We are here to sell you books and shirts and more, table 1185 by the snack stand

Nothing says "we have no bosses" like an 8 foot rainbow-laser-eye cat banner. Come see us at booth 1185 at the AWP bookfair today, writer nerds!

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

Pete Hegseth has the same energy as this kid in my neighborhood who was always badgering everyone to play pickup football in full pads, and when we finally did, he got leveled on the first play and started crying, then went home because we were “tackling wrong” and ”didn’t know our fundamentals”

At @barrelhouse.bsky.social University we care about education, and that's why we will be conferring these MFA degrees next week to lucky wheel-spinning degree-seeking participants at Booth 1185 at the AWP Bookfair. The children are our future, even the poets.

Hey writer nerds there are a whole lot of readings happening next week, and I'm at one of them: the Kind of a Big Dill reading on Thursday at 5 at Pickle's Pub! Happy to be included among so many great folks, represent the mighty @masonjarpress.bsky.social, and read little bit of ALIENS ATTACK!

Limited to 500 copies! You may be able to go on a cruise one day because you own the first run print issue of TBQ that was only available at the lit con. Come grab one early if you WANT/NEED one!

Writer nerds we have re-upped the @barrelhouse.bsky.social shirt supply for AWP, including the original, accept no substitutes FUCKING POETS MAN, the back in black UNRELIABLE NARRATOR, including kids sizes b/c kids are liars, and the foxbird/birdfox KEEP IT WEIRD. See you at Booth 1185 next week!

I think my favorite part of the movie MELANIA is when she starts that shrimp business to honor her friend who died in the war

Issue 26 is available for pre-order! We'll have it in hand *just* in time for AWP, we think, and you can get your orders in now. Look at this lineup! www.barrelhousemag.com/shop/p/pre-o...

This graphic is my best crack at capturing the @barrelhouse.bsky.social AWP booth energy. We will have an 8 ft banner with that rainbow eye cat, our signature spinning wheel, the original accept no substitutes Fucking Poets Man shirts, aliens, mothmen, cryptids, books, the new issue, and more.

Rolling out some upgrades to the @barrelhouse.bsky.social AWP booth experience this year.

COINCIDENCE? I have placed tremendous interest on the US President and will be directing you to know that ALIENS ATTACK is indeed still on sale and available for pre-order. Get with the times, Earthlings, while the time is right. masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...

"Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?"~Ann Patchett

A thing like that. ALIENS ATTACK! is in the house.

Applications are open for @barrelhouse.bsky.social Writer Camp, the greatest place on earth. No schedule or pressure, just writing and hanging out and movies and campfires and creek beers and hammock naps. Maybe throw in a dance party and a bus full of baby goats. www.barrelhousemag.com/writer-camp

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

It's best to go through life assuming friends and family have never read a single thing you've written and never will, any more than you have engaged with what they do for a living

This story, like ALL my best stories, was a @barrelhouse.bsky.social #WriterCamp story, polished in an editorial meeting with @embfitz.bsky.social.

We have a new online issue! Selected and edited by students at Temple University, under the guidance of @mikeingram.bsky.social www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/t...

The Last Waltz

This pops up every once in awhile and I always share it. Wu Tang goes in and out of popularity with the times, but there's no denying there was a Dream Team level of talent and brilliance on that roster. True artists.

I wrote a book about aliens attacking and my dog has started the resistance.

Fuck yeah book mail! Really looking forward to this one by @aaronburch.bsky.social from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social!

The DC conference always sells out by early March, so now is the time, if you're thinking about it

Writers! The @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference is open for registration, our final schedule is just about set, we're about half sold out already, for $95 you get the full conference, 1 book, 1 one-on-one editor workshop, more lit stuff from our partner presses. www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

I do love that TRIPPY is the vibe we've settled on for Olympic opening ceremonies and airport walkways.

Are you sick of me yet? I get it! I’M a little sick of myself, truth be told. But if you aren’t… oh man, this convo with Barrett was so fun! If you have even half as much fun reading it and we had chatting, I feel like that’d be worth your time! Love you all! (Well, those who click and read…)

Come out to @barrelhouse.bsky.social C&C and write some poems with me!

Beginning to look a lot like @barrelhouse.bsky.social AWP prep around these parts...

My book, TACOMA, is out next week! Heard from a few people over the weekend that they got their preorders! I'm excited for people to read it! It was some of the most fun I've ever had writing. I think it is a kinda uniquely fun read. Thanks. 🧨 🎆 autofocusbooks.com

I don't watch a lot of college hockey. Is it normal for a podcast to be mentioned more than the home team, away team, any single player, the stadium they're playing in for the first time, or the sport they're playing?

open again for another 45 newbies! anyone who's submitted to us before need not (better not!) apply

open now to 45 of you who've never submitted to HAD before!

What is writing even for if not to express your strongly held, ridiculous positions in some made-up ridiculous asshole's mouth.

We're filling up the schedule for the Barrelhouse conference in DC on 4/18/26 with lots of great workshops and panel discussions on craft, publishing, and fitting writing into your life. Registration is $95 and We're a third sold out already. Hope you'll join us! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

I'm fully confident literary magazines will survive the AI apocalypse. There is no better time to become a creative writer. You already have an inside track because most people have never even heard of these things that can never die. We will be here with the cockroaches and Taco Bell

It's release day for my book! Thank you so much to @jacklegpress.bsky.social and @fulmerford.com

Local friends! I'm having a launch party for ALIENS ATTACK at Webster's in State College on 3/25/26! More details soon but it'll be a little different than the usual thing: A Night of Literature, Music, and Aliens. Hope you can join us, mark your calendars! More details soon!

When I was writing ALIENS ATTACK! I didn't think it was book about real life but here we are, under attack, so I guess even though there are zeppelin shaped UFOs shooting lasers at Troy and Lelaina from Reality Bites, this is a book about right now. Also on sale! masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...

We're starting to fill the @barrelhouse.bsky.social DC conference program for 4/18! Thrilled to be bringing back crowd faves @wendywimmer.bsky.social and @reneeknicholson.bsky.social, and @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social is bringing Dolly Parton poetry! More soon. www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

Three Questions for Andrew Bertaina, #Author of Ethan Hawke & Me @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @barrelhouse.bsky.social @housleydave.bsky.social @hsmithwrites.bsky.social brucerosenstein.com/three-questi...

It was a 2025 goal of mine to send new work to @aaronburch.bsky.social for Short Story, Long and I'm so happy he liked "Home is a Relative Term" enough to give it a, well, home! It's a story of suburban existentialism, queer panic, and a desire for connection. open.substack.com/pub/ashortst...

Hey @barrelhouse.bsky.social is open for submissions for proposals for craft workshops or panel discussions at our DC conference on 4/18/26. Pays $50. We're looking for *useful* workshops, panels, whatevers on craft, editing, publishing, writing life. www.barrelhousemag.com/submission-i...

For my art.

You just have to hope this all doesn't somehow besmirch the sanctity of the FIFA peace prize.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

This whole Venezuela war thing feels like a “Break glass in case of emergency” tactic. people.com/mar-a-lago-s...

GOOD MORNING!!! It's a NEW YEAR, and that means it's a NEW OPPORTUNITY for you short fictioneers to find your book a home! We're now OPEN for your short story and flash fiction books. Our SS/FF editor @egreenberg.bsky.social + our fantastic SS/FF reading team are eager to read your book, so SEND IT!

Writers! Give yourself a head start on 2026 and sign up for the @barrelhouse.bsky.social DC conference on 4/18! Just $95, which includes a book, workshop w an editor, the full conference, more lit stuff. A friendly, positive, productive day. Hope to see you there! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference