You, there! Yes, you! If you live anywhere near the cities mentioned in @housleydave.bsky.social's post below, you absolutely need to go see him & @aaronburch.bsky.social in conversation. Both of their latest books are fucking stellar, and you'll be supporting indie bookstores while you're there!

Hey me and @aaronburch.bsky.social are heading out on a mini-tour next week and if you're in/around Morgantown (6/10), Pittsburgh (6/11), Columbus (6/12), come hang out and talk about our new books, writing, aliens, indie publishing, magic, bigfoot, slaw dogs, etc. Hope to see you weirdos soon!

Me and @housleydave.bsky.social in Morgantown, Pittsburgh, and Columbus next week! Come see us read, hang out, grab a beer before or after, chat about the west coast and aliens and bigfoot and all kinds of other fun, dumb stuff!

Hey weirdos we're open for submissions for print issue 27.

Barrelhouse has entered the AI chat.

Thanks to @housleydave.bsky.social and @barrelhouse.bsky.social for this wonderful interview!

Over at @barrelhouse.bsky.social I interviewed @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social about his <complimentary>truly bonkers</complimentary> book Twilight of the Gods, fucking around with norse mythology, and of course Patrick Swayze movies. www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/barrelh...

Classic editorial feedback

I have a new story in Short Story Long! many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social, a wonderful editor who always makes my writing better, the incredible Zoë Petersen for her beautiful original art, & all of you who take the time to read this one ♡ ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/a-love-sto...

Missed this before the reading last week but I pulled together some short excerpts from ALIENS ATTACK for the @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social. I guess this is what I think it might be like to realize you're at the end of the world?https://pghrev.com/dave-housley-at-hemingways/

Opting to watch Mindhunter over lunch break because it's so much less stressful than the Summer House reunion.

Thanks to Danielle Henson and the folks at Cleaver Magazine for this generous review of ALIENS ATTACK! www.cleavermagazine.com/aliens-attac...

So we beat on, OneWheel X-Series Rally XLs with 50% more torque, wider stance, state of the art power electronics and integrated AI-powered voice assistant, against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Hey writers your weird pals are opening for submissions on June 1!

Hey Pittsburgh friends! Hope to see you tonight at Hop Farm Brewing in Lawrenceville at 7 for Hemingway's Poetry Series! hemingwayspoetryseries.blogspot.com

Thanks to Edward Willett for having me on The Worldshapers Podcast to talk about ALIENS ATTACK!, my long slow journey to actaully trying to become a writer, my short slow approach to day-to-day writing, aliens and UFOs and Star Wars, and lots of other fun stuff! theworldshapers.com/2026/05/24/e...

Hey Morgantown, Pittsburgh, and Columbus friends, @aaronburch.bsky.social and I are doing a little tour June 10, 11, 12. Here's a great little flyer for Pittsburgh on June 10 at Stay Gold Books! Hope to see you good weirdos there. More soon.

Doing a quick, short little Midwest tour next month with @housleydave.bsky.social! Here’s info for Pittsburgh. (We’ll be in Morgantown, WV the night before, and at Two Dollar Radio HQ in Columbus, OH the night after; flyers forthcoming.) Excited to hopefully see a bunch of you!

Hey Pittsburgh friends! I'm reading on Tuesday May 26 at Hemingway's Poetry Series at Hop Farm Brewing in Lawrenceville! I'll be reading about a sad man who is not sure how he maybe wound up as the last person on Earth. Hope to see you there! hemingwayspoetryseries.blogspot.com

Great book mail today from @housleydave.bsky.social and @masonjarpress.bsky.social!

Come check out some of my animal themed favorite stories!!

Over at the Next Best Book Blog I answered some fun questions about ALIENS ATTACK!, hippies, Bowie songs, and how writing funny is so difficult! thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...

Hi, friends. Some news! My debut chapbook, “Ghost in the Rain,” is out now from Bottlecap Press! It’s got 12 micro & flash stories: lost ghosts, immortal siblings & haunted lovers. I poured years of my heart into this book. So proud & thrilled to see it in the world! bottlecap.press/products/gho...

Nothing like a book to start ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 🌞 Contributor @aniking.bsky.social’s new book FAMILY NIGHT is available for pre-order! This magical flash focuses on queerness, community, & connection 💕 buff.ly/qMhQXXf

This is the way. 500 for me, in the morning if I can, until teams messages start calling me into my jobby job.

Coming this July, a character-driven novella turning on questions of trust & miscommunication in unforgiving rural environs, exploring violence & tenderness toward human & nonhuman life. You will be enthralled by The Moose Lottery by @real-immirage.bsky.social www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

I’m reading submissions now, I guess! havehashad.submittable.com/submit/35598...

Hey reminder you can get all the UFO information you need in my book ALIENS ATTACK!, out now from the mighty @masonjarpress.bsky.social! masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...

Psssst… hi… c’mere for a sec… Direct preorders are open for physical copies of Family Night now :D masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...

Got one of those flattering and vague and very not real AI semi solicitations for...a book I didn't write, and doesn't seem to exist. Sounds like a great book though, maybe someone should write it, and not for middle grade.

Okay folks, after a week off, the Write-In returns! As always: 3 pm Eastern, same link as always, DM if you don't have it SEE YOU THERE!

Seeking a Creative Nonfiction Associate Editor (or two)! Associate CNF Editors Wanted! JMWW applications are open until June 14th.

reading w/ Amelia Gray & @dtrobbins.bsky.social in LA on Friday!

Very pleased to see the sudden interest in my back catalog from people who represent large book clubs, agents w long strings of numbers in their gmails, non-google-able reps from YA/middle-grade publishing houses who are intrigued by my weird obscure story collection fr 10 yrs ago. Finally made it!

Thanks to @daviddaviddavid.com for this thoughtful and generous review of ALIENS ATTACK! over at The Masters Review!

Are his ears okay?!?!

Thanks to John King for having me on the Drunken Odyssey podcast to talk about ALIENS ATTACK!, literary fiction, sad fuckups, writing about pop culture, how amazing Sarah Daniels and @masonjarpress.bsky.social have been to work with, and other things. thedrunkenodyssey.com/2026/04/25/e...

Related: the RUC Writers House has set an extremely modest fundraising goal of $720 for the Growing Great Writers Program. $720 would cover a full semester of snacks, writing/reading supplies, & personalized lit mags for 2nd and 3rd graders in Camden give.rutgersfoundation.org/writers-hous...

Thanks be unto the ass kicker himself, Gabino Iglesias, for posting & boosting #FridayReads. Woo! This week, I highly, highly, highly recommend @housleydave.bsky.social's new & amazing novel, ALIENS ATTACK!, out now from @masonjarpress.bsky.social. It is glorious! masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...

#CoverReveal 👀 Ani King's FAMILY NIGHT--a collected flash fiction collection that is by turns a lyrical celebration of queerness and an exploration of family and loss, often through a lens of magical realism--is out October 2026! @aniking.bsky.social #newrelease #flashfiction #fictioncollection

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

At @barrelhouse.bsky.social we stay on top of the litmag game through technical innovation and fiscal responsibility and our slackbot has been middle-managing all of us for years.

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.

Marketing!

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!