Hey it's (my birthday) and my book birthday today! ALIENS ATTACK has landed. Hope you'll check it out!

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Y’all. 🥹🥹🥹 I absolutely cannot wait for the cover reveal, but in the meantime I’ll be over here rubbing the ARCs on my face and having feelings. Out with @masonjarpress.bsky.social in October!!

Back from the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference where I got to be a featured author and celebrate writing/publishing and my own book. Back to pushing it along one word at a time, trying to get 500 in before I can't ignore the teams messages and my work day is officially started. Writing life.

Another really great @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in DC yesterday. I had a wonderful time chatting with @poeticmoni.bsky.social, @bydianarojas.bsky.social, Michele Evans, and @ericarstern.bsky.social, and even sold out of Aliens Attack! Thanks to everyone who came out, see you next year!

For about a year now I've been fantasizing about an entirely new kind of literary event: exciting, theatrical, and a little bit combative. Yesterday at the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference, @writesloud.bsky.social, @poeticmoni.bsky.social, and @zachpowers.bsky.social and I pulled it off.

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Writers you are welcome in the back seat of my car! Also tomorrow at the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference at American University. Still some tickets left. See you tomorrow everyone! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

We're 4 days out from the @barrelhouse.bsky.social DC conference on Saturday and we still have some spots left if you'd like to join us for a fun day talking craft & publishing & literary community. We're all in this together. Hope to see all you good weirdos there! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

Congrats to my guy @housleydave.bsky.social on his latest novel, out now on @masonjarpress.bsky.social. It’s really good!

highly recommend! ✔️👍💯 i’ve said it before but sure i’ll say it again—great skeeps, fantastic advice & yeah i got a story pubbed based on feedback from this confab 👇

We're a week away from the @barrelhouse.bsky.social DC conference and we have 19 tickets left. For $95 you get the full day conference talking craft and publishing, 1 book, a 10 min 1-on-1 workshop, more stuff from some of your fave litmags and small presses! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

I interviewed @writesloud.bsky.social about her session at the upcoming @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in DC on April 18 (still spots left!) with @samuelashworth.bsky.social, @poeticmoni.bsky.social, and @zachpowers.bsky.social, WRITERS WRESTLING LIVE! www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/sowhat-...

The @barrelhouse.bsky.social Write-Ins are back, and I for one need it! Join us for "alone together online" writing sessions, gently moderated, no pressure. Alone together 500 or so words at a time we can all get there.

I interviewed @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social about his session at the upcoming @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference ON 4/18 in DC (still spots left!), which was the fastest and easiest conference approval ever, TAKE ME BACK: A DOLLY PARTON POETRY WORKSHOP. www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/wildflo...

A copy of ALIENS ATTACK (@masonjarpress.bsky.social) by @housleydave.bsky.social AND a zine by @aniking.bsky.social before the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference?!?!? YES PLEASE!

This is from 2021, but it applies now more than ever: "It’s finally here. That moment we’ve been waiting for. You’ve wanted it for years; I’ve wanted it a hell of a lot longer. Since 1967, when lawmakers were like, 'Damn, we forgot to make a plan if the president goes bonkers.'"

New @barrelhouse.bsky.social Asst Editor is really helping me break down the leftover folders from last year! Unfortunately, Edward is doing the keynote at another conference and is unable able to join us on April 18 in DC, but there are still tickets for you! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

Has anyone asked the astronauts whose shirts they wear yet?

I interviewed the incomparable poet Elizabeth Hazen @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social on what’s it like to write through memories you’re stuck with… How do you write through memories you’re stuck with??? www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/03/t...

One of my favorite writing events of the year! Come for a friendly, energetic experience, a chance to show your work to smart & kind editors, & learn about writing and pitching book reviews with me!

Hey writers come join @barrelhouse.bsky.social and whole lot of other literary magazines and small presses on April 18 for a great day talking craft and publishing at American University in DC! We have about 25 tickets left, so sign up soon! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

I asked ChatGPT about myself as a writer and it was pretty much on target for a few screens and then it started making up stories that do indeed sound like stories I would write and titles I would use. Maybe I should ask it if actually writing those stories would also be "classic Housley."

You spend your whole life hearing that English majors can't get jobs, and that you should stay away from drugs, only to reach middle age and find out "large language model that occasionally hallucinates" is worth billions of dollars

Did a cool interview with an author or someone from publishing? We love to see them! Just remember to submit through out query form ➡️ buff.ly/CVmuERP

beyond delighted to share my new story "Even After You're Gone," fresh now with the lovely @bulbregion.bsky.social! check it out 🦇⚡

*taps mic awkwardly* fellow writers, if you might be interested in reviewing Family Night, my debut spec fic/lit fic flash collection, out with @masonjarpress.bsky.social in October, or in interviewing me, please hit me up! I’d also love to be weird on your podcast! *drops mic, but not on purpose*

Thanks to @raimalarter.bsky.social for this very generous, thoughtful review of ALIENS ATTACK! 👽💚🛸💙👾

This is my favorite event of the year, every year, and there are still tickets available.

Just a real <chefs kiss> reference to the Denver Airport in the last episode of Season 2 of Paradise. If you (watch enough History Channel) you know.

🚨🚨🚨 TODAY!!!!!

Writers! We're about 3/4 sold out for the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in DC on 4/18. Join us for a great day talking craft & publishing. Still the cheapest conference around at $95. Hone your craft, meet some good weirdos, support litmags and small presses! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

Reminder from the X-Files

Hey local friends: see you at Websters in downtown State College tonight at 6 for alien invasion night celebrating the release of ALIENS ATTACK!

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For folks in the DC/DMV area, I'll be one of many editors joining the @barrelhouse.bsky.social crew for CONVERSATIONS AND CONNECTIONS on April 18th, in particular for the editor "speed dating" event where you get a one-on-one mini workshop with an editor. www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

Love this post from @writesloud.bsky.social b/c this is exactly what we're trying to do at the @barrelhousemag conference! Everybody is welcome, all of us can keep on learning and honing our craft, and we really are all in it together. Join us in DC on 4/18! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

Come to our DC conference on 4/18 and you'll have a 10 minute 1-on-1 workshop with a literary magazine or small press editor (1 ticket w each registration, and the chance to purchase more for $5). Probably you won't have that story accepted on the spot, but it has happened more than once!

We are 3 weeks away from our annual DC conference-- an affordable, fun, productive day full of practical advice on writing and a chance to meet lots of small press authors and editors

Writers! Join us at the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in DC on April 18 for a fun, productive day talking craft and publishing! Still the cheapest conference around at $95. Half that fee goes directly to the participating litmags and presses. All are welcome! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

and since we have been talking about music and cultural impact throughout March Sadness, this is just a tiny reminder that I wrote a novel inspired by the “baby groupie” era in 70s rock and its impact www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

I'm committed to getting out & talking more about Stanchion, my authors, the books & the magazine, and to tell the story of this thing I built that runs solely on the purchases of readers curious about indie lit. No fees, no tips, no donations, no grants. Just one guy trying hard.

Starting to look like a real fancypants highbrow Literary Book Launch around here. See you on Wednesday 3/25 at Websters in downtown State College at 6 pm next week! Buy a book, get an alien 🛸👽👾!

also I respect that more of our voting population has an emotional connection to GNR than Vince Gill but I do beg of you to watch the "Go Rest High" video and just gaze upon the sheer amount of 90s Ricky Skaggs brings to the proceedings marchxness.com/sweet16-gnrv...

Literally my entire writing output for going on 30 years now.

How to become the Taco Bell Quarterly of anything: do your dumbest idea.

loved this weird & moving portrait of families both alien & not so much 👽🛸👾 bravo @housleydave.bsky.social & thx @masonjarpress.bsky.social for bringing it to our world! (PS also enjoyed the relatable locale, PA not Tokyo or NYC 👏)

Finished this a couple days ago - wow, what a book! @housleydave.bsky.social has outdone himself with this one. So much to love in this novel, which I'm still thinking about. Will write a review for it soon! #BookSky #amwriting #scifi #sff

Applications are still open for @barrelhouse.bsky.social Writer Camp, a short, laid back retreat in Central PA, and the best place on earth. No program or schedule, just write when you want to, hang w some other writers, don't worry about a thing for a few days. www.barrelhousemag.com/writer-camp

In 2 weeks we're celebrating the launch of ALIENS ATTACK at Websters in State College w a talk by the guy who literally wrote the book about UFO sightings in the US, a short reading by me, QA led by @poeticmoni.bsky.social, and space songs by student a capella group Shades of Blue. Join us! 🛸📗👽🎶👾