your partner says are dumb! 😻🤣🍷🐾 www.wineenthusiast.com/culture/wine...

When you're trying to come up with a fake name to tell the mall cop after he caught you stealing from Spencers

I'm not saying it was ALIENS ATTACK! but it was ALIENS ATTACK! Here's the cover of my new book, coming in April 2026 from @masonjarpress.bsky.social! If you've been to @barrelhouse.bsky.social Writer Camp you'll recognize that barn. I love it, excited to share, hope you'll check it out in April!

Dan/Dzanc were one of my models of "you can just start a press" -- an indie that published good work, found readers, and made a lasting mark. He was also just a really good guy. We'll miss him.

Adding my voice to the chorus of those mourning the passing of Dan Wickett. Dzanc was my first publisher and Dan was its heart and soul: tireless on behalf of writers and their work, generous with his time and emotional energy, kind and encouraging to everyone he met. Rest well, old friend.

Crushed by this news. Sad when it takes something like this to fully realize it, but Dan was almost certainly one of the most important people in my literary life, which is to say he was among the most important people in my life, full stop. A true model for loving writing, and being a true friend.

I'm so sorry to hear about the passing of Dan Wickett, founder of the Emerging Writers Network and Dzanc Books. Dan was so kind and such a connector. He was one of the first people to take me seriously as a writer and take @barrelhouse.bsky.social seriously as a literary magazine.

Dan was one of our earliest friends and allies in indie lit, and we are very saddened by this news

“Bush’s characters are flawed but filled with a raw desire to be acknowledged and seen.” In @barrelhouse.bsky.social‬‬, Alex Gurtis reviews Catherine Bush’s debut short story collection, “Skin” - www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/catheri...